Thinking of pressing a small run of 180 gram vinyl LPs.
Anyone still have a turntable?
Bruce

Mastered at Abbey Road

Look

Window

Revonoc1

Film music- 1 - 18 - 10

WaterCave

@juswel: Original Bed composition, bass, drums and guitars
@elephantpr: Vocals, lyrics and Backing vocals
@gotchi Orchestration and Horn Section
Concept, production and Mix by conover
© 2018 Conover/Labarca/Welin
Mastered at Abbey Road Studio by Alex Gordon
www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon
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Hazy mornings with you
Everything’s gone downhill

We’ll cruise through the stars
Just making up together
This beautiful collision

I know you know I’d do anything
Cause you care and I do
You and I so beautifully collide
This beautiful collision
This beautiful collision

Just a last time then I’ll disappear
All of our tainted years

We’ll cruise through the stars
Just making up together
This beautiful collision

I know you know I’d do anything
You care and I do
You and I so beautifully collide
This beautiful collision
This beautiful collision
This beautiful collision
This beautiful collision

Mastered at Abbey Road Studio by Alex Gordon
www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon

The Conover

Beautiful Collision Conover/Labarca/Welin/Gotchi

The Waiting Remaster 2023

Driven

I have been a driver 
And I have been Driven
And I have come across this road before
I am not a Holy man
But I have been taken
to the promised land before

This has been the longest road
that I have traveled and I wound turn back now

Composed and performed by Conover
Additional musicians: 
Acoustic Guitar- Alexis Roche
Reversed electric guitar- Barry Snaith
Mastered at Abbey Road by Engineer Sean Magee
http://www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/sean-magee
© 2017 Conover

Driven

Don’t look down
Bruce Conover composed and performed original music.
Phil McWalter was invited in for lyrics and vocal and final sweetening.

You can see all you want from here
Don’t look down
It’s just your feet and a can of fear
And if you fall...
The water’s warmer on the far side of the bay

Don’t slow up
The world will never let you get off
Don’t slow up
Its just a spin on a fairground ride
And if you do...
The circus moves on to another little town

[Spoken]: “Run, rabbit run. Just keep on running, you don't have time to look back and see if everyone else is coming…”

Don't look down
[Trumpet cadenza]
Don’t cry out
Do you think you’ll just disappear?
And when you cry
The lights are going to shine so brightly on your face

Don’t look down
You can see all you need from right here
Don't slow up
They won't let you hide away for a day...

Don't look down
You can see all you want to here
And if you do
The world will never let you get away again

Don’t look down
Don't look down
You can see all you need from right here
Don’t slow up
They won’t let you hide away for a day
Don’t look down
Don’t slow up
Don’t cry out
© Oct 2014

Don't Look Down - Conover/McWalter

Composed by Bruce Conover and Matt Warnick 

I Can’t Help You Now

funny now how it seems so strange
i should have known it from the start
i caught you stealin the town while i was fallen down
guess i was tearing out your heart

i used to feel empty just like you …it’s true
but i don’t want to change the things you do
it’s gonna be all right

and now you say that your the one i need
yes indeed, your wrong again
and i’m sorry i just can't help you now

searched my soul now im movin on
try a new way of dream’n
if not for you this tune would be through
in fairytales you believe in

i used to feel empty just like you …it’s true
but i don’t want to change the things you do

I Can't Help You Now ))))  Conover/Warnick

I don't encourage recreational stimulants but this would be a good track to listen to from front to back with headphones on and a darkened environment. 
Pack a toothbrush, night-vision goggles and a pair of sensible shoes.
Best of luck
BC

Swift Kick (Friday Night Blaze Headphones Only) conover

Venue Civic Light Opera Redondo Beach, Ca
Recorded using an Olympus LS-10 PCM recorded @ 24/96 bit rate.
We were seated 19 rows back and 12 seats left of dead center
This is the "THE BBC BIG BAND ORCHESTRA" touring as "Swingtime" to midsize venues in America.

Recorded evening with distinguished elderly people and a tight fitting dinner jacket

credits:
KZ - a little angel was the singer:) Joni Mitchell's biggest fan.
Recorded at RC&A studio in Orlando on MCI 24 track setup, 

Guitar solo by Michael Redman inspired by the band Orleans!
Mr. Redman was my mentor and shortly after this session a partner in Southeastern Recording studio Lockhart Florida.
That's the short story....

