Stars&Sons

Radar (OM Rough-bed Mix)

In The Jet Age - We wanted to hold onto those golden summer minutes, but before we knew it, labor day's right there. No new anything, promises left hanging, and then in the rooms up above, the fools and kings are falling in love. Insult to injury, the thing wants to be big and great, the thing is almost just a thing. 

Me and Derek pulled this one out of the ether. It's a true collaboration, long distance and still miles left to ride, but even a rough sketch of what it wants to be is still an amazing place to begin. it comes from a pure place full of as much Shugga Shugga Sugar as we could stand, and we're pretty, pretty pleased with a cherry on top. 

I wanted to write a summer song. Derek just wanted to get some shit done, we both wanted to get our hands dirty. He worked at night and mostly odd minutes of the day trying to push and pull my attempt at a clean take, pumping as much saccharine (ˈsak(ə)rin,-rēn,-rīn/) into under three minutes as we could. Check out his sweet guitar and knob twiddling; and let us know if we've come anywhere near where we think we are, before we all run out of summer.  

(all rights reserved, all wrongs reversed, as the man says) 

In The Jet Age (demo)

Too much good work from good people has gone into this track for me to continue referring to it as a "Demo". 
So with that in mind, no excuses and no apologies - allow me to present the new definitive version of In The Jet Age! 
Written and recorded by Mark Gabriel (Vocals, Guitar, Bass) with Derek leverington (Guitar, Vocals) responsible for the sweet-ass lead guitar and this new shiny mix, and especially helping to really launch this tune into orbit!  Also special thanks to Anthony Joseph Perry (his special mix of "Jet Age" coming down the pipe soon), and all the awesome music fans, who took time to share their feedback! Thanks everyone - Keep on keeping on!
  
M.GABRIEL © SOCAN/ASCAP

In The Jet Age (Winter Mix by D.Leverington)

Writing this song has been wrestling with the snake. 

The demons, the women, the past come up the river to haunt me. The ale, the roast, the beast with the tail and the time of attack. 

None of it really all that bad.

Lovers In Black (demo)

moog-y drone-y and groovy. What does an old space captain do when he's ready to retire..cut the boosters and float into deep space..

xo

Captain Tripps - demo

Forever Drinking (Fairy Tale Dwarves) demo

Goodbye Television Girl - debut album from Holy Microphone
All Songs Recorded, Mixed + Mastered at Hallamusic Except * Recorded, Mixed + Mastered at Stars & Sons by Dave Nuefeld 
Produced by Duncan Blair w Engineering and Co-Production by Peter Hudson
HOLY MICROPHONE is -
Mark Gabriel - Vocals + Bass
Debbie Lillico - Guitar + Vocals
Fred Robinson - Guitar + Vocals
Kirk Hudson - Drums + Vocals
-------
+ Duncan Blair - Backing Vocals, Guitar, Bass
+ Peter Hudson - Percussion, Keyboards, Guitar, Backing Vocals
+ Willy Ashworth - Percussion

All Songs Copyright Holy Microphone - SOCAN/ASCAP/BMI

*BONUS OUTTAKE - Someone Else is in the Room (Feat. George Westerholme-Guitar -Stars+Sons Bed-Track)

RMT_CNTRL

Good Song (Rough1 LDB BEDS w/D.Leverington)

Fools & Kings Best of Demos & Home Recordings

Steady Flashin (126BPM - Un-mixed)

Flight From Resolute (SongSketch1 Loudness)

King Bullfighter (LDB - PeteBeds)

Led Springfield (Battery Hen) - demo-loud II

On Fire v1-ProgressMix (Demo)

Gossip Girls - Give The Ladies What they Want

COLA TAILS - Watching The Neighbors Watching TV (Live R v.)

Live Off The Floor Demonstration

Storybook Purgatory - The Warped 45's version

February 23

Led Springfield (Live - February 23) The Legendary Dirtbikers

And She Has Me was birthed years ago from a couple attempts to use this riff. it never translated well as an acoustic song, and never made it to the band. I always felt it could be a decent power pop ditty, so here's the first real attempt to lay it down as i always wanted to hear it. Although i consider it a successful demo, it's biggest fail is that i have to play all the instruments, as it could really benefit from some outside influence. xo

And she has me (ok v.2) demo

laid down this one with my pal Derek. from his home studio in the heart of Regina we finally had some time to lay a song down, after i don't know how many years of talking about it. Derek recorded, mixed, played drums, bass and lead guitar. It's a song I had just written, this is take 1. 

Year of the Rabbit (Regina Demo)

new song sketch, made it to the solo/bridge before the song fell apart, so I just did a fade out. but a cool example of one of those songs that just falls out of the ether. It might actually be something someday, when it grows up. Self Satisfied...

Self Satisfied (sketch V1. edit)

Recorded Live at The Cameron House, Toronto - June 17, 2006 by Frank Nevada

Holy Microphone - Take Me To The Fair (Live @ CameronHouse 6/17/06

And Flowers is the second half of a song title from a song on the Holy Microphone album called Feathers but it's not really a sequel. And flowers shares chords and maybe a little melody, but it's more of a counter point lyrics wise. Feathers is a sort of melancholy happy moment, a story told backwards of an encounter between more than friends. And Flowers is a song about an old friend who never made it out of that awful one way street that is Heroin addiction. He was a friend but also our bands sound guy. He was nearing the botom end of his last spiral from fame and fortune run out of family members who would help him, and was living on our couch. He gave me his Jacket which i cherished and wore for years, then he checked himself into 501 Queen Street West and never came out. This song is for him. We miss you.

And Flowers (demo v. 1A-rb)

Fools & Kings /demos & home recordings

Figure It Out (demo v. 1a)

Year Of The Rabbit (white metal lawyer - Acoustic v.2)

Short Version of Forever (compressed/bass EQ)

Recorded on a Sunday by Lucas Bennett in a house by the sea in Baja California

MFG Solo - Sunday Sessions

Sleepwalk

Cola Tails, Legendary Dirtbikers, Holy Microphone, Knockout pill alumni, songwriter, bass player and howler. Currently stationed in the Baja desert sending art rock signals to the aether with indie rock trio Alta Tension. 

Here I’m sharing the demo process for a bunch of new songs, a bunch of old songs recorded for the first time, and stuff that might end up on glittery new pop records in the near future. 
And then probably a few other things thrown in;
misc projects, sketches of broken songs, trying to fix what I can't throw away and always some divine intervention. 

*but don't even dream of stealing, its already stolen man - all rights reserved and all wrongs reversed as the man says.
All songs SOCAN/ASCAP

Popular tracks by firstdog