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Just released my new album 'White Noise' today and have been struggling with which track to upload here on SC, so I thought I'd put this one on. The lyrics "where the wind blows, I cannot follow, where the river flows I cannot run" were written by Kelvyn Taylor https://soundcloud.com/kelvynt , who amongst others, responded to a call I put out on FB for anyone who wanted an opportunity to be part of the new album to offer up a line of lyrics. Kelvyns lyrics fit perfectly into this song and inspired the writing of it.

White Noise album is basically an emotional commentary on the bullshit, political and personal, global and local, that we try to block out of our pysche, but still manages to interfere with the clarity and perfect harmony we all wish to have in our lives.

For me there's no better way to block out their noise than by putting on some headphones and making my own noise.

Drowning Out The Noise 
(C) Erika Bach. All Rights Reserved 


Where the wind blows I cannot follow 
Where the river flows I cannot run 
Will you give me something I can believe in 
Money in the ocean 
Poison in the sky 

Chorus 
I am not waiting 
I am not fading 
I am not listening 
I am drowning out the noise 

Willing and so blind 
These are the moments 
Hopeless electric buzzing in my head 
Into the dreaming 
Life could come to nothing more than a marker that we once were here 

Chorus 

Where the wind blows I cannot follow
credits
from White Noise, released 26 November 2014 
Lyrics by lola demo and Kelvyn Taylor 

Written, performed and recorded by lola demo at Strudel Girl Studio on Ithaca Greece.

Drowning Out The Noise

Fuck ISIS ... Fuck all religious fundamentalism.... 

Written and performed by New Dinosaur Extinction ft Shredhead on bass and guitars.

Big thanks to Clark

Restrict your thought

your falling really hard
to fool once again
why can't you see it coming
a position to defend
relying on your faith
when all you have is hope
restrict your thought to breathing
through 13 coils of rope
you've put your trust in god
a concept nothing more
an argument your fighting
a personal holy war
you think you have the answers
that is a life to give
the point to the question
you have only one life to live
you only thought that you weren't caught
buts thats the catch you didn't know
all the lies before your eyes
in your brain it won't go
you think you see what's going on 
it's obvious you don't though
to think and say you know a truth
but i say you don't know

shredhead

Restrict Your Thought - New Dinosaur Extinction Ft Shredhead

written and performed badly by me ... 


a happy moment slides into view

darken months lose their shroud
with the evaporation of these heavy clouds
and a happy moment slides into view
with the winter sun streaming through
the bedroom window and onto my face
lying down avoiding the human race
share a minute and gentle words
listen to the breaking morning birds
cheep chatter call and cry
putting off the moment before we rise

by hitting snooze for the final time
today everything will work out fine
you tell me as i pull you in tight
these happy moments feel just right

because if i died this very day
under the suns warming rays
i'd be grateful in the knowledge
that i have achieved
for these happy times i had received
with some one as loving as you

a happy moment slides into view

bentcousin-Everything Is Everything

recorded at casa de hippo pacoima ca 2015



Iggy Pop

Our new self titled album will be out on April 1st (this is not a joke). North America pre-order it now on Apple Music and get "Thank God For Girls," "Do You Wanna Get High?" and "King of the World" instantly smarturl.it/WeezerIT

CD and vinyl bundles are available worldwide in our http://www.weezerwebstore.com/

ALBUM RELEASE SHOWS
March 30 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw (on sale tomorrow at 12pm EST http://tktwb.tw/1lcfY8B)
April 03 - Manchester, UK @ Academy One (on sale 1/22 at 9am GMT http://gigst.rs/weezer)
April 05 - London, UK @ O2 Brixton Academy (on sale 1/22 at 9am GMT http://gigst.rs/weezer)
April 08 - Amsterdam, NL @ Heineken Music Hall (on sale 1/18 at 10am CET http://bit.ly/1jb4MnH)

WEEZER & Panic! At The Disco SUMMER TOUR 2016
w/ special guest Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

Pre-sale starts 1/19 at 10am local time. Sign up to the mailing list (http://weezer.com/mailinglist) before 1/18 in order to get the pre-sale code. General on sale starts Friday 1/22 at 10am local.

