An instrumental rock funk song that mixes Trans Am, Fugazi and the Beastie Boys. Guitar was amped and mic'ed, the bass and the synth were recorded direct. 

Fighting Aliens With Karate

Jason Bloodworth and I rocked out a KISS cover about 10 years ago. It's pretty faithful to the original, only rougher. Jay's on drums, bass, lead guitar and backing vocals. I'm on rhythm guitar and vocals. I was still smoking then, which is pretty evident in my voice. 

Goin' Blind - KISS Cover

The Laingdon is a hotel in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. I've never stayed there but it seems nice and the name's great. They're free to use this song in a commercial if they want.

Rain at the Laingdon

Rainy Morning at the Laingdon

I kind of hate the drum beat and my singing but whatever. The intro and outro are good and there's nice guitar throughout.

You Got Lucky (Tom Petty Cover)

A tidy little riff embellished by samples from one of the greatest movies of all time. FTR, Kevin Kline was delightful to work with.

Fucking Limey Cement

I've been obsessed with ZZ Top for a year and this song is, in many ways, a love letter to Billy Gibbons' guitar playing.  The riff is a variation on "La Grange," only slower and fussier. I finger-picked everything (Gibbons plays with a pick and his fingers; I'm not dextrous enough for that so I just use my fingers). The blues riff vs. drum machine plus midi-synched synth is straight out of "Eliminator." The guitar solo is closer to Scotty Moore than Gibbons but owes a lot to Gibbons' patient approach to creating a musical statement. 

You're hearing two Arturia machines (drumbrute; minibrute) and a Fender Strat recorded on garageband through a bunch of their garbage guitar filters. Also, while I realize "The Golden Child" isn't actually a good movie, I love every second of it.

Murphy's Law Enforcement

The original version of this song was my favorite song in the 1990s but I hadn't heard it in years when I recorded the instrumental tracks for this cover. I have a feeling I might be playing the wrong chords. 

I'm playing my strat and my wife's Ibanez Micro bass. Otherwise, everything's either a Korg or an Arturia.

Korg
DW-6000 (orchestral strings)
Kaossilator (bass on bridge)
Volca Beats (drums on bridge)

Arturia
Drumbrute (main drumbeat)
Minibrute (gurgling chirpy electronic sounds)

I also got a lot of mileage out of my Boss DD-6 Delay pedal and Garageband's compression and effects options. I hope people don't mind the vocals. I'm sure that the bridge section is going to be polarizing.

West Palm Beach (Palace/Will Oldham cover)

Walken Through The Darkness

Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tangi_bertin/28334488116

A loving tribute to Lou and the velvets, with a guitar solo inspired by the rock n roll animal solo band. I was aiming for T. Rex with the arrangement, missed and grazed The Cars by accident.

Waiting for my Man (Velvet Underground Cover)

My daughter is singing. She came downstairs while I was recording and sang a bit of a song from Frozen 2 into my mic. A few notes lined up with the F minor bass line I was playing around with and it sounded haunted and exotic. The orchestra is violinist John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players performing the Winter movement from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, hence “winter daughter.” Original recording here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/John_Harrison_with_the_Wichita_State_University_Chamber_Players/The_Four_Seasons_Vivaldi

As always, I'm on bass, keyboards (Korg DW-6000), guitars, drum machine (Arturia Drumbrute) fuzz (big muff) and delay pedal (Boss DOD).

Winter Daughter

cinema death cult theme

It's Eminem's vocal over my music. Love you slim!

Adam Bulger

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