What? Another song about New Orleans? Just what the world needs. Sorry but me and Moonli ght were there 3 weeks ago and just love the town. This is our tribute to the great city.

haha, at first i thought you tweaked your vocals ... beautiful hommage to this city, when i'm in the US i defo will pay a visit!

Beautiful city, I enjoyed my stay there :-) lovely nostalgic song

Lovely retro-vibe, the groove is very natural and good vocals

Travel song, air in the hair, sense of freedom.

Cosmic Caipirinha

Yamaha SG2000 played with an E Bow through a Digitech Whammy DT pedal and then into TH3 amp simulation software. Plus the Overloud Gem EQ550 with different settings on each of the three E Bow tracks.
The pulsing E Bow sound is not a digital rhythm but is achieved by physical, rhythmical manipulation resulting in the buzzing of the sweet spot.
This can be a hit or miss affair but is preferable to the "hit hit hit" conclusion of digital technique.. 
The analog technique demonstrates the difference between robots and humans and HENCE the discovery of the sweet spot.
The drums? are a looped guitar sample.
Buzzing the sweet spot takes many goes at it and even when you've had many goes at it you still may end up with sloppy results.
Practice can make perfect, if you keep it up, but sometimes lack of perfection can lead to desirable outcomes. Enough said..
The image is of a Bee which, according to my garden, also does a lot of buzzing.
You are listening to the extra special  "EXTRA SPECIAL" version"  of this track.
Which is only available to Sound Cloud listeners, pretend listeners and those who don't listen at all.
Hiya Jasmine.
SO  this track also contains the occasional B note and on one occasion a B sharp followed by a B flat. 
Such is life.
No beer tonight, I've been too busy with "Buzzing the sweet spot.
Detailed blogs, interviews and explicit videos of this technique, going back many years,  are not available.
SO

Buzzing the sweet spot

Jason Mowry: Guitars and bass
Darren D. Danahy: Keys and drums

Serpent And Rainbow

I think I just overindulged and did something self indulgent both at the same time.
I enjoyed it very much. This is take 16.
Guitar - Fender Deluxe Stratocaster 2006 with whammy bar
Indulgence - Stella Artois and a bottle of Shabliss
Old backing track with new solo August 2023

The Joy Of Drunken Whammy

3rd recording of this song which an African American producer contracted off Broadjam for a year but nothing was delivered. In the last few years I changed the structure of it to suit playing live - with the 2 chords in the chorus on repeat we can drag the ending out in an extended jam - easy money! So this is that version recorded as a studio track this week


Dream Destination 3

Dudes are asking where to go                           
If you gotta choice to go                                   
Where to go where to go                                   
Somewhere funky with ya beau                        

Hey wait up doll n tell me honey 
What is your dream destination?                       
Where in the world you wanna go?                   
We’ll I’ll tell you babe just what I know           
My dream destination it’s you right here           
My dream destination it’s you – anywhere        

Some are junkies for the city
London Paris they’re not picky
I say nah I’m gonna park it
In a wasteland like the arctic

Chorus

Mate he say oh come on please                        
It’s Amsterdam and find the sleaze
Not for him that lovin armpit                            
He wanna have a lovin junket 

Me I wanna go dig deep
Find your soul and feel the heat
Be taken on a dreamy ride           
I don’t care where we reside

DREAM DESTINATION 3

October 2023

Guitar - Yamaha SG2000s
All guitar parts played forwards then the audio turned backwards.
"It's going nowhere and I'm going with it" is a quote from a Charles Bukowski poem.
Also - Omnisphere, Keyscape, Trilian bass, EZ Drummer and vocals by DD.

Image by DD
All is well

Recent guitar problems - 
Yamaha SG2000s - Bridge pickup had very low out put.
Solved by banging the volume with the palm of my hand and then turning the volume pot up and down a few times.
Cort MGM - Same problem but not solved
Encore Blaster Bass - No output. Solved by noticing that one of the wires to the output jack had come loose. I tried to re-solder it but failed, i will / might  try again.

