DOWNTEMPO/MELANCHOLY

SYNTHESIZER SONGS

I improvised this track with two simple loops:
1) a volume swelled A Lydian scale on my Hideki Nakanishi 
custom Tenor Electric guitar into a 
LP-2 Mini Looper by Looperlative.   I only used stop, start, 1/4 to quadruple speed and Random Retrigger functions
2) a unaffected guitar improvisation over a loop from the first looper 
into a Line 6 M-9 and used a tiny bit of reverb,  stop, start, 1/2 speed double speed, and reverse functions.

I Made Mistakes

I was playing around the my new Meris Hedra pitch shifting triple delay pedal and my Hideki Nakanishi custom Tenor Electric Guitar and was 
really loving my wife today and wishing we could all live forever.

DON'T WANNA LOSE YOU

Jim Rutledge,  the bass player who I grew up and became a professional musician with;   the strongest grooving' bassist I've ever played with;  a wonderful guy who always was kind and friendly to everyone; who had an infectious sense of humor and was the best team player I've ever had the privilege of performing and recording with has passed away from complications of Delta Variation of Covid 19.
I've been so sad for the last couple of days since I found out and today, this song came out for him.

Please, take this pandemic seriously;  please get vaccinated;  please wear masks until we are out of the woods (which we are not even close to yet)!       Please love the ones you love and give your love creatively and in everything you do.   Life is precious and Life is short.

JIM's SONG   (R.I.P. Jim Rutledge   3-23-52/8-5-21)

I was looking for a track on my computer and stumbled on this piece that I had forgotten I had recorded.    I rather like it.   I hope you do, too.
It was made entirely with a computer.........the 'guitar' track is a simulation.

RAIN  Rick Walker

The days are like summer; filled with warmth and never ending sunlight and it's in the middle of the winter, here in drought stricken Northern California.    The weather is beautiful and there's a strong sense of unease everywhere because it's just not right.

This is my humble appeal to mother nature to make it right.

LET THE RAIN FALL DOWN ON ME

I've been so sad about the horrible attack in Orlando this past week:  really upset by how angry and violent this country has become;  how divided and frightened we all seem to be. How even good friends can't agree on issues like gun control;   After how far gay rights have come in recent times,  how incredibly far we still have to go to have a world that accepts all people's lifestyle decisions, as long as they don't harm anyone.

Improvising this tonight seemed to be the only thing that made me feel better because I finally was able to cry playing it.  

This is for all of the victims and every one that they touched.
We will not forget Orlando!

ORLANDO

This is the opening track on my PURPLE HAND, C.D.
Between the deaths of both of my parents,  I just didn't have it in me to ever promote this record.  I think it's the best record I've ever made in my life and I'm very proud of it.    Very few people have ever heard it however.

SILKY BLUE

I was really missing my friend and musical comrade Jamey Kelly Curtis and stumbled on this track I made the night I heard that she had died after a valiant and long struggle with Cancer.

GONE NOW (For Jayme Kelly Curtis)

SOUTHCLIFFE Edited

I am a live looping/multi-instrumentalist and audio/visual electronica artist.   I'm also a professional drummer/percussionist/producer 
who also is fascinated by creating lo fi, toy digital video, trailing edge webcam and crap cell phone videos to 'animate' my abstract electronica and live looping compositions.      I've also been heavily involved with designing apps, software and hardware in the both the audio and visual worlds 
of Live Looping.      I founded and produced the  Y2K International Live Looping Festivals in Northern California for the last 11 years and live with my beautiful and talented singer/songwriter wife,  Chris Wedertz in Santa Cruz, California.