CFA OUTSOURCED

(Background story)

When CFA plays a show, they are there to have a good time with or without you.

Most of the time their set includes a short instrumental titled "3 prong Hawaiian Sling"

What's the purpose for always having it in their set?

CFA, being the merry makers they are, always try to pull someone from the crowd to improvise vocals on this one minute frenzied piece of music. After many successful experiences of doing that, they got to thinking, "What if we asked vocalists from all sorts of genres to write and perform their vocal tracks on this song and title it?” CFA did just that. Those invited to participate were musicians and non-musicians alike.

A musical experiment you ask?

Why yes.

A quasi-experiment

We have all heard someone, maybe even yourself, say "The vocalist doesn't matter"

Well, we are here to present you with the material to draw your own conclusion to that very query.

CRITERIA FOR EXPERIMENT

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS EXPERIMENT?

To see how changing only the vocalist on a song impacts the listener?

THE CONTROL

The control subject is the instrumental track.

Making it more complicated is the vocalists only had 57 seconds to work with.

The only parameters were to work with the music as it was and to spend no more than a couple of hours recording it.

None of the vocalists got to hear any of the other performer’s tracks before recording their own.

They had full artistic control over their tracks and the content.

THE VARIABLES

The voice, cadence and lyrics applied.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT

To show how dramatic of a difference there is between styles on the same piece of music and to bring people together in a manner that isn't typical between genres.

Cody of CFA said 16 people were asked to participate and hoping to get 8-12 complete tracks. The outcome was much greater than that, thus, proving the tenacity of the DIY scene.

VOCALIST INFORMATION Q'S

1. Song title

Fire Walker

2. Vocalist name

Tony Reed

3. Bio, including a couple of picture of yourself.

Your current project if you wish?

I'm a 46 year old professional studio engineer and touring musician.

My hobbies include recording bands, touring, and doing 8 million things at once. I also enjoy driving a van full of smelly musicians and equipment for long distances to play for peanuts.

I'm old and grumpy but I laugh to keep myself in shape.

favorite food: Hamburger Helper, with corn and jiffy cornbread.

favorite TV shows: M.A.S.H. and Little House On The Prairie.

favorite band: Black Sabbath

Relationship status: Married

Current musical main squeeze: Mos Generator

4. Also I have asked some people to do a track that are not musicians and have never performed or recorded before or not for a very long time. If this is you please specify.

5. What Genre do you typically fall under? (Feel free to make shit up)

Heavy rock

6. Where were the vocals recorded? Studio/engineer? DIY? Elaborate please.

Recorded at my studio. HeavyHead Recording Co.

7. Your thoughts on this project?

I think this is a great idea. I wish I woulda thought of it.

8. Any notes you would like to add?

9. Your contact info to share on the project?
tdallasreed@hotmail.com

Apparently a project like this hasn't been done. According to the email response we got back from Guinness book of world records. When the project is complete we will submit it for a proper crown.

What do you think of this?

killor!

Is this ok with you? (You might be on the lamb, don't want to screw that up)

yes

This is destined for a free downloadable release as a music experiment album on Ripple Music

10 where are you from?

Port Orchard WA.