Dredgetown, Live at The Seahorse, Sausalito, CA 11/09/2013:  c. Dylan/Danko 1967

This Wheel's On Fire -->First Tube Jam --> This Wheel....

Love On The Line

Catch Your Breath. (Copyright 1998 D'Amphibians, All Rights Reserved)

29 years ago in 1987, way bolder than I am now, I walked into a little dive of a blues-bar in Oakland, CA called the 'Till Two', carrying my Yamaha DX7. I point-blank asked the guy with the electric guitar if I could sit in. Much to my surprise he said "yes"... and I wound up playing in the house band there on Tuesday nights for the next 3 years....

That guy turned out to be Levi Lloyd, a bay area music fixture, one HELL of a great blues player, and my first live-music mentor. He taught me a whole lot about playing in a band.

Levi used to perform this song, and it haunted me for years, until I finally decided to record it as a project-piece - one designed to teach me how to use DAW software to record at home.

Here are the results of the project, started in September of this year. This represents my first attempt at producing a track from top to bottom. Many thanks to the amazing musicians who helped me with this track, and to those who lent a critical ear as the process progressed. Thanks especially to Elena Calabrese and to Luca who are so f-ing sick of this tune, I risk injury every time I need to audition a new mix out loud.

Happy Holidays, y'all. Go see some LIVE MUSIC!!

Steven

Machine Gun kelly
Written by Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar, 1970, 
Walden Music, Inc.

Sound Recording ©Steven Younger, 2016 (all rights reserved)

Recorded and Produced by Steven Younger in Mill Valley, CA on Reaper v5.28/i386
Drums: Recorded and mixed by Greg Thomas in Westerville, OH
Rhythm Guitars recorded in Oakland, CA
Lead Guitar recorded by JP Durant at Strangetree Studios in Los Angeles, CA

Artists (in alphabetical order)
Amy Berry - Background Vocals
J.P. Durand - Acoustic Guitars, Lead Guitar
Matt Lazarus - Rhythm Guitar
Steve Moore - Bass
Any Nordstrom - Background Vocals
Greg Thomas - Drums
Steven Younger- Lead Vocal, Background Vocals, Piano, Hammond B3 Organ

Special Thanks:
Greg Thomas and JP Durant for their uber-guru awesomeness when it came to all things recording advice-related.
Don Zimmer and Floating Records
Liza Carbe
Chris Rossbach
Luca

Steven J. Younger

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