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18 posts tagged with guitar by ORthey.
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Elves in Iceland
Sort of a cheating entry to the wildcard challenge - a flowy, stringy instrumental.
posted on Aug 29, 2008 - View this thread
Flyball's Lament (the cover one)
My 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 thread
La 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 thread
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 thread
As kids
A short instrumental, played over an old tape of me reading something in French as a kid.
posted on Jan 9, 2008 - View this thread
So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much
Adaptation (more or less) of an Ogden Nash poem of the same name. Essentially an apology from an aging man who spends his time boring people with the same stories.
posted on Dec 13, 2007 - View this thread
Weighin' me down
English, French, backup vocals, slide, banjo, bam!
posted on Nov 30, 2007 - View this thread
A Shrieking Blue
Very short, two sparse verses, some pickin'.
posted on Nov 10, 2007 - View this thread
Your Melodies
Basically a song about a failed friendship, which as we all know is best done with several banjo tracks!
posted on Nov 2, 2007 - View this thread
Old Man
A cover of my very favorite Randy Newman song, which is also maybe the saddest song I know.
posted on Jul 28, 2007 - View this thread
Sidewinder
Tuned the guitar way down and added some banjo. This song does this thing where it equates "snake" with "girl." Like a metaphor, see. Also: it seems to play better through headphones (possibly because of the use of stereo). But maybe I just have bad speakers.
posted on Jul 10, 2007 - View this thread
The most frozenest river around
A song inspired by crossing the frozen river Neva in Saint Petersburg, Russia. This song is short, simple, and basically three choruses and no verses. That's right - screw the verses!
posted on Jun 29, 2007 - View this thread
Every artery
A song mostly inspired by having a stressful job where I deal with lots of nervous/frustrated/severely impolite people, and its effect on me. It's a little rough because the main track is recorded on a boombox with a verrrrry old cassette.
posted on Jun 11, 2007 - View this thread
Overheated
I recently dislocated my shoulder, and assumed music was out of the picture for a month or two. But I was getting pissed off at not playing, and discovered if I capoed everything up really high and didn't play anything too fancy, my arm could handle short bursts of pickin'. So I made a simple song, part French and part English.
posted on May 6, 2007 - View this thread
Stuck out on
My lyric-writing "system" has often been dozens of little stickies on the desktop, thoughts, ideas, scribbles... and then sometimes when I'm frustrated I'll make a song made up of various combinations that seem to make sense. Like this one!
posted on Apr 15, 2007 - View this thread
Shake your head if yes
A rambling instrumental with banjo, whistling, and a few other ingredients. Mix well and serve chilled.
posted on Apr 1, 2007 - View this thread
Stagecoach
A song about how frustrating it is to really want to be angry at someone, but they keep joking and not letting you be mad. ("you" = "me")
posted on Jul 16, 2006 - View this thread