My brother David passed away on June 2, 2020.  

David and I would often swap music files. I would email him a piece of music I wrote and recorded at home and ask him to add drums. And he'd email me music and ask for some guitar tracks.  This is a good example of our collaborations that I had forgotten about it.  It is a beautiful composition of his, and I did my best to enhance it with guitars.  When I heard it yesterday, I was immediately struct by our common love and dedication to music, and to sharing ideas as brothers.  

The ending is stark, and poignant. His parts come to an abrupt stop, very unexpectedly; and this leaves my guitar parts seemingly forlorn before even they too, cease  to be...

Paul McManus's Album

"Untitled" work - David and Paul McManus

All Messed Up

Drive Me Crazy Blues

When Are You Coming Home? (Reprise)

Grace

This is a collection of home recording of various quality and styles I recorded between 2016-2019.  The quality of the tracks vary as I was trying to figure out how to use GarageBand. Some of the tracks are funny, others perhaps jarring.  For example, "Arpeggio Nightmare" - originally I was simply experimenting with two arpeggio types. When I played it for my GF she said it sounded like a nightmare, hence the title was born.  The two versions of "When Are You Coming Home", one is loopy, and the other more upbeat and swings. "Shot" was NOT about anybody, but yet another experiment employing three distinct textures. Putting down the tracks were sometimes fun, and sometimes a lot of work. For example, the working title for "Survive Alive" was "Too Many Guitars". LOL

The Mayor of Paulville