When I Was Young.... 1st song demo I recorded circa 1977

Just up the path was 
Travis corner
Fully replete with cakes and treats
All we needed was air 
All we wanted was sunshine
Where is the sunshine
I fell in love with you that fall.
And all you wanted was Paul on your lunchbox
Paul on your notebook too
George and Ringo add nothing to your world
and John was acting a bore
In 1964 
Just up the path was 
Travis corner
That was the center of our world
All we needed was freedom
And we're all waiting for sunshine
Where is the sunshine
I fell in love with you that fall
and all you wanted was Paul 
George and Ringo add nothing to your world
and John was acting a bore
Yes John was acting a boy
In 1964 

Do you remember? Do you.........

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, arrangement edits, lyrics and Mix by Conover @conover
Mastered at Abbey Road Studio by Alex Gordon
https://www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon

Travis Corner 1964   (Conover/Steen)

Where are We Now
Music by Massimo Ghianda @m4xgh
Vocals by Bruce Conover

Had to get the train 
from Potsdamer Platz
You never knew that
That I could do that
Just walking the dead

Sitting in the Djungle
On Nürnberger Straße
A man lost in time
Near KaDeVe
Just walking the dead

Where are we now?
Where are we now?
The moment you know
You know, you know

Twenty thousand people
Cross Bösebrücke
Fingers are crossed
Just in case
Walking the dead

Where are we now?
Where are we now?
The moment you know
You know, you know

As long as there's sun
As long as there's sun
As long as there's rain
As long as there's rain
As long as there's fire
As long as there's fire
As long as there's me
As long as there's you

Find one friend and proceed......

Conover/Ghianda cover of the Bowie track
Music by Massimo Ghianda @m4xgh
Vocals by Bruce Conover

Where are We Now?  (David Bowie Tribute) by Bruce Conover and Massimo Ghianda

Trickle - Down Day

Findhorn Burst

Morgan Grealish
WEARIN’ THE CROWN 


Plannin’ how I’m gonna’ make everything right 
Takin’ all your troubles home, holdin’ them tight 
All my illusions of control held so close 
Burnin’ deep inside my soul; Free the ghost 
I get off wearin’ the crown 
All hung up in my own renown 
Cardboard throne wearin’ the crown 
I get off wearin’ the crown 
Speak in universal tongue you might want to hear 
In the same sardonic tone year after year 
I’ve got opinions you should know, pay the price 
Band of gypsies in my tow, lead the fight 
I get off wearin’ the crown 
All caught up in my own renown 
Cardboard throne wearin’ the crown 
I get off wearin’ the crown

This is not one of my tracks and I did not play, sing or produce it.
It's just an old school mate that gave it quite a go promoting his music and his band a while back and Soundcloud had not come out yet. I want to show him how this community may accept him. We shall see...
We played in bands together in our teens and I always knew he had something special and original to offer. Hey Pittsburgh musicians are a special breed.
Bruce

Up In Arms                    

Wearin' The Crown (((Morgan Grealish))

Everybody knows Gene...Remix
Conover/McWalter and friends

Everybody knows Gene...Yes they do
You'll want to stay all day
And everyone is looking for you
Everybody seeks you out
No-one wants a party 
If Gene isn’t about
Are you hiding in the garden?
Are you swimming in the pool?
Is there music in the kitchen?
Are you on the hill you fool?

Everybody knows Gene...

We’re all counting on you coming
All gathered in your name
We’ve filled a dozen toasters
Got the music and the games 
Are you hiding in the attic?
Are you down inside the den? 
Can we hear you in a cupboard?
Or have you upped and fled again?

We’re playing hide and seek with Gene
Everybody knows Gene...
We’re playing hide and seek with Gene

We’re all counting on you coming
All gathered in your name
We’ve filled a dozen toasters
Got the music and the games 
Are you hiding in the attic?
Are you down inside the den?
Can we hear you in a cupboard?
Or have you upped and fled again? 
Everyone is looking for you
Everybody seeks you out
Are you hiding in the garden?
Are you swimming in the pool?
Is there music in the kitchen?
Are you on the hill you fool?

@phil-mcwalter took my original music bed and created a bit of an hommage to George Martin imagining another facet to The Fool On The Hill character. He said and I quote: "Bruce's track was so redolent of the Beatles already. The @conover bed included the main man singing the eponymous title lines "Everybody knows Gene..." and the lovely rich "bum, bum, bum" and "la, la, la..." bits! I cut it all up and sellotaped it back together in a different order; added lyrics, the song verse/chorus, and the additional orchestration (brass, guitars, strings etc). Good fun working with BC material as always! (Isn't the bass line stunning for one example!)"