June 10 - The Woodlands, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
June 11 - Corpus Christi, TX @ Concrete Street Amphitheater*
June 12 - New Orleans, LA @ Bold Sphere Music at Champions Square 
June 14 - Miami, FL @ Bayfront Park Amphitheater
June 15 - Tampa, FL @ Midflorida Credit Union Amphitheater
June 16 - Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Amphitheatre
June 19 - Daniel Island, SC @ Volvo Cars Stadium
June 20 - Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
June 21 - Raleigh, NC @ Walnut Creek Amphitheater
June 22 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
June 24 - Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
June 25 - Canandaigua, NY @ Constellation Brands – Marvin Sands PAC
June 26 - Scranton, PA @ Pavilion at Montage Mountain
June 28 - Gilford, NH @ Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook 
June 30 - Wantagh, NY @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
July 01 - Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center
July 02 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center 
July 05 - Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion 
July 06 - Toronto, ON @ Molson Canadian Amphitheatre 
July 08 - Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 09 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest - Marcus Amphitheater
July 10 - Tinley Park, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre 
July 12 - Noblesville, IN @ Klipsch Music Center
July 13 - Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater 
July 15 - Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Pavilion
July 16 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Zoo Amphitheater*
July 17 - Rogers, AR @ Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion 
July 19 - Maryland Heights, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
July 20 - Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre 
July 22 - Brandon, SD @ Badlands Motor Speedway*
July 23 - Council Bluffs, IA @ Harrah's Hotel & Casino Council Bluffs - Stir Cove*
July 24 - Englewood, CO @ Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre 
July 26 - Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre
July 28 - Burnaby, BC @ Festival Lawn at Deer Lake Park
July 29 - Redmond, WA @ Marymoor Park
July 30 - Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield
July 31 - Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre* 
August 02 - Phoenix, AZ @ AK-Chin Pavilion
August 03 - Chula Vista, CA @ Sleep Train Amphitheatre* 
August 05 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl
August 06 - Irvine, CA @ Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre

* Weezer and Panic! At The Disco only

King Of The World

Face Down

https://soundcloud.com/theweightytree/seesaw-1

Funikular

How far can you go with 2 chords? 

This is some pretty tasty drumming by Adam - Don't ya think? 

Adam Coppock - Real Drums
Michael Walker - Guitar, Bass, Vocal

Screach Improvisation - Enjoy 

February

I always tried real hard
I never wanted to let you down not even once
and each time I looked in your eyes
I had the strength to carry on.

I love the month of February
I especially like the snow
there is nothing much more pleasing than a crackling fire
and you by my side

Nowhere to go
To watch the Snow
Nowhere to go
Without You

Like a boy lost in the woods
Wondering the wrong way
Like the little engine that could
Stuck at the top and headed down the hill the wrong way
Hey

I have got nowhere to watch the snow
Nowhere to watch the snow
With you I ain't got nothing
Nowhere to watch my snow

I think I'll move on down towards Idaho



February

Howling down the alley/but im still not here [second nature-second nature.
I see the tv tower/I got nothing to fear.
A brand new concept and a bright new start[hail the future-hail the future.
Got designs for a living and a big red heart.

Funny how today we communicate/when we used to write letters and the post was so late.
Now its the push of a button/on a big flat screen.
its a day-glow vision/its a whole new scene.

Heal the ones of your desires
See the skys filled with fire
Coincidence or true inventions
open up to new perceptions.

Flashing like a camera/seeing pictures though a lens[click click snapshop]
Feeding static image in a world that never ends.
Wearing leather in the weather of the city of sin[glitz and glamour-glitz and glamour.
paint a portrait of an actor in the east berlin.

Funny how its instant in a digital scene/your never make no money/but your always have a dream.
Live it like an extra when its tearing you apart.
you got a bright new future and a brand new start...

From east to west we,ve seen it all
Running my hands behind the wall.
From east to west,we are free to go.
From east to west where citys grow..
From east to west i will take the plane
We will always stay connected and always think the same.
From east to west theres no divide
From east to west we are outside.

written and produced by jim manser feb 2016


From East To West

Taster from forthcoming C.D. to be released in March.Title track.

