Recorded in Modesto, Ca.   Featuring Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Alto Saxophone so. Steinway Brothers Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Fender Electric Bass. Roland Synthesizer Bass. Gibson L5 Electric Guitar Rhythm. Godin Electric Guitar Rhythm. Horn Section, Trumpet,  Alto, Tenor & Baritone Saxophones. Trap Drum kit Full set. Percussion Congas, Bongos, Cow Bell. Ago go Bells. Zildjan 22" Ride & Crash Cymbal.

Cannery Row

Beal Street Junction

Please enjoy an instrumental trip through an industrial forge of alchemical consciousness...

This journey will continue.

Alchemical [Instrumental]

'my own hell'

Most thoughts of mine, well, they must be contained.
Yet somehow they still form words I shouldn't say.
And sometimes I need to be locked in a cage.
Until I can demonstrate that I can manage my brain. 

Why are you fucking with me?
Oh, so abundantly.
It's fucking hard when I can't trust me.
Or anybody else.
So, go on bludgeoning me
until I'm obsolete, 
for this shit will always, forever repeat.
I've become my own hell. 
But I will prevail.
Catch some wind in my sail.
And go blaze my own trail...

my own hell

A remixed oldie. Warning: The lyrics of this song contain depictions of interpersonal violence and suicide. That said: Hello… Glad you dropped by. Since I have been busy gardening lately, I haven’t been on SoundCloud all that much. But today… June 17th, it has been cold and rainy, with some snow (yes, snow!) predicted for tonight. So I have tarps and covers ready to go, to cover the frost sensitive plants. Years ago, when I first posted songs here, my exuberance often blinded me to just how bad those songs were. So I ended up posting and deleting songs all the time. Once a dude asked if I was using a mic, as the ‘white noise’ machine hiss of the HD was unbearable. He said it in the kindest of ways. I did end up getting a mic and also did a song thanking him. Other times, I used to introduce my songs with a deep, drawling voice. That was hilariously comedic. Another dude laughed so hard when I was first learning to sing. I posted a song with me warbling from baritone to high falsetto…. OMG. Later, I laughed too. People here were graciously patient and kind as I struggled to learn music way back when. Unlike a friend’s parents who chased him in an effort to take away his banjo and he never played music again. So thanks for bearing with me, as I test out vocal harmonies that really don’t work, or just wing a song, with no rhyme of reason. Or when I rant and howl about this or that. Because that kindness has allowed me to explore music in a way I never would have before.  Mark

Lammbone's Album

Equanimity And Loss

Beet It Back-Mostly Acoustic Version

SoftPortal-Cuttledeth (live)

Waiting

Lyrics
[verse]
Easy Does It---too smooth/ another groove-
Bottom line ---another jam/ now watch the move
Turn a blank page ---straight in-to a masterpiece
A HipHop feast----Practice-- rehearse---and unleash a beast
------No if —-and or buts----not even a maybe 
 I tend to rhyme a lot ---it's in the bag baby
An awareness of what's ---about to go down
Never careless -----and seldom ----ever wrong
Never the less------I'm here ——-so Let's---throw it down
My blueprint----- my process-----so sing along
pump up the volume ---let's do it like that
Don't really matter as a matter of fact
As long as you're rocking by the end of the track
Level one up------Cruising like a Cadillac

[verse]
so many rhymes --------written-------------- styles bitten 
Tracks so sick --- they'll leave you ------------bed ridden
Word play--------written-----with ------------shadow--rhyme hidden 
visions-----That occur------with ------------lethal--precision
--------insight for dayzzz-----------experience that pays
you'll be amazed------------rhyme after rhyme--phrase after phrase---
-----how the hell he do that------and the-------  message conveys ---
cohesion on the track--------I'm-a---set it ----ablaze
Another--Track ----turnt----up------Set this one on---------re-plays

[verse]
This ain't no illusion—-no trick, no mirage
I'm crafting the hits—-like I'm the rap Sarge
Line after line—-I speak the hard truths
Old school grinds from my early youth
Sharp as a tack—-with flows that stick
A verbal attack—-slick quick pic
In this game of words—-I'm the king, no debate
Got bars for days—-stack them up, heavyweight
I ride these beats—-got 'em begging for mercy
Half poet, half prophet—-lyrically wordy——————————

Blueprint

Recorded on Basic 4-Track cassette recorder with delay effect making a tempo, I thought of the hobbits Journey when I was finding a name for this tune

The Hobbits Quest {2001}

un nouvel habit pour cette song de 2022
 PAROLES
Quoi de plus beau que l’Inconnu
 Voir d’autres mers, voir d’autres nues
Et s’il faut jouer aux ingénus
Goûter le sel sur ta peau nue

L’aventure est au bout de la rue
 Juste à l’endroit où l’on s’est connu
S’ouvre le règne de l’Inconnu
Quoi de plus beau que l’Inconnu 
_________________________________________________________
What could be more beautiful than the Unknown
 To see other seas, to see other clouds
And if we have to play the ingenuous
Taste the salt on your bare skin

Adventure is at the end of the street
 Right in the place where we met
The reign of the Unknown begins
What could be more beautiful than the Unknown

Quoi de plus beau que l'Inconnu(2024)

I've always had a love for the shoegaze and dream pop genres. When a friend and collaborator approached me wanting to work together on a track in the style, I jumped at the chance.

Pepsi Challengers - Faded Polaroids

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, 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 Hobbits Quest {2001}

Dave Bayes