This is what it is like going to a music store and into the guitar room. Bunch of monkeys wailing away on the same old tired Led Zep riffs and it's hard to know what sounds good. But to some an electric guitar is God like. I can understand that.  It is the greatest sounding instrument no doubt.  

IT’S JUST A BLACK GUITAR

Out there in the suburbs where everything is dead
The kids need a religion to feed an empty head
At midnight in their bedrooms be sure the door is locked
Kneel down before those speakers and worship at the rock

It’s just 5 pounds of plastic with a finish painted black
Six strings, a bridge and tuners and a big ol’ Marshall stack
Some knuckle walking hero just sent’em to the stars
This ain’t no holy relic
It’s just a black guitar!

Up there in the school room nobody seems to care
Down there on the corner - dealers everywhere
But promo Joe the hack man has got a “jones” to sell
He’s workin’ for the company
He’ll send you straight to hell

50 years hereafter professors will convene
To lie about the future and tell where we’ve been
They’ll talk about the culture
They’ll swoon about the goal
They’ll drool about the good old days when we had heart and soul
It was a revolution - It was the best by far
It was the golden moment
That shiny black guitar

It’s just 5 pounds of plastic with a finish painted black
Six strings, a bridge and tuners (and a big ol’ Marshall stack)
Some knuckle walking hero just sent’em to the stars
This ain’t no holy relic - It’s just a black guitar!
A BLACK GUITAR!
A BLACK GUITAR!

And the goddamn thing won’t even stay in tune!

Credits: 
John Tabacco : Vocals, Drums, Bass, Keys
Mike Keneally : Guitar
Gerry Palisi : Guitar
Recorded at Sonic Underground Studios, Stony Brook, NY
Re-mix completed in 2007 at Suburban Hermit Studios II, Stony Brook, NY 

It's Just A Black Guitar

It's the cyber world that is gonna take over.  What goes on there will be anybody's guess.

GRAY GOO

Triple D a bad little virus
Triple D it’s wrath is upon us
Triple D sneaks right up behind us
Triple D will easily blind us

Triple D a smart little virus
Triple D knows right where to bite us
Triple D call me an alarmist
But triple D ain’t no sweet Miley Cyrus

Gray Goo coming to get ya
Gray Goo gonna infect ya
Gray Goo is sure to up set ya
And knock the techno world on it’s ass
Gray Goo a Hannibal Lecta - patient like a time bomb

Triple D a bad little virus
Triple D knows right where to find us
Triple D it’s wrath is upon us
Triple D call me an alarmist
But triple D ain’t no sweet Miley Cyrus

Gray Goo coming to get ya
Gray Goo gonna infect ya
Gray Goo is sure to up set ya
‘Cause everything you did ya gonna lose
Gray Goo a Hannibal Lecta... gonna eat another drive!

Save yourself the trouble of roundin’ up ya bubbles
Can’t you see the cleansing banquet’s too late?
Shoulda thought it sooner before it spread the tumor,
which is looking more and more like our fate
We were told many years ago
not to put all our eggs in one place
Behold, there’s no solution
We reach the one conclusion that life...
may not escape cyber space

Credits:
JT : Vocals, Guitar, Programming 

Triple D Virus & Gray Goo Comin' to Getcha

TUNED UP

UNICORN

OVERTAKING

MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE

IT'S A NISSAN!

240 GRAZE IT

A kitchen sink drama of emotions overseen by an empty face with an imaginary smile that regrettably only the chosen ones will see.

THE EMPTY FACE SMILE..

Obliquity

John Tabacco is an American composer, singer songwriter, producer, recording engineer, multi instrumentalist and graphic artist. He has engineered /mixed and mastered music for hundreds of New York recording artists as well as projects released on BMG: The Kemelions, RCA: Faze, Rampage/Rhino: Rhett Forrester, Columbia: Rebbie Jackson, Rykodisc : Bob Marley, Columbia: Chris Jasper, Electra: Sonia Dada and Nickleodeon’s Are You Afraid Of The Dark? He is the CEO of It Iz What It Iz Music Publishing which currently holds over 600 songs in its catalog. He has been an associate producer for IndiMusic TV and hosts a bi-weekly radio program (CLAM RADIO) on college radio WUSB.fm since 1999.

His musical background consists of extensive study of orchestration with noted 20th century composer John Lessard, harmony with the late electronic music maverick Bulent Arel, and composition with Stony Brook University professor Peter Winkler. He received his BA in Music from Stony Brook University in 1983. 

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined. His style is a melding of pop - jazz -rock - avant garde / aleatory, classical and comedy.  He has been recording his music non stop since 1979.

Of note: In 1989 the satirical, absurd house song "Go House Yourself" co-written by Tabacco, Pati and DiMauro reached position 39 on Billboard's dance chart. 

In 2014 Tabacco signed a record deal with Texas, indie label, Muffin Records. They released his CD “Unfulfilled Shopping Carts Syndrome” internationally.

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