experiment with acoustic guitar loops while my kids shout about minecraft in the background.

looopdy loo

so this is a draft of a song I am working on with a group.  This version is all me.  The two other guys are Daves, and Dave H is working on putting some real drums on it, and hopefully some better guitar than I can muster.  We do a different song and group of 2-4 people every month.

Dwntwn draft

I took a while off from making music, and have casually done this over the last month or so. The vocals were a joke that stuck.

old version-a little beep beep.WAV

A remix of this song that I threw together haphazardly recently. A friend suggested I redo the mix and lower the casio organ drone.   I had the instruments down and then was at a loss for vocals, so I tried to channel Prince, but ended up with a cheap knock off of Gary Shider from P-Funk.

a little beep beep

An instrumental work in progress.  Has chicken noises in lieu of vocals for the time being. Needs some mixing and drum adjustments in the second half. 

Chicken Snitch.WAV

An unreleased instrumental recording of the Vehicle Birth circa spring 1995(?) made by Travis Morrison in New Alliance studio in their old Fenway location.

Beard (The Vehicle Birth)

Unreleased Vehicle Birth track recorded and mixed by Travis Morrison in spring 1996 at New Alliance studios, We accidentally blew a fuse on the tweeters, so it was mixed very trebly. Richard Marr did a bit of tweaking to tame the highs.

Nixon (The Vehicle Birth)

Recorded at Resting Comfortably studios by Araby Harrison and assisted by Rob, who I'll just call Rob Bass because I'm blanking on his real last name. An alternate studio version recorded after Tragedy's release.

Marathon Alt. Recording (The Vehicle Birth)

Pierre has a large group of people who get assigned smaller groups of three to make a song every couple of weeks. We did this a few years back, and are starting it back up again after a hiatus. I threw down this short minimal track with an eye towards Joi and Dave adding something to it. I go5t an acoustic guitar for christmas, and the strings are still nice and new, so I used that here.  The verse reminds me of Slint.

jan 2017 work in progress for Pierre's group

A cover of Slug Song by the Clean. Pierre is trying to organize an album of Clean covers.  I did this in an hour or two at night around midnight trying not to wake up my kids, so it doesn't feature any real amplifiers or real drums. It is a good bit less rocking than the original.

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