Name: Surfin' In The Beanfield_LVJohnston by L.V. Johnston
Duration: 2 min 51 s
Description: ©2015-2016 L.V. Johnston (lvjmusic pub)All rights reserved

Surfin' In The Beanfield_LVJohnston

music and lyrics by me!
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At The End Of The Day

original rock ballad-about the time in the 90's when I was homeless in L.A. after my old bandmates died (the outpatience, anxious disease album-wikipedia), got divorced,and then I lost everything in a fire....I've had a rollercoaster life! please support real rock n roll! cd is available from me only! contact me on facebook to order your copy...:) thanks for reading!

Broken Pieces  by Gregg Buchwalter

Late Night_LVJohnston

Shouting To Be Heard

Modalist Interlude

Thank you for checking out my Soundcloud page! I hope you enjoy the eclectic mixture of sounds contained herein.  

These works are the result of hours (not to mention decades) of effort in getting the sounds contained in my mind into a permanent fixed form. Most arrangements are not 'ordinary' nor do I try to follow any set formula when writing.

All instruments, vocals, and drum programming (and engineering, recording, mixing/editing, production) done by yours truly! No, not being a braggart, but it has always been easier for me to learn how to play a new instrument (or engineer for a specific resulting sound) than it is to explain how the part should feel to another.

That said, several songs were initially written in the early 80s' while living in the beautiful Southeastern US. Something about the environment there opened up my inner ear to new ways of intertwining a vocal melody with the harmonic counterpoint into a complete finished whole.

Other tunes are a basic sets of stems (guitar, bass and drums) with the layers of improvised guitar overdubs. "Surfing in the Beanfield" is a great example but that lead guitar track was comprised of a single improvised take... and I was both surprised and pleased how it turned out when I went back several days later to re-listen to the track! Of the three tracks recorded that day, the first take was 'the keeper' so to speak.

"Rainy Day Breakdown" is a very old tune in my catalog. It was written as a teaching piece for my guitar students back in the 70s, hence the metronome like 'drum' part. That's the way I'd always played it, anything else sound 'off' to my ear after decades of being reinforced in that fashion. Its inclusion here was/is a lark, to be truthful. BTW - the lesson was about "movable forms" and developing a "quick, clean slide technique". The name was chosen when I was getting ready to upload it here... want to take a guess on what the weather was like that day?  :-) 

"When The Lights Go Down" was an interesting experiment for me as I wrote this lyric based on the title alone. It is also the only track included here with a guest artist, Chuck Earnest, on background vocals. (Thanks Chuck!) This is the only surviving track from a 3 song demo (recorded in 1982) after the duo we had had the opportunity to perform at several local festivals and TV shows on the Southeastern US.

Of course, and I guess inevitably, all of that eventually went nowhere but I sure enjoyed the brief ride. After all, it is often about the journey we take on the way to reach our goals and not simply the destination.

Hope you enjoy these as much as I've had getting them ready to share. If you have questions about any of the tracks, please feel free to drop me a line!

L.V Johnston
Sept 2016

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