The Theatre of Your Mind

[Conover/Malik]

(Conover Steen & Welin)

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

You Are The Road, I Am The Wheels)))Conover/The​Phaige



Divide and Conquer  collaboration by Conover/Anmafean

Divide and conquer
This is how it works.
Maintaining control
Over those little things that lurk.
Reducing their power
Encourage dissonance,
These tried and true principles
Will elegantly work


Divide And Conquer     Conover/Anmafean

sip my juice


I’m Gonna to sip my juice with my gun and my dog I'm going to sip my juice way out here
I’m Gonna to sip my juice with my gun and my dog and I'm going to do it way out of here
Now I ain't got no reason to start a fight and I ain't looking for no war
But when I'm get to points where I need some room I'm going to have to close a little door
 I'm going to drink my juice in the middle of the woods
 I'm going to drink my juice out here….
 I'm going to drink my juice in the middle of the wood
 I'll be drinking my gin and juice out here
 Now I ain't kinda man that's looking for a problem
 I ain't gonna make it now
Just want to be sure that you know what the ground rule
There gonna be drinking out here

 there's gonna be drinking out…………. Blow your whistle and look up at the stars.

I'm Gonna Sip My Juice Out Here

Twilight Sail 1939
music bed by ELT Project
https://soundcloud.com/extremeloungeterror
Piano,Vocals, lyrics, electric guitar solo and production by Conover
© 2016 Conover/ELT Project


Though we stand tall against the Muck and the Meyer
So we hold on to the things we admire.

Richard Halliburton 3rd, went missing at sea that night 
Richard missing at sea since March 1939 after trying to sail Sea Dragon
(a gaudily decorated, 75-foot Chinese junk) across the Pacific  Ocean.
What was He thinking?

 Is it up to you to judge what he thinks
And dream where his brink would begin
Is there some inspired line you could have shared with him?  

Maybe not but maybe so 
Could you really loose it just to give it a go
Maybe not... but maybe so
Could we really loose a thing by giving a go. 

Though we stand tall against the muck and the meyer
So we hold on to the things we admire.
 Sail on young Halliburton.......  Sail on

Details on his death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Halliburton

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/last-adventure-richard-halliburton-forgotten-hero-1930s-america-180950164/

Twilight Sail 1939    [Conover/ELT project]

Our take on the popular 1967 hit song by Sonny and Cher “The Beat goes on”
Music and vocals by Bruce Conover
Guitar and additional piano arrangements and mix by Tarde última
https://soundcloud.com/tardeultima
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The Beat Goes On (Conover / Tarde última)

As a music enthusiast in my early teens I purchased a  good set of headphones that I would listen to music while looking out my bedroom window at night and watching the warm Jets fly west into the distant skyline......

If you're still awake at the end of the song I've done something wrong.
Now..... lights out..... and mind at rest.......

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© 2016 Conover

Lights Off, Headphones On, Mind at Rest (•ิ_•ิ)

Tribute to Gene Krupa


The New York Times January 21, 1943

GENE KRUPA IS ARRESTED

He Denies He Sent the Boy to Get Marihuana Cigarettes

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20 (UP) -- Gene Krupa, swing­band leader, pleaded innocent today to a charge that he contributed to the delinquency of a minor by sending a 17­year­old boy to his hotel room for marihuana cigarettes. Judge Thomas J. Foley continued the case to Jan. 26 on a motion by defense attorney, J.W. Ehrlich. Mr. Krupa was arrested last night by Federal narcotics agents after appearing at a local theatre. In continuing the case, Judge Foley made public a statement which the youth, John Pateakos, of Bedford, Mass., made to the narcotics agents. The District Attorney's office said that Federal agents arrested Pateakos and found marihuana cigarettes in his possession. Pateakos told the arresting officers, the District Attorney's office said, that he had been sent to the hotel room to get the cigaretes and that he was to take them to the band leader at the theatre. At the city prison, where he was booked and released, the band leader made a general denial of the charges "as I understand them."

Gene being arrested

Gene stepping into the paddywagon after his arrest. (courtesy of Tony James)



Here is Gene's own recounting of his drug arrest. The arrest occured when Gene's valet, who had been drafted, gave him marijuana cigarettes as a "going away present."

