Here's a cover I started over 20 years ago, but it's only now I think I can play guitar and sing just well enough to complete it! The production in this was fun to emulate too.

Gear used:
Yamaha MU100R rack synth for all drums, bass and chords.
Steinberger GMT-2 guitar for lead
Art TubeFire 8 audio interface (lovely preamps)
AKG C3000 condenser mic
My music PC is ancient, running Windows XP, Cubase SX 1, and most plugins over 15 years old. It works though, and I basically use it as a tape machine, basic effects and guitar amp simulator.

ZZ Top - Rough Boy (full band cover)

My version of writing a blues song. It turned out quite technical and jazzy, of course. The blues cliché is always about suffering and being poor, so this one is about not getting paid for work I had already done. Close enough!

Nebulous - Unpaid Blues

Just a simple song about dreaming. Nothing too self indulgent!

Alex Willis - Dream On

A woefully introspective song about asking out various ladies and discovering they were all either: taken, gay, or looking for a different type.

Alex Willis - Naturally Becomming

All of my most relaxing guitar stuff has something to do with the moon or sun. This is both! I found that fading in each chord gave it so much power, it was the best way to use the chords.

The Sun And The Moon (part 1)

I discovered this song years ago on a magazine sampler CD. I since discovered that this very same Phil Campbell now fronts the Temperance Movement. What a very a different and equally excellent band that is!

Piano played in one take. Strings learnt in short bits! Hardly any pitch correction on the vocals!

Hope, Faith, and You - Phil Campbell (White Buffalo) cover

Mitch & Abby (Dave Grusin cover)

Sonic 1 - Green Hill Zone

Nebulous - Hiding The Days

Nebulous - More Or Less

Nebulous - Dysphoria

Nebulous - Colourblind

My friends created a 2 day song writing challenge to include the following elements:
Chords: G Bm C and D in any order, and the lyrics have to use the words: Beneath, Dreamed, Ghosts, Moon and Darkness.
I embellished the chords as much as I felt I could, and then struggled to make the words feel meaningful. The result is quite unexpected and satisfying. I even recorded it within the 2 day limit.

Nebulous - Ghosts

An unusual choice of song for an alt rock band to take a piano song with female vocals and arrange it for guitars and a male singer, but a very fun arrangement to do.

Nebulous - Promise Me (Beverley Craven cover)

A welding of 3 separate riffs written years apart, forged into one chuggy, riff marathon. This song is about all the previous bands I've been in that have failed for different reasons, some my fault!

Nebulous - Exposure

This song is about a small flat I owned for 10 years, and all the proud possessions I managed to squeeze into it! The song is a complete reworking of a very early Nebulous song, with new lyrics and a full band arrangement. I even made my first ever music video for it here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=233135914338566

Nebulous - My Home

An unfinished band! A riff I wrote before I woke up one morning in 13/8 on my 6-string bass turned into a complete song. This is the only recording of the song, from a rehearsal in 2006.

Satan Loves Fusion - Quiditty

Our second recorded rehearsal track from this band that only played one gig! I think Adam the guitarist wrote this one.

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