Apparatchiks

Thank you for the mastering Danijel Zambo
visithttps://soundcloud.com/danijel-zambo

through the night (mastered by Danijel Zambo)

If one has John as a lyricist-friend, you sometimes get something in your email when noted semioticians pass. Semiotics has long been a big deal to me, even before I knew the word for it. John is one of the few folks that lets me ramble on about it,,,probably knowing more than I, so he can ramble right back.

....inspired by the death of Umberto Eco, and our mutual love of Walker Percy....

Arbitrarily we range
From coffee to scotch
We reveal ourselves
With our shoes and our socks

The stop sign is red
So is the light
But what do we do
In an energy blight?

Signs of the times
Written for mimes
Who tell us it’s there
Hung in the air

The signs are there
They’re everywhere!
How do we read them?
Does anyone care?

Age is revealed
By the chalk on the fence
The artist defies
The owner’s defense

Where does it stop?
This inhuman race
That starts in the earth
And rockets to space

The stop sign is red
So is the light
But what do we do
In an energy blight?

Slide guitar

The stop sign is red
So is the light
But what do we do
In an energy blight?

Signs of the times
Written for mimes
Who tell us it’s there
Hung in the air

The message in the bottle
Makes one surmise
Its contents unread
Remains a surprise

The medium’s the message
It’s also the massage
In a crowded room
There’s always triage

It’s all a great puzzle
These relations sublime
Our daily use
Of the sign and the mind

The stop sign is red
So is the light
But what do we do
In an energy blight?
Signs of the times
Written for mimes
Who tell us it’s there
Hung in the air

It’s all a great puzzle
These relations sublime
Our daily use
Of the sign and the mind
The sign of the mind
A relationship with wine
Drink from its cup
Watch it unwind

The stop sign is red
So is the light
But what do we do
In an energy blight?

The stop sign is red
So is the light
But what do we do
In an energy blight?




Umberto and the Semiotics(lyrics: John Eagle)

This song is a SmogBaby Delight! I (Screach)wrote the lines below for a completely different backing track sent by Smogbaby and then Smogbaby went off in a completely different direction spontaneously after reading them. He added the well written bridge and outro naturally just letting it run off his chest - I really did nothing but enjoy the results. This page features an acoustic based version that caught me in the heart however there is a electric more rocked out version that will appear on Tim's pages soon also! We hope you enjoy this acoustic rendition which I feel falls right in line with a sound projected by the great Violent Femmes or The Rolling Stones -

All Instruments, Vocals, Arrangements & Production by Tim Mathews of Smogbaby, DaBelvis Underground & Stoned & Alone...check all his pages out! 
https://soundcloud.com/smogbaby
https://soundcloud.com/dabelvisundagrownd
https://soundcloud.com/belvis-alone
Warning: Your face may be rocked off...

Lyrics by Screach

Crazy is what makes us Great
Crazy Love & Crazy Hate
Crazy is what makes us Blind
Bovine Creatures So out of Style

Break a leg, Go Bust a Nut
Take no prisoners and don't give up
Make the change enough is enough
The tough get going when the going gets rough

We crawl through the grass like an army of Ants
We fly through the sky Staring at the Sun
Thinking we had won a piece of this Pie
We Barely get By


crazy is what mother says
crazy is what daddy does
crazy is just because
Monkey does what monkey must

Crazy is whats on my mind
Crazy is just down the line
Crazy is the pursuit of dreams
go ahead, let's hear you Scream

We crawl through the grass like an army of Ants
We fly through the sky Staring at the Sun
Thinking we had won a piece of this Pie
We Barely get By

Young people with no futures
living in imperfect harmony
Young people with no futures
Don't believe me, Ask your TV
Young people with no futures
It's the real Fucking Shame
Young people with No Futures
Fuck you and everybody
Young People
 
Crazy is what Takes Our Fate
Crazy is what Crazy Ain't
Crazy is what We are Tonight
Crazy is Bovine Creatures So Out of Sight...


Imperfect Harmony - SmogBaby Screach Collaboration

Our newest... Always trying to push our sound in a somewhat different direction. We hope you enjoy!

