2024 Recent Songs

Watch the music video (shot in VR): https://youtu.be/FJij9PupO7M?si=lKNVlm8GPtL_J2Rk

From the album "Cairn" (2024)
Featuring Bobby Sabella on drums.

Child's Play

I'm just so beyond it all this is child's play to me
Think you're clever? I don't know. Let's just wait and see
Before you lay your trip on me let me lay my trip on you
I could be doing a million things but here I am with you

Hey hey hey

Try to get a little you can't get enough so you divert the stream
No more thirst you've got a flood watering your dreams
Before you try to probe me get get to know me on the street
The rumble of the highway bridge underneath your feet

Hey hey hey

I'm just so done with it all this is child's play to me
Walk away, it falls to ruin. What is that to me?
Before you put your trust in me there's something you should know
I'm in love with everything and everything must go

Hey hey hey

Child's Play

Hello tout le Monde,cela faisait longtemps que je voulais vous concocter un p'tit Rock à la sauce Madeleine,et bien voilà,c'est fait!!!. J'espère vous entendre taper du pied comme il se doit dans de telles circonstances,Rock'n'Rollement vôtre......

J'en ai marre...

Memories of my adolescence it was one of the favorite songs of my parents, now sadly deceased, I have come to share this video, a personal cover of one of Georges AURIC's songs taken from the film "Moulin Rouge" (Moulin Des Amours) that I have suitable for guitar. (I still deliver the S.C version) ...I wish everyone a Merry Christmas.  YouTube:  https://youtu.be/eoNauyZnlFs
Arrangements, realisation, clip video, guitars by Dgé breton

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Moulin Rouge (Moulin Des Amours)

WHEN YOU FINALLY L:EAVE

Future sunset Omarama
Knowing only you will see
It’s a low brow shrinking ceiling

A contract without words
It’s the thick of family
Harbinger of lonely hearts
The fate of you and me

And when you finally leave
We gotta face it courageously
When you finally leave
We gonna have to suck it up – it’s the right thing to do
We gonna have to draw down on memory 

Fate is born by trajectory
Attraction mangles fences
Leaving snow grass blowing free

And how the years were kind to us
Yearning for the workplace
The weekends oh so bleak

And when you finally leave . . .
Instrumental
You got a date stamp – a black hole in the sky - And I got to make way

You and your Omarama – we’ll both be conscience free
But how will we feel? . . . 

Cause when you finally . .

When You Finally Leave

Sea monkey’s are just brine shrimp 
Easier to take care of than a pet chimp
You just buy a kit and that’s pretty much it
Much less work than a cat a dog or a pony
But those pictures that they put on the box are definitely phony

Sometimes it feels like we’re just a bunch of sea monkeys living in a jar
Living on this great big rock orbiting a star
We pray to God for assistance but what if he’s just a little boy
And this world that we live on is just his latest toy

What if we’re living in some kid’s jar and the sun is a lightbulb
It’s not really a star
What if every time the human race takes it on the chin
There’s some kid looking down staring with a silly grin

Eight billion humans on the planet earth and we’re all trying to get by
I wonder if those sea monkeys knew the truth would they still even try

Did he sprinkle some eggs in the water and wait for the fun to begin
Did he watch he watch us fight our wars and root for the good guys to win
When the black death raged in the thirteenth century and good  people started to die
And he saw all that pain and and suffering
did it ever make him cry

Eight billion humans on the planet earth and we’re all trying to get by
I wonder if those sea monkeys knew the truth would they still even try

Eight billion humans on the planet earth and we’re all trying to get by
I wonder if those sea monkeys knew the truth would they still even try

Sea monkey’s are just brine shrimp 
Easier to take care of than a pet chimp
You just buy a kit and that’s pretty much it
You just buy a kit and that’s pretty much it

Sea Monkeys In A Jar

Rosie:https://soundcloud.com/user-970938411-920931407
Thank you so much, Rosie.

All I Want (cover) Feat. Rosie

Portal To Another World

If you feel like you’re getting old way before your time
And you’re shouting at kids to get off your lawn
And you’re sitting around just doing time
And you’re always complaining about how the good old days were so much better. Maybe you should take a journey to the past. 