It's going nowhere and I'm going with it

This is a keyboard solo and a guitar solo over the backing track from an old tune called "the tao of the jazz joint donkey" which is on my DD1 page.
Keyboards - Omnisphere
Guitar - (Fen) Fender Deluxe Strat through a Morley Wah / Vol through TH3 amp software. Channeling my deepest traumas and delights

Tao means path, road or channel.
Beat
Drone in E
Long bass note
Short bass note

The Tao of the benign donkey

Keyboards - Omnisphere and Keyscape
Bass guitar - Encore Blaster
Drums - EZ Drummer

I've covered some parts of Frank Zappa tunes in the past, usually bass lines or chord sequences but this is the first time I've tried to cover a Zappa tune.
Black Napkins is basically two chords (C Sharp Minor 7 and D Major 7) repeated through the whole tune.
There's a melody and then solo's in between.
This is the format that i tried to replicate, 2 chords one melody and solo's.
There's no way i could replicate the solo's. Watch Stefano Bertolino on YouTube for a great replication of the Zoot Allures version.
I went for a much slower version, even slower than the 1988 live version on "Make a jazz noise here". I even deliberately played fewer notes in my solo's.
These days, beer and old age tend to lean me to the slower way of doing things.

Black Napkins (Frank Zappa cover)

I haven't uploaded any tracks for a couple of months
So this is how i felt in 2021
and how i feel now, in 2024

Drum track - from 1983 using Boss Dr Rhythm DR 55
Guitar - Fender Koa Telecaster
Bass - Trillian Muted Marcus Go Go
Omnisphere - Classical soprano ohs
Vocals - Deeply Dazzled
Lyrics by DeeplyDazzled January 8th 2021

"In this crazy world full of disaster
With all it's internet jibber and jabber
What i need when nothing else matters
Is ten cold beers and a Fender Telecaster"

Sometimes, things don't change.

In this crazy world

Gave up home
And history
Moved on down 
To New Orleans

Tried to make it
Singing in clubs
Pedal steel
And no overdubs

Made a deal 
With a voodoo master
Get me to the top
That much faster

Now you say you’re here
To take me home
Sorry boy
You’re leaving alone

No phone calls, please
And no e-mails
This city owns me
Can’t you tell?

Don’t ask me questions
I won’t talk
If you approach me
I’ll take a walk

I know every street car
Crack in the pavement
Places I can lay low
Bars to escape in

Because I’m bad news
Not worth the effort
Find another woman
You can do better

I sold my soul
To New Orleans
French Quarter
Guitars and accordions
Mississippi River
Playing for the audience
I sold my soul
To New Orleans

Today’s your flight out
I forgot
Could have marked it on my calendar
But I did not

So save your emotions
For someone else
Here’s a farewell card
Says ‘Go to hell’

Shop next door
Sells souvenirs
A dirty shot glass
I don’t care

If the liquor’s poison
If it tastes like blood
I’ll have another 
Now you better run

I sold my soul
To New Orleans
French Quarter
Guitars and accordions
Mississippi River
Playing for the audience
I sold my soul
To New Orleans

I told you when we met
You’d get hurt
Burned like a match
Swept away like dirt

Hosed down  like garbage
Stuck to Bourbon Street
Broken like a levee
Smoked like meat

Now you left home
And you’re here to stay
I warned you
You’d become my prey

Well, I’ll find you a place 
In my trousseau
Save you for the city
That owns my soul

New Orleans
I’m your devoted bride
The river swells
Fills me up inside

I sold my soul
To New Orleans
French Quarter
Guitars and accordions
Mississippi River
Playing for the audience
I sold my soul
To New Orleans

I Sold My Soul To New Orleans

This is the last one of 44 songs I wrote with my mom’s Spanish guitar in my university years, songs I’ve been arranging and posting to SC for the last 6 years (I’ve skipped 4 of them which will become a conceptual album soon).

I’m so glad to have https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson’s help on polishing the English texts and lending her vocal and painting arts to such an important song for me.

Also must credit https://soundcloud.com/user-498459842 for kindly and freely mastering the track.
 
CANCIÓN TRISTE CUANDO ESTOY SOLO (SAD SONG WHEN I’M ALONE)

Canción triste cuando estoy solo, para que sepas que yo nunca me iré.
Canción triste por todo lo que amo, último recuerdo de lo que pudo ser.

Sad song when I'm alone, so that you know I will never be gone.
Sad songs for all I love, are the last reminders of my ancient glow.

Do you think that someone somewhere else would ever care that I was here?
Do you think a future living man will give a damn for you and me?
Who could he be?

¿Piensas que a alguien a quien no conocí le importará si estuve aquí,
o no estuve yo?
¿Piensas que alguien que viva después se acordará de ti o de mí?
¿Quién podrá ser?

Canción triste…

¿Piensas que una nueva vida de amor nos bastará para creer,
para sentir?
¿Acaso te importa lo que piense la gente de mis intereses para morir por mí,
para morir por mí?

Do you think another life of love will be enough for us to see,
for us to feel?
Do you care what people really think about my pride, and will you die,
will you die with me?

Sad song…

ER44FI11 1997-2018

I Sold My Soul To New Orleans

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