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Ross Allaire is an author, composer, screenwriter, EMT, and security officer who lives, works, and plays in the Philadelphia area.

Ross Allaire @Gunshy

Age 43, Male

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Egg House, NJ

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Posted by Gunshy - August 12th, 2009

UPDATED UPDATE: RUNNING VOTE TALLY

terra angelica - 6
waiting to die - 4
four fucking chords - 3
this is it - 2.5
as if - 2
saving face machine - 1
afterbirth - 1
punishment fits - 1
twin flames - 1
hotel nj - 1

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i can now report to you that i am officially 99.9999999999999% done with the layouts and text for the new retrospective album "Gunshy" so please be patient with me! all the art has the running theme of decay to kinda compliment or continuation of Manifest Destiny's apparent theme of destruction (crack in a windshield, death), also possibly ironically fitting for a retro album of older material... decayed?

although most of the songs have now been remixed for better sound quality, so they actually haven't decayed at all. dare i say many kept well, and some are like wine.

i have the job of a doing that little bit of quality assurance before this thing goes public, (ordering it myself and pouring over every detail) and then i'll post the link for it's purchase on here, myspace, and everywhere i can think of. i'll still be using lulu.com, even though it looks like they scaled back their website a bit (not recession-proof, i guess), but i'll stick with them as long as i can - until something better comes along.

SONGS: i'll confirm a few of the songs on the lineup - the original "saving face machine," in fact the two other 'machina' songs (inspired by/featured in Krysys Productions games the both), also "just being" will be on there; a remixed fade out version of the original techno "hotel nj" as well as my very first song that ever broke the weekly Top 5, remixed, "alkaloid chemoreception"
also, a secret song! oooh!

DÆMONSTRATION: it may be a separate issue, but i'll probably just go ahead and make all the songs unedited (with curse words) because... well, it's easier. later, after some more re-recording of older songs (including "waiting to die" - *shrug*) i think THEN i'll be ready to have a radio-friendly-type thing to release. but for now, it's shit piss cock cunt motherfucker tits and that's the way it's gonna be. as for the songs on said demo, i really don't know what the lineup should be anymore. ugh. that is to say, I CHANGED IT AGAIN. Now it's three songs (which for now i'll keep to myself), but I'd really like to open up the floor to ANY AND ALL SUGGESTIONS for what songs should go on a demo of my work, which i will take under advisement... please help. i do want the demo to be relatively shorter songs, and i'd rather all of them have vocals and lyrics, so bear that in mind, but basically just give me what would be YOUR TOP 3 SONGS of mine.

anyone?

bueller?

thanks.

in the meantime, new low low price for THE FIRST ALBUM ON CD, so check that out. It's also available for DOWNLOAD there at Lulu.com, along with all of my books. Some of them are in hardcover, and that's just damn cool to me.

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JackBarret 2009-08-16 22:50:52

ever since I haven't shut up about you all my friends have started listening. You have lots of fans in my town man.

Gunshy 2009-08-16 22:50:52

sweet! keep the good word of mouth flowing! thanks.

JackBarret 2009-08-17 10:59:38

Oh and you said top three songs... Terra angelica, As If, and Waiting to Die. Sorry for the other comments irrelevancy and for commenting on pretty much everything you do.

Gunshy 2009-08-17 10:59:38 (Updated 2009-08-19 06:41:49)

that's 2 votes for "terra angelica" hmmmm....
and hmmm "as if" probably won't go on there unless i can get together an electric version of it. i'm excited for how that will sound.
thanks for the input.

RiotFlash 2009-08-17 15:57:49

Gunshy Retrospective? Cool. But is there a lot of unreleased songs? Because Manifest covered 2006-2008. So theres very few rock songs, unless its gonna be like "sleeping with ross" with all that ambient shit.

If theres any more stuff like Sources of Possible Ignition, stuff you wrote in highschool, thatd be cool.

But

You're a relatively new artist. You have one album. I don't think nows the time to backtrack. Record shit while you can and if you get old and gray, go back polish your old shit and rerelease it. I'm looking for a second album, a new chapter in the story. Not a prologue.

