Summer is over

https://youtu.be/jgt5QTEVXds

Your seas

https://youtu.be/cc-pxmOIcEU

Influences: 
The Who "My generation"; Small Faces; The Kinks; The Jam "All the mod cons"; Ash; Green Day; Supergrass; You Am I, early Blur etc.

Year/s: 
1992-1997 

Members:
Me - guitars, vocals, keys
Tony Fear - guitars, backing vocals
Al Backstrom - guitars, backing vocals
Conrad Jakob - Bass
Mario Sultana - Drums

I finally got almost all of the songs The Bambi Kino (TBK) actually recorded, bar maybe four or five (which I’m hoping someone might have somewhere …)
Now they were recorded at all sorts of studios, some 4-track, some 8, some 16, some multi, sometimes in just one afternoon, to over two or three weekends. So quality wise, they were all over the shop.
So, using some AI, I managed to separate out all of the tracks from those old cassettes and CDs. Then sprinkled some magic dust on the bass and drums to get them sounding of a piece, and re-did all the vocals. Added some harmonies and keys here and there too.
And voila!
I’ve not put them in chronological order, they kinda work all mixed up. But you can pick the earliest tracks, they’re the ‘all in, best dressed’ trashy ones, mostly. 
We were quite the most zeitgeist-y band, without any intention of being that. I had a swag of songs in the bag two or three years before the band actually happened and kept building on those. And I kept hearing other bands in the same vein, all through the whole shebang.
There’s a bunch of other TBK albums I ‘ve got to get through. The third of the three demo albums I’ll add soon, but then there’s my versions of all the other songs we did that didn’t get demo’d, my alternate versions of the ones that did, and all the other songs we never got to. Some I’ve separated off into two other projects, one very Carnaby Street, swinging’ ‘60s, the other more Laurel Canyon. I will get to all of these, all being well, in the next six months! But it’s a grand total of around 135 songs to get to …

Days Away

Evening all. 
So I'm going slowly deaf, Meniere's robbing me of the highs and lows of my hearing very slowly but surely. Which means I'm recording fast and furious-like, trying to work my way through a crap-ton of songs across about twenty or so separate projects, before it becomes ridiculous to even try. These projects go back to 1978, my last year of high school. I’m sure you can do the math!
I always joke that I’ve never met a genre I didn’t like. Or have a crack at. So there’s post punk, art rock, country/americana, folk, folk pop, southern rock, ambient, jazz, indie pop, punk pop, piano pieces, 60s fuzz pop … lots of different stuff. Over 44 years there’s about 1200 songs, and I don’t imagine I’ll get ‘em all done, at least not before my ears pack up. 
So there are caveats for a lot of this stuff. Most of which are to do with not agonising over every part and every mix, just getting the songs done reasonably ok. I’ve had a lot of time to live with some of these, so I’ve re-imagined quite a few, or fixed them, or just tidied them up. I used to sing like I was gargling and being tickled, so I’m now doing my best to sing proper like, as best I can. 
It’s been a long road, and I’ve been signed to a major, dropped, released indie stuff, been on (Oz) MTV, played thousand plus people gigs and to empty rooms. There are moments I’d trade, and moments I wouldn’t trade for quids.
I hope you enjoy the music. Please, though, I can tell if a song has been played, so don’t put a like or some vague comment about the song, when I can tell you haven’t played it. It wastes both our time, and kinda breaks my heart.

Days Away

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