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Hi Pidgeman Alone, great track, Kev
Hi Craig. i'm doing a little catching up today and just wanted to say hi. You still doing any writing and recording? it's been a long time since I've heard a new one from you. This site is pretty soft without you and Erik Juardo around. The charts need a real ass kicking rocker once and awhile to wake us all up. Love this track BTW! Great jam. Take care my friend
Outstanding! Some people just know how to hold a note right nice on the geetaur. Crisp and clean and not far between. Sure didn't seem like almost four minutes and that would be testiment to a great sounding guitar driven rock tune. Keep that guitar rockin' always! -Mike
nice tone...cool song. Really like it.
So, did that Gringo ever find the cowboy that killed his wife?
I wish I compose like that, congrats always.
hey, reminds me of gueens 'iwant to break free', sorry for that... nice playing and cool retro rock sound to the guitar, im just thinking you could add a vocal, cause i know you can sing ;) rated
Sorry I'm late getting to this track. I don't know how I missed it. It is right up my alley genre-wise. I like the strength of your guit settings. Very nice original track. It has a nice spanish flare to it. I'm a big fan of letting the instruments tell the story. This does that very well. I see a dusty, spanish cowboy on a dry, flat plain. He rides slowly, tired, but with steely determination to arrive at his destination and take care of business. Rates! Only crit would be I'd like more. Another lead break with some technical fast stuff.
It's not easy to find a good guitarist who doesn't just play the guitar, but also creates beautiful melodies. Well done , Craig, excellent song, excellent playing !
Hey Craig, god im sorry i missed this earlier. Im hearin one of my heroes in C Santana in ur playing style on this. It goes to show u dont need to play fast to sound impressive, and u have nailed it on this. Great chord prog`s too man. It just grows the further in u get...and its worthy of my rate np. Very nice work m8. Mick
Nice rock epic there! Like it!
great peace man. it's slow and easy but has drive. i like that. and your guitar tone sounds great. have a rate mate. =]
Don't think I listened to the previous mix, but this one sounds pretty good to me :D Good guitar work, has a great feel to it.Rated :)
Impressive job on that axe,Craig, this does make for a fine instrumental, so emotive. I liked it first time around, but I don't have much of an ear so my opinions on production don't count for much. This does seem "cleaner" than what I recall of the earlier demo, and should satisfy the more discriminate ears inhabiting this joint. Can't rate it twice, but it was a pleasure giving it another listen.
Dammit!!! I went to lyrics again while the "song" was streaming hahahahah. God I love this Craig...doesn't sound the least bit tinny to me . I just think it is fabulous...it won't let me rate again or I would.
hey pidge, bl**dy good mix m8 and a cracking instrumental, not my usual brand but I have to admit that I really like the way that guitar sounds, I can't remember the last time I enjoyed an electric solo like this.(if it classed as that lol.) n1 m8! r np.
Hi, This is cool. Love the guitar sound. Nice work. I agree it is a bit loud (the mix is too loud and it comes off a bit tinny) but is a great tune and excellently-played. Rated. Cheers, Smudge from Smudgie PS Thanks for your comments on my latest track....btw the "holes" thing in my tune is meant to be "our souls meet" only.
no doubting your talent on the guitar thats for sure. enjoyed
This one has a strong melody, familiar without sounding contrived. The only problem is that it has been mastered too loud, a little hard limiting might help reduce the distortion clips. Rated anyway :)
Hello.. How are you?. An old one maybe to your collection but its a strong track. The guitar melody is great and the guiter riffs are cool. I did though get some equalizer probs??. The sound was distorting my speakers.. This though mate is a very cool piece of music :) Dave
Nice melody, Craig, and a superb performance. I can hear a bit of the Satriani influence you mention, and perhaps a little Jeff Beck? I like your choice of guitar tone here, a bit baffled by previous comments! (see below) Well done, man, highly recommended. Rated to boot.
Enjoyed this Craig - has an overall depth, rather passionate! Yes, your guitar is almost singing! Shows off your playing very nicely. You mentioned Joe Satriani as a fav of yours...must say good choice! :)
Ditto on the guitar sound comments. Too thin and whispy dude but well played and worthy of putting right if it were one of mine. Take a rate on the playing and construction.
Great you blew the dust of this one and re-recorded it! It's a great song! To me it's more Gary Moore-ish then Joe Satrini.. I'm a fan of both.. Great guitarwork but I'm not sure I like the sound you have??? A little bit thin and too distored for my taste.. An Overdrive pedal (Boss) would do it.. I think.. but that's just me:-) You're a great guitarist and I really love your style! Keep them comming!
