From the last Bad Sailor recording session. Mostly improv w/ vocal over dubs. Matt Kinner guitar lead vocal, Jonathan Nash Guitar,  Matt Simpson Bass, Spanky Moog/vocals, Micah Barnes Drums. Recording/engineering, Barnes and Kinner.

Fortress Your Mind

This is literally the very first song I've recorded without anyone else involved. I'm doing everything on this track.
The program came with a 1/4 inch to USB cable from Target, that I got for Christmas three years ago. I finally forced myself to figure the damn thing out. 
Everything is DI. I have a set of Simmons E-drums that I tweaked the pad vol levels on the fly. The guitar is running through a Behringer Fuzz pedal that I also used to boost the gain on the vocals. Everything else is on-board effects in the program. 
It's rough, but . . .punk rock and shit.

Old Washington (Demo)

Off of the first Bad Sailor EP. Also, my first lead vocal. Me = Bass, vocals; Jonathan Nash=guitar, monkey noises; Spanky= Drums, Matt Kinner = guitar. 

Thirteen

New recording of a 23 year-old song
The band is called Splitfoot
It's Matt Simpson (me)on Bass and Drums
John Edwards on lead guitar and vox
Shawn Bowen on rhythm guitar

I did the recording and mixing on a cheap Cakewalk program

Kick Face Slide

Instrumental version of an older tune from the the band Splitfoot

Me on Bass and Drums
John Edwards on lead guitar
Shawn Bowen on guitar

Come Along

I'm playing everything on this one. The song was co-written by John Edwards
It's silly as shit.

Soap is Your Friend

Another old Splitfoot tune

Me on bass and drums
John Edwards on lead guitar
Shawn Bowen on rhythm guitar

Middlesex

Matt Simpson: All instruments 

This started out as a mic test for guitar
Added an old schoolyard rhyme and accidentally created a silly potty-mouth jazz number

I Got Skills nov2017

just a cool little bass line that blew up into a song 

Tires on Fire

Off of the 2003 demo E.P. "Shibada" by Rooftop Society


Eye For An Eye

Rooftop Society covering The Doors' "Waiting for the Sun" live in 2003 (?) at The Inferno Bar, formerly Main Street, in Murfreesboro, TN
Audio pulled from a VHS tape, so please excuse the compression!

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