THE VOICE CONNECTION
SOUND OFF

Welcome to The Voice Connection Sound Off; a forum for users of books like Raise Your Voice, Melody to Madness, The Ultimate Breathing Workout, and Unleash Your Creative Mindset, as well as a place for Vendera Vocal Academy members to interact.

This message board was created so that singers could come together and "sound off" to help support each other during vocal development and the creative process of unleashing the creative spark that occurs when writing and producing music. Currently, myself and vocal coaches Ben Valen, Ray West, and Ryan Wall are here to respond periodicially to your questions, with new vocal coaches coming soon. But, feel free to help each other too:)

This board is here for you to ask questions about my and my fellow coach's books, videos, and MP3 programs, as well as offer others help with our vocal techniques. You may also post videos of yourself and your band to share your music and ask for critiques.

Please refrain from negative comments, profanities, spamming, and inappropriate criticisms of vocal methodologies, vocal coaches, and singers. All negative posts will be deleted and subject to banning without question. I will not respond to negative posts, because, as Mark Twain once said, “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” With that said, positive criticism is welcome because that is how you'll grow as a singer during the training process.


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Ray West Is Back!!!

Attention all Spread Eagle fans! Ray West is back working on new solo material. So, the rumor about him being dead are NOT true. He still sounds amazing. Check out his page on Myspace at
http://www.myspace.com/spreadeagleraywest


PS- While you are there, check out my new page at
http://www.myspace.com/jaimevendera

JV

Re: Ray West Is Back!!!

I was a really big fan of the second Spread Eagle album, Open to the Public. I never really got into the "sleaze" aspect of their lyrics, and the 2nd seemed a little less explicit, haha

Great band though. Ray always did some cool modal harmonies that actually pre-date Alice in Chains I beleive, but they never got their due credit there.

Also, now that Ray's back, maybe I can finally get the answer to the question I've been asking and scouring the net for, literally, since I first discovered the INTERNET!

WHAT THE BLAZES ever happened to Paul DiBartolo?!!!
the best I could ever find was that he's done some work scoring movies, but that guy was just TOO FREAKING amazing of a guitarist to have just vanished off the face of ROCK. A little bit of Marty Friedman in smoothness and awesome note choices, but just bluesy as hell!!!

Anyone know if he's made any other guitar recordings?

-Paul

Re: Ray West Is Back!!!

I'll ask Ray. I've been talking with himnthe past couple of days. He's very cool and he's working on new material that will blow your mind. You can check out his site at http://www.myspace.com/spreadeagleraywest

PS- Just email him and ask him anything. Tell him JV sent you ;)