Lyrics:
Manny worked the chop shop on that dead end street, he got his problems whittled down to one hand
He been there 14 years working under the world, he got no time for anything else
He got them Turpentine slivers seeping into his skin, he got that ash-grey, radio grin
There was a homesick dog in the back alley bin, with a meteorite collar and a big will to win
I’ve got a little news for Ya
There was a shopping cart naked at the edge of dusk with a rusted out, Iron frame. Swimming in two feet of water with the back wheels out and a purple sky lighting the rims
There was a big game playing at the Elks Lodge field, voices echoed in from afar
They travelled two long miles just to get there in time as the Mormon church caught on fire
I’ve got a little news for Ya
There was an old man sitting, reading 27 papers, Camel cigarettes burning his lungs
He had those “fuck you” flaps at the edge of his eyes, saying "hey boy, let’s have some fun"
As the bowling alley opened for its evening run, Polyester Kings contorted their crowns
and the vending man filled his power-hungry coffins, dirty dollar bills weighing them down
There was a shopping cart naked at the edge of dusk with a rusted out, Iron frame

@michaelw-2 - production/arrangement/pads/synths and mix on his iPad
@aranajason - lyrics/vocals/guitar 
@jackwm - lead guitars

Grab an unmastered download on us.
Swing on by our FB page and give us some support there too:
www.facebook.com/RefractedMemory

Ive Got A Little News For Ya

Copyright Pete Stobbs 2015

Vocals Roaddog-1 (Norman tween)
Pete Guitars and other stuff.

Come on pretty baby, come and take a ride with me
You can sit in the back, let your hair blow in the breeze.
We can take to the road and head down to the beach
Come on pretty baby, come and take a ride with me
Wear want you want, let's cause a scene
Let's burn some rubber, if you know what I mean
C'mon.

Leave your friends at the pool just jump into my car.
Got the radio on, we could drive real far.
As far as you want and just as far as you need.
Come on pretty baby, can't you see I'm pleadin'
I'll take you where you want to go
I promise I'll take the corners slow.
C'mon.

Well, the leathers all smooth and smells real good
the chrome's all shiny, that's understood.
The seats recline, when I get I the sign
C'mon baby, let's take a ride.
C'mon

Solo

Come on pretty baby, come and take a ride with me
You can sit in the back, let your hair blow in the breeze.
We can take to the road and head down to the beach
Come on pretty baby, come and take a ride with me
Wear want you want, let's cause a scene
Let's burn some rubber, if you know what I mean
C'mon.

Ride (collab with Roaddog-1 (Norman Tween)

Morphine Crush

Deep into the water
Muddy to my chest
Waiting for Poseidon
He buries all the blessed
I call to her one last time
Before the breathing ends
But she is deep in morphine
My cries are lost again

Take hold of all your senses
This journey will steal your soul
Will take you to the devil
For wanting her to go
The silence interrupted
By gasping out for breath
You close your eyes and beg the dark
To not take happiness

The rain it pours relentless
Crashing into glass
The thunder roars from heavens
That will not hear her calls
The lightning strikes the conscious
Into unconsciousness
Never to return her to my bosom nest

Cry oh cry my darling
I will not forget
All the hope and fury when our eyes first met
I love you in the hollow
The hole left in my heart
I love you for the last time
Before death do us part

(C)2016 Erika Bach. All Rights Reserved.


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Morphine Crush

When all was said and done and most everyone had packed up and left an acoustic jam broke out...  One guitar, flute, fiddle and blues harp... PS This is our next to last offering before we take our perennial six month break from the cloud.. 

ZZ Top, "Jesus Just Left Chicago" performed by Cool Cliff
 from the album,  Tres Hombres  is an American rock band that formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas... Tres Hombres (Spanish for "three men", meaning the three members of the band) is the third album by the American rock band ZZ Top. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Hombres

David Wilcox, "Cheap Beer Joint" performed by Cool Cliff  

His music has been written as "deeply philosophical" and "insightful".[2][22] One music critic wrote he was a "influential acoustic guitarist ... the PBS darling of contemporary singer-songwriter folk."[22] Another critic wrote that an "eager, unapologetic sincerity flows from the heart of David Wilcox's acoustic music," and elaborated that "Wilcox uses extended metaphors and beautifully detailed imagery in lyrics that are far more compassionate and philosophic than self-absorbed ... 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilcox_(American_musician)

Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower,  performed by rockin' Shirley
Note: Rule of thumb at a kitchen party, when you are in the middle of a song and forget the words, don't stop... just make up the words as you go  :)
Several reviewers have pointed out that the lyrics in "All Along the Watchtower" echo lines in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9:

The unusual structure of the narrative was remarked on by English Literature professor Christopher Ricks, who commented that "All Along the Watchtower" is an example of Dylan's audacity at manipulating chronological time: "at the conclusion of the last verse, it is as if the song bizarrely begins at last, and as if the myth began again."[11]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Along_the_Watchtower

The Rolling Stones, "Wild Horses" performed by Rockin' Shirley and featuring Cool Cliff on fiddle..

"Wild Horses" is a song by The Rolling Stones from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Rolling Stone ranked it at No. 334 in its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in 2004.

In the liner notes to the 1993 Rolling Stones compilation album Jump Back, Jagger states, "Everyone always says this was written about Marianne but I don't think it was; that was all well over by then. But I was definitely very inside this piece emotionally." Richards says, "If there is a classic way of Mick and me working together this is it. I had the riff and chorus line, Mick got stuck into the verses. Just like "Satisfaction". "Wild Horses" was about the usual thing of not wanting to be on the road, being a million miles from where you want to be."[1]
Originally recorded over a three-day period at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama during 2–4 December 1969 while Albert and David Maysles were shooting for the film that was titled Gimme Shelter, the song was not released until over a year later due to legal wranglings with the band's former label.[citation needed] Along with "Brown Sugar", it is one of the two Rolling Stones compositions from Sticky Fingers (1971) over which ABKCO Records co-owns the rights along with the Stones. It features session player Jim Dickinson on piano, Richards on electric guitar and twelve-string acoustic guitar, and Mick Taylor on acoustic guitar. Taylor uses Nashville tuning, in which the EADG strings of the acoustic guitar are strung one octave higher than in standard tuning. Ian Stewart was present at the session, but refused to perform the piano part on the track due to the prevalence of minor chords, which he disliked playing.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Horses_(The_Rolling_Stones_song

The usual suspects:

Cool Cliff on guitar and fiddle and vocals

Rockin' Shirley, on guitar and vocals

Roy on flute and blues harp   



Christening the new/old kitchen in Lower Wedgetport: Act III  (part 2)

Over My Dead Body
(C) 2016  Erika Bach. All Rights Reserved

You can see the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qhJdaIMB1g&list=PLVZ7uZ5Lp1XzLp7tHYu0Ul3e-yQ2Sv3mi&index=1

After colliding with all good intentions
I put on my armour
And raise my defenses
Calling my father my mother where are you?
They said I killed you but I really loved you

Chorus:
Give them blood and flesh
Over my dead body
Say I will confess
Over my dead body
Give all I possess
Over my dead body
You will have to take happiness over my dead body

Bursting love open to show the infection
I couldn't speak from the cruel deception
Calling my father my mother where are you?
Into silence, we throw what we need to

Chorus

Extra back up vocals by Headcharge777
https://soundcloud.com/headcharge777

Over My Dead Body

Track from forthcoming 'Morphine Crush' album, to be released soon.
You can see the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUP9KbxBmtg&list=PLVZ7uZ5Lp1XzLp7tHYu0Ul3e-yQ2Sv3mi&index=2

Frozen
(C) 2016 Erika Bach All Rights Reserved.

If I don't look back
And I let it go
If there's no return
Who would ever know
There's a snake in you
Eating from the tree
If it was her wish
Then forget about me
In the wilderness
There's a hanging tree
With a rope for her
And a rope for me
I erased the words
That you wrote to me
As  punishment
For a mind that's free
I am frozen on the last day
Chorus:
I am frozen
I am hardening
Be on my side
I can't help it
Can't get over it
Not this time

Was the last day
Was the last time
I would open up my mouth
Not another word was spoken
Since the love burnt itself out
I am frozen on the last day
Chorus


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