The re-recorded version of this track Inspired by the late 1960s TV series The Flashing Blade.

The Flashing Blade Version 2 (2003 Stereo)

Throw It All Away

I Need to Get Out Of Here

Single Use & Recycled: songwriter, guitar
https://on.soundcloud.com/Wl2PybU0HXA8AxrTyl
Rob: bass, lyrics/vocals

I’ve got wind in my hair
Smile on my face
Needle point to ninety five
No one anywhere around

Back pinned to my seat 
She’s revving high
Pulling away clean and green
Front end up high

This jalopy has only one speed
It’s full throttle ahead
From stoplight to stoplight

Who want to take a ride
Take your life
Put it in my hands
Take a thrill ride

Check the oil, check the tires
Every night
Put a fresh shine on the paint job
Man, she looks so tight

I’ve got no reason to stop
No one gonna stop me
Needle up to hundred five
Red and blue lights all around

Hands pinned to my back
Feet spread wide
Got a fresh shiner on my eye
I know better


Take A Thrill Ride

Tiny boat, big sea
No land nowhere to be seen
Gotta tiny on a big sea

Some days we row along merrily
Some days the wind blows mightily 
So happy that you're here with me

He might have been a big man
A titan of industry
But he's got an itty bitty boat just like me

Some days we row along merrily
Some days the wind blows mightily
I'm happy that you're here with me

Due north through the freezing wind and rain
Due south through the troubles of our days
Due east to a far off distant land
Your hand in my hand
Your hand in my hand

Come across a boat
Filled with refugees
Men, women, little babies
Sitting knee to knee
They got a tiny boat on a big sea

Some days we row along merrily 
Some days the wind blows mightily
I'm so happy you're here with me

I seen my father on his death bed
I heard my father, the last words that he said
Such a tiny boat on a big sea

He rowed that boat time and time again
Now I see another boat waiting for him
It's a tiny boat on a big sea

Tiny Boat, Big Sea

Idris is a genetically modified human, engineered to navigate spaceships through "sub-space" - allowing ships to traverse enormous distances. As such, he's a tremendously valuable asset and vulnerable to kidnapping. There are other costs: the process of navigation means being aware of the presence of terrifying entities that seem to wallow in sub-space... Another track inspired by Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Shards of Earth" novel.

The dusky sounding guitar is my Gibson 335 - I love the warm but crisp bite of those humbuckers!

Idris

An electronic composition made entirely by MIDI in Logic Pro.  

Moloko Velocet

Life's a simulation

driving layers of piano , 200bpm in 4/4 time

what everyone's thinking

A Collision of Events

So I try to post 1 song a month on here, I;ve been doing it since Covid. I came up short this year. This track is the one that's holding me up. So here it is without vocal tracks.

unfinished instr

These are my musical compositions since I began recording on 4-track tape, and later on with laptop, have been adding new compositions in the last few years here and there.
Mostly instrumental recordings, and tracks with vocal, adding extra musical Dimensions and athmospherics.
I have many musical influences, there are special bands and musicians I grew up listening to, Gong, Steve Hillage, Jimi Hendrix, Blue Oyster Cult, Santana, Ozric Tentacles, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, John Martyn (ecoplex guitar master), Return to Forever,  Zappa, and from my own country, Thin Lizzy, Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore, CLannad.

link to a short jam video, with cool visuals effects from Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/DH2T4SfSzviHGy8P/

The Flashing Blade Version 2 (2003 Stereo)

Dave Bayes