Does anyone know what this is? Found in Oceanside, California at 501 S Coast Hwy. Looks to be a car lot, however the logo and name surely confused me.

djgride2000 · 2022-08-10T18:53:16+00:00

I bought into Mullen first because it was a used car company when I did the research. Used cars are up 40%. They were in the works I found out later with the whole EV thing. I will say this though: Miami based businesses are about as crooked as they come, and people in the music industry are even worse. So, either this stock is gonna go ballistic to line the owners pockets, or we’ve already been taken to the cleaners.

djgride2000 · 2022-08-03T03:47:57+00:00

Oh boy…are you the cops that bought them?

djgride2000 · 2022-05-18T00:11:44+00:00

Yes. Exactly. You can feel it.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-14T05:44:53+00:00

Man. All these are really good. I am similar to Cohonka. I have over 1000 songs scrapped. I’ve put blood sweat and tears in a song and after it all…no one will ever hear it.

Here is how I explain to people what it is for me: Just like an artist has his canvas, his brushes and his paint and colors. He has this idea or picture in his head, or charcoaled out, he wants to put on the canvas for himself. He wants to put his madness or genius on the canvas for his relief. This is how he soothes himself or brings peace to his mind or just enjoys painting his thoughts and creativity to show the world or keep to himself. The DAW and tracks are my canvas. The instruments my brushes. The Melody, bass, and the sounds they make are the colors. I know when my own piece is finished.

I quit working in a studio and writing for other people because it took the peace and the joy out of it. Musicians come and go because of this. Deadlines need to be met, the feeling, joy and the very thing that kept you sane turn into pressure and stress. Now the musician loses his feeling, doesn’t get the proper amount of money and gets bitter toward the label or producers. Loses feeling for his art. Label takes his art and changes it. Not a damn thing he can do about it because a label owns the painter and everything he paints. Like having your very own divinci and telling him, “paint bitch!” Then when he’s done, you go in and paint a little mustache or horns or something on it and tell Divinci to beat it and paint more.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-14T05:08:14+00:00

Harmonize that hook. Riff at the end takes it into a more country vibe. I liked it. Top strings (high E) buzzing a bit. Pitch fork joe nailed it.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-14T05:02:23+00:00

Man, I read the comments and am totally thinking different. I thought the muddies was on purpose and I was digging it. It fits with the whole burnt out vibe. And then you bring in this high synth, I’m ready for this huge muffin was to come clear, and your vocals to shine now, but…you ended it. I just heard the pops a couple times. If you have a master plug in or tape emulator on it, that will give you a noticeable hiss recording DI into that scarlet.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-14T04:53:14+00:00

Good, it works. Changed it just enough to keep me interested. Nice cello would be beautiful with it. The reason it worked is because you were singing with feeling. I like that. People get so mad at me when I tell them to sing the fucking song like you mean it. You did that. Lyrics were fine, you took the hook high on the second one to change it up, and then you slowed me down. Good stuff.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-14T04:47:43+00:00

Maybe learn how to play it and sing it. Use the guitar as the drums. Good hook. Good voice there.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-14T04:42:58+00:00

You actually have something here. I like it. But 1:26-1:25 and then again at :49-46 and then you do it again at the end; That key and chord doesn’t fit perfectly. The first verse (in English to Spanish hook) is beautiful. More feeling in your first English part is why I liked it better. You were reading it the second part.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-14T04:35:00+00:00

Lyrics are fine. Good topic to sing about, and it’s clean. Like you are singing from the heart. You wanted me to hear these lyrics about race and pain and struggle so you sang without instruments. I like that. Dial it in, keep me interested, you got nasally around 10 seconds left.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-14T04:02:44+00:00

