Name: The Weight (early demo) by The Volunteered
Duration: 3 min 44 s
Description: Early demo of a new song. Would be great to get feedback!

This song features Erika Bach (lolademo) on Lead Guitar & Backing Vocals. Erika also mixed and mastered this song engineering and composing the massive intro & exit to this well managed piece. Erika did this with mediocre tracks from my mediocre machine from across oceans and made it wholesome and enjoyable to listen to bringing out the true essence of the moment! Adam & I are deeply grateful for her time and energy. She is a true Rock & Roll Diva that deserves the worlds recognition for her numerous contributions to the art! She is and always will be in my Rock & Roll Hall of Fame...The Screachey One
 
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Michael Walker - Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Erika Bach - Lead Guitars, Backing Vocals
Adam Coppock - Drums

Mastered & Mixed by Erika Bach
Song by The Screachey One Himself... 

the-groove

It’s just another Saturday night
And I don’t feel right
I can’t seem to get myself in the groove 

It seems no matter what I try
I can’t even get myself high
I can’t get into the groove

I guess it’s just not all that big a deal
I guess I’ll have to be myself
I’ll have to be real, real, real

Just as long as I have you by my side
I’ll have myself a natural high 
I’ll find the groove

I guess that will just have to do
Were gonna get into it
Gonna find the groove me & you


The Groove

**LYRICS**

I’m feelin’ fine
Nothin’ on my mind
Everything’s alright
Know what I’m doing tonight

A little something inside
Something to keep me alive
Keep me up all night
It keeps me up all night

I’m lying here in this miracle
Tomorrow morning I won’t remember a thing
All I’ll feel is an Afterglow
I realize and a smile comes to my face

It’s 12 o’clock in the day
Supposed to try and get paid
Already two hours late
Think I’ll just call it a day (and I’ll be on my way)

I’m lying here in this miracle
Tomorrow morning I won’t remember a thing
All I’ll feel is an Afterglow
I realize and a smile comes to my face

I’m lying here in this miracle
Tomorrow morning I won’t remember a thing
All I’ll feel is an Afterglow
I realize and a smile comes to my face

Afterglow

This tune seems retro to me, and fun to sing. Hope you enjoy it.

True Blue Trudy

Sunbeam iii

Lost in a Dream - 
An Electric Sunbeam -
I’m just trying to find the meaning of it all 
So I asked Jesus Christ - 
Not once but twice -
If he could please give the ‘Old man’ a call
He said I don’t mean to be Green
But you should talk to Magdalene
Cause she is Oh so beautiful and Wise
So I packed up my things -
My Guitar and my Strings -
And my collection of Rare 45’s
So I jumped on a ferry -
To go lookin’ for Mary -
You know I had to cross-over to the Other Side
The journey was long
I don’t know how long I was gone
But you know I think that I most certainly died
And I Listened for her Spirit
I tried but I couldn’t hear it
And I thought then that This was all over
And everything that I had done
Or would do or would become
Came down to this 4 Leaf Clover
~
So I Laid down in the Silence
And Let go of all my Violence
And my Creation - And my Destruction
I was One with the Void
Sitting on My Asteroid -
Deducing My Powers of Deduction
And again it got Quiet
I tried but could not deny it
Finally I just - just had to let it go
But right then it Hit Me
That she was right There with Me
And I’d Never be alone No More
~
So I’m lost in My Dream -
An Electric Sunbeam -
I’m just trying to find the meaning of it all
And with each passing year - I know that She is Near
And I’ll be Waiting Right Here - 
For her call

©Ralph Buckley - RCB
©™ Stubbed Toe Productions - ®©🅱
3️⃣◾1️⃣4️⃣

Sunbeam iii

Big Red Sky

Something kind of pulled from near sleep - an overwhelming revelatory feeling that I'd cracked some universal truth about the strange prevalence of historical stories that include apples, and how certain stories grow and become larger than they ever could have been. I couldn't ever put it into words that made sense, so don't judge. I'm aware it's nonsense, but it was so close to sense when my eyelids were shut and I was about to drift away.

It's all particulate in my head, but a couple weeks after this almost-revelation, a coworker mentioned a hymn she used to sing in public school(!!) called The Lord is Good to Me. She said, "It's the Johnny Appleseed song." 

So while the song was playing, I pulled out my phone and did a little poking around on the internet, and I learned some interesting things. My query was along the lines of "why is there a johnny appleseed hymn?" and I found out that John Chapman was actually sort of a Swedenborgian missionary! You ever heard of Swedenborgianism? This is cool. About a month prior to my universal consciousness moment with the Chapman hymn, I had learned about Emanuel Swedenborg - through Thoreau (whom I love) - through Emerson (with whom I am merely ok). My interest in Emerson is primarily through his connection with Thoreau anyway and while I wouldn't diminish his significance and influence, I just don't care for his writing as much as Thoreau's. Anyway, for a while Emerson corresponded regularly with Thomas Carlyle, but they had a falling out over Emerson's leanings toward mysticism. The source of that mysticism? Emanuel Swedenborg! In fact, Swedenborg was listed in Emerson's "Representative Men" (it's like an archetype piece) as "The Mystic." 

Swedenborg lived a relatively normal life until he was about 50, when he claimed that he had been (this is approximated) contacted by God and was now able to travel at will between earth, heaven and hell. He wrote volumes of spiritual texts after this, and sort of founded Swedenborgianism. I think it's especially interesting, given Christianity's tendencies to commandeer and appropriate outside elements as though to supersede them - that a Swedenborgian hymn is still in the hymn book. 

All of that was an aside...it's doubtful that anyone could find the connections as interesting as I did. Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well!

apples

Undertow

Two guitars; cover of the theme song of Weeds

Little Boxes (Weeds)

Happy Solstice! xx

Feverfew by Steph Sweet

Free your mind, slip through time
Anaesthetise your own disaster
Step outside the pretty lies
Refute the slave, become the Master

You’re not really sure
You’d like to let it all go
You say you want something pure
You wanna let it all go, go, go

Hidden light of Judas eye
Anaesthetise your happy ever after
Turn the tide, the endless lies 
Will only ever bring you disaster

You’re not really sure
You’d like to let it all go
You say you want something pure
You wanna let it all go, go , go

Feverfew, feverfew, feverfew
Feverfew, feverfew, feverfew

Feverfew ©Steph Sweet May2020 All Rights Reserved

Feverfew

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The Weight (early demo)

Debut album We Fall Apart out on 25th February!!!

The Volunteered started as a lo-fi solo project. Then it was a duo. Now it's a full band. We like REM, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pavement, Built To Spill, Neil Young, Sparklehorse, Sebadoh, Wilco, among others

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