What started as  a self imposed, financial/emotional related exile early this year (long story: cat had bladder surgery, AC unit needed fixin, etc.) became a true quarantined, essential worker lives here, household by the end of my birthday.  
Was already chipping away a winter's writers' block, RDC shows weren't really happening, plans were dropping like flies, and by end of February I was turning 35 and taking a reminiscing trip around my music collection.  By March, my partner was also finding her workplace being heavily retooled to accommodate Covid-19. 
To shake the funk, I decided to record covers, near and dear to me, that I frequently performed during soundchecks or open mics the past few years. So I pulled out "The Machine" (a BOSS Br-1600. Thanks Ben!) and threw some cheap mics all around my cheap equipment.  1st session I recorded the GBV and The Ramones songs and the 2nd session covered Greg Sage and CCR.  This was sprinkled over the past month of manic house cleaning and growing veggies. The OpIvy and Jawbreaker covers were recordings I had laying around from an experiment I did involving an old PA mixer (thanks Good Deale!) and a cassette deck. Somewhere through all of this (and my first ever outing wearing a mask) I was also inspired to write three new songs. Those are also on here.  Little did I realize when I started this, that all musicians would be confined to their homes to livestream practices and shows .
And also covering their favorite songs!
 I hope these recordings find you feeling safe and legit.  Thanks for listening!

PS: 6/19/2020: I put new tracks up in solidarity to the BLM movement,  to celebrate Juneteenth, and to keep up on recording and what not. so now it's an LP i guess.

Colivid-EP

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Чугунный скороход_DJ Давай! (Алла Пугачева - Рейвер Номер 2!)_-198762295_456239445.mp3

CAN - VITAMIN C  (WITH(s)MILES Extended Work)

The Cry - Alone

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Чугунный Скороход - Быстрая Походка (#verhovskiproduction 1997г. саунд-дизайн, микс)

VIDEOCLUB - Roi

Game Of Pricks (orig. by Guided By Voices)

Few months ago i parked my car in the rain at a liquor store off a highway, and used my phone to record the sounds of the traffic going by for ambience.  Yup that's Tommy Chong sampled from 'Up In Smoke' (sans permission. please don't sue!) From what i could gather on a map, i think the character in the lyrics is in Utah.

Drivin' On 9 (orig. by Ed's Redeeming Qualities, by way of The Breeders)

Recorded this on my phone for fun at around 9am while everyone was still sleeping.  Later on i added the frog sounds which were fresh from the backyard. The frogs are gray tree frogs and were really loud because it was about to storm. So, i put a mic on the back porch and let nature do the rest.

Only Living Boy In New York (orig by Simon and Garfunkel) frog version

This was recorded in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the struggle that Black people and other POC face in America.  I can relate, being a POC myself, as many of my experiences with (mostly rural) systematic racism have led me to believe that there is a problem with police brutality/overreach/entitlement in this country. 
Usually i try to let the music speak for itself. Police and Thieves was written/recorded by Junior Murvin in Jamaica in 1976 in response to the gang wars and police brutality reaching a fever pitch at the time. Jamaican immigrants brought the song to the UK where it became an anthem due to the eruption of The Notting Hill Riots caused by police harassment during a Carnival. The Clash (after witnessing the riots firsthand) later adopted the song and brought it into the punk world. I heard it through the Clash and became enamored with the OG version as RDC drove from Salisbury to Ocean City to busk and/or play shows. Where sometimes we'd cover the song. At the time i was really getting into Jamaican ska/reggae, and definitely seeing that there was more to it than just Bob Marley.  Also i appreciated the multi-cultural push that 2-Tone ska had in the UK, and how it influenced punk to "rock against racism"  My love for ska/reggae has become somewhat of a litmus test. Either people get it or they've only absorbed the mostly party atmosphere of ska's 3rd wave in the 90's and didn't understand why i'd be into (to them) such a stupidly upbeat form of music with no substance.  Some have even attacked me for liking "black music" or "trying to be black, now." Their loss! Ska/reggae opened my ears and heart to an amazing facet of American life. I'm constantly amazed that an island that is wracked with such turmoil (economic and otherwise) can produce music with such uplifting melodies, and sometimes was apt enough to carry the protest music torch that was carried from the 1960's.

Police and Thieves (orig. by Junior Murvin)

Same deal as Police and Thieves.  Black lives matter! Willie Williams recorded this in Jamaica in 1977.  The Clash put a cover of this on a B-Side for their London Calling single.  Their version i snipped the opening lyrics, Mick's guitar line, and the "ok, don't push us when were hot" ad-lib from Joe Strummer. Sometimes you have to keep repeating something because it still needs to be said! That's what i'd say to entitled people who would hear RDC cover this song and get bummed out because "racism doesn't exist anymore" and "cops don't beat up people unless they deserve it" and "Obama fixed everything" (we were covering this around 2010.) But here we are. 2020. With these +40year old lyrics still timely. But what do we do? Endure! Always endure.  Find your class (warrior, mage, healer.) "To save the things we love." This work in progress we call home. It was never great because it was never finished. Fukin' America i'm changing our status to "it's complicated." And i hope all our friends see.

Armagideon Time (orig. by Willie Williams)

Recorded in the bathroom with a microphone in the tub. Jess D. is playing the wine glasses!

Here No More (orig. by The Breeders)

I mostly sing and play guitar in Rainy Day Cacophony.  A folky-power-pop-punk rock band made up of friends playing songs I wrote. Also, had cameos in friends' bands over the years, too numerous to name them all. 
These songs are self-recorded at "Bakin' Court" (aka my home "studio").  Don't be fooled!  Our equipment is cheap and our business is non-existent.  Though, recording in your home is so much fun!
All covers are used sans permission. (please don't sue!) 
Thanks for listening!

Game Of Pricks (orig. by Guided By Voices)

Tim Sutton from RDC