10-21-24 Cafe Berlin setlist

A song I wrote for my 19-year-old cat, Hermione, on her deathbed.

Studio 423

Let Go

This song is about my father, Dr. Joe Muscato, who has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, grandiose subtype (the same as Donald Trump).

lyrics:

My daddy is a racist, but he hides it from the world,
I asked him, 'If you're so ashamed, why do you doo doo doodoo doo?"
He's quick to point the finger, sees a Black man as a threat
But in the mirror each mornin', an old man filled with regret, oh the

(Chorus)
World keeps on turnin', these hateful views are burn-in
the hearts of the lost, and the souls of the damned.
You know that we all bleed the same,
underneath the sun and rain,
It's time we learn to love, whilst we still can.
 
My daddy hates me 'cuz I'm gayyyyy Though he hears that with a frown
If you ask him why he feels that way, why
He'll deny it up & down
He shuts the door on happiness for folks who ain't the same
but reflected in his bathroom tells a story filled with shame. Oh the

(Chorus)

My daddy is transphobic, but he keeps it to himself,
I asked him, 'If you're so disgusted, why do do do doodoo do?"
He locks away compassion, sees a difference as a sin,
But through another sleepless night, a battle he can't win. oh the (Chorus)


Working on recording my debut solo album! This song is dedicated to my father, Dr Joe Muscato, on his 51st wedding anniversary. It's called "My Daddy is a Racist." I'm playing a Cordoba mini acoustic bass that has been converted to lined fretless, and I have 3 mics going: a Sterling large diaphragm condenser for the vocal, a Sterling pencil mic for the soundhole, and a Shure MV88 stereo USB-C mic going into the phone for the live stream. The piezo on the bass is also running through an Egnator Goldsmith and then into a Zoom H6, along with the two Sterling mics. The Shure is only going to the live stream.

My Daddy is a Racist (Dedicated to Dr. Joe Muscato)

Instrumental, cannabis-inspired late-night jam. Recorded with one of the built-in drum patterns of a NuX MG-100, improvised soloing with the Brian May patch. Tempo = 108 in E mixolydian. The guitar was a Strandberg NX-6 Fusion with Suhr pickups and 10-46 D'Addario NYXL strings.

4:20 AM

And now for something completely different!! Here's a demo of a country/singer-songwriter track I wrote.

I used my Strandberg Fusion straight into a cranked Vox AC30 model for the electric guitar.

This song is personal to me: My childhood and Mom & dad's abusive parenting taught me that love can co-exist with abuse, and that many abusive behaviors are acceptable and normal, such as misgendering, lying, stealing, yelling, and being manipulative and cruel.

These lessons followed me to my adulthood and dating life. I dated this woman for awhile, Eva, who ended up living with me briefly in the basement at m& D's while she was between apartments.

She cheated on me with my twin brother Andy, and misgendering and stealing from me and lying to me were normal parts of our relationship. Because of the example my parents set of a loving and normal relationship, I didn't have a problem with any of this.

I've been working in therapy on healing from these things and learning that a lot of the lessons I got from my parents were examples of abuse.

Part of working on this mentally is being creative and making art with it to get it outside of my head.

So, I wrote a song about her.

I used a 1934 Gibson Southern Jumbo for the acoustic part. Recorded using a pair of Aspen Pittman mics for the acoustic, a pencil up close to the sound hole, and a large diaphragm condenser about a foot away from the bridge. The bass was a P bass with flats. There's also a tambourine and a cabasa, Latin percussion thing too. The drumset was all with brushes. I used a Headrush Looperboard and an Akai Mini Play Plus synth/keys for the "cello" part.

I'm currently taking singing lessons and I have a lot of work to do in that department, but it's just a demo.

Let me know what you think.

Let Go

Danielle Muscato