Recorded and released in July 2022

Thanks to http://soundcloud.com/mesmo1 for loaning Bob his bent Speak & Spell.

All Hail the Fake Android

Parallels

I scrapped the edited version. This is the original... and this is the song. No edits needed ✅

Lyrics

Ooooo Ahhhh
Digging with soul we are
It's the garden of life
Fertilizer from strife

Ooooo Ahhhh
Digging with soul we are
Fertilizer from strife...
Musics' medium seed sends life

The stars aligned
Hold on, way too much pine
My watched mirror, isn't fine
Humans a far, reeled on the line

We've been here before
I lost the message
'Mess on the floor
I think flood lights
Made darkness
Blinded sights
Selfish starkness

I said, solidarity wist
Click click says narcissist
How can I fuck up this?
How do I look up what I missed?

Just sing
Just play
Just good rays
Just sing
Just play
Your good rays
Just sing
Just play
Your good rays

You got your strife
Now go find the meaning of life

Just play
Just sing
Your good rays
That your bringing
This media mania
This social fling
From hibernated
To spam cave man thing

Just sing
Good rays
It's you're thing
Just play
Just sing
Its the good rays
You bring

Ooooo Ahhhh
Digging with Soul we are
It's the garden of life
Fertilizer from strife

Ooooo Ahhhh
Digging with Soul we are
Fertilizer from strife...
Musics' medium seed sends life

Ooooo Ahhhh
Digging with Soul we are
It's the garden of life
Fertilizer from strife

Ooooo Ahhhh
Digging with Soul we are
Fertilizer from strife...
Musics' medium seed sends life

Mist Aligned

Fantasy for Machines and Strings

Bill Liggett Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Lyrics Panu Moon
Single Use Electric guitar
Please pay attention to Bill Liggett great all around singer songwriter 

Lyrics

Bubba smiths got a brand new car brand new house and home
hes got a 7 day job pot belly
and a Smirnoff jones
Hes forgotton about the wife and the kids and all that living one step up from then skids thats the way its gonna be I guess
well have to settle for less
Now he’s good for 80 bucks a week drives a twenty year old car
he cares about a lot of things
but you cant change the way things are
just give me an old brown chair in the living room im gonna do my bit for the baby boom
thats the way its gonna be I guess
well have to settle for less
gonna settle for less
maybe it’ll take a little longer
but in the long run ill be stronger thats the way its gonna be I guess well have to settle for less
Now i aint got time for chasing someone else dream all that glitters aint gold man
and when you get there it aint what it seems
and it aint no easier to find true love
or keep it either when the push comes to the shove

 thats the way its gonna be I guess well have to settle for less

Settle For Less (Featuring Bill Liggett)

Cast of Characters:
Joe Stroffolino-- @joseph-stroffolino -- Taylor 114ce acoustic guitar, main vocals, harmony vocals, lyrics, composition 
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender HSS Telecaster electric guitar
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson Custom T electric guitar, mix, mastering, and production
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – piano
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –- four string Fender Precision Bass with a plectrum 
 
This song began as one of Joe's catchy, lyrically centered songs, which he wrote on his acoustic guitar, and filled in with VST instruments. He came up with the lyrics by sharing ideas with fellow SoundCloud musician Michele Ansani, who began the thought process of a song about becoming a musician.
   Knowing that Josh is a fan of his work, Joe offered this song to him in hopes that he'd share it with the rest of the band. Of course, Josh jumped at the opportunity to work on his song, and immediately shared it with the rest of the group. 
  Ken went to work first, adding his driving, excting drums. Josh was having a hard time coming up with a good bass line for it, until Ken suggested that he use the power of the 1/8 note to propel it. Tez was up next with his clever fills you hear throughout the first half of the song. Stephen came along right after and matched Tez's energy for the guitar fills in the second half of the song. 
  It was still missing a solo in the designated spot, though, so Mark stepped up with his innovative piano solo you hear in the middle. If it sounds a little mechanical, that's because he's using an arpeggiator to achieve the effect. We thought it sounded good in a song about AI, though. 
  Once all the parts were dialed in, and Joe had gotten all his vocals tuned up, we asked one of our resident pros, Stephen, to mix it for us. He did that and mastered it, too, expertly, as always.
  This is the first song we've ever done with Joe, and don't expect it to be the last. We all really enjoyed putting together, in no small part because Joe is such a competent, receptive, and gracious collaborator. We all hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it. 