Good job man, liked the way the lead moved with the chord progressions. Production is nice, my only change would be the tone for the lead, very heavy on the chorus and a bit trebly for my ears - then again tone is a personal thing. Nice emotive solo, well played throughout. Good job.
very 80's and reminds me of Queen meets Gary moore.Fine soloing.
My hat goes off to you, Excellent, Loved the listen and I'll be back for more This is fantastic!
not really my thing but can appreciate talent when i hear it....nice guitar work...just 2 self indulgent and dated for my own personal taste...the drum track was a little off putting as well...but quality showmanship on the axe :)thumbs up
Gary Moore springs to my mind....utterly fabulous sound Craig and I agree 100% that the guitar does the singing for you...you have a formidable talent my friend. Rated of course.
great stuff craig - am loving all your tracks right now - will download and add to my collection :D
hey man, i love it! has a richie blackmore, micheal schienker feel, smokin!!!!
the guitar sound is wicked!!. smooth but still screaming. "The lead guitar i think sings the song well enough. Hope you like it." Yes, it most definitely sings the song. and I did like it a lot.
Another cracker. I really love the stuff you are doing at the moment, varied, always interesting, you are one of the best talents on the site easy :) Rated :)
(NO MORE) HAPPY ENDINGS. This is the second collab between Truj and myself, follow up to the MP3Unsigned Official Chart No1 'On The Road'. Once again Tommy wrote and performed all the music and I wrote the lyrics and performed the vocals. Tommy is also responsible for mixing and mastering. All comments and suggestions, good or bad, as always are greatly appreciated. Play this LOUD!!!
Please check out my latest track, Misery Loves Company. I'm really pleased with the way this one has turned out, definitely one of my best yet! Cheers Craig
Note: Same as always, going on the basis that a score of 10 is for a release level track with Bob Rock style production. First off, let me say that Craig is a damn fine guitarist - for a long time I only knew him as a song writer but the more of his stuff I've listened to the more I began to notice smatterings of really excellent guitar playing all over the place. I was excited to see tha
At this point in time, I have reviewed getting on for a dozen Pidgeman tracks and discovered that this rock based musician is generally worth listening to. Personally I still think he is capable of much, much more but his catalog of tracks on Mp3 Unsigned (and Soundclick) will show a very competent musician and songwriter, sometimes let down by the equipment he is working with. A
First track out of the MP3 Unsigned bag this month is the indefatigable (Ed: wooahh Gilmore!! Big words!) Pidgeman. Since I first met him while reviewing Misery Loves Company (September 2007 Pidgeman has been a regular visitor to my review schedule so at this stage of the game I probably have almost a dozen of his tracks reviewed. Although there is a fair smattering of Highly Recommend
Craig Matthews (aka Pidgeman) has been a regular on these pages for the last year or so and is actually quite a prodigious musician and out of the wodge of tracks I have reviewed has done well in terms of keeping my critical beast at bay. It helps considerably that most of the tracks this UK based musician writes are good, old fashioned rock tunes and I am amazingly biased that way. Th
Out of the seven or eight reviews I have done of Craig Matthews (aka Pidgeman) one thing becomes instantly clear, I like this musicians style even if I haven't found a track to rave about yet. That is obviously just a question of time of course, and the right combination of circumstances, but I feel fairly confident at this stage that this is an artist who definitely has a Must Have track lu
I was, am and always will be a big fan of rock music, from the Beatles and beyond rock has always been a constant in my own life. Which, as it happens, is pretty good news for artists like MP3 Unigned's Pidgeman considering that rock seems to be his meat and potatoes too. Consequently we haven't had a lot ofg trouble seeing musical eye to eye and some of his tracks have indeed been standout, par
Babylon is Doomed? Fucking A, as someone once said. Don't know about you mon, but whenever me hear dat Babylon t'ing I think of reggae. Not something I would automatically expect from Pidgeman, an alternative rock musician from MP3 Unsigned I have reviewed a half a dozen times, without too much upset. Fact is, I do like a good singer/songwriter, especially when their chosen
This is an incredibly well structured song. I enjoyed listening to this track a lot and I'm really looking forward to the remake that has been mentioned. First off, the production is as close to perfection as you can get in a home recording environment. The acoustic guitar sound is exceptional. Nice and crisp, clear as a bell but with enough low mid and bottom end to keep it warm soun
First track out of MP3 Unsigned this month is from yer old rock buddy Pidgeman. Regular readers will know the man and his works of course but if ya don't here's a thumbnail sketch. He's a home produced rock musician from Coventry here in the UK and considering that he is a home producer comes up with some very decent tracks indeed. Out of the last five tracks I reviewed, three go
