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Things I Used to Know (demo)
"Our minds are permeable to forgetfulness; I myself am distorting and losing, through the tragic erosion of the years, the features of Beatriz."
-- Jorge Luis Borges
posted on May 16, 2008 - View this thread
Go Home Metronome
An exhausting afternoon called for extensive multitracking and math-rocking minus the thinking part.
posted on May 13, 2008 - View this threadMovin' On Up
The lazy cracker, banjo-infused version of the Jeffersons theme song.
posted on May 12, 2008 - View this threadKick Start
Just me and a guitar, singing an alphabet song. Be warned: I say "fuck" in it.
posted on May 12, 2008 - View this threadChester v3
Tell Yourself
I suppose this is the equivalent of my last
yay new instrument song. Banjo, 'lectric guitar, 'lectric drums, singin.
posted on May 6, 2008 - View this threadThis Town
Not so different from anything else I've done, but I'm proud of the production of this one.
posted on Apr 15, 2008 - View this threadIowa City
A simple song about disagreement, frustration, and the prairie. Just doubled guitar and vocals. Recorded by The Grandma Sylvias, March 2008.
posted on Apr 12, 2008 - View this threadSolace for King Benny?
I was so upset by King Benny's loss of pets/friends as described in '
All my hearts are belong to you' that I fell into a fit of sentimental indulgence and thus penned a hurried tribute. Apologies for taking anyone's name in vain...
posted on Apr 12, 2008 - View this threadBury Your Tracks
A more ambitious song I've been working on for a while. Would really,
really love any feedback.
posted on Apr 10, 2008 - View this threadAll My Hearts (Are Belong To You)
Counting Song
A crackly, sketchy demo recording that never found a band.
posted on Apr 9, 2008 - View this threadMy little place
A repetitive, driving song featuring my first foray into recording piano-ery. It also has a jammy rockout outro (rockoutro?).
posted on Apr 8, 2008 - View this threadHopscotch
A laptop-demo of a song that I'm doing currently live solo + live with a band. This version if solo + looped, so it's one take, but I'm looking to record it for real pretty soon - so please, I beseech you for constructive criticism! Gracias!
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - View this threadLove More
Title song from my self-produced record last year.
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - View this threadBlankets and Pillows
Recorded last summer sometime, was on a solo album I produced.
posted on Apr 3, 2008 - View this threadNo Going Back
This is not the happiest song I've ever written.
posted on Apr 1, 2008 - View this threadMarie
Song I wrote and recorded recently when thinking about how thankful I am for my friends.
posted on Mar 31, 2008 - View this threadSunday Front Porch
Hard Times Come Again No More
Just installed new strings and set up my new 3-mic stand; I figured I'd test drive 'em both.
posted on Mar 29, 2008 - View this threadHey (or how the band did its thing)
A woozy, detached song that builds. My first ever attempt at recording vocals.
posted on Mar 29, 2008 - View this threadOctopussy (rough mix)
Another very rough mix from Derailleur's Bond Theme Songs project. I can't remember what the official theme song to
Octopussy even was, but I'm sure it didn't rock as hard as ours.
posted on Mar 24, 2008 - View this threada perfect preservative
I pretty li'l ditty about jelly, pirates, and (of course) true love. still getting my bearings as far as recording in my new apartment. two guits and a glockenspiel for the win?
posted on Mar 19, 2008 - View this threadRiff tide
Some simple arpeggios and other guitar improvs
posted on Mar 10, 2008 - View this threadMake it True
Influenced by Afro-pop. Voice, percussion, and a little guitar.
posted on Mar 9, 2008 - View this threadThat's All
Here's a somewhat sappy song about a former lady friend in DADF#A (I broke my high E string the other night, so no tuning for that one). I wrote and put it together this morning.
posted on Mar 9, 2008 - View this threadI Will
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This is the reaction to my constant enthusiasm about music theory: I strung up my first guitar, a 3/4 size steel-string classical, with a mismatch of electric guitar strings, and tuned it BF#BBBD#. Then just played whatever. It made for an entertaining spring break and a kind of 'endearing' song.
posted on Mar 8, 2008 - View this threadnoodling
More 12-string fingerstyle. This time the tuning is DADDAD.
posted on Mar 7, 2008 - View this threadmission has failed reprise (with Video)
I've posted this song here
previously, but I wanted to share the
video I made for it with the help of my lovely and talented assistant Jacob Guza. Hope you enjoy.
NSFW lyrics/youtube
posted on Mar 6, 2008 - View this threadCheese Whiz
I have no idea why I decided to choose that name half a life ago. It is a 12-string fingerstyle barnburner played with pinky slide.
posted on Mar 6, 2008 - View this threadsonic youth vs. john fahey
To rock or to pick? That seemed to be struggle that played out on this old cassette that I recently dug up and digitized.
This is another 12-string fingerstyle tune in an alternate tuning (Cc Gg Cc gg gc ce). I played around with tuning the double-coursed strings to different notes.
posted on Mar 5, 2008 - View this threadThe Last Time I Saw Moscow
A very lo-fi one-take recording by The Grandma Sylvias. Acoustic guitar and vocals only; all apparent distortion is coming from knobs turned very high.
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - View this threadcooloop
after the recent posts from umbu and corduroy, I couldn't resist upping this. I tried... but...
Wasn't designed to and isn't specifically related to, but I'd like to dedicate it to the memory of jeff healey.
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - View this threadcgcgce
Another fingerstyle tune from the cassette time capsule. This one was recorded on a six-string with my friends backing me up on cello and percussion.
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - View this threadI miss my old 12-string
A fingerpicking tune I four-tracked way back when (1990).
posted on Mar 2, 2008 - View this threadpiltdown part 7
Julianne
Easy come, easy go
This is about one of those times when you know you really shouldn't, but you just can't help yourself...;)
posted on Feb 29, 2008 - View this threadMy Bones
Wasted Hearts
It's Nedroid!!!
Nedroid's unofficial theme-song (with official, Nedroid-penned lyrics!)
About five years ago (in the early stage of my mefi lurking) my good buddy,
TheMadJuggler asked me to throw together a little tune for his net-buddy, Nedroid. Here's a pretty faithful version of the song I came up with.
I post this as the last song recorded in my shitty little
Haverhill apartment, as a fan/love letter to a fine cartoonist.
posted on Feb 27, 2008 - View this threadLa Tarea
A musical version of an old Spanish assigment from high school that I found in a box.
posted on Feb 25, 2008 - View this threadAn Edwardian Approach
She's a Scientist, Too
Sung by The Infamous Benny Hill, this one is an ode to a female scientist he knows.
posted on Feb 19, 2008 - View this threadeyeblink
Louis Collins
Quick 'n' dirty cover of Mississippi John Hurt's old song played on my resonator guitar. Levels are a bit off, volume jumps up and down a little... but here it is anyway.
posted on Feb 14, 2008 - View this threadThe Punisher
A little acoustic guitar ditty that sounds like something that would be perfectly suited for a front porch.
posted on Feb 13, 2008 - View this threadEngine
Black Horse and the Tambourine
Beck's "Black Tambourine" vs KT Tunstall's "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree." A MeFi exclusive!
posted on Feb 12, 2008 - View this thread« Older songs
