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Ducksual

About Me

One day David Ellis decided to write a half hour progressive rock suite as an homage to the bands he loves. It's still an ongoing project.

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Member Since: 13/09/2005
Band Members: David Ellis - Vocals, Keys, Guitars, Bass, Stick, Drum Programming

Hywel Bennett - Guitar on Escape Reprise (not up here yet)
Influences: Spocks Beard, Transatlantic, Dream Theater, A.C.T, Ben Folds, Jonah Smith, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, Frost* and many others...
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Old songs and exams.

If anyone actually looks here and notices this I've taken all the old demos down now because well, let's be honest, they weren't very good. I'm currently doing little bits of various projects when I t...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:22:00 GMT

Back on it

The first two Sombrero tracks were sent off to be mixed last weekend so I'm now back to working on sunrise.I've collected all the files together but now I'm moving everything over to Logic.Hopefully I...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:19:00 GMT

Held up

Well the recording part of Sunrise still hasn't really started yet. I'm STILL tweaking the sombrero recordings. Some bits of which have been more challenging than I'd hoped. I'm planning on starting w...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:41:00 GMT

It's been a while

I've finally finished writing the Twilight section of Sunrise. There's only a tiny tiny bit of writing left till the whole thing's written and ready for the final recording to be made.At the moment I'...
Posted by on Wed, 30 May 2007 09:17:00 GMT

Progress!

I've now done a new demo of the introduction track for Sunrise and I've got a final list of sections with their names, only a little more writing to do and the recording has really started now.Here're...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:47:00 GMT

Drum Programming

I've been programming drum parts for TIP now as I've pretty much given up on getting a drummer for this project. Although I've spoken to people before I don't think it's really fair asking anyone to l...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:23:00 GMT

The Sombrero Principle (and The Inevitable Plunge)

The prog band I'm in now has a name, we're called "The Sombrero Principle" and will be playing our first gig in the warwick university battle of the bands heat 5.Sunrise is still a separate project, a...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:53:00 GMT

Soon...

OK, so far no new tracks I'm afraid. I've almost got a demo for 'The Inevitable Plunge' (the first section I've recorded Chapman Stick for!) but it's not quite ready yet. I need to redo the vocals and...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:40:00 GMT

Progress on Sunrise

It's been a while but I've finally managed to get some time to work on sunrise again. I've added a new section to 'twilight' and have practically finished Aftereffects so there're only a couple of lit...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:03:00 GMT

Hywel and 'Hammond'

Finally managed to lay down some of the final backings last weekend as I worked with Hywel (from Replica X) on some of the sections. Being two logically minded people we started with the outro and wor...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:15:00 GMT