"Get Real" - New Song Sample from the Next CD

"Bass Guitar is back in the mix on a brand-new song preview."

Click the link below to check out a preview of "Get Real":

http://www.davidvector.com/new_album_previews/Get_Real_sample.mp3

Hiya, boys and girls...

Still working away on the new album as the bitter cold here in northeast Michigan keeps me indoors. Hope you're keeping warm wherever you are, unless you're in a climate where it's warm all the time (in which case, I hate you, LOL).
Thought I'd share a partial clip of a new song I just finished recording, mainly because this one features something I haven't used on the last few tracks: bass guitar. I pulled my "baby", my Carvin custom 4-string bass, out of its case for the first time in a while, and rekindled the love affair. It's been cool doing some more heavily electronic stuff for the CD, but I thought it was time to bring my bass playing back into the picture; it's one of the things that helps set me apart from a lot of other techno/dance music, since most of that kind of thing uses nothing but synthesizer bass.
The lyrics on "Get Real" describe something we all encounter on Myspace, elsewhere on the Net, on MTV and the radio, and in everyday life: fake, shallow people. You know the type. As Rush's Neil Peart put it in "Limelight", they're the ones who wish to seem rather than wish to be. The ones who have to read GQ, Cosmo, Instinct, etc. to know how to dress, how to decorate their homes, what music to listen to in order to be perceived as part of the "in crowd". Sure, there's nothing wrong with wanting to have a little style and glamour injected into your life. It can be fun. But life isn't meant to be a 24/7 fashion show, a nonstop indulgence in empty vanity that makes you lose all perspective.
And then there's reality TV (a recurring subject on my last album), which is so good at making buffoons of people for the sake of "entertainment". But a lot of people want it, don't they? Fame for no real reason and a short-lived moment of glory at any price. Instead of "What would you do for a Klondike Bar?" it's "How much of an ass are you willing to make of yourself just to get thousands or millions of people to notice you for five minutes?"
Of course, the irony of the fact that I'm forced to play the "game of hype" a little bit myself isn't lost on me. You can't be in the music biz and not do the PR thing (unless you want to be playing for 8 or 10 people). But to me, the "glamour shots on Myspace" and all that are secondary to making good music. I'd like to think that most people dig me for the music first and foremost, not just because they're having daydreams about what they'd do with me if they got me naked, LOL. ;-)
Aaaaaanyway....enough of my babbling. Hope you enjoy the song preview. Making a video for that one is going to be fun - a great opportunity to poke some much-deserved fun at the more fake and pretentious aspects of the music biz and of modern society in general (evil grin).

Talk to you soon!
Dave