But you haven't really done me wrong yet, ive enjoyed almost everything you've ever made beside the techno; and that's only becuase that's not my type. So you might have secret plans, and you might have some new ideas behind it.

So my last piece of advice is:

Its your music and should be treated the way you want. You should be the brain behind yourself and don't let any of these suggestions get too far past the shell of your brain. So do what you want.

lololololololololololol

Gunshy 2009-08-17 15:57:49 (Updated 2009-08-19 06:54:53)

good points. i thank you.

ambient: you remember me talking about "sleeping with ross" - yay! that project has definitely taken a backseat in the new climate of ross. when i started compiling my ambient works a few months ago, i realized two things, 1) ambient music is boring, and it actually did put me to sleep making new mixes, and 2) i have to archive my old stuff better. nuff said.

retro-ness: i feel more like this is the album that should have been first, for what that's worth. somebody mentioned an expectation of "excessum ex machina" being on 'manifest destiny' and i couldn't help but look at that album in a new light, of how it is kinda weighed down with grunge and rock. its in-song interludes probably do a fairly decent job of breaking up the monotony, but i just feel like i can make a more DIVERSE record than that, one that owes more to the long, strange trip it's been so far to be able to do songs like "the brink" or "this is it" without disowning rock n' roll for an entire album. so i put together these tracks, making up 'Gunshy' to present a different sound, like a Side B for 'Manifest' in a lot of ways. not necessarily quieter (because many of the songs are acoustic), but more diverse, and thru that, maybe deeper.

the shell of my brain: i have lots of practice sorting out competing advice from my own inner self(s), so i really appreciate outside help sometimes. if you see my myspace (oh shit that's not the main link anymore), there's another 'band' member listed, and most of the time he just says "i don't know, do what you want to do," so concrete, outside advice is, at times, in dire need. there are many moments when it is both thrilling and confounding to be working mostly in a vacuum like i do. this is mainly why i start posting my offbeat rambling descriptions of upcoming songs while i'm making them or planning to make them. the internet plays the part of a sounding board for my ideas. if, for nothing else, to read what i myself am thinking; the awesome bonus being when one of you guys comments positively about just my description of the song, i liken it to shouting out to the crowd "this is a new song!" right before tearing into it, only it takes a while longer.

ChickenGod 2009-08-21 02:47:08

My Choices:Terra Angelica , This Is It (The Title) , Saving Face Machine

This is a pretty tough decision. There's been a constant feed of brilliant songs for the last year or so.

Terra Angelica: This is the first of your songs that I fell in love with. Long, but not redundant.

This Is It (The Title): By far, the catchiest. When I got my wah pedal, the very first thing I did was the opening riff to this song, it will NEVER get out of my head. That's just the opening riff. The lyrics come in, and it's like trying to shove a minivan into a cardboard box...THERE'S TOO MUCH CATCHY! It's awesome!

Saving Face Machine: This definitely has the best lyrics. It's angry, but sarcastic enough so that if it was on the radio, and you weren't exactly listening, you would think it's a 'happy song.' I always get this awesome feeling in the pit of my stomach, that's like being happy and angry at the same time when I listen to this song, it's just that great!

Gunshy 2009-08-21 02:47:08

i am thinking "this is it" should be on there, it's one of my main contentions within my own mind. it's newest, and i'm always partial to the new song.

ShanZE 2009-08-21 13:46:06

Afterbirth
Punishment Fits
Four Fucking Chords (plugged)

My opinion anyways :D Definately Afterbirth, such a kickass song. Also Four Fucking Chords is already a hit here so why wouldn't it be a hit somewhere else, despite the "fuck"s there and there. Punishment Fits, what an amazingly great chorus, could be a shorter version though.

Gunshy 2009-08-21 13:46:06 (Updated 2009-08-23 04:49:55)

hmmm i wish i had the balls to make "afterbirth" the lead song on the demo. maybe as a secret fourth song... fuck shortening "punishment fits" i'll shorten "waiting to die" before i'd shorten that. that's just me.
yeah "four chords" (especially the plugged version) needs the redo before i could put it on there.
honestly i would have hoped to be able to record new version of that and "hotel nj" for the demo, because both those songs got a raw deal, both of them should be as strong as they can and should be.

with both of those done well it would run like this:

waiting to die (or sfm)
four chords
this is it (or terra angelica)
hotel nj

Diavaul1 2009-08-23 01:56:23

I'm gonna suggest "Waiting To Die", really amazing song.

