I wanted a lyric that appeared to mean one thing, but actually meant something very different. For those of you who are musically adept, the song features a couple of chord sequences known as "line clichés" And for the drummers among you, I'm kinda proud of the drum fill I played just before the fade.

Popular Guy

Fun tongue-and-cheek bossa nova tune inspired by other quirky tunes such as "Soul Bossa Nova" and the Wii Shop Theme

No Worries!

A fragment from a larger project spun out into its own little idea.

Piano is Spitfire Labs Grand Piano.

Created as part of the 50/90 challenge 2024.

Photo by Claire Bissell on Unsplash

The Path Most Often Walked Alone

Started out as a drummer shortly after the last ice age. 

With the advent of electricity, I grew sick of being the guy who hung around with the real musicians, so decided to teach myself to write songs. 

Years later, and studio hours too numerous to mention, I've reached the point where I don't suck at it.

I do what I can with the engineering side, but due to some industrial deafness, there's bound to be things I miss. 4kHz? What the fuck is 4kHz? Ohhhh, right....that's the area that's buried in all that tinnitus!

This is the point where most bios will pad the writer's ego, inflating self importance...which I hate, but I'm human, so here's just a bit. Spent years playing sessions, mostly for bands you've never heard of but also for a heap of adverts you probably have. Learned lots of studio craft from some very talented people. Studied production with a Grammy Award-winning producer/engineer for seven years. 

And none of it means a hill of beans in respect to the following question: is the music good? If you think so, then little else really matters, does it?

I have three studio assistants. All are feline, and none of them like asparagus.

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