Name: Can't Get Much Worse, So It Has To Get Better (if we work at it) by Mark Altekruse
Duration: 4 min 18 s
Description: An idea complete with all my mistakes and timing errors.

Words and music by Lennon and McCartney. Recorded by Springer and Eversole at the Back Seat Saloon, November 3, 1982.

Blackbird

Jc & the Disciples first release from  "Woolly Mammoth & Other Assorted Sweets" 
©2023 Produced by JC Whitelaw & Ryan Hyland.
Mixed at Plymouth Rock Recordings. Recorded at Willis Sound & Plymouth Rock Recordings.
Cover Art by Klawe Rezeczy

Jc - Vocals & Guitars
James Megearian - Bass
Johnny Evans - Saxophone
Kristin Von Bearnthal - Vocals
Jimmy Sparks - Drums
David Reinstein - Organ

Lyrics:
I never dreamed the first time
would leave me hurting for more
I told myself the last time as I was walking out your door
I shake myself to reason but now I'm rendered unwound
I'm blinded by obsessions, thought I'd find you somehow

I can't call you my lover
I can't call you my friend
I can't call you my saving grace
Ya know, I think it's reached the end

You dosed me with your poisons
Infected you with my dreams
lost you in the darkness
and got messed up in all your crazy schemes
Your thinking I deceived you knowing all of the while
that nothing would change nor be rearranged now that the antidotes no longer your smile

I can't call you my lover
I can't call you my friend
I can't call you my saving grace
Ya know, I think it's reached the end

Never dreamed the first time
would leave me hurting for more
I told myself the last time, as I went walking, walking
as I went walking,
I'm walking, walking
as I went walking, walking,
I'm walking, walking,...

I can't call you my lover
I can't call you my friend
I can't call you my saving grace
I think it's reached the end

Deception - First release from Jc & the Disciples - "Woolly Mammoth & Other Assorted Sweets"

Lucky - The Second Release from the Jc & the Disciples Album- Woolly Mammoth and Other Assorted Sweets. ©2023
Produced by:
Jc Whitelaw & Ryan Hyland
Recorded at Plymouth Rock Recording
Cover Art by Klawe Rzeczy

Jc - Vocals & Guitars
James Megearian - Bass
David Reinstein - Keyboards
Geoff Kindie - Drums

Lyrics:
She caught the train at 1:09
No regrets with what she left behind
The kid from Gainesville move her soul
Now the kids can’t play rock n roll

Still I know
There must be something coming 
Still I know
There must be something more for me

I’ve been lucky I know
Of this one thing I’m sure
We’ve been lucky I know
until it’s gone

All this noise only brings you down
Only fools keep me hanging round
We satirize all that we see
Till it means nothing to me

But still I know
There must be something coming 
Still I know
There must be something more for me

I’ve been lucky I know
Of this one thing I’m sure
(Caught you down on Bourbon Street and)
We’ve been lucky I know
until it’s gone

Close the gates
Pack up the clowns
Roll it up and pull the curtain down
Cut the lamp and fade to black
No way of ever turning back

But still I know
There must be something coming 
Still I know
There must be something more for me and

I’ve been lucky I know
Of this one thing I’m sure, so sure
We’ve been lucky I know
Tried to give you everything

Lucky - The Second Release from the Album "Woolly Mammoth and Other Assorted Sweets"

As I mature and fine-tune my musical journey, I seem to gravitate more and more towards the contemporary classical genre. Why is that, and do you feel the same? I think, for me, it’s all about the connection. I want to feel emotion expressed from the composer’s soul through instruments attached to human hands. They feel like an extension of articulations flowing into sound. I also think that electronic music has that capability as well [I’ve recently acquired the Osmose from Expressive E, and let me tell you – it’s entirely something else]. And then, there is, of course, the blend of both where certain frequencies [especially the low end] can’t be generated entirely by organic means. Or when dense atmospheres and textures cloud the landscape with a gorgeous dew. This is how I feel about the latest album from the Melbourne-based composer Callum Mintzis, who first appeared on these pages a few years ago when I premiered his collaboration with Pat Jaffe in the video for V. Murmur. Mintzis is also collaborating with Tilman Robinson, who co-produced this latest album [and yes, I hear a bit of his conjuring touch]. The album is titled "And the Wind was my Dear Friend, Once Again", and across its seven pieces, Mintzis explores the mysteries of life through many philosophical questions posed alongside the release, but it is the music itself that will make you reach deep inside your own existence for the answers you will find.

