Wayne Gutbucket III was born in Pukeburg, Tennessee in 1961. From an early age he displayed no musical talent, and his abilities have continued ever since. He attempts to play a variety of instruments including:

Nylon-string rhythm guitar
Telecaster
Semi-acoustic lead guitar
Dobro
6-string banjo
Stand-up bass
Tic-tac bass
Acoustic piano
Wurlitzer electric piano
B3 organ
Chromatic harmonica
Blues harp
Fiddle
Synthesizers

He also tries to sing. We wish he wouldn't.

"Unwanted" by Wayne Gutbucket III

Four songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's famous musical "The Sound of Music". In various punk styles, of course. Guitar, bass, Farfisa organ, rhythm programming, vocals, arrangements and production by Simon Beck. 

Female deers have never seemed so scary!

Shut yer von Trapp!

Galactic Lounge

Analogue synth played from an Artinoise re.corder, backed by analogue drum machine, synth pad and upright bass.

Lead synth: Korg Volca Keys, controlled by Artinoise re.corder
Synth pad: Yamaha Reface CS
Random arpeggiator: Behringer Crave
Drums: Behringer RD-6
Bass: Stagg electric upright

De Profundis



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Genie

A gentle serenade featuring nylon-string guitar, oboe, organ and double bass. All noises by Simon Beck.

Guitar: Hohner MC-06
Farfisa organ: Nord Electro 6D
Virtual oboe: Artinoise re.corder
Bass: Stagg electric upright

Autumnal Theme

Inspired by the easy-listening instrumentals of Bert Kaempfert and his contemporaries. Alto and bass recorders, with backing from analogue drum machine, Pianet, Mellotron strings and double bass.

Bass recorder: Thomann
Alto recorder: Yamaha
Drums: Behringer RD-6
Pianet and Mellotron: Nord Electro 6D 73
Bass: Stagg electric upright

Blue Cheese Boogie

Four songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's famous musical "The Sound of Music". In various punk styles, of course. Guitar, bass, Farfisa organ, rhythm programming, vocals, arrangements and production by Simon Beck. &#13;
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The Hills Are Alive

Four songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's famous musical "The Sound of Music". In various punk styles, of course. Guitar, bass, Farfisa organ, rhythm programming, vocals, arrangements and production by Simon Beck. &#13;
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Do Re Mi

Four songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's famous musical "The Sound of Music". In various punk styles, of course. Guitar, bass, Farfisa organ, rhythm programming, vocals, arrangements and production by Simon Beck. &#13;
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My Favourite Things

Four songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's famous musical "The Sound of Music". In various punk styles, of course. Guitar, bass, Farfisa organ, rhythm programming, vocals, arrangements and production by Simon Beck. &#13;
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The Lonely Goatherd

Indian Techno

1960s-style secret agent theme. Organ, Mellotron strings, synth, lead bass guitar, autoharp, double bass, Latin percussion.

Organ and Mellotron strings: Nord Electro 3
Autoharp: iPad app
Double bass: Stagg EDB 3/4
Lead bass guitar: Encore Precision copy
Synth: Korg Volca Keys

One Of Our Agents

Instrumental cover of Carole King's "You've Got a Friend", highlighting the Valente electric piano, and featuring the alto recorder playing of Madeleine Jane. 

Simon Beck - Valente electric piano, analogue drum machine and synth-percussion programming, double bass and Mellotron strings.
Madeleine Jane - alto recorder

The piano was played through a Sonicake 5th Dimension pedal for tremolo, with no additional processing.

You've Got a Friend - featuring Madeleine Jane

Very rough recording of my Valente electric piano.

Valente blues improv.m4a

An experimental composition using synchronised sequences whose lengths are derived from prime numbers; 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13. The sequences are fragments of a C Major scale, all ending on the same highest note. 

Past My Prime

Another experimental piece based on prime numbers, The notes of a C7 chord (C, E, G, Bb and C') are repeated with spaces forming sequences of 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13 beats respectively, weaving a complex pattern that seldom repeats exactly.

Programmed using a Korg Volca Keys synthesisier and recorded on a Fostex MR-8 digital multi-track.

Primal Dance

DAW-less jam, with Behringer RD-6, Behringer Crave, Yamaha Reface CS, and Korg Volca Keys played from an Artinoise re.corder wind controller. recorded via phone mic.

Summer Jam (live recording)

Electric piano and harmonica blues jam with my son.
Simon Beck - Valente electric piano
Tom Beck - harmonica

Blues jam 1.m4a

A cover of Gershon Kingsley's iconic instrumental "Popcorn", played using sounds from a Korg Volca Keys synthesiser and a drum track programmed and arranged on a computer.

Popcorn

Featuring my new Valente electric piano and my Behringer Solina string-synth.

Drums - Behringer RD-6
Piano - Valente reed piano
Bass - Squier P-Bass Special
Strings -  Behringer Solina
Synth -  Behringer Neutron

In The Swim

Spy movie theme, using two Stylophone instruments and nothing else.

