Hey Ross man, thank you so very much for starting this project with your solid foundation and superb keys and vocal performances. Your mix here is perfect, too. Hey brother man, I've always loved this song, and love how it turned out, too. I'm very grateful to have made this with you.

Perfect mix and play, Ross! Very cool new vibe!! 🙏🙏🙏

An excellent cover Ross and friends......

A very nice version of this.  A great collab.  Nice JG-sounding vocals.

Nice work. You have brought some focus to the proceedings. And shot through with the spirit of the Dead to boot.

Ross, I have to tell you. This "Soundboard" mix is amazing. I am always amazed at your talented musicianship. I'm thinking best male vocalist that I know of on Soundcloud? Really looking forward to checking out the Toto cover too.

Awesome. Your sound and expression are wonderful.

Yes! I don't think this was uploaded at the time I was commenting on the other guys' posts, but I always thought yer vocal on this were fantastic! this might be my fave GD song and you guys did en exemplary job with it.

2021

Berlin Drive

The second album by BarrelHaus. 

Marc Challans: vocals, guitars, bass, drums, percussion, recording, mixing & mastering.

Ian Mitchell: vocals, guitars & bass.

Tracks 1,3,5,7 & 9 by Marc Challans.
Tracks 2, 4, 6 & 8 by Ian Mitchell.

Special thanks to Grace & Alice.

Jaws

Krosan by Night

Krosan By Night

UnBoxed June 2024
Original vocal performances by the wonderfully enchanting @ira-lovessweet aka @diamondlajolie
Cover image : Ira Lovessweet

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Hamburg Honey (featuring Ira Lovessweet)

House in the Sky

From the Inktober 2024 drawing challenge I add some musical colors to the drawings. Each day of October a new drawing needs to be created and posted. see my playlist “Inktober 2024 short tracks”

Inktober 2024 26.Camera -Valentino

Earlier this year, the Eclectic Collective and Ross Smithe together covered the classic Grateful Dead tune, The Wheel. The song is essentially a kind of musical metaphor for the relentless cycles of life we all experience. The first release was back in August, and here it comes, rolling back around again for yet another take! One of the great things about the Grateful Dead is that the music is always open to different perspectives and interpretations. The original mix from August has the definite raw energy and intensity of a live jam. Ross' intention with this remix was to try and capture a bit more clarity and definition between parts (as soundboard mixes of live concerts often do).

Cast of characters:
Ross Smithe-- @ross-smithe – Lead vocals, harmony vocals, piano, synth, arrangement, mix/production
Josh Clary (Entheogenic Psychonaught)-- @josh-clary-1 – Lead guitar, rhythm guitar, four-string fretless bass, harmony vocals 
J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—Electric piano, organ, harmony vocals
Ken (K2 and the Three, K2 and the Four)--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara – Drums

The Wheel-Grateful Dead Cover by The Eclectic Collective & Ross Smithe ("Soundboard" Remix Version)

Starting with dreaming acoustic guitar, taunted by shuddering telecasters, The Haunting is a low-frequency memory of institutional rituals... ending in a burst of delicate and chaotic free improvisation.

As an engineer at London’s RAK Studios, Kaye worked with Kate Nash, Bernard Butler, The Last Shadow Puppets, Gallows, Garth Richardson, Ray Davies, Mark Ronson, and more. He trained under dub legend Groucho Smykle (Sly & Robbie, Black Uhuru, Baaba Maal).

Composed, recorded, and engineered by Island Wastrel
Acoustic guitar, double bass, trumpet, piano, Rhodes, sampled drum kit - Island Wastrel

The Haunting

Sitting by the light,
of the fireside,
A solid rock.
Nagging of cocaine,
eats into your brain,
this all you've got?
Hard to follow through.
Disobey the rules.
You act too cool.
Hard to stay alive.
When you are the night 
You are the fool.

Oh, it's hard to say.
Which the way.
Will win the day.
Just one away.

It's been years since I have thought of you.
It's been years since I became the fool.
Such a fool.

Trying to win the fight.
Between wrong and right.
Another shot.
The insistent call.
of alcohol.
Can be forgot.
But, the persuasive soft claim.
Of the profane.
Takes a lot.
You can feel the drain.
You can slowly fade.
No matter what.

Oh, the soft refrain.
Of your Cocaine.
Gets in my brain.
I'm blown away.

It's been years since I've thought at all of you.
It's been years since I became the fool.
Such a fool.

Find the sunshine, in the borderlands of your heart.
The first clue, the derring-do, of the fool.
Such a fool.
Such a fool.

Such a fool.
Such a fool.

The Fool

An unnecessarily long song with no true chorus (thank/blame R.E.M. haha!) and, for the first time ever in the whole Behold the Sludge catalogue, no kind of rhyme structure whatsoever. Taking cues from everyday life, the title simply comes from me and my wife telling my daughter to stop mumbling so much. 

“Mumble”

If I told you where I’m going 
Would you say you’re on your own 
And if I knew what I was doing 
I swear I’d let you in 
If the thoughts all made some sense 
I’d tie it all together  
To try and explain the madness 
In one package  

But I never could quite fathom 
Just what they all were chasing 
It never seemed within our reach 
kept drifting farther away 
Through solace and dumb comfort 
The safety was a mirage 
It torched our sanctuary 
Exposed it for what it was 

Mumble, mumble away....

Embrace the aftermath 
The end of the saga 
Whatever comes after 
We still won’t understand it 
So much to comprehend 
Ignorance of common sense 
A voice beneath the surface 
You can’t escape the beast (relent)

And sometimes things just happen
We will never understand 
Put our hands on the glass 
And squeeze it til it cracks 
In our nature was a fear 
Magnifies the gaping void 
Dwells on the blunt trauma 
Brings the motion to a stop 

Mumble, mumble away 

If I told you where we’re going 
Would you even see it through 
No sense of understanding 
Just bleed until it’s all dried up 
No purpose in all that tragedy 
Not one single point 
A hatred of the unknown 
Falling into that hole...

Rise up and shine bright, kid 
This ain’t gonna be a grave 
If the sludge was such a friend 
Why’d it leave you behind?
Below the surface is a bruise
It’s defined you too many times 
Never even got the point 
Just gave up even trying 

Mumble your life away 
Mumble, mumble 

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Mumble

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