*UPDATE - July 11th, 2017*
Wow! I got frontpaged! This is truly the mark of my best work...and it's often not the songs that I think will get there. With this one, I knew I had something pretty decent, and I've gotten a couple comments on how I mixed it that made me doubt myself...but I kept what I had because I know that I've listened to this piece for hours in innumerable variations before I settled on this mix. It seems to have worked, this time!

Now I hope it's good enough to beat @ThaPredator in the NGADM. Kid's got talent for days, and I'm still not confident that I'll take him down.

*/UPDATE*

Tried my hand at something I can only recall doing once before - STADIUM ROCK!

This was done in my DAW with my standard equipment. One acoustic/electric guitar, one microphone, and whatever built-in plugins I could scrounge up in my DAW. I did, however, add the MeldaProductions free suite of plugins to my repertoire, and made extensive use of their excellent compressor in this piece.

Here are the lyrics:

Well if you’ve got a country,
I’ve bled for her sometimes

And if you’ve got a family,
I’ve seen their hardest times

I’ve stood around your tribal moots
And watched you grow your feeble roots
I’ve spent ten thousand years alone
beyond your point of view

Well if you’ve got some money
I’ve seen it poorly spent

And if you’ve got a tapestry
I’m sure to see it rent

I’m always omnipresent
But you’re never sure that I was ever there

And if you find you’re hungry
I’ll see to it you’re fed

And if you think you’re purposeless
I’ll see to it you’re lead

I’ve spent my time observing you
and from my prescient point of view
you’ve got another dream or two
you’d better get on soon

I’ve countered all your demons
And knocked them off your shelves

I’ve watched you stand with glowing eyes
Until you become demons yourselves.

I’ve stood upon your walls
I’ve battled in your halls of industry.

And I’ll still be standing here
Long after you’re gone

And everything that’s so important
is nothing but a yawn

You’ll fade into oblivion
but I’ll just keep on going then
until the world comes round again
and everything is new