meanwhile

...some music.

I cant let a week go by without making up or recording a song.

Reign of Terror (again)

Oh fuck. its the rapist again. How did this happen?

I’ve put this song up before but this is a new more live version. Appropriate for the day that’s in it.

Step to the Left

I feel like this election thing isn’t going well. Everyone is worn down by all this craziness into a kind of passivity or resignation. I mean, in 2020 people were riled up. This isn’t the same. Its attrition.

Also i think it was a mistake to run a woman. There are going to be a certain amount of people in America who just wont vote for a woman no matter what and with the margins so small, we cant afford to lose those votes.

Maybe I Think Too Much

This is a lovely song by Paul Simon that I have recorded a number of times. Its from the album that was meant to be a Simon and Garfunkel reunion. In the end Paul Simon erased Garfunkel’s voice from all the songs and put it out as another solo album.

We Come Apart

Here’s a nice sketch of a song I did in 30 minutes. If you can write and record a song in under an hour, it will usually turn out well — or at the very least, fresh.

This one will be on my next album.

We Didn’t Know we Knew

This one started out as the Day Tripper riff done on a steel drum. That was it. After it became something else, I modified the Beatles riff so as to be original so that I could include it here.

Tarzan and Batman

This is from a silly playground song we would sing as kids. One of many. However, I don’t intend to ever record the Popeye variations of the already very lewd Barnacle Bill the Sailor. Please don’t ask me to.

Aren’t You Going to miss me?

This is a silly, little ditty I produced quite some years ago. When I went to add a guitar to it, I realised that I hadn’t figured out the chords, which is usually the first thing.

Dropout Boogie

Just recorded this for fun in one sitting. Its a cover of a song from everyone’s favourite paranoid schizophrenic, Captain Beefheart. This is from his first album “Safe as Milk” from way back in 1967. It was in my dad’s collection.

The Teachers Pet

I cogged most of these words from the poem “Where children keep their pets” by the great Irish children’s poet, Paul Cookson.