Was this your final dance ?
Like a fool I did not know
Like a fool I let it go
Now as you turn to leave the floor
sing how you love it when it rocks
and how all you really need
is one more match in the box

Was this our final chance ?
Like a fool I did not know
Like a fool I let it go
Braving those cool December dawns
we dodged the Jackals and the Fuzz
Now to perform the next encore
Just one more itch, one more buzz

Pictures of a conversation
Some of love, some for frustration
Easy come, so easy go
Is this the showdown, the final blow
Music, so to save confusion
it’s rock’n’roll, there’s no illusion
Tell me what is on your mind
Tell me what is the bottom line
Please, tell me the bottom line

Like a fool I did not know
Though if I did I let it go
This was the final chance
Well now I am haunted, I agreed 
to watch you burning down the stocks
not thinking that there were indeed
only 9 matches in each box

I have these
pictures of a conversation
Some of love, some for frustration
Easy come, so easy go
Now is this the showdown, your final blow
Music, so to save confusion
it’s rock’n’roll, there’s no illusion
Tell me what is on your mind
Now please, tell me the bottom line

mOag - the BOttOm line

The Lagniappe Recorder
Manhattan Beach, California
The gear: 
Universal Audio Apollo Quad computer recording interface
Plug-ins by Fairchild, Neve, Pultec, Studer, Manley, EMT, Lexicon,Oxford, API,Trident, Summit. SSL, Massenburg, Hellios, Trident, Ocean Way,Ampex, Oxford, Manley, Elysia, Api, Moog, Lexicon, Cooper Time cube.
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) Retina ssd, Thunderbolt display
Korg Triton pro 76 keyboard 
Audience ClairAudient 1+1 V2+. Personal Reference Monitors.
AUDIENCE ADEPT RESPONSE AR12 TS 12-OUTLET POWER CONDITIONER with dedicated AC line to main box on pole.
All cables by Audience.
Logic Pro 10 Recording software.
Rode K2 tube microphone with 1954 NOS cryo- genic Telefunken tube
Sennheiser HD 650 headphones with Cardas cable.
RPG and ASC Sound treatment panels and tube traps installed in and behind control area
The Lagniappe Recorder
Lagniappe is a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase (such as a 13th doughnut when buying a dozen), or more broadly, "something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure."
Or as I say "a little something special".

I'm putting up new original material on my Spotify channel https://open.spotify.com/artist/2PtcG937rHfQWJwv0Zi4um?si=t1ppLngORgmuqz9qeoDOzw 
Mostly original tracks, a few covers here and there. Thank you for even getting this far. Thoughts, opinions, suggestions all welcome. It's pretty lonely out here toiling over every sound wave and grubby plugin. Any feedback is appreciated and if you've got a track you want me to hear send it over - what comes around goes around etc. A huge shout out to Len Rice for all his production suggestions on this and other tracks of mine - a true expert, check him out https://soundcloud.com/lenrice
One day I hope to get some collaborations going and a far off dream is to re awaken all these tracks in a live environment with a live band and maybe even a live audience. For now the dream keeps me going. Thanks for listening.

I'm trying to use as much real instrumentation as possible: a Taylor and a Norman acoustic guitars, a Fender Strat Roadhouse that goes out of tune if I even look at it, a cheap Vintage mandolin that hurts to play and listen to, an 80 year old zither banjo that screams 'I was never destined for this' and a borrowed Aria Pro II bass that a friend can never be bothered to take home on the bus. Synths are a plasticky Roland FA06 and a fun but dumb Korg minilogue. Throw in some Native Instruments software primarily for smoochy piano and strings, a £15 melodica full of tramp spit, some harps in impossible tunings, and a box of percussion and assorted prehistoric flints (are you really still reading this??). 

All recorded on Logic Pro X on an ancient iMac that is going to explode any minute and take my entire oeuvre with it. And most likely burn the house down.

Bad keys, shaky shakers, 
acoustic and tremolo guitars... 
I try to not grill ALL of these ingredients
ALL of the time... but it’s hard.

Our music can be found by visiting our main page here (https://soundcloud.com/mountain-songs)

Thanks for your support everyone!
Please continue to comment and enjoy our celebration of music.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqxN-gBi49jmX7M1NfJ_rd2YyqMBnG0KJ

mOag - the BOttOm line

man On a grill