Let me know what you all think of the song!  :)

This is our latest track.  I am Sam Z, and my band is Sam Z.  A four piece from Portland.

Free Pile Etiquette

Dear friend, don't be shy
Stay and drink with me a while
Let's sit and talk about each others lives
Let's just sit and look into each other's eyes

I know our lives didn't turn out how we planned
But whose has ever
We were children running in the sand
Do you remember?
If you could give it all back now
Think it'd make you feel better?
Come on looky looky here what we can do with our hands
It's better than money
(sweeter than honey)

Dear Friend

This is a song from a live-recorded session.  The video was produced by Jordyn Grace Roach.  It was recorded 07/30/22

N. O. M. - Recorded Live 07/30/22

Make a nest in my scars!

Gaunt toothed questions,
devour the answers they seek,
suggestion:
I don't wanna speak,

of the stab,
wounds you'll find,
if you tear the scabs,
off my mind,

You're making a nest in my scars!

Bloodletting,
as a spectator sport,
bed wetting,
love child to abort,

3 years in,
that was me,
and my fam,
damn-ily,

Been reaching all my life,
way down here in the black,
I still can't get the knives,
that stick out of my back,

get 'em out!

make a nest,(would you?),a nest in my scars!

Will she, won't she,
make a nest in my scars?
oh probably not,
that's just the way things are,

I'm mutilated,
and I can't connect,
with no social skills,
and no self respect,

you're making a nest in my scars!

danger, danger,
danger, danger on me,
pretty stranger,
as strange as can be,

lumbricus terrestris
dranculus medinensis,

Make A Nest In My Scars

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Sam Z: Guitar and Vox
Max G: Drums
Dash L: Bass
Ian S: Lead Guitar

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It's about how it sounds and how it feels
Not about what it says

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Ghosts & Gobllins (What do you see in the middle of the night?)

I was recently reading up on the history of Tin Pan Alley and The Brill Building. Consequently inspiring this song with Carole King & Jerry Goffin, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, Paul Simon, and Neil Sedaka in mind. At the same time I wanted it to be hard rock guitar-driven. A fusion I termed: Brill Building Hard Rock, if you will. There are no keyboards in this recording. All tracks including *bass were recorded on the Fender Stratocaster pictured above. *Boss ME-50 harmonizer, octave down & wet. Vintage Yamaha RX-21 drum machine which I hold dear for it's comical stark dry punch. There are some patchwork programing shaved measures to fit the variation in phrasing creating some 7/8 times in the 2nd verse and chorus. The final guitar track demonstrates the distinctive Hendrix and Ulrich Roth tone of a Strat through an original Thomas Organ Co. Cry-Baby Wah pedal, which I have owned since 1976. There's no other guitar tone like it. The very last tremelo sound fading up was discovered while playing electric guitar and pausing to scroll through T.V. channels with the remote. In this recording, I just held the remote to the pickups while scrolling through channels. The multiple guitar tracks taxed the box recorder's lame processor into distortions and lost sounds or "voice stealing". The distortion did not manifest in the CD burn. This reinforces my need for a Mac, Pro-Tools, and Ableton. The box recorder may claim 12-tracks, but the processor and Bit ratio disagrees. It is what it is...
Thanks.

Lyrics:

Music lifts kids up to their feet
She gives me the loving I need
People being mean, it's a bad scene
What you mean, tell me what you mean

She sings my song on a piano
She tells me so, that's all I know

Dancing on the sidewalk in red pants
Smoking cigarettes at the school dance
The look in her eyes cry don't go
Her tears are clear like melted snow

I hide in a hole so I can lay low
She takes me home, that's all I know
That's all I know

She plugged my songs down in Tin Pan
I scoop my food from a tin can
Try like a snowman in July
Get to the end of the finish line

She's gonna reap everything she sows
She tells me so, that's all I know
That's all I know

All I know (repeat) 

Words & Music by Gary Skoch, copyright 2020.
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