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A lead guitar plays nice melodies over a simple backing track (drums, bass, keyboards). Vocals are so last millennium, this is the modern nice music were the guitar speaks to those who know how to listen. Play it once, why not play it again?! Four times you listen to this and then you want to listen to it again. As they used to say back in the day: turn on, tune in, drop out!

The Really Nice Guitar Speaks

This is the result of me doing a live performance in my own room/studio, just playing my electric guitar over a backing track made with bass and keyboards and no drums or drum machines. This is music you play when you want to stress down and relax a bit. I think it is quite beautiful some places, but obviously the track is way too long for almost everybody these days. Back in the seventies it would have been considered 'normal'. Music meant to be nice, be nice everyone, okay?!

Time is an illusion

Time Is An Illusion

 
This music is one guitar played and recorded live over a basic track where one or two keyboards and a  bass play the 2 chords Em - B forever. NO DRUMS!

"Time is an illusion" was played in my father's funeral 22 May 2024. It is a slow, meandering and quite melancholic track that fit the event  surprisingly well. My father was a good, solid man and I miss him quite a lot. My mother died ten years ago, so I am an orphan now. Very strange to be the grown-up, suddenly I belong in the  eldest generation of the family. BUT TIME IS AN ILLUSION. Yes.



Time is an illusion - radio edit

Time Is An Illusion - radio edit

Some 6 minutess of an electric guitar swooping over a very easy and calm backing track (drums, bass, some keyboards). Recorded live on a Smartphone by my assistant (or wife) whithout telling me that she was recording. This music came into being when I played it in September this year (2022), I just play something and it so happens that sometimes sheer luck may cause a piece of good music to be recorded. Not here, though.

Almost no time left

Almost No Time Left

Bass and Roland rythmbox made in 1984 backing a freaked out Fender Stratocaster that howls infernal digital sound effects made in 1984. This you have not heard before.

The Fenderblender

Fenderblender

This track  was meant to be titled ‘Ambient House”,  but as the pop worked, the work popped…I am so grateful for all the plays, likes and comments this track has gained and I would like to thank you all, individually, but my health  is not good and I must focus my waning energy on important tasks like breathing and keep myself from becoming another extinct life form like the dodo bird. Some of you have time, some of us have almost no time. No one gets out of here alive, you know.

Pop Ambient House Work

My lyrics and a long prompt got 30 seconds from Udio, adding 4 more sections and pruning them down to what I was looking for. My first collaboration with an AI is quite professional sounding stuff that I could not have played or sung this well. I think this is a song that I made since I wrote the lyrics and the long prompt and made many desicions all the way from the start to the finished song. This will probably become the most used way to make nice shiny tracks for mass consumption next year, but I think that handmade music will be made because it is nice to do and the machine is a ...machine. ... maybe... but there is still time to dream!

Hideaway - The - Ai - Way

A pop/rock heavy ballad about life always repeating and how wonderful that is, lots of good vocals and guitar melodies. The lyrics are copyright Badtripp Inc and were written originally with 4 verses, this version has 2 verses. The lyrics are like this:

ANNIE TEARDROP (did it again) - (lyrics copyright Badtripp Inc)
Come with me we'll be so free
Do it again do it again
Stroke my skin lay down with me
Do it again do it again
Hold me tight and kill my fright
Do it again do it again
Kiss me today and kiss me tonight
Do it again do it again

Annie oh Annie Teardrop
Annie oh Annie Teardrop

Come to me and then go away
Do it again do it again
Leave me and come back to stay
Do it again do it again
I make you laugh and then you cry
Do it again do it again
Tell the truth and tell a lie
Do it again do it again

Annie oh Annie teardrop
Annie oh Annie Teardrop

I have recorded and made public here my attempt to create a good and somewhat heavy rock song: "Do it again (Annie Teardrop)". That version is  me playing all instruments - 3 guitars, 1 bass and Roland from the 1980ies doing what sounds like drums. I even sing the whole song (sorry)with 4 verses (too many). But then I found a collaborator amongst the artificial intelligences (this too is made with help from Udio) that took my detailed promt and ran with it, the song "Annie Teardrop does it again" is the result of several dozen 30 seconds long bits that I had to artfully pick out the best pieces from, those most like what I had in mind. Lo and behold:  the machine plays lead guitar very much like I would have done myself (well that was a mighty statement).I think this is a very good track. I hear music AIs have been sued by the big corporations that own the rights to most classic rock/pop/soul and so on - all music made. But I think this song is more like my own version to be found here somewhere, than any band I know - I know many, not all, though. Does this song sound like Nickelback? No! Someone else? MY lyrics and MY prompt and MY choices makes this MY song, or does it? Hmmmmm

Annie Teardrop did it again

I wrote the lyrics and tried several different music AIs to see if they understood my prompts, and this is the one that did - this is my words that I have made to c ome alive with hours of trying to make the machine understand what I aimed for. Hope you like this too-

Waiting for Death

Upbeat but elementary poprock with lyrics that Badtripp Inc wrote and the music was a compromise between the AI and Badtripp Inc that sounds a bit like the darkness of Badtripp Inc's should these all too late days.Here's the lyrics to this song, lyrics I wrote in blood over years...

NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING (lyrics copyright G.A. Moi 2024)

When you have been cut and formed every possible way
They tell you what to do and what they want you to say
You are born to run and you find something new every day
So you are nothing but a reflextion that doesn't wanna stay

In my time of frying/I'll wonder about all the lying
In my time of frying/I'll wonder why I kept trying 

I am nothing I am nothing I am nothing nothing at all
I am nothing I am nothing I am nothing nothing at all
So please don't ask me - I feel too small
Please don't ask me nothing - I am too small

I am facing the end of time/Why do I try to rhyme
Neither lemon nor lime/May give you back the time
I told you that I soon will fry/the raw fear was all mine
There is more to a dirty lie/than there is to all of the sky

In my time of frying/I'll think about the lives I did not live
In my time of frying/the only life I got was the one filled with fear

I am nothing I am nothing I am nothing nothing at all
I am nothing I am nothing I am nothing nothing at all

nothing nothing nothing

This is a song I made way back on now lost tapes, but I had written lyrics and spent several hours coaxing Suno to make the song sound a bit like it should, in fact I think the machine collaborated very well in making this song driven by power-chord, dynamic soundscape and some parts are solid rock and some parts are more like a pretty pop song. The LYRICS:

WAITRESS AT THE INN  (mastered)
Words by G.A.Moi/Badtripp Inc copyright 1983/2024

Come the sunny days in autumn  
When the trees are dripping colours
I recall the waitress at the inn  
She held my attention by surprise
Slender figure, tight uniform 
Short cut hair the colour of wood
Shy smile, red roses on her cheeks 
How I shook when she told me her name

The waitress at the inn
who was that waitress at the inn

I looked at her while my lunch cooled  
I don't know why she moved me so
Maybe it was a special day  
Or maybe she was a special girl
She's quite a mystery to me  
Memories linger in my mind
But her mind is very unknown   
Who was that waitress at the inn

The waitress at the inn
who was that waitress at the inn

Waitress at the AI-inn

This is a song about all we lose as time passes by and the only thing we can do is ...endless dreaming, lyrics written by Badtripp Inc, music worked out together with the Suno AI, and this is not to far away from the original song I recorded primitively and then the tape got lost. So this is a song with Lyrics from a very Human source and Music made by a Machine.

Time passes by

Great vocals and a competent arrangement makes this a nice love song!

Oh I love you

Track's lyrics were written by Badtripp Inc and the music came to be by try and retry for hours the Suno AI. A song about the horrors that changes soldiers: "They don't come back right"

Soldier, universal

This track was another version of the track "Soldier, universal" that is released simultaneously. I found this version too good to not let folks listen to it, so this will show those who think it's easy to use the Suno AI to make music: first I wrote the lyrics and then I spent several hours vith the AI and got songs that were mostly good at killing flies. But this version is so catchy!!
SOLDIER, UNIVERSAL (LYRICS BADTRIPP INC/MUSIC BY BADTRIPP INC/SUNO AI)

(Verse 1:)
I aimed my gun to hit that mark
The shot flashed through the dark
But my bullet scraped off some bark
Being what I am is no walk in the park
My head is wide open to the pain of it all
I used to think it might be better come fall
Winter comes and I still can't silence the call
of every universal soldier in this empty hall

(Chorus):
So what it takes to get me through the night
Must have been there for the medieval knight
Those who go to any war and fight
Just never come back right

(Verse 2:)
I got no money for those I sent to the grave
The victims were never close to being brave
I was something nobody knew how to save
I was like the early humans hiding in a cave
So I live like a bat in the middle of the day
Trying to escape but there's not any way
My mind hurts too much for me to stay
Yeah, it hurts too much for me to stay
Yeah, it hurts too much for me to stay

(Chorus:)
So what it takes to get me through the night
Must have been there for the medieval knight
Those who go to any war and fight
Just never come back right



Soldier, another version

Lyrics and music written and performed by one humanoid badtripper

don't know if I feel

A song about anxiety and depression that people around you don't notice

I DON'T FEEL RIGHT  (LYRICS BADTRIPP INC, MUSIC BY BADTRIPP INC/SUNO AI)
My mind is reaching out to people that I meet
Sounds disturb the night so tight and so sweet
My heart is searching for someone to know
But when the game is over I have to go

Take away all my pain
make me dry in the rain
Let me try all in vain
drive me holy insane

My thoughts go back to times that I've seen
Images fill me with things I could have been
My soul is running for safety and for cover
And the years go by as I look for a lover

Touch me deep inside
fill my mind so wide
Take me on a ride
I need a place to hide

I am all alone in this empty town
I'm always here, always on my own
Memories from the past flash through my mind
Pictures of you touch my aching heart

Here comes another night
filling me with fright
I don't feel alright
when I turn out the light

I don't feel right

Dreams My Guitar Told

Just an old rythmbox (from Roland) laying down a beat that a quick, tidy bassriff fits over, and then these two guys plays guitars - this was actually a 'band' called Tonedeath, where this young and going up guitarplayer flings off more notes in a second than most do in a minute - Kyrre Trohjell at the age of 18/19 and this old geezer who steered Badtripp into the abyss, Geir Arne Moi, at that time 32/33 years old. We did not plan songs, we just played them as they came. "Motorbass" is Moi mostly on bass and Trohjell doing the lead guitar. Recorded on a Teac 1980-cassette based 4-track 'studio'. Copyright Tonedeath 1991.

Motorbass

Motorbass - MASTERED (thunder 100%)

Traditional rock track with verses and choruses and a verse with lead guitar, but this track goes on way too long and should have been cut into a song half as long, but I do not have the master tapes or the 4-track cassette mixer/recorder any more since this song was written and performed by one person exactly 30 years ago, in 1992. Do not expect quality at any given place here. There is a Roland machine doing its thing, and one bass and 3 guitars and one vocal on top of the Roland. I played and did my best at singing, I even wrote the song... The sound of one man trying his best doing things he barely knows how to do...

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