Craig Matthews (aka Pidgeman) is an MP3 Unsigned artist you will be familiar with if you are a regular reader, and lets face it if you are not then I am talking to myself and that doesn't even bear thinking about. Having come from a lifetime of real world music, I have found I have developed a specific ear for what is right according to that world. It's why, I think, I am sometimes ove
MP3 Unsigned's Pidgeman had a bit of a rough time from me when I reviewed Wasting Time (March 2008) a track that I felt needed a lot of improvement - a fairly common thread of my reviews of this particular artist. Which is odd because Pidgeman plays rock of various tones, and he plays it well too. Where the wheels start falling off the wagon is when you add into it arrangement, pitch a
My final review for this batch goes to Pidgeman, who I've reviewed before when he collabed with electronica artist Destri! This track, however, is one he done all by himself! This starts off with a drumbeat first, then the rest of the instrumentation comes in! The sound is very 80's, which is either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on where you stand on the matter! Personally, I like the so
Third time around for MP3 Unsigned's Pidgeman, a singer/songwriter from the UK. The first track I reviewed - Misery Loves Company (November 2007) - showed that Pidgeman knows what he's doing in terms of performance and songwriting style and Can't Stop Thinking About You (January 2008) only confirmed that impression. Where things fell down in both tracks was in the final presentation, a
Well coming up here is my 3rd review out of the people who first came into my offering post for a review. I have to say I’m very pleased with the results so far. We have Pidgman’s latest; Babylon Is Doomed?. So without further due to you all… Lets begin! The first thing that gets thrown out at me is the snare. Very powerful and full. I like it a lot. The kick has a nice pumpin
Next up we have a new track from Craig (Pigeman) called Babylon Is Doomed? which I am told he recorded from beginning to end in one evening, which only goes to show when the muse hits, go with the flow and good things can happen.
Craig Matthews aka Pidgeman is an MP3 Unsigned rock musician who I first encountered when I reviewed Misery Loves Company (November 2007). Nice track, as it happened, especially since I like the kind of rock Pidgeman specialises in. Like a great many of us, he has to deal with certain limitations about getting it all down digitally and - on both tracks I've heard - that home produced f
Next up is a track that has been doing very well on the site, 'Misery Loves Company' which Craig (Pidgeman) released a while ago. Commented on the track when it came out and stand by all my original views but will attempt a more in depth overview of the track. Track is very much in Craig's comfort zone, a guitar led power pop/rock track, a genre that has always been popular in the charts (espe
good song and good sound, yout voice is like the voice of rush.keep on rocking.
Pidgeman is a new name to me, this time from MP3 Unsigned and has the singular honour to finally rescue me from the almost constant electronica/trance diet I have had from that site since I started picking up reviews from there again. Moreover, Pidgeman promises to deliver some of my favourite; rock, and for that the man is like an oasis in the desert. Aaah burt, you sigh, rock can cov
Collabs... the MP3Unsigned speciality! There's lots of them about on MP3Unsigned, from one-offs to collab bands such as Stella Polaris Project and Hare Of The Dog! This collab involves Electronica producer Destri and Singer/Songwriter Pidgeman! I've heard the backing music by Destri before as an instrumental, and the combination of electro and hiphop sounds great to me! In this version, the middl
I really like this track by Craig, I remember commenting and rating it before, and rightly so. For a slow instrumental it has some serious emotive phrasings. Craig's understadgin of music and ear for melody shines through on this piece. An unforgettable hook is what makes this track different from most other instrumetnals out there. Craig weaves melody and structure around the central theme from s
Heavier than most of Pidgeman's other tracks this one caught my interest becuase of the distorted guitars and crip powerchords. Th eproduction throughout is very clear and the instruments sit nicely with good separation between rhythm guitar and bass. Drums sounded good to me despite some comments regarding cymbal levels. Last comment on the mix and the only part that needs minor ad
This evening I'll be reviewing a recent newcomer to mp3u, Pidgeman (Craig Matthews) welcome aboard. He describes his music as a cross between Rock and Pop. In my opinion, this track is all rock. He hails from Cheltenham in the U.K. and can rock with the best of them.
Good review to start off, a track I have already listened to and enjoyed a great deal, from an artist with a ever growing collection of very solid, well crafted proper songs. First thing I checked out when reviewing the song were the lyrics, they are a really quite strong for a song of this type, which at it's heart, is a song about despair. Rather than wallow in the misery though, the song offers
I really like this song so it's hard for me not to rate it on the high end.The lyrics are well done. It's important to me that they tell a story or make a point.There are two things I really like about this tune. one is the how it jumps into the third section after the second chorus and two, the key modulation at the end. In both cases the vocal is spot on. not an easy thing to do. it's hard to de