Yeah, the crazy funkies! We need those. They keep us sane. Makes sense? Then you are definitely listening to the right playlist here.

The place where insanity keeps you sane, where mending lies in pain. Here we go all mad and bad and crazy together. Oh , i hear the commands from the mistress with the leather. 

See ya!
Later!

The funky crazies (or the other way around..)

Worry About Me when you can't fucking see me bitches


J to The U To The N To The E To The Motherfucking Z

Face Melter 101

This is a good time here.  I've had this idea and this song pretty well done for about a year now but until I started doing a few collaborations lately I couldn't find the right opportunity for it.   

This vocal nic @nic_nic_nic put over it is totally opposite, not even opposite, it's in an alternate timeline from where I saw it going, but when I heard it, I thought it fit in a way possibly too cool for me to understand.  

Lyrics for this one come from a public domain poem credited below:
https://poets.org/poem/afternoon-hill

Afternoon on a Hill
Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1892-1950



*Special shout out to my brothers in Natt Brus for loaning me this guy and also thanks for all the inspiring kick ass music you guys create.  Love all you guys & keep rockin!


bow 
Guitars, Music & Arrangement : TexMex Shaman
Vocals by Nic

lyrics : 
I will be the gladdest thing
    Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
    And not pick one.

I will look at cliffs and clouds
    With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
    And the grass rise.

And when lights begin to show
    Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
    And then start down!

Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!

bow - Collab with nic and TMS

The Dogs
October 2021
Duration: 2:30
Photos, dog recordings and bios on dogs: Heidi Schnicker 
Cover art design and sound library creation: John -Marc Ventimiglia
For woodwinds, woodsticks, marimba, xylophone, dog recordings and percussion

A special tribute to all our furry friends who make our lives so wonderful! 
Here is a bio of each dog, based on the cover art, starting in the upper left corner, in clockwise order:

Ellie is our five year old shihpoo, who is an eight pound bundle of fluff and love.  She likes playing with her ball and her red hedgehog, as well as taking long walks/hikes, especially when it's not too hot and she knows she can "swim" in a stream. Ellie is quite the vocalist, especially when she's excited about something, or feels the need to inform us of impending danger. 

Callahan or Cal, our granddog, is a nine month old, very spirited Bernese Mountain Dog.  He loves sticks, and his toys, and it's very interesting watching him try to figure out the world such as when he decided to bark incessantly at the grill, or when he came to our house the first time and didn't want to come in the door.

Lucky, the one-eyed dachshund, belonging to our friends, was the life of the party and happily partook of anything appetizing within his reach, including a friend's rum and coke!  Lucky hated it when his pawrents (or us when they were out of town) would leave, and would howl mournfully and incessantly when left home alone in his kennel.

Angel, our dear, sweet, shihpoo passed the Rainbow Bridge 3 years ago.  In spite of having numerous health ailments, including diabetes that resulted in cataracts that had to be removed to restore her sight, as well as twice daily insulin shots, she maintained her wonderful disposition and love of taking long walks for her entire 16-plus years with us.

Jax, our pug who crossed the Rainbow Bridge last November, was one of the nicest dogs, but had a few odd habits.  Jax enjoyed spending time in the great outdoors, where he would sit staring at the sky for hours looking for airplanes, then madly "chasing" and barking at them when they appeared. The only thing Jax didn't like was the mailboxes; he would bark like crazy every time we drove over to get the mail.

The Dogs

Mr Smarty went To A party With A quart Of Gin Smacked The Ass Of Some Fine Lass
She socked Him on The Chin 

I GOT NUTTIN TA DO

Atom   Bomb Blues ( Got Nuttin Ta Do )

Let's Get High

A true story from my heavier drinking days
From my new Album "Friends, they're gonna get your story wrong"
Check it out on Soundcloud under album tab

Lyrics: 
Well, this is was a very delicate and drunken operation
You see, when you have a wasp nest on the side of your house
You have a couple options
One thing I do know is that man must always control nature
At least that's what my girlfriend said
One: You can get up on a ladder
Tape a bag around it 
That's kind of a dangerous  proposition
Or you can just call someone to take care of it
But, I'm an all American man!
Yes!

Option #2: You get up on a ladder
With a broom, maybe with an extended handle
Poke at it
Then run like hell
You know, a wasp nest is nothing but a pest
I'm a drunken mess!
Yes, yes, yes

Option #3: My friend Chuckie, he said he'd come over
You get up on the ladder, I'll hold your beer in the cozy
You smoke a big bong load of weed
Blow it right into the wasp nest
Multiple times
They'll all go to sleep
Extract the Queen
They'll will all die of heartbreak
Yes, yes, yes!

She said: before you begin
Let me call my friend
Were going to get some wine
And watch you from a distance
And see how a real man gets things done
Yes, yes!

Drinking Chronicles #24:Wasps

it behooves you

art by cafevalentine: https://pixabay.com/photos/festival-hippies-happy-hippy-fun-1043512/

approve the groove

Crocodile Boogie

Hey you! You in the basque!!

Written by Richard O'Brien

More cover versions https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/duck-cover-versions

Published on SC 16 August 2020

Yankel Muromachi

Time Warp (Rocky Horror Show cover)

Not all is as it seems at the Palace. But surely young, pure-hearted Jibby can't be in on it, too...

...can he?