Bass and drums: Stylophone Beat
Horns and strings: Stylophone Gen X-1

Spylo Beat

Drums and synth-bass: Stylophone Beat groovebox
Bass guitar: Squier P-Bass Special
Lead synth: Behringer JT-4000 played from Artinoise re.corder
Strings: Behringer Solina
Sax: Gear4Music alto.

Sunrunner

A blues improvisation... with a couple of Korg Volca Keys synths thrown in! The Wurlitzer piano is from a Nord Electro 3, the bass is a Stagg electric upright and the drums were programmed in HammerHead 1.0.

Volca Shuffle

A bouncy ska track, driven by Stylophone Beat drums, a Höfner bass, organ and melodica. Simple, but it'll get your feet tapping,

Drums: Stylophone Beat
Bass: Höfner Ignition violin bass
Organ: Yamaha Reface CS
Melodica: Gear4Music 37 through Behringer pitch-shifter.

BeatBounce

Stylophone. electric piano, synth strings and bass, over a classic Latin beat.

All noises by Simon Beck:
Stylophone analogue Pink Edition
Valente electric piano
Solina strings
Höfner violin bass
percussion: Behringer RD-6 and Crave

Con Queso

A slinky, laid-back flute solo, with backing from nylon-string guitar, bass guitar, synth strings and analog drum machine.

Digital "flute": Artinoise re.corder and companion app
Guitar: Hohner MC-06
Strings: Behringer Solina
Bass: Höfner Ignition series violin bass
Drums: Behringer RD-6

Moongardening

The Ballad of Cormac O'Nissen. I'm half-Irish, so I'm allowed to do this kind of thing!

All instruments, lead and Leprechaun vocals, music, lyrics, arrangement and production by Simon Beck.

Bodhrán loop - programmed in HammerHead 1.0
Ukulele (low G) - Mahalo electro-acoustic
Mandolin (low G uke tuning) - Harley Benton A-style
"Tin whistle" - Korg Volca Keys synthesiser

The Ballad Of Cormac O'Nissen

A song by Wayne Gutbucket III about his favorite radio station!

Nylon-string rhythm guitar, double bass, Telecaster, Wurly piano, harmonica, all vocals, music, lyrics and arrangement by Simon Beck.

Well, my uncle owns the station, and the DJ's my cousin Mac
And they broadcast ev'ry afternoon from a downtown chicken shack.
Now, I don't read no papers, and I don't watch TV
But I got my fav'rite music, Radio W.I.M.P!

(chorus)
Well, I think it's the greatest, but my friends all disagree
'Cos they only play MY records on W.I.M.P!

When I'm drivin' in my pickup truck or a-pickin' my guitar
I may be twenty miles from home but the radio's never far
And all those songs from years ago come flowin' back to me:
"The Worst of Country Music"; Radio W.I.M.P!

(chorus)
(harmonica solo)
(chorus)

Well, I hear a dog a-howlin', and then I hear somebody shout
So I put down my guitar and wonder what it's all about.
There's a crowd of angry people throwin' rotten eggs at me.
They must have tuned in by mistake to W.I.M.P!

(chorus x2)

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Radio WIMP

Wayne Gutbucket III's sweetheart Emmy Lou is SO proud of her apple pies. Here's a song about them.

Nylon-string acoustic guitar, dueling Telecasters, stand-up and tic-tac basses, badly-played fiddle and all vocals by Simon Beck. Music and lyrics by Simon and Stephen Beck.

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I Just Can't Stand The Way That She Makes Pies

An experiment with using mostly acoustic instruments over a synthesiser loop.

Korg Volca Keys sequence
1958 Framus Capri archtop acoustic guitar
Home-made 6-string banjo
Stagg electric upright bass
Chromatic harmonica

Desert Mirage

Recorded entirely using a Korg Volca Keys, The bass line is a sequence recorded in Poly mode, allowing me to improvise over it using up to two notes at a time, I recorded the bass/steel drum/marimba onto my Fostex MR-8, with the Volca synced to the Fostex's MIDI output. I then recorded Volca loops for first the cowbell sound, playing four-to-the-bar and then the woodblock sound playing a clave rhythm, again synced to the Fostex. The last overdub was an improvised whistle/flute part using portamento. No external processing was used, and all parts were played using the Volca's built-in keyboard, 

VolCalypso

The tragic story of how Wayne Gutbucket III lost his entire family, one member at a time. No wonder he's a-wishin' that he had never been born. Yeee-ha!!!

Oh, my mother and my father,
They both died when I was a baby.
My cousin, he got struck by lightnin' in a big thunderstorm.
My poor faithful hound,
He died when he contracted rabies,
And now I'm a-wishin' that I had never been born. (Yippee!)

(Chorus:)
Oh, I ain't got no family, I ain't got no friends,
I sure guess that I'm outta luck.
I tried to make friends with a chipmunk,
But he got run down by a truck!

