Acoustic guitar, congas, hoarse voice and fretless bass. A visual song.
Standard Podcasts: Hiking in the Rain
• October 6th, 2009“Hiking in the rain, like friends I hardly knew”. A Facebook comment I made which stuck in my head and now is this song. The 12 string part is something I have been playing for a few weeks although it sounds a bit like “Horse with No Name”. I layered on a lead guitar, keyboard, drums, congas and a double vocal track. Check it out.
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Could Be Girls
• September 24th, 2009After listening to a week’s worth of Zappa records, I wrote and recorded this hyper funk inspired song. Over a very fast drum track, I played my Strat, Fretless Bass, then trumpet harmonies, and guitar lead harmonies. I added some arpeggiated Triton keyboards at the end. This was fun.
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Alone On A Chair With You
• September 1st, 2009UPDATED recording!
After my one intimate, last person performance I had at Bayshore, I realized that some people were responding to my words and talking back to me. That is why it is kind of fun to say things like “no one hears me” in the lyrics. Anyway, I did this while I was alone for 30 minutes and added a few things to it later. It is a quiet acoustic song with a conga accompanyment I layered on later. I like Congas, did I say that?
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Tough Stuff
• August 31st, 2009This was our beginning jam. Very fun and a driving beat. Three guitars in the tub.
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Alone In A Chair
• August 31st, 2009This is a song I recorded while on the phone (an earlier post). Decided to try it with the group. Lets do it again!
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Evolution
• August 31st, 2009This one evolved and again, I was playing horn. A jazz improv.
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Hombre Natural
• August 31st, 2009One of Jake’s favorites with a new latin spice. I started playing trumpet at this session and was pretty satified with the improv vibe. My new congas are in the background between the horn parts.
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The Infuriator
• August 26th, 2009I was instigating a few vibes while answering a phone call. It is an interesting conversation, perhaps. Perhaps not. I ended up jamming with the busy signal after a hangup.
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Buddy Holly: Learning The Game (from the Apartment Tapes)
• August 24th, 2009This is just about the most beautiful song sang in the most beautiful way. Buddy Holly recorded himself in his apartment, you can even hear his wife in the background. He was one of the first shining stars. Unfortunately I heard this song as background music to scenes of his airplane crash from a you tube video. The guitar playing is all soul.
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Monster With Seven Heads
• August 5th, 2009Speaking of the Devil, we came up with this rough cut spontaneously after playing Peter’s crazy 7 string electric. It is like having a bass with that seventh string. I thought it would sound cool to use my octivizer effect for extra evil. I will be exploring this one further and have had some ideas for refrains.
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Friend of the Devil
• August 5th, 2009I love this Grateful Dead song, and it is an endless etude for me. Singing while playing is not easy for me, but with Peter Munsch on drums, he obliged and rough as it is, why not?
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• July 12th, 2009Made this last night after a hiatus of a month or so. I mic’ed all the amps, so no direct input to the recorder. My Line 6 has a crystal sound I have been tweaking to get the Jerry Garcia warmth. I stumbled on the drum beat, which fit the song perfectly. I had made this up long ago when I used to jam with Jake Alspector and Ron Stern at the 30th Street rent-a-studios in NYC. Fun. They are coming over this weekend to jam. I will do my best to record our session. I have enough microphones.
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Abilene
• June 26th, 2009I don’t know much about this song, but I really like it. Jake’s voice is very close to Willie Nelson’s twang and he is so soulful.
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Summertime
• June 26th, 2009OK, this is growing on me. Summertime is a pretty good cover, I suppose. More of a standard and pretty rare in the rock world perhaps. It made me want to sing a couple of lines. Dangerous. Jake carried the song, Ron, and Chris really moved it. First time for all of us.
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