***************

(This Deranged Duo[dd] was carved up by @goodboycheerleader and @francois-john-cormier -- the 2nd release from "Land of Grub".)

***************

Hey… ho… what’s that
Poking through the Cauliforest
Whoa… Hey… is that
The Candy Palace?

Scratch its sticky surface
Slickly walls rise high like sweetbread
Fingers squeezing sky… from Grub’s Asparagully
Baskin’ in thick lick-lacquer

***

Welcome Grublords and ladies
To these heady salad days
So Nice to Meat you all
Now join us in our ingrained Rise, your harvest-Fall

Welcome grubgourds and pastries
To be-heady salad blades
My vice to grate you all
Now join us in whole grained surprise, your harvest-Fall
This miller’s tale, the cull is called

***
Burning tumour of rumour that seethes
Shallow tremors in golden layers breathe
through Duke’s sticky halls and steep deep
what might sleep in scoured floorboards Beneath

But creep discreet, as sure as Rollo’s sneak
Never openly stare at King Chunk’s derriere
They say many have sunk
Paid the price for an unwary peek

Pearlescent graze of a hapless populace
Swallowed whole by the Under Sound

But your owned eyes glaze over
you drown in his caramel gaze
honey-Hypnosis whirl, everyone obeys
The jelly haze will
Worm right through
And now it’s far too late for you

***

Oh… hey.. what’s that
Leeking out from the Cauliforest
Whoa… Hey… I’d swear that must be
The Candy Palace?

Walking the sprinkle path
These sunny ways
Will the next wanderer
Trip themselves up-
Double Down towards darker days?

The Candy Palace (a Frank n GoodBoy DUO[dd])

The story about this track is simple -- made a drum track for a friend, but it got rejected ("too harsh"). Self confidence went to the bottom, and the voices in my head were insisting to produce something extra harsh. Music indeed is a good therapy. Anyway, this all wouldn't have happened if I just went to the zoo as originally planned for that day.

Fun fact: I have been owning a Microkorg for some 15 years, and this was literally the first time I had used its inbuilt vocoder. It even shipped with a swan neck microphone; it sounds exactly as terrible as it looks (and the more I keep staring at it, the more it resembles the weapon used for colonoscopy).

Should Have Gone To The Zoo

It's Funky Monday!

Credits did not fit to the title, so here we go:

Alto Saxophone: Micha Surber
Mega Bass Slappato: Dino Romano
Vocals: Micha Surber, Katarzyna Von Kopytko
Rest: me

Monty Python's Intermission Music, as never played by The Meters

An old Eddie Harris tune, heavily based on the big band arrangement by Erik Morales. We are playing this one with the local big band, and they didn't want me to solo on it -- this is my revenge.


---- There were multiple requests for pasting the lyrics, so here we go:

So, it's really something that's been great
But you need stamina
You need physical health
And you need mental health
Like you go:
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
Could you repeat?
So, I said yah
So it's person, woman, man camera, TV
Ok, that's very good
Get it in order, you get extra points
10 minutes, 15, 20 minutes later, they say:
Give us that again! Can you do it again?
And you go: person, woman, man, camera, TV
If you get it in order, you get extra points
They said nobody gets it in order, it's actually not that easy, but for me it was easy
And, that's not an easy question
In other words, they ask you to --- they give you five names and you have to repeat them
And that's ok. If you repeat them out of order, it's ok, but you know, it's not as good
20, 25 minutes later, and they say: go back to that point, then I tell you this: go back to that question
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
And, I got a perfect mark!
And the doctors were: they said very few people can do that
Very few people get that. You understand? It's not that easy!
There were other questions, tougher than what I just did.
But it's not that easy! But as soon as they announced my score at that test
And they said: wow!
You have to be able to show this country that the person that we're picking as leader is sharp
Give us that again! Can you do that again?
And you go: person, woman, man, camera, TV
They say: that's amazing! How did you do that?
And of course I have like, a good memory
Because I'm cognitively there
The last questions are much more difficult
Ah like a memory question
It's ah, like you go: person, woman, man, camera, TV
And they said: wow!
Go back to that question, and repeat them! Can you do that?
And you go: person, woman, man, camera, TV
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
They say that's amazing, how did you do that?

Cold Duck Time ft. Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV

Vocal Only track. Challenge kinda made by EnigmaCurry.
His Remix:
https://soundcloud.com/enigmacurry/youve-got-the-looks-scilent-symphony-enigmacurry?in=scilentsymphony/sets/new-tracks

You've Got The Looks

It's Bebop Monday! Once more, the fabulous Micha on Alto and Soprano Saxophone. This one is also a good occasion for showcasing the "zero tolerance for space" mixing technique, invented by the good lords of questionable taste.

Footprints (or Beavis & The Buttheads Go Jazz Academy Prep Course) ft. Micha Surber

Doing this online electronic music production course, and this is the first track coming out of it. The basic adventure was to avoid playing real instruments.

Apologies that I haven't been active here for some time, needed a break and now this course keeps me busy. I know that I have missed a truckload of cool songs, but I will catch up with them soon, promise!

The Mental State ft. Holden & The Caulfields

A Captain Mirth track from 2012, with sound manipulations by Mo Sheen. Guitars by Admiral Krank. 

Marmalade (A Mirthian Fruit-Based Condiment)

Random Space-Ape Synth-Nerd somewhere out there!

The funky crazies (or the other way around..)

Fullyard