It's been a while, I took a few months off, But I'm back in the saddle again!!! It's called Sundae Sunday (I don't name them, they seem to name themselves, just saying...) 
It took me about a month. The song started with the Drum groove, and thru an interesting and beautiful mistake, when I went to start on the keyboard part, the High Hat was somehow playing the keyboards, And it took off from there.
That's me playing my Dean Bass (that I got from Eric Stewart over at Dean Guitars) and also me playing guitar (My brother Robert loaned me his The Heritage hollow body (Gibson 335).) The rest, Drums, Keys, horns, are the computer.
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Sundae Sunday

The Drummer, The Drummer!!! He's out of control man!   

It's pretty simple, I was just exploring thru the sounds that I have stored on my computer and came across the one you hear in this song and it inspired that little riff. So I pressed record and built the rest of the song around it. It's all about the build, and the drums. 

The Drummer, That dang drummer, you can't keep him from going bonkers...    what cha gonna do...

This one is all me and all VST sounds. It came out so good that way I decided to just leave it alone.

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Sync

Evil Egg

Jazz song based on a bass riff I found while jamming with my band mates while working on a cruise ship. That's my good buddy Bill Ray on drums, myself on Bass, and my computer on everything else...

Hmmmmm.....

Hmmmm.....

Hello!

It’s Like What Ever! No, really…   that’s the song. The title of the song is Like What Ever!   

This is not the first time you've heard this one. I posted it about a year ago with a shiny new mix down but soon after realized I was wrong and the Mix was dull and lackluster...   So I took it down and have been giving it more attention. It turns out it needed a lot more than a good mix. Lot's of small adjustments, and lot's of added fun stuff. Thanks to my Big Brother Robert for his invaluable help on the mix and the arrangement.

Here are the original liner notes;

Another one of the original songs from the Hmmmmm…… album of about 10 years ago. 
The original idea for the song was the left hand of the piano. I wanted the pianist to be doubling the melody with his left hand. First it was the bass in the beginning, then the main trumpet melody in the middle. 
I spent the last few nights giving it a new shiny mix down instead of sleeping. As all of these songs do, it still needs work but it is a song.

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Like What Ever!

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Let’s Dance!!!
I was at a Casino in SoCal about 10 years ago watching my good friend, Scott Carters band. Very funky, all night long very funky, and loving it. Their band name is New Blood. I went home and wrote this one pretty quickly, hence the name…
It’s all VST sounds and all me…
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New Blood

I need a thousand subscribers on YouTube, and one Thousand plays in the last 30 days on SoundCloud, to be able to monetize my music…   just sayin…   

The pressure is on, I have started this SotW thing and now I’m stuck with it. This one is almost from scratch. The anthem thingy and the drums were there in my ideas folder. (actually it was when I bought my Keyboard controller I was looking around at the sounds that came with it and I found this one and it sounded cool so I made the anthem.) Last night and this morning I did the rest.
It’s all VST sounds and all me.
I have several half baked songs in the pipeline and I’ll be creating new ones from scratch. I just hope I can keep up…
Phew!!!
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Big Dog Anthem, Silly

I need one Thousand plays in the last 30 days on SoundCloud, and a thousand subscribers on YouTube to be able to monetize my music…   just sayin…   

Brand Spankin New!   (I’ve always wondered why something new has to be spanked…   Just sayin….)
Full disclosure…   up until now all the SotWs were all already done long ago, or just an update or upgrade of an older song I did long ago, or finishing up a half baked idea I had in the past. But when this week started, this song wasn’t even a twinkle…
So here it is, Ugly Bunch O’ Nuts. It’s all me, all VST sounds except for the rhythm guitar which I played on my Stratocaster. (I’m not much of a guitar player so Boy! was it hard)
I will be endeavoring to stay creative. Time is the big issue for me. If I start a song on Monday, and all goes well, I can probably get it ready and finished by Friday…   maybe…   we’ll see…
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Ugly Bunch O' Nuts

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Even Eco ….
Ok, this is a redux of an old song written by my brother Robert McMahon. He and I were in a band together back in the 80s out in SoCal called The Real Band. Bob wrote all the songs and we played all kinds of venues in and around San Diego, did a little traveling, did some recording, and not unlike a gazillion bands before and after, we were this close to a record deal…   you know what I’m talking about, don’t ya..
So this one features myself on Guitar and Bass, Archibald Allegheny on Alto Sax (VST), Tennyson Turnbuckle on Tenor Sax (VST), Dirk Donarious on drums (VST), and Katonya Kraven on Keyboards (VST). 
Tennyson got a little angry at Archie because he stole a bunch of his licks so he had to come up with some new stuff on the spot. It got a little tense there in the studio for a moment but it all came out pretty good.
Could we be listening to the new TRB?    I doubt it…
Well here ya go. Even Eco, written by Robert McMahon for TRB so long ago but still a great song and sounding current…
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Even Eco

I need a thousand subscribers on YouTube, and one Thousand plays in the last 30 days on SoundCloud, to be able to monetize my music…   just sayin…   

This song is called Head. Ok so before your mind goes straight to the gutter, It’s a musical term. The Head is the Melody of the song. It’s a jazz thing, The band plays it through once or twice, in this case once and the Piano takes the head, then everybody solos, then one more time thru with the Piano on the head and the song is over. Classic Bee Bop arrangement…

Head was written long ago by myself and my brother Robert, back in The Real Band days. As you know I’ve recently begun digging into those old songs and re-doing them. I just don’t want them to go to waste.

This time it's all me programming and I’ve arranged it as a jazz trio. Drums, Bass, and Piano, and I’ve used the regular cats I always record with. Dirk Donarious on Drums (VST), Katonya Kraven on Piano (VST), But I’ve brought in Bert Binger for the Bass (VST) as I don’t think I could keep up on this song. It is a burner!

It’s got lots of energy, lots of improv, and it’s pretty quick, so hold on and give it a whirl…

Could we be listening to the new TRB?    I doubt it, but ya never know…
Well here ya go. Head, written by Myself and Robert McMahon for TRB so long ago.

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Head

This one was fun. I just finished. It's all VST sounds; Acoustic Bass, Wurlitzer, Drums and Tenor Saxophone. Diane created the image and has told me this song is about the day in the life of a city dweller...

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Frantik

My first stab at the symphony. There is only 10 guys so I guess it's a Chamber Orchestra, French Horn, Trumpet, Acoustic Bass, Cello, Flute, Piccolo, Bass Drum/Compane di Messe, Cymbol, Snare, and oboe. These are all VST instruments. It was a lot of fun and I think it came out pretty good. My brother Robert helped with the mix down yesterday...

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Sweet Bitter Suite

Yay! another song.   Phew, this one took a while. I kept running into road blocks and curve balls but in the end Perseverance has won out and I ran all the road blocks like Mad Max and I hit that curve ball down the third bass line like Tony Gwynn for a stand up double. 

It’s called Thing 1 and Thing 2. My bro Bob and I wrote it together way back in the 80s. Yes, we are that old, as a matter of fact, Bob was already old in the 80s…   but then again he’s always been old to me…   hehehehe…..    

Anyway, I digress. I wrote the melody on guitar and Bob saved me with the chords. He also wrote the chart, the chart he recently found and sent to me.  Talk about way back memory fun! That's me playing my Root Beer Brawley Bass, the one you so often see me at the gig with. And the rest is all VST sounds. Piano, Tenor Sax, Trumpet, and drums...   All me...

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Michael McMahon

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