My brother and my sister
Got hanged by the sheriff for stealin'.
My aunt got chopped up by a combine while harvestin' corn.
My uncle got shot in a card game
For fiddlin' the dealin'
And now I'm a-wishin' that had never been born. (Yahoo!!)

(Chorus)

(Spoken:)
All of my enemies;
They call me "The Lost and Lone Ranger",
And no-one will miss me when I am long dead and gorn,
And even my sweetheart,
She treats me like I was a stranger,
And now I'm a-wishin' that I had never been born. (Yee-ha!!!)

(Chorus to end)

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A Sad Song

This is the true story of how Wayne Gutbucket III was abducted by three aliens who taught him how to play country music.

All instruments and vocals by Wayne Gutbucket III.
Nylon-string rhythm guitar ("Pinto")
6-string banjo
Telecaster ("Ol' Yeller")
Stand-up bass
Piano
Analog and digital synths

Alien motif from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" by John Williams

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The Flying Saucers Of Pukeburg

This is a song about Wayne Gutbucket III's favorite eatery in Pukeburg, Tennessee - Sam 'n' Ella's Diner. Grab yourself a plastic fork, and dig into a plateful of roast opossum 'n' fries!

Wayne is playing:
Nylon-string rhythm guitar
Piano
Telecaster 
Stand-up bass
Fiddle

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Sam 'n' Ella's Diner

Back to the future with electric piano, synth strings, lead synth and bass guitar!

Pianet: Nord Electro 3
Synth strings: Yamaha Reface CS
Lead synth: Yamaha Reface CS
Bass: Squier P-Bass Special
Drums: Korg KR Mini

Stuffed Olives

Electric harpsichord, analogue lead synth, upright bass and three tenor recorders. Groovy!

Confiture De Circulation

Somewhere between London and California, just outside the Galactic Lounge, is a place where a decidedly 1960s electric piano rubs shoulders with electric 12-string, Mellotron and upright bass, backed by pulses and twinkles from an analogue monosynth.

Sun Meets Rain

Big-band jump blues... played on analogue synths and bass guitar! Kick and snare drums are Korg Volca Keys, hi-hat, brass and woodwind are Yamaha Reface CS. Backing is a mixture of a sequenced riff and real-time improvisation. Notice the "Doppler shift" at the beginning and end!

The ADSR Express

I wrote this many years ago. It's named after Biffa, a laid-back, very fluffy and rather elderly black-and-white cat that we owned.

I am playing nylon-string and electric guitars, double bass and alto sax. Drums are from a Korg KR Mini drum machine.

Biffa Nova

Experimental track produced using a Korg Volca Keys as the only sound source. The backing comprises three looped sequences of two, eleven and fifteen beats,  forming an ever-shifting background pattern. The lead part was improvised on a Casio DH-100 digital woodwind controller, again driving the Volca Keys.

On The Glow-Planet

Joseph Haydn's "St Anthony Chorale", played in one take on three analogue synths controlled from the same keyboard.

The instruments used are a Behringer Neutron in 2-note paraphonic mode, poly-chained to a Korg Volca Keys in 3-note paraphonic mode, with a Dubreq Stylophone S2 tracking the Neutron's lowest note via its CV and gate outputs, and fed through the Neutron's filter.

Haydn

A collaboration between myself (Behringer Neutron without external controller) and my elder son Thomas (electric guitar, fretless bass, drum programming). The synth and guitar were recorded in a single take, with the Neutron's LFO synced to the drums within the DAW, and then the bass was overdubbed and the drums edited.

Exploring The Abyss

A sunny, optimistic instrumental featuring analogue synth accompanied by electric harpsichord and bass guitar. No drums!

"Berimbau" synth: Behringer Neutron
Lead synth: Behringer Crave
Electric harpsichord: Nord Electro 6D
Bass: Squier P-Bass Special

Signs of Spring

My cheesiest original so far, reminiscent of 1970s TV test-card music!

Drums - Behringer RD-6
Cowbell - Behringer Crave (triggered from RD-6)
Organ - Yamaha Reface CS
Lead synth - Stylophone Gen X-1
Alto sax
Bass guitar

All noises by Simon Beck

My Crayons

An alto recorder improvisation in 5/4 over a synth riff, drone, drum machine and upright bass.

Recorder: 1960s Yamaha alto
Synth sequence: Behringer Crave
Synth drone: Yamaha Reface CS
Drums: Behringer RD-6
Bass: Stagg electric upright

Mantra

I'm a self-taught multi-instrumentalist living in London, England. My main instruments are keyboards, bass guitar and double bass, but I also play electric and acoustic guitars, ukulele, 6-string banjo and chromatic harmonica, and I will have a go at anything else that makes a noise.

My musical roots are in the Blues, but my recordings range in style from country to punk to experimental, with bits of funk, jazz and retro movie soundtrack thrown in. And hopefully a bit of humour...

Simon Beck 3

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