Sometimes, you've just got to drone.........(oh, no - Steve Hillage...)

Green Eye In The Sky

I wrote this song for my old mate and mucker, the fantabulous Scott Dee, as he's a great singer.
I've not ventured into doo-wop land before, so let's bomp and diddle together....

Scott Dee - Cold In My Heart

A cover of an excellently written and arranged Wondermints track - took a while to dissect, this one, and I haven't unpicked the BV's that accurately. But it's a great song, and a companion piece to "Melody Fair" below.

Tracy Hide

And another Floyd cover....I've always liked the 69-71 Floyd output - almost as much as the 67-68 stuff. Plus it's a Rick Wright track, which is always a bonus, and particularly tricky to unpick.

Summer '68

Another Beatles-65 emulation. I've tried to get the harmonies, can't compete with the original, though.

Yes It Is

Covering an obscure bit of proggery - from Anthony Phillips'  album "The Geese and The Ghost". Thanks to Steve Annable for introducing me to this LP, sometime in the 90's.

Which Way The Wind Blows

I'll not lie - this one took a while, and there's lots of bits I've missed. How they did it on four-track astounds me.....

I Am The Walrus

Forever Will Be

Well, I had to have a go at covering it....

Now And Then

Every once in a while, I feel the need to rock out and go Glam - so here's a cover of one of the Sweet's awesome B-sides.......still got my copy of the single, too.

Burn On The Flame

I haven't covered any Prog for a while, so I thought I'd have go at this one. RIP Keith and Greg.

Jerusalem

N.S.U.

A cover of a great example of early Country-Rock

Time Between

A cover of one of The Monkees' most groovetacular tracks!

Long Title (Do I Have To Do This All Over Again?)

I'm always a bit of a sucker for the mid-60's Beat pastiches - so here's a cover of The Heardsmens' "She Knows It", originally on the Play-Tone label, pop-pickers.

She Knows It

Not had my "prog" head on for a while, so here's a cover of an early ELO track. Or is it 'The Changingman"?



10538 Overture

Here's my old mate Scott Dee ( Nige Clarke ) in fine voice, as he covers an Engelbert song, released a couple of years ago.
 I played the instruments, did the BV's, made the tea, and arranged and recorded the song here at home.

Scott Dee - Someday Tonight

Amazingly, over 50 years since this programme was aired - time flies, when you're a Most Special Agent

Joe 90 Theme

A song about movement, or lack thereof. Stuck inside the middle of nowhere, spinning like a Gyroscope.....

Emperor Of Chains

A cover of XTC's Towers Of London - surely the definitive paean to Victorian architecture.
XTC, one of England's finest ( and most undervalued ) bands.

Towers Of London

Comfortably Numb

I strapped on the electric 12-string the other evening, and this here song came jangling out.....

She Knows The Universe

Treading The Backwards Path

Know What You're Thinking

Well, I've not written anything for a long while, and then this song came out of nowhere, seemingly. Maybe a bit of Faces crept in, as I've been listening off and on to Ooh La La recently.

Down The River

A track that I produced for Scott Dee - he is on vocals, I'm on everything else
(including backing vocals(!)). We were given this song by the late Les Reed to "have a go at". So, here it is. Came out pretty well too, if you don't mind me saying so.

Scott Dee - One Day

Jim sings on and plays all instruments heard on these tracks, at his home studio in Nottinghamshire. Many tracks are his own compositions, or collaborations, but some are covers, recorded merely for the fun of it. No money is made on these cover tracks - they're just reconstructed for my own amusement.
 Jim uses the following instruments : Rickenbacker 330 six-string, Shaftesbury 4003 bass, Epiphone Les Paul Custom Pro, Harley Benton 620 electric 12-string, Squier '86 Strat, Mountain 12-string acoustic, Eko '62 Model 100 archtop, Eko '69 Ranger 6 acoustic, Hofner Violin Bass, Epiphone AJ220S acoustic, Mandolin, 5-string Banjo, Sitar, Electronic drum kit, Tabla, Oberheim OB12, Korg Poly 61, Behringer Crave, Korg MS2000, Hammond XB1 organ, Roland U-110 module, Proteus 2000, Line 6 Spider IV amp, Pod XT, V-amp 2 effects, Vox Tonelab, and Boss ME 50 effects, An Apple Mac running Logic Pro is used for multitracking, and with the following virtual instruments ;  M-Tron Pro, Prophet V, Arturia V Collection. And several blues harps in different keys - plus a Stylophone.....

Jim Underhill

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