Thanks for letting me in :-) great production!

Love these guitars with your vocals Michael!
Smashingly good cover and production🙏🏻

D2's first album is so underappreciated! great cover!

Deeply emotional with nicely spatial guitar riffs and absorbing synth textures. The evocative vocal design enriched by slick drums... :)

Wow, this might actually be a Duran Duran I don't know. o.o

Superb cover though. The mix is big and bold, and the vocals are nicely sung. :)

Wonderful wafting vocals! 😍🎯💎❣  Fantastic cover!

Charlie Watts was one classy drummer. 

Hey let him follow you down
Way underground wind and he's bound
Bound to follow you down
Just a dead beat right off the street
Bound to follow you down
Well the ballrooms and smelly bordellos
And dressing rooms filled with parasites
On stage the band has got problems
They're a bag of nerves on first nights
He ain't tied down to no home town
Yeah, and he thought he was wreckless
You think he's bad, he thinks you're mad
Yeah, and the guitar player gets restless
And his coat is torn and frayed
It's seen much better days
Just as long as the guitar plays
Let it steal your heart away
Let it steal your heart away
And his coat is torn and frayed
It's seen much better days
Just as long as the guitar plays
Let it steal your heart away
Joe's got a cough, sounds kind a rough
Yeah, and the codeine to fix it
Doctor prescribes, drug store supplies
Who's gonna help him to kick it
And his coat is torn and frayed
It's seen much better days
Just as long as the guitar plays
Let it steal your heart away
Let it steal your heart away
And his coat is torn and frayed
It's seen much better days
Just as long as the guitar plays
Just as long as the guitar plays
Just as long as the guitar plays
Just as long as the guitar plays

Torn and Frayed (Rolling Stones Cover)

thirsting for moonlight

Jo from "sonic structures and silent stretches" asked me if i wanted to take a crack at making some music with this amazing poem.This is the result..

                           Closure
She proudly delighted in endearing innocence.
Deep in the mountain of 
timidly blue window glazings
she traded it in for knowledge.

She proudly reveled in enlightened
knowledge when the 
pleasingly golden summer winds blew
She traded it in for experience.

She proudly clad in coarse
experience. Within minds reach
of pale flight radar clicking.
She traded it in for submission.

She loathed being embraced by 
submission. In the misty haze 
of a midwinter mugging
she traded it in for control.

She employed control to project
righteousness. Next to the stalwart
vents exuding office hours.
It felt intimately close to innocence.

When Age brought Dementia
she crossed streets without looking.
she had no idea of who or when or where.
But She kept straightening her Spine.

Closure(A poem by Jo Richter of 'Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches')(ROUGHCUT)

My lifelong and best friend Mikey B. (a brilliant wood master) made and then GAVE me this Guitar. this was His first effort at building a guitar. The body is Spalted Maple and has a hand worked arched top, the neck is made from a center cut from a Huge maple branch that fell in a winter storm several years ago..  Frets and inlays all done by hand the rose wood fretboard was purchased as a block and worked down to it present state. Powered by acoupla Seymore Duncan jet packs. with Grover Tuners a neck adjustment.. the finest adustable bridge. Everything about this guitar is Sublime and plays like a dream with action so sweet.  I have never played a guitar of this spectacular quality.. This song, is  a little test drive..

Mikey (test drive)

(Duran Duran; arr. Sharbaugh) 
Bonetender [ @bonetender ]: electric guitars 
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ @michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, drums and drum machine programming, synthesizers and sequencer programming, and 'found sounds' 
Composed and Recorded ca. 1982 to March 16, 2022. 
sm83 [eM-The Mellow High Mix 02] [24WAV].

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"The original version of this song made Me who I am today: I heard #duranduran 's original version for the first time when I was 13, whilst doing homework at the dining room table, and was floored by its beauty.

By the time the song was halfway through, I knew that I wanted to make something as #haunting -ly beautiful, and set out to write #music and #poetry for the rest of My life.

This cover is a #homage to that ‘forever feeling’ -- of #dedication, and of the endless #devotion to My #musical craft. (’Till #death shall #music and I part!)

I have a #video in the works for it, and plan to release #remix -es soon!"