AND NOW THE REMIX! I worked on Phil's version and edited, remixed and remastered, added a few friends contributions and some different seasonings, cooked it all up on Bruce's beachside barbecue and invited you all over to enjoy the new flavours! Please enjoy and bring a bottle! I promise not to hide!! Lyrics and provenance below:
© Conover-McWalter April 2016

Everybody Knows Gene (Conover & McWalter)

Artist in question has no description. When asked he said he didn't know and that he was busy talking with somebody at the front door....

I Know, I Know

Call Out My Name

Every little piece of you is already spoken for
and every little piece of you is just what I was hoping for
But it's not gonna happen today
It may not happen tomorrow
but it's really going to happen someday
You know I got to pray

Now I'm going to take
One step and hope that you walk with me
Two Steps and hope that you hold my hand... I'm Gonna go out on a ledge.
Three steps and hope that you look in my eyes
Four steps and hope that you never tell me any lies

Every little piece of you is already spoken for
and every little piece of you is just what I was hoping for
But it's not gonna happen today
It may not happen tomorrow
but it's really going to happen someday
You know I got to pray

Now I'm going to take
One step and hope that you walk with me
wo Steps and hope that you hold my hand... I'm Gonna go out on a ledge.
Three steps and hope that you look in my eyes
Four steps and hope that you never tell me any lies

Guitars by https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Bass Guitar by https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle
Percussion and sweetening @lillithe
Composed, performed, produced and mixed by conover
 mastered at Abbey Road by Alex Gordon
https://www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon
© 2017 Conover

One Step)Conover Wellin Lillithe Paploviante

Little Kiku you made me smile this morning
while we had coffee out 
the rain began to fall on our menu as we planned our famous day … 
and then you reach to me 
and that look in your eye could stop every single bird in this sky or at least they would try to slow down 
those little birds could slow down

are you not sleeping well
are you eating all right
do you worry of things that can go bump in the night
i love you Kiku

Are you not sleeping well
Are you eating all right
Do you worry of things that can go bump in the night
I love you Kiku
I love you Kiku

Little Kiku you know I have no way of finding you in this big dark city 
This big dark city tonight
come home
just come home to me

we can go out for coffee
we can stand in the rain
just let me explain
just let me explain

and then you reach for my hand
and I see that look in your eye
you could stop birds in the sky 
or at least get them to slow down
slow down
slow down
slow down
slow down 
slow down
It's 10 o'clock......
night night

Music composed and piano performed by Tom Régnier
Lyrics, organ, drums vocals, production and mix by conover
Guitar Solo by https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Cover art by Tom Régnier
Mastered at Abbey Road Studio by Alex Gordon
www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon

Kiku: conover/régnier/Welin

Conover plays and sings this version

History from the Beatles Bible:
Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 1, 4, 5 August 1969
Producer: George Martin
Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald

Released: 26 September 1969 (UK), 1 October 1969 (US)

John Lennon: vocals, lead guitar
Paul McCartney: vocals, bass
George Harrison: vocals, Moog synthesiser
George Martin: electric spinet Baldwin harpsichord

The final song to be recorded for Abbey Road was John Lennon's Because. The song was inspired by Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and featured The Beatles' distinctive three-part vocal harmonies.

Yoko Ono was a classically trained pianist whose interests had moved towards the avant garde. One day in 1969, however, she played Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 - the Moonlight Sonata.


Lying on their sofa listening, John Lennon asked her to play the chords backwards, and wrote Because around the result. While not an exact reversal of Beethoven's piece, it contains a number of musical similarities.
The lyrics speak for themselves; they're clear. No bullshit. No imagery, no obscure references.
John Lennon
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
The vocal harmonies are one of the most distinctive aspects of the much-admired Because. Lennon, McCartney and Harrison sang together, and overdubbed their voices twice more, giving the effect of nine voices.

John wrote this tune. The backing is a bit like Beethoven. And three-part harmony right throughout. Paul usually writes the sweeter tunes, and John writes the, sort of, more the rave-up things, or the freakier things. But John's getting to where he doesn't want to. He just wants to write twelve-bars. But you can't deny it, I think this is possibly my favourite one on the album. The lyrics are so simple. The harmony was pretty difficult to sing. We had to really learn it. But I think that's one of the tunes that will impress most people. It's really good.
George Harrison, 1969
The vocal harmonies, isolated from their instrumental backing, can be heard on both Anthology 3 and Love. The Love album, however, features the sound of birds twittering in the background.