The average human  lifespan in 1901 was 46.3
If you'd been around way back then, you'd be history.
If you lived in 1800 your dentist didn’t use Novocain
He  just drilled holes in your teeth while you tried to ignore the pain

If humans are still around in 2093
They’ll be thinking that that the here and now was the place to be 
I guess it’s human nature to think that the past was great
When you’re living in the present there’s so much you can hate

You could ride a bike with a banana seat with no helmet to protect your brain. You didn’t need to go through a metal detector before you got on a plane.

You could smoke cigarettes at work while sitting at your desk
And it didn't matter if your coworkers found the smell grotesque.

They say that if human’s destroy themselves 
The cockroaches will survive
They’ll evolve and gain intelligence and without us they will thrive
And someday they’ll look back to the days when they were sprayed by humans with raid
And they’ll think those were the good old days we had it made

People out there longing for the days when we didn’t have consumer protection
Whenever something went wrong they just chalked it up to natural selection
They say those were the good old days cause at least we were free.
They say those were the good old days cause at least we were free.

Good Old Days ?

My Good Friend and Awesome poet/musician/producer  Jo Richter invited me to make a song--much to my pleasure!!


STONERJAZZ: lyrics, guitar, voice, various instruments and sounds, lyrics
SONIC STRUCTURES: lyrics, t resonator on contact mics, voice, various  instruments and sounds, mix @sonic-textures

Onion Peel part l to lV featuring Jo Richter(Sonic Structure and Silent Stretches)

This is an original composition in tribute to heroically good classic rock pianist Nicky Hopkins (a.k.a. “Edward” as he was sometimes called in the studio by members of the Rolling Stones).  He would have turned 80 years old today (02/24/2024).

This was not an attempt at impersonation, but rather an effort toward one specific aspect of his versatile playing style, namely, that elusive balance of flow and syncopation.  Simply put, listening to Nicky Hopkins makes my brain dance, and trying to capture that effect is what inspired this piece.  

Note: Many are unfamiliar with the name Nicky Hopkins, but everyone is familiar with his piano playing which has appeared on records of the Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, the Who, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, the Kinks, Steve Miller Band, Art Garfunkel, Jerry Garcia, the Beatles (as well as solo work of all four individual Beatles), and many others.  He played on over forty top 40 albums, and dozens of singles.  He was practically a member of the Rolling Stones (and came up with many of the Stones’ most iconic piano parts including for the songs Angie, She’s a Rainbow, Loving Cup, Sympathy for the Devil), but his battle with Crohn’s disease prevented him from being able to commit to regular touring.  As a result, he spent most of his career working as a session musician. He was, however, an official member (from 1969-1971) of Quicksilver Messenger Service where his piano work generally sits up front in the mix and where you can hear his creativity fully unleashed (e.g., check out their songs Shady Grove, Edward the Mad Shirt Grinder, and Fresh Air).  In spite of his limited number of live performances, he was also a talented improviser as showcased in the Rolling Stones studio jam album “Jamming with Edward”, and another great example of this is the high-quality recording of his live performance with the Jerry Garcia Band on “Let it Rock: The Jerry Garcia Collection Volume 2" https://soundcloud.com/jerrygarcia/sets/let-it-rock-the-jerry-garcia.

Here is the Wikipedia article on Nicky Hopkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Hopkins

Song art: The image depicting “a session pianist resembling Nicky Hopkins” was created with a lot of help from my brother-in-law Patrick McGee using a combination of AI art generators.

Edward Piano Hands

Made a new modern version of the this 1983 Italian classic, quite many sounds packed this time, kinda works.
song: Don't Cry Tonight
artist: Savage
Year 1983
Artist: Roberto Zanetti, Italian singer and music producer from Massa, Tuscany. As a singer, he is known under the stage name Savage.

Lyrics:
When you find the light to an upset shade away
If you never, never let me go with every melody
And you often were at leaving just my life
If you're really not to tug an end
Bye to my fantasy, me too
When you need to get another chance today
For a time there is the past, a path with you unbeen
Do you rather like to feel what is my life
If you're really going to listen, baby
At my fantasy, and me
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Just a random access memories of dreams
As you're hangin' upon me, do you love melody?
Thief of golden toys to an upset time away
As you have been at last we have the melody, we too
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight
Don't let me go
Don't cry tonight

Dont Cry Tonight

I’m a two legged no solicitation sign
I don’t need to buy your stuff
I’m doing just fine
I’m not interested in hearing about your pitch
I don’t care if you say you can make me rich
I’m not interested in buying what you’re selling
There’s something fishy that I’m smelling
They say there’s a sucker born every minute
This feels like a scam and I’m not stepping in it