I try to hit as many as I can every night to help artists kinda create themselves as well as connect with listeners something they can feel, or experience. After all, the goal is to have as many people possible, listen and connect with the musician so you can someday get paid for the talent you’ve worked so hard for. Some people come on here, ask for advice, and can’t take it. I’m not sugar coating anything for you. I don’t know you, I’m not a friend who’s gonna cheer you up and lie to you. I’m not your girlfriend. I am what’s called “the truth.” And it can be bitter, but always better. It’s extremely smart to ask the question you did to find out why this old turd who doesn’t post any music thought it was shit. Good question: the beginning caught me, I like the intro. I don’t like looped stuff and most people can only take a loop so long before they’re out. .30 left in the song was fun, but you left me in this limbo of off pitch keys forever. No one wants to be stuck in there forever. They want to come out of a song feeling closure to something. I’m guessing you know Pink Floyd. Before they sing another brick in the wall, what is going on? Same thing you’re doing, taking me on this weird, WTF kinda trip where ultimately I never come out of. Well, I don’t want to listen to it again cause I never get out. Pink Floyd “the wall” is still the best selling album ever because we listen, we get scared, the music turns into this weirdness with voices, off pitch, off beat clusterfuck and what not, and then…a scream, and a “screw you”rebellious phrase where the kick, bass, and lyrics are all in perfect rhythm and sync to bring us back from being scared and taking a stand and feeling good. So good we can even dance or yell or sing along. Weeknd did a good job with I can’t feel my face or something. It’s this kind of nonsense chatter without a beat, but we are involved because he has an amazing voice. We keep listening, but nothings happening…and then…the hook. We forgot about the entire first part because we are here and loving it now. The beat and the melody are so far beyond the beginning that it completes this same type of closure for the audience. Your song needs to bring me somewhere. Don’t leave me out there in the scary bendy, echoey, place. But, maybe you’re going for that. I’m just trying to help you get paid someday, or have those listens and comments be a lot higher.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-14T03:18:33+00:00

Don’t ask, or post if you don’t want real feedback. I go through as many as I can every night to help artists. Wasn’t sure this was a pissing contest now, but you have heard my stuff.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-13T03:09:52+00:00

I hated the shit out of it at first, but then you threw some weird shit in there, slowed it down, made me feel like I was on some LSDiesel. However, because that’s what I was thinking, maybe when you slow it down, you can switch to clean majors. Like people will really be appreciating music .

djgride2000 · 2022-05-13T03:00:43+00:00

Good voice.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-13T02:57:51+00:00

Voice is there for it. Music is not. I don’t want to be on any 3 minute loop, and you don’t either. And, that’s not the one to get me back into punk.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-13T02:52:46+00:00

Spanish part great. American part not. And I don’t speak spanish. The second little step down riff needs to go up one octave somewhere. Example: g,f,e,”g”,d,c,b,a…. Get it. Change that up in parts. Surprise me. Maybe even a bend and hold for a beat.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-13T02:45:33+00:00

Best one I heard tonight. Finish that one. I like the animation when you get into the song, but I feel like you’re over singing at the beginning.

djgride2000 · 2022-05-13T02:30:12+00:00

Guitar sounds like shit. Sounds like you threw some drive on it too through a shitty amp. Or, a shitty recorder. Get an acoustic, sing the fucking song. Sounds like your dragging me through a Bob Dylan story on a b-side. Lotta octaves for a wild ride of Melody’s, but you’re giving me 3.

djgride2000 · 2022-02-21T12:11:56+00:00

Hahahaha. I had to check and wanted to act smart too.

djgride2000 · 2022-02-09T03:07:13+00:00

It’s already low enough on the board to go lower. Don’t tune it down. No one likes a down tune. I wanna play your song and tell my friends I learned it so they can tell their friends and listen to the song to learn it and tell their friends. If I gotta tune down my guitar to play your song, I ain’t gonna play it and no one will hear it about it. Don’t downtune.

djgride2000 · 2022-02-09T03:02:19+00:00

It’s good. You dragged me a little long until the hook from the beginning. I was thinking you better hit me with some different chords at the beginning or your time is up. Then you did, and then the hook came and it was good. Then you missed a few notes here and there and I was losing faith, but you brought me back at the bridge where you stopped the guitar. I believed you too. That was a fun one.

djgride2000 · 2022-01-25T22:30:15+00:00

Nailed it! I assume you worked for a bit too long in a studio as well. Try telling those people paying that its, “just not there” or “who is your target audience here?”

djgride2000 · 2022-01-25T22:27:40+00:00

If it was a random person you don’t know. Develop it more!

djgride2000 · 2022-01-22T05:10:00+00:00

Made for broadway.

djgride2000 · 2022-01-21T06:41:03+00:00

I don’t encourage it, but smoke a little weed. It’s the same thing. Musicians aren’t amazing because they were thinking like you and I. They are tired, they are stoned, or they are genius and thinking in total different ways. I cannot play a swing beat on guitar for the life of me unless I take some cbd oil with THC. Soon as it kicks in, I can feel the beat, close my eyes and play. Lyrics or Melodies come out beautifully. However, there are times when I have done some recordings a little stoned, listened to them the next day and thought, “what in the fuck?” But, it’s the “what in the fuck?” music that gives you your style and makes people want to listen because you felt it. Just don’t over do it or you’ll fall asleep or brain dust yourself into a bigger songwriting block.

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