I wouldn't mind betting Yoko was in on the writing of that, it's rather her kind of writing: wind, sky and earth are recurring, it's straight out of Grapefruit and John was heavily influenced by her at the time.
Paul McCartney
Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
The instrumentation on Because was simple, with arpeggio accompaniment on harpsichord, guitar and Moog. Paul McCartney later bought the electric harpsichord, played here by George Martin, when EMI were reducing their instrument collection; it remains in his recording studio.

In the studio

On Friday 1 August 1969 Lennon, McCartney and Martin taped 23 takes of the basic track, with Lennon on electric guitar and McCartney on bass. Ringo Starr added a basic hi-hat rhythm, but this was for guide purposes only and wasn't recorded.

Take 16 was the best of the 23 attempts. With the backing track in place, Lennon, McCartney and Harrison recorded the first of their harmony vocal tracks. Two more were added on 4 August.

A final overdub was recorded on 5 August, when George Harrison taped a Moog part - the first time the synthesiser was used on the Abbey Road recordings. Harrison recorded it twice, filling up the last two available tracks on the tape.


Ah, because the world is round
it turns me on
Because the world is round
Ah, because the wind is high
it blows my mind
Because the wind is high
Ah, love is old, love is new
Love is all, love is you
Because the sky is blue
it makes me cry
Because the sky is blue
Ah, ah, ah, ah

because: conover

https://soundcloud.com/faktor4 provided snippets used in the intro and outro.
https://soundcloud.com/mayor-of-donutville provided the ending guitar outro.
https://soundcloud.com/bruce-conover

The melody sends a loose salute to Norwegian Wood by the Beatles

Should I Say It?

Music by Splintered Finger
Vocal by Conover

HighWay Man (Conover/Splintered Finger)

This could be you, this could be me
This just could be you and me sitting here
Nothing was wrong
It's just a little song about me and you
We braced against the wind
We brace against the Storm.....

Always lean into the Storm..

Music by @abloamberelli
Vocal sketch for demo by conover
Guitar solo by https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Outro by Brass Madness by Phil McWalter/Conover

Brace Against The Storm Conover/Camberelli/Welin

@juswel: Original Bed composition, bass, drums and guitars
https://soundcloud.com/elephantpr: Vocals, lyrics and Backing vocals
@gotchi Orchestration and Horn Section
Concept, production and Mix by conover
© 2018 Conover/Labarca/Welin
Mastered at Abbey Road Studio by Alex Gordon
www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon
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Hazy mornings with you
Everything’s gone downhill

We’ll cruise through the stars
Just making up together
This beautiful collision

I know you know I’d do anything
Cause you care and I do
You and I so beautifully collide
This beautiful collision
This beautiful collision

Just a last time then I’ll disappear
All of our tainted years

We’ll cruise through the stars
Just making up together
This beautiful collision

I know you know I’d do anything
You care and I do
You and I so beautifully collide
This beautiful collision
This beautiful collision
This beautiful collision
This beautiful collision

Mastered at Abbey Road Studio by Alex Gordon
www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon

Beautiful Collision (Labarca/Welin/Gotchi/Conover)

Music by Conover
Guitars by Matt Warnick
Whistling at the end by https://soundcloud.com/mayor-of-donutville
© 2020 Conover

Blue Skies Forever

My Body Is A Cage

Bathed In Blue Standing Without You - Conover & McWalter
© 2020 Conover/McWalter
I've been standing here for way too many hours
I've been standing here for way too many hours

I don't want to fall between the cracks in the pavement
I don't want to see the bodies in the cement
Why do I think these things
The way that your mother sings
I'm bathed in blue standing without you

I've been standing here for way too many hours
I've been standing here for way too many hours

I don't want to fall between the cracks in the pavement
I don't want to see the bodies in the cement
Why do I think these things
The way that your mother sings
I'm bathed in blue standing without you

I've been standing here for way too many hours
I've been standing here for way too many hours

Bathed In Blue Standing Without You (Conover & McWalter)

Composed & performed by https://soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor
Vocals, B3 and some lyric changes by conover
Guitar solo by https://soundcloud.com/afitzsimmons
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You wake up in the morning you got nothing to do
You Drink your first coffee of the day
You look at each other you got nothing much to say
But you say something stupid anyway

