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Ha Ha Ha
Fun break up song about relationship revenge. As usual, the track is all original with me wearing all the hats. The synths are from my Fantom X, guitar sounds processed through POD Farm 2, and the drums are a combo of Fleetwood Total Drumming onshots and 909 samples in GURU. [more inside]
Seventeen Below (Electric Version)
Someone suggested I re-record this with a heavier treatment. So I threw the kitchen sink at it. Guitars, guitars, more guitars, a cello section, some HEAVY guitars, harmonies and a bonus weather forecast. Don't let the quiet beginning fool you. [more inside]
Where Might the Rain Fall
Live recording from a song contest at my old high school, in 2005. This is a sort of symphonic metal-type song. I was very inspired by Nightwish at the time. [more inside]
In Your Face (demo)
Sort of an electro-rocky demo for the new record. Mix is rough, etc. [more inside]
Darker Shade of Blue (Electric version)
Amped up version of a song I posted a few days ago. Gnarly guitars, Hammond organ, sweet harmonies, in a Television / Big Star / Matthew Sweet frame of mind. [more inside]
Forty-Six & 2
Recording from my vocal exam at school last Tuesday, of the Tool-song Forty-Six & 2. [more inside]
Darker Shade of Blue
Another semi-autobiographical 1995 slice of cheerful melancholia. But a pretty guitar riff and one of my favorite choruses to sing, even if I never really could hit the last note. There's an electric version of this with more of a Big Star / Matthew Sweet feel, but darned if I can find it and anyway I like this one. [more inside]
Just This Once
Another live recording from a concert at my school in spring 2009. Music and Lyrics by me, vocals also me. [more inside]
Chased
Live recording from a concert at my school in spring 2009. Female vocals by me, and I wrote the lyrics. [more inside]
SMUT - My Girl
Lyrics NSFW.
aint no rest for the wicked - cover
Cover of cage the elephant's song aint no rest for the wicked.
a perfect preservative (big ghost version)
Big Ghost's version of this, which gets nice and jam-bandy, we feel. Thanks in advance for continuing mixing/mastering advice. [more inside]
backseat nudist
Haunted punk from my band Big Ghost. This is my second attempt at recording drums (thanks for all the advice, Mefites!) and my first post that all the band worked on together. so pointers are very welcome. [more inside]
Thru your eyes
Rock song. weird intro.
wish I could sing it like it should be.
One For The Road
An upbeat song about having one more drink before calling it a night, with a sound a little different than the standard Red On Strike fare. RPM 2008 solo version.
Eliza
The first song I ever wrote, trying to capture my feelings following the breakup of my first serious relationship. Song 7 of 8 from the recent Red On Strike studio session. [more inside]
Brother Joseph
Long time listener, first time caller...err...poster. It's a bluesy sort of number in the religious tradition. The recording was done at home with GarageBand. Comments or suggestions on arrangement, recording technique, instrumentation, whatever, appreciated.
Lay It On The Line
One last shot / Give it all you got
Take a chance babe, I’m taking mine [more inside]
Carry On
I wrote this song to try and get into the head of a friend who is rarely faithful. RPM Challenge version.
Serious Song
Some very unserious punk rock from Red On Strike. Garage version.
Live Life
A cover of the Kinks song
Long Time Coming
Kind of a change for Red On Strike, heavy on the bass/drum groove. I wrote this song for RPM 2007, and I really like the way we adapted it for the band.
Pulse
A prog rock-esque wannbe torch song confessional thing with distorted electric guitar. And lots and lots and lots of digital delay. [more inside]
Same Thing
A song about drinking and its consequences-- first of eight songs recorded by my band Red On Strike last weekend. Previous version here.
it shows
This is an angry, broody, dark, but pretty song. I'm proud of it, I think it's one of my best! Includes a pretty sweet xaphoon (!) solo by yours truly, plus background vocals by my wife. [more inside]
Ode on an Irish Pub
Who's getting wasted today? I said Who's Getting Wasted?! Well alright!! Hope you're drinking lots of green beer, remember to tip your bartenders. We've been Tam and the Shanters, thanks for coming out tonight! [more inside]
factory break room by vampire deer
song 11 of 11 of cornfield - thanks for listening and commenting [more inside]
Hurt So Bad (Linda Ronstadt cover)
Shangri-La (Live Bootleg Cut)
This is a live recording of my new song Shangri-La. The audio was recorded on a handheld recorder by one of the audience members. Apologies for the dodgy sound quality...but I just had to post my first bootleg! [more inside]
emily by vampire deer
song 5 of 11 of cornfield [more inside]
nothing by vampire deer
3 of 11 of cornfield [more inside]
her name is hope
I wrote this after attending a concert late last year. Just finished (?) the recording. It's kind of a tribute to the musician I saw -- maybe you can guess who it is? Either way, it's a track that features guitars, pianos, fretless bass, vibes, drums, vocals and a lap steel part in the chorus that I'm really satisfied with. [more inside]
01 cottonwood snow by vampire deer
song 1 of 11 of my new rpm album, cornfield - it's in the mail right now, but you get to hear it first [more inside]
Buffalo
Of the songs that my band recorded recently [previously 1 • 2], this is my favorite. It's also the most difficult for us to play. But that's what practice and cheap recording is for, yeah?
down slowly
me & the lady. I record everything on an old school mini disc recorder, not to be hip but because I'm poor. [more inside]
Shambly Man
this song is about the Shambly Man
Touched by the Devil
This one has a foreboding start, and then the trapdoor into H-E-double-hockey-sticks falls open! [more inside]
Asshole Holiday
Tight lil pop diddy about the time my little brother disappeared on New Years day and turned up two months later in the Dominican Republic.
This is the first full song I've done on my new computer, which makes me wicked happy. [more inside]
Into the Ground
Yay, I get to play lead guitar in a band for the first time in 20 years! [more inside]
fall on me by vampire deer
song 8 of 8 of lucky 7 [more inside]
nice planet by vampire deer
7 of 8 of lucky 7 [more inside]
st anthony by vampire deer
6 of 8 of lucky 7 [more inside]
rapunzel by vampire deer
song 5 of 8 [more inside]
All the Times I Remember
I wanted to write a song with no minor chords, which would be easy to do if I stuck to I-IV-V. I didn't really stick to I-IV-V. [more inside]
2010 - A Space Oddity (Tigers On Vaseline mix)
You're the blessed, we're the Spiders from Marzzzz-uh! [more inside]
lucky 7 by vampire deer
song 4 of 8 - a rare, happy blues [more inside]
two doors down
song 3 of 8 of lucky 7 - this is just time passing on - in 5 [more inside]
flying by vampire deer
song 2 of 8 - this one's about the balloon boy saga [more inside]
2012 by vampire deer
song 1 of 8 of the 7th vampire deer album, lucky 7 [more inside]
Rodeo Ford dot com
The third song in the Rodeo Ford Trilogy, forever changing the way people look at terrible car dealerships. [more inside]