I decided to go back to the one rave party I went to at school at App. State with this track.
We were a little out of place with our Eddie Vedder flannel but then again at that point in pop culture, who wasn’t out of place?
This one’s called “Tecmo Sol” a play on words for the immortal ‘Tecmo Bowl’.
Leave it to the recycling to bring out the absurd in my lyrics. I thought about dumpster diving today as I was digging in some of the big recycling totes at Morganton Trading Co.
I guess that spurred this song because I distinctly remember thinking ‘they should put dumpster diving in the olympics’.
I love the words to the chorus “all forms of love are accepted here”.
Today has been a great day spent recovering from my work week and catching up on my studio work before my gig tonight back down the mountain.
Today’s song, “Sleeping Sweetly” was inspired this ultra chilly weather we’re having a how good it is to be in bed late at night under the covers with your loved ones and animals.
It’s an acoustic number, pretty simply recorded. I hope you enjoy it!
I’m still running behind but I did write this yesterday. I didn’t get around to recording it until this morning. It took about an hour to record which is still a little longer than I would like to take but my drums are getting a lot better already.
I’ve played and recorded drums five times this week which is five times more than I played them all last year. This blog is definitely going to get my off instruments more tight.
“Good Liver” comes from something I misread on a medical flyer while recycling the other day. It turned into a funny song with a tragic message about that friend of yours who loves to party.
I finally broke out the distortion pedal on this one.
Well, this is my first late post. After an exciting day recycling in the big city of Hildebran and a near death experience, I got home late. Which left me only a little time to hang out with Adair before I left for my bi-annual poker game with my golfing buddies. Long story short, I should have stay home and saved the money. Oh well, I had a good time though.
I got home a little after midnight and started working on a tune but after getting up at 5:30am that morning I didn’t get something recorded before I started to crash.
Anyway, this is what came from those efforts last night and my efforts (and choppy drumming) from this morning.
It’s called “Love Your Girl” and it’s a story song about not forgetting to remember that sweet love in your life.
Day two in my quest to write a song and brief commentary every day of 2010.
I’ve had a rare Saturday off on a windy cold snowy day and have gotten to work in the studio all day.
I worked on “Let Out the Zoo” from my upcoming album ‘Follow the Feeling’ and then I wrote and recorded this one.
“Snow Day” is obviously inspired by the coveted snow day school cancellation each student and teacher anticipates each year.
All the instruments are one or two takes and I got to play Jason Peeler’s drums for the 2nd day in a row!
This is my ambitious blog experiment for 2010.
In 2010, starting today, Jan. 1st, I am going to write a song each day and post it here and write about the experience in this popular “blog” format which I am still weary of with my Gen X DNA.
My criteria will be
1. The song has to be around a minute long minimum
2. It has to be from good effort (I can’t phone it in, however, I can record it on my iPhone)
3.With lyrics is a plus but I can contribute instrumentals (I do love my Triton keyboard)
4. I can collaborate (making music is fun with other folks )
So here it goes. Today I decided to write a cheesy feel good anthem about getting things kick started for 2010. I’m very optimistic about this year and this song is a little pep talk.
WordPress is not making it easy to upgrade their services to play mp3’s, so I will have to redirect to my main website to play the song. In the future I hope to be displaying the mp3’s for people to upload free directly from this blog.
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