~ Michael

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Anyone Out There? (feat. Bonetender)

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"Anyone Out There?" (a Duran Duran cover [1983]) - Michael Ash Sharbaugh (feat. Bonetender)

Explain a green world to a child
who has never played in the grass
Explain how it sounds to hear a bird sing
That flies through the sky in the wild
Explain the sound of a babbling brook
With sweet wind as it blows through the trees
Lay in the grass and watch the clouds pass
Feeling happy, so lazy and free.

My grandchildren cried when I said, "Go outside,"
as they clutched their phones in their hands
Playing meant games, addicted to screens
Play outside? I don't understand
Their memories of childhood, how will they explain
When playing outside was remembered as pain
I'm glad I'll be gone. I won't have to know
What the world was like when the food wouldn't grow

So many are waiting for somebody else
To wake up and fix the mess that was made
Who cares if the children are hungry and poor
You had to give birth since clinics locked doors
Who cares if the storms, the fires and drought
Destroyed their homes and made them afraid
The rich need more money, corporations say,
"Climate change is here to stay."

The wars, the bombs, refugees fleeing
Leaving their family by the side of the road
Thank God it isn't us, we say
Fox News tells us every night and day
We think we are safe if truth be told
God will save the religious right
Leave all others out in the cold
Stupidity has the largest price to pay

When the bees are gone and the birds stop singing
When the oceans are dead, only trash on the beach
We sucked out the life the world had to give
Only corpses of the dead now beneath our reach
We struggle to breathe, no healthcare for all
No backyards to play in, fading stars in the sky
Teach the children about green grass
Dreams to all. Goodnight

Explain a Green World To a Child

This one is for Sonic Kitchen @ https://soundcloud.com/sonic_kitchen
for all he does for Soundcloud.

This song is made from stems from his last 4 open collabs. 

He oozes creativity. Much respect to SK from AB.

Audio Baking In The Sonic Kitchen

Bittersweet

THE BOY - XXX

Everything by THE BOY

From 4th EP "Don't" OUT on major platforms NOW!
Click Link ( Spotify )↓ & Enjoy‼️
 : https://open.spotify.com/album/0r1WKfWAQlCI55UfL9RATt?si=911ctBvASKGmDX6P_nxeTg

The Fields Of Geneseo

Ace ov Diamond

POP | SPACEROCK | AMBIENT | EXPERIMENTAL

the PERSON, the SOUND : Michael Ash Sharbaugh is a composer of music and poetry, a lead vocalist and synthesist who hails from Philadelphia, PA. Since 1985, Michael has released hundreds of recordings, but known primarily for his atmospheric pop ("Give Yourself Completely"), jarring spacerock ("Dying in the Killing Jar"), and ambient-experimental works ("Infrastructure," "point65c," "Three Aimless Clouds").

Michael's sound is a synergy of 'darkwave-y' electronica and 'trip-hop-y' psychedelia: bass-laden rhythms form the gravity for his own breathy vocals and his soundscapes of dizzying synths and 'found sounds.' His ambient and experimental musics are soothing, and somewhat 'alien' to the ear: they float and shimmer, meander, and -- more often than not -- haunt.

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the INFLUENCES : Duran Duran, The Weeknd, Blondie, Depeche Mode, Billy Idol + Steve Stevens, Stone Temple Pilots, Dead Can Dance, Siouxsie & The Banshees, This Mortal Coil, Air, Naked Eyes, Tears for Fears, Alice in Chains, John Barry, Leslie Bricusse, The Chameleons [UK], Brian Eno, The Cocteau Twins, ABBA, The Bee Gees, Claude Debussy, Frederick Chopin, Guillaume de Machaut, Early Music, Renaissance music, Baroque music, and Joe Meek.

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#duranduran #theweeknd #blondie #depechemode #billyidol #stevestevens #deadcandance #siouxsieandthebanshees #air #tearsforfears #johnbarry #lesliebricusse #claudedebussy #mauriceravel #frederickchopin #eriksatie #brianeno #thecocteautwins #abba #beegees #joemeek #chameleons #octoberproject #patbenatar #haroldbudd #lindseybuckingham #nakedeyes #aha #ceefarrow #omd #thismortalcoil #stonetemplepilots #aliceinchains #baroque #renaissance #earlymusic #theweeknd

"Anyone Out There?" (a Duran Duran cover [1983]) - Michael Ash Sharbaugh (feat. Bonetender)

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