All these people out there interested in
Selling things, I’m not buying
But every single day even when I say no,
they keep right on trying

My phone numbers on the do not call list
but the telemarketers can’t seem to resist
They call me at work 
They call me at home
What I really want is to be left alone
I’m on my exercise bike and I hear the door bell
There’s a guy out there with something to sell
I’m covered in sweat and I’m breathing hard
And he wants to hand me his business card

All these people out there interested in
Selling things, I’m not buying
But every single day even when I say no,
they keep right on trying

I just want to stream videos on my phone
Don’t need those spam calls please leave me alone
I just want to stream videos on my phone
Don’t need those spam calls please leave me alone

They say your car warranties about to expire
And the price of repairs keeps getting higher
you can give your credit card over the phone
To a random stranger from the comfort of home
These infomercials on your TV
They tell you how great your life can be
For just four easy payments you can buy a new blender
You can make fruit smoothies to recover from a bender.

All these people out there interested in
Selling things, I’m not buying
But every single day even when I say no,
they keep right on trying

I just want to stream videos on my phone
Don’t need those spam calls please leave me alone
I just want to stream videos on my phone
Don’t need those spam calls please leave me alone

No Solicitation Song

"Just Forget Me" - the new track from falcon. 

A musical hub for all.

Just Forget Me

Elvis in the 1970’s in his jumpsuit and his cape.
Some say he didn’t really die he just decided to escape.
Over the year’s there’ve been sightings like Bigfoot and UFO’s.
Of Elvis shopping at Walmart dressed in ordinary clothes.

They say it’s good to be king – but sometimes maybe it’s not.
When you’re coasting on your past glory and now, you’re lukewarm instead of hot.

If Elvis was still alive, he’d be approaching the century mark.
He’d be a tired old hound dog - would he still be able to bark.
If he put on a pair of blue sued shoes and he tried to shake his hips.
And he strummed his guitar on a street corner would people give him any tips.

They say it’s good to be king – but sometimes maybe it’s not
When you’re coasting on your past glory and now, you’re lukewarm instead of hot
There’s day’s when you feel like you’re trapped in a routine 
And you’re going through the motions and you want to start fresh and clean.

Somewhere between 1968 and 1977 Elvis took a detour and he ended up in Heaven.
It’s  nice to imagine that maybe he was sick of sick and tired of all that fame.
And one day he just decided to retire from playng the game.

If he sang that song love me tender would it till make the young women swoon.
Or would they stare at him with curiosity like at the zoo when  you see a baboon.
If he put on the  black leather costume that he wore in 1968 
And he played the same set list would people still think he was so great?

Elvis in Black leather in 1968 strumming his guitar he looked so good
And his voice was really great.
At the top of his game in perfect form he could have stopped right then
He could have walked away - still would have still been a rock and roll legend

They say it’s good to be king – but sometimes maybe it’s not
When you’re coasting on your past glory and now, you’re lukewarm instead of hot.
They say it’s good to be king – but sometimes maybe it’s not
When you’re coasting on your past glory and now, you’re lukewarm instead of hot

Lukewarm King

Like a Jedi in Star Wars, I sense a disruption.
That suddenly you’re immune to my seduction. 
I don’t need a Yoda to tell that me something’s wrong.
Like superman and Lois - now I feel like Clark Kent
I don’t know where the passion went.
I wish that life was as simple as a comic book story.

I used to be your superhero but now I’m just another zero
Don’t know how things ended up this way

Don’t need Spidey sense to tell me something’s wrong.
You’re transmitting signals - I’m receiving them very strong.
Like Superman and Kryptonite something doesn’t feel right.
Wish we could go back to the way things used to be.

Like Batman and Robin, we made a good team 
But suddenly we just ran out of steam.
And I’m searching for your bat signal but all I see is dark skyLike the incredible hulk after he transforms back
Like David Banner I feel out of whack
My clothes aren’t in tatters, but it feels like my heart is shredded

I used to be your superhero but now I’m just another zero
Don’t know how things ended up this way.
I used to be your superhero but now I’m just another zero
Don’t know how things ended up this way

I Used To Be Your Superhero

Songs with a twinge of humor (and some a bit more serious) recorded using Logic Pro 11.  I used to do open mics many years ago but SoundCloud is a lot more fun. 
I welcome your comments and enjoy listening to all the great music on SoundCloud. 
All songs are originals and copyrighted.

Good Old Days ?

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