Also, completely unrelated, do you record/play all the instruments you use in your songs?

Gunshy 2009-08-23 01:56:23 (Updated 2009-08-23 04:45:54)

thank you

also
all the guitars
drums are real drum samples, beats are composed/programmed by me (i've drummed for two bands, so it's air drums translated into fruityloops)
bass is synth composed/programmed by me (although i can play bass)
all recordings produced by me
all mixing by me
it's outrageous
it's also a lot of hard work
(it's also really fun!)

Diavaul1 2009-08-23 01:59:39

Oh wait, you asked for top 3.

1. Waiting to Die
2. Twin Flames
3. Terra Angelica

Gunshy 2009-08-23 01:59:39

interesting list

schadow-of-an-angel 2009-08-23 05:43:48

My top 3 is :
1. waiting to die
2. four fucking chords
3. terra angelica
It took some time to think what songs are my top 3 coz most of your songs are so good.

Gunshy 2009-08-23 05:43:48 (Updated 2009-08-24 04:51:02)

that's a tight list
y'all may be on to something with 'terra'

ShanZE 2009-08-23 14:24:41

"all recordings produced by me
all mixing by me
it's outrageous
it's also a lot of hard work"

I'll second that :D But when you have the song finished it's such a good feeling (for a while, then you just feel like you need to record it again)

Ps. it's just awesome that you do things your own way and fuck what others say (that rhymes), why should you change the way you do this when you're doing it so well already... ignore us! :D

Gunshy 2009-08-23 14:24:41 (Updated 2009-08-24 04:51:39)

will do! :)

no, really, thanks!

JackBarret 2009-08-31 01:48:07

More insight-

So I decided to do an experiment and put all the songs I downloaded from you off newgrounds on a disc and while someone was driving just put it in...they liked
1.Hotel NJ- One of my favorites to

2.Terra Angelica - seriously this song is mind blowing

3. As if- I listened to this about five times in a row while I was pissed off about something relevant to the song and then I didn't even give a shit anymore

I would also like to mention the lyrics at the end of "this is it" are spectacular.

Gunshy 2009-08-31 01:48:07 (Updated 2009-08-31 05:56:57)

1. which "hotel nj"? i have to ask.

2. dude everyone's love for 'terra' is blowing my mind!

3. hell yeah. that's why i wrote it. i'm man enough to admit i've cried while playing that song, and somehow by the end i always feel better.

JackBarret 2009-09-01 10:28:23

The one I showed had vocals if thats what you mean

Gunshy 2009-09-01 10:28:23

ah yes

ChickenGod 2009-09-04 16:39:02

Yeah, 'As If' is a really deep song. Not as sarcastic as your others, but just as, if not more, emotional.

JackBarret 2009-09-05 00:05:32

haha great pic at the bottom.

ShanZE 2009-09-10 12:20:28

Come on people, vote for Afterbirth!

IRRELEVANT TO THE POST:
Hey dude, I pm'd you about this idea of doing a song and 'cause you haven't responded I found another way to bug you. So anyway I have a song ready, a song I'd greatly appreciate and love you to collaborate on. It's grunge of course, acoustic in the beginning and starts rocking a little bit later. I'd like you to sing in the chorus and in 2nd verse and this one part at the end of the song. And if you want to you can play a solo or something. If you are interested then I can send you the song somehow (it's a rough version by the way but you'll get the idea)

If you aren't interested then just say and I'll stop bugging you with this stuff and do it all by myself. I just feel like I want to do something interesting :D

RiotFlash 2009-09-12 16:52:38

Is that list thing a top 3 song thing? Hmm, difficult to choose. I'd say:
Four Fucking Chords (Acoustic)
This is it (The Title)
Terra Angelica
(Runner up: Just Being. Don't leave this song behind.)

RiotFlash 2009-09-16 19:12:16

Aw balls I forget about saving face machine.