This is a list of possibilities for the use in a podcast.

Podcast Possibilities

Blues

Quiet sweet guitar and bass. One of Rich's favs.  

falling through frames

lucid dream

Laid back chill till it kinda slips the grip a bit.  

we suppose

We Suppose

Starts quiet and contemplative and picks up steam.
Recorded on a Marantz PMD671 field recorder, 2 Oktava mics, Rogue resonator guitar with Beard resonator and ebony bridge.Post-processed in Sonar x1.

adios sierra madre

99 Percent Blues

OK, so what's a blues song without some words, so I finished my tribute to Jimi Hendrix's “Red House” by cutting some vocals for it dedicated to the (de)Occupy movement and the ninety-nine percent struggling to wake up from the nightmare the one percent is inflicting on us every day with corruption, oppression, and greed.  

Beretania and Ward is the location of the (de)Occupy Honolulu camp at Thomas Square.  Thomas Square was the site where on July 26, 1843, Admiral Richard Darton Thomas returned the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi to the Hawaiians after the first illegal takeover, by the British.  King Kamehameha III said “Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono” (meaning "the life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness”)  in his speech at the ceremony marking his restoration. The sentence has become the state motto of Hawaii, incorporated into its seal.  The second illegal overthrow was of course the one under which Hawaiʻi eventually became part of the United States.  That is why we cross out “occupy” in our name, to show solidarity with the already occupied kingdom, otherwise known as the most heavily militarized state in the Union.  

Come down and show some love for (de)Occupy Honolulu if you are in town!   Food not bombs has a jam there every Sunday afternoon/evening


99 percent blues

Goin for that post-trip 13th-floor-elevators-turned-up-loud-but-played-all-quiet-and-soaked-in-spring-reverb sound, gotten from linux with open source wonder-amp Guitarix's Ampeg tonestack.

Slide 160925

The trials and travails of (de)Occupy Honolulu.  A more rocking acoustic version of 99 percent blues, with several more verses that reflect what  happened over the course of 100 + raids on the (de)Occupy encampment that was at Thomas Square for two years.

99 percent blues (acoustic)

a quick one

left to rust

Left To Rust

I learned this from a book a zillion years ago and then had to reconstruct it without the book from memory.  I thought it was Lowell Fulsom's reconsider baby, but it doesn't seem to be so I am just reconsidering what it is altogether.  Everything is guitar and guitar synth.  The horns (including a tuba for a bass!) don't sound too cheesy as long as I keep it simple. 

reconsider

ambient punk
I listen back! if you listen to more than one song  @richrath or @rreplaymusic, make a comment, follow, or like, I will listen to your music. If I like it, I'll put it on the "all my relations" playlist.  If you share it with others, I'll listen to their stuff too!

reconsider

rich rath