"By then I was the glamour boy-15 camel hair coats, three trunks around me all the time-and he couldn't think what to get me. Finally he thought, 'Gee I'll get Gene some grass.' At that time California was hot as a pistol, you could park your car for a bottle of beer and get arrested. So he had a rough time getting the stuff. He probably shot his mouth off a little-'I'm getting this for the greatest guy in the world, Gene Krupa.' Gene decided to leave the marijuana at his hotel. The police, being tipped off, began searching the theater where Gene's band was currently playing. "I suddenly remembered the stuff's at the hotel where they're going next. So I call up my new valet and say, 'Send my laundry out. In one of my coats you'll find some cigarettes. Throw them down the toilet.' But the kid puts them in his pocket and the police nail him on the way out, so I get arrested." "The ridiculous thing was that I was such a boozer I never thought about grass. I'd take grass, and it would put me to sleep. I was an out-and-out lush. Oh, sure, I was mad. But how long can you stay mad? So long you break out in rashes? Besides, the shock of the whole thing probably helped me. I might have gone to much worse things. It brought me back to religion."

Play Little drummer boy....... play

1 Loop was used from:
Holger Czukay
On The Way To The Peak Of Normal

Little Drummer Boy  Conover/ Czukay

Loose salute to Coldplay
Music by Malik @sheryar90
Vocal by Conover

Some saw the sun
Some saw the smoke
Some heard the gun
Some bent the bow
Sometimes the wire must tense for the note
Caught in the fire, say oh
We're about to explode

Carry your world, I'll carry your world
Carry your world, I'll carry your world

Some far away
Some searched for gold
Some dragon to slay
Heaven we hope is just up the road
Show me the way, lord.... Because Im about to explode

Carry your world, I'll carry your world
Carry your world, I'll carry your world
Carry On

Coldplay Cover
Music by Malik https://soundcloud.com/sheryar90
Vocal by Conover

Atlas    (Conover & Malik)

She’s smack dab in the middle. 
She's in a very precarious place.  
This week she brought on thunder 
But somehow….. She's keeps a smile on her face 
KellyAnne where is and what do you plan to do?   
With the time on your hands you'll be having so soon
KellyAnne where is and what do you plan to do?   
With the time on your hands you'll be having so soon

Jussi Welin: guitar https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Claes Steen: Music composition for rhythm track https://soundcloud.com/cermat
conover: vocals,horn,lyrics,organ,bass, editing, mix and mastering
Thanks to Chris Wiggs for additional production assistance
This was Mixed on Audience ClairAudient 1+1 v2+ studio monitors.

Kellyanne (Conover/Steen/Welin)

Comfortable shoes and Quality Headphones for optimal cranial impact are recommended.

Insert Token Here

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Production,Vocals, Additional orchestration and keyboards by Conover
Electric guitar by Jussi Welin soundcloud.com/juswel
Mastered on Ampex 456 Grandmaster 1" tape


Love is Good.. It's in there

Love Is Inside Of You (Conover Steen & Welin)

I'm just a little person
One person in a sea
Of many little people
Who are not aware of me
I do my little job
And live my little life
Eat my little meals
Miss my little kid and wife

And somewhere, maybe someday
Maybe somewhere far away
I'll find a second little person
Who will look at me and say—
I know you
You're the one I've waited for
Let's have some fun

Life is precious, every minute
And more precious with you in it
So let's have some fun

We'll take a road trip way out west
You're the one I like the best
I'm glad I found you, like hangin' 'round you
You're the one I like the best

And somewhere, maybe someday
Maybe somewhere far away
Somewhere, maybe someday
Maybe somewhere far away
Somewhere, maybe someday
Maybe somewhere far away 
I'll find a second little person
Who will look at me and say—

Alexis Roche  https://soundcloud.com/alexis-roche-2  acoustic Guitar
conover vocal.
This vocal was the first take on my Macbook pro microphone. I put a blanket over my head to deaden the room acoustics. Alexis and I thought we should post it as is. We hope you enjoy our little song.....

cover of the Jon Brion song from the movie(Synecdoche, New York) starring Philip Seymour Hoffman

Little Person     Conover/Roche

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

Music by https://soundcloud.com/dom-ffm
Voice and lyric by https://soundcloud.com/conover
Orchestration by https://soundcloud.com/gotchi

It was just a little part
With all these little pieces
There were miles of excuses and indeed they had their reasons
For what?
Let’s talk about why:

Now I knocked on many doors
And I made all of the 'phone calls
I turned off all my lights and left my purpose on the floors
For what?
Let’s talk about why:

Life is precious but it's stolen from an old man on the way
That's what I say….
It's what I feel

That's what I feel....

64 is getting old now…
I know
I feel it...
64 is getting old now…
I know
I feel it... just a little bit

65 is down the road for a young man and his dreams
In his pack
And he's never looking back….
No way...

No way...
There always a path home...

65 Seems Old (Conover / DOM / Gotchi)

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".