You look over to the best friend in your life
And wonder if they got something new to say
Sometimes the words we choose ain’t the best we could have used
Everyone has the blues

When your missing your loved ones in the center of your heart………Isolation is nowhere to be
So when this is all over we won’t have to be apart
Till then your here right in my heart

Take each day at a time because all these things must pass
It doesn’t do to look too far ahead
No person is an island we all need someone everyone has the blues

Now I don’t know exactly what road your traveling on and I'm not sure which way is west Girl
Somewhere down the line we gonna have to find more than the blues
We gotta turn this car around

There will be rainy days and we’ll pray for sunny days with our feet back on the ground Girl
Why would we ever want….why would we ever need to stay in this one horse kind of town

Everything is different…everything has changed
All the things you thought you knew were true
We are all so fragile don’t know what we have

Everyone has the Blues

Everyone has the Blues

Everyone has the Blues

Everybody Has The Blues ((Porffor/Conover))

Music by @samdow
Vocals, lyrics, bach trumpet, Wurlitzer piano, maracas, production, mix and master by Conover
© 2020 Conover/Samdow

Gather and hold all your groceries
as tight as you can in your arms
the mask pulls your ears in a funny little way
and your glasses are steamed up
so you can't find your way
Cancel your trip your going nowhere today
don't even think about yourself.. in times like these
Cancel your trip with the plight of bare essentials
Ive been lost in the store and I can't find essential things that I need

Ive been locked behind doors and I can’t find the things that I wanted to have
Are they the things that I really needed at all

Time to Re-evaluate and Distill.
BC

The Plight Of Bare Essentials (Conover/Samdow )

Always Remain  (Conover/ELT Project)

I can see you across the lake
workin in your garden
and sittin in the sun
if we could do things all over again
i’d need to remind myself
that you were my friend

I’d wanted  to swim from here to there  
and see if there’s something that we missed  somewhere
I know we left things   go their way
But we were friends and that should always remain

Music bed composed and performed by https://soundcloud.com/extremeloungeterror 
Vocals, lyrics, celesta mix and keys by conover

© 2020 Conover/ELTProject

Always Remain  Conover/ELT Project

flute  by https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme
Guitar by https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Music Bed composed and produced by conover
© 2020 Conover
RIP Ellis Marsalis
The New Orleans jazz patriarch died on April 1 at age 85. He is survived by six sons, four of whom are musicians: Pulitzer and Grammy winner Wynton; Grammy winner Branford; trombonist and producer Delfeayo; percussionist Jason; photographer Ellis III; and Mboya. "Pneumonia was the actual thing that caused his demise," Ellis III told the Associated Press. "But it was pneumonia brought on by COVID-19."



https://youtu.be/4_mBlsr-1w0

Warm Curve  (RIP Ellis Marsalis)

Levels
Music bed by https://soundcloud.com/sterilesin 
Vocals, Lyrics, B3 organ, solo guitar, shaker, Mix/Master by conover
© 2020 Conover/sterilesin

Levels can go up and then come down
The levels can get louder
Levels can be changed by artificial means.

serotonin, from emotion primes your motor skill's
Sunshine comes in and changes everything

Be well.

© 2020 Conover/Sterile Sin

Levels)(Conover/sterilesin)

If I Wanted Too  (Bronux/Conover)

The Lagniappe Recorder
Manhattan Beach, California
The gear: 
Universal Audio Apollo Quad computer recording interface
Plug-ins by Fairchild, Neve, Pultec, Studer, Manley, EMT, Lexicon,Oxford, API,Trident, Summit. SSL, Massenburg, Hellios, Trident, Ocean Way,Ampex, Oxford, Manley, Elysia, Api, Moog, Lexicon, Cooper Time cube.
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) Retina ssd, Thunderbolt display
Korg Triton pro 76 keyboard 
Audience ClairAudient 1+1 V2+. Personal Reference Monitors.
AUDIENCE ADEPT RESPONSE AR12 TS 12-OUTLET POWER CONDITIONER with dedicated AC line to main box on pole.
All cables by Audience.
Logic Pro 10 Recording software.
Rode K2 tube microphone with 1954 NOS cryo- genic Telefunken tube
Sennheiser HD 650 headphones with Cardas cable.
RPG and ASC Sound treatment panels and tube traps installed in and behind control area
The Lagniappe Recorder
Lagniappe is a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase (such as a 13th doughnut when buying a dozen), or more broadly, "something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure."
Or as I say "a little something special".

Bruce Conover

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