Original lyrics by Joe Stroffolino (and Michele Ansani):

 When I was thirteen I picked up my first guitar
it was my mother's, it only had one nylon string 
I tried to play it like a rock star
I learned to play the Coca-Cola jingle
So I could teach the world to sing
When I was fourteen, I put on six new strings
I learned to play Beatles, I learned a Bob Dylan song
I sounded out of tune but I tried to carry on
At fifteen I wrote my first original tune 
So bad it sounded like it might have been written by a baboon
When I was sixteen, I got a new guitar for my birthday
The metal strings sawed through my fingers 
But I continued to play
And the calluses formed and every day I learned a brand new chord
I was obsessed with that guitar and I never grew bored.
I wrote songs every day and most of them were a mess
But I believed that through hard work, I could achieve success
Malcom Gladwell wrote a book that said it takes ten thousand hours
To become and expert at your craft
But now all it takes is two commands and an enter
And in two minutes you have ten versions of the same damn new song,
You just have to choose the type
folk, rock, rap, pop, metal, jazz, trap or blues.
You don't even need to write the lyrics, 
your push a few buttons let the AI choose.

And people will think your songs are great even though you didn’t write or play a single note.
When I was 20, I did my first concert, it was time
it occurred in a village square
there were four cats all friends of mine
I was still using the plectrum and sometimes I got the chords wrong
at thirty I finally wrote what I thought was a decent song
It had a very well thought out structure
And a catchy vibe and beat
It was overly verbose but when I played it people

AI Sucks!-Eclectic Collective/Joe Stroffolino

Missequencing of a Dream

Our heart gets fragile with age.  To have loved, be loved and the pain of loss, is life at its fullest... You choose.

Fragile Heart

Just beyond my fingers...a memory of feels
and dare I recall the chaff and the wheathead
...the sticking web, in the morning dew
and once there...
does anyone exist in the footsteps of the few
and unless I observed U...
saw U crawl to get ahead
...to get what U are due
then maybe it's all plastic and cocaine residue
one will never leave and one is gone too soon
yea yea
in the mirror I am reflected and perfumed
...'til I am scented
and I now grasp repentence in the rearview
yea, bae...just for U
does anyone exist in the footsteps of the few
and unless I observed U...
saw U crawl to get ahead
...to get what U are due
then maybe it's all plastic and cocaine residue
one will never leave and one is gone too soon
yea yea

PLastic And Cocaine Residue

Algorithmic (Jam #1) & Rant 😆

Crashing Out

Howdy Friends,

This is somewhere to put tunes when other tracks are getting digested 🤘🏽A digestion period is something I never give people so I think it's time to try it. I feel when collaborating with large groups of musicians my routine of daily uploads takes the shine off those shares so this profile was born from wanting to deliver that period but still fullful my desire to share everything as it comes to light. In the short term his will likely lessen my play count which I don't mind because this is about making TBD bigger and more financially successful in the future so experimenting with presentation should be worth it.  I think this should show an evolution to TBD's organic following better and I won't be bombarding everyone with a confusing amount of material like currently happens on the main account.
This also expands my desire to share more detail on the process and teach it more. Because I know I'm not pushing everything to everyone it will feel a bit better sharing thoughts and long jams here and will still be a door open for whoever might want to connect to that. I'll follow back genuine people here but I think I will avoid seeking people out from this page as again that should give a better outline of the reality of my music and how organic it is actually becoming for people and remove a bit of the SoundCloud routine from the mix. All going well I can upgrade this profile to artist pro and maybe endeavour to cover a sub with it and move passed the 120min limit of a free profile. Rock and Real to everyone.

Love ya all,

Carl

Algorithmic (Jam #1) & Rant 😆

The Beautiful Dark - Demos