And the Wind was my Dear Friend, Once Again

TRACK PREMIERE : Callum Mintzis - Once Again

Here's one that began in 1980 with drums and synthesisers. Years later, after adding guitar and bass - I think it's almost ready. What are your thoughts?


Musicians:
Elliott Randall, guitar, synths
Neil Harland, bass, synth
Allan Schwartzberg, drums

Mixed by Wes Maebe

DESERT PRETZEL

An idea complete with all my mistakes and timing errors.

Can't Get Much Worse, So It Has To Get Better (if we work at it)

Music and Lyrics 
Rosanne Baker Thornley, North Easton 
Performed by - Rosanne Baker Thornley, North Easton

The wheels go round off we go
We’re on our way down the same old road, 
where we used to go,
Just the two of us driving 
And the sun in middle of the afternoon,
All I need’s little bit of me and you,
and the same old road, 
Just the two of us smiling.

The wind against your open hand, the look across your face,

Didn’t I,
Tell you l’d take you everywhere you ever wanted,
Didn’t I,
Tell you I’d show you where the mountains touch the water
Didn’t I, 
Promise to find a way that still reminds us, 
of the days that are behind us -  Didn’t I, Didn't I.

Side by side it's you and me,
Sitting real close on the weathered seat,
On the same ol' road,
Just two of us driving.
And the clock slows down, you can my hear you heart,
the only other sound coming from the car,  
on the same old road.  
Just the two of us smiling.

The wind against your open hand, the look across your face

Didn’t I, 
Tell you l’d take you everywhere you ever wanted,
Didn’t I,
Tell you I’d show you where the mountains touch the water
Didn’t I, 
Promise to find a way that still reminds us - 
of the days that are behind us  -  Didn’t I, Didn't I.

Like your favourite song on the radio 
Like a runaway kite, that you can’t let go
It’s the devil inside that you kinda wanna get to know, 
It’s the ride of your life,
You got your hand against the wind, and that look still on your face

Didn’t I, 
Tell you l’d take you everywhere you ever wanted,
Didn’t I,
Tell you I’d show you where the mountains touch the water,
Didn’t I, 
Promise to find a way that still reminds us, 
of the days that are behind us,
and that's where you will find us,
Didn't I, Didn't I.

DIDN'T I

I just had to make a stand and put an end to these call...

www dot?

Wishing our friends, families and colleagues a great 2018!

Whistling Away The Dark

Mixed by DJ Lee Groves www.leegroves.com

TRACKLISTING
“Rat Race (Dub)” - Specials
“Immigrant Dub” - Basement 5
“Chillin”- AK47’s
“Article 2 Dub” - Suicide Bid
“Pleasures Of The Dance” - Ruts DC vs Mad Professor
“Six Of One” - Pigbag
“Ghosts of Ladbroke Grove (Portobello Dub)” - Killing Joke
“Spend, Spend, Spend (Dub Version)” - The Slits
“Justice Tonight/Kick it Over” - The Clash
“Pork Dub” - P.A.I.N

GRØVVES _MIX ZERO3 PUNK DUB

Starts off as a nod to the late great Leslie West... then "zigs" when you expected a "zag"
Just rockin' out

70's Thang

Guitarist, co-composer with Hex Orchestra, Performer, Educator

Can't Get Much Worse, So It Has To Get Better (if we work at it)

Mark Altekruse

Related tracks