Here's a whimsical little track in an early jazz swing style with a bit of humor. It was inspired, but my no means compares to, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by the great Jim Croce.

A New Horizon

Don't Mess Around with Bruno

BLACK APPLE

Our cover of Einstürzende Neubauten's song. Please listen to the wonderful and sublime original: https://soundcloud.com/einsturzende-neubauten/heaven-is-of-honey

Heaven is of Honey

Many thanks to Monkey Blood Lowdown, third world renowned multi-instrumentalist, board certified licensed ninja, expert nerf dart marksman, and retired Kawasaki mechanic(https://soundcloud.com/monkeybloodlowdown?ref=clipboard). This is his tune, and he plays the drums and organ. I'm grateful to have the opportunity to add the rhythm and lead guitars to this rendition. You should check out his original (https://soundcloud.com/monkeybloodlowdown/long-phase-1?ref=clipboard), which I favor over this rendition; I won't pretend to have improved it. I would be much obliged if you gave that one a spin. 

Also check out the work Monkey Blood Lowdown does with this oddball groove band, one of my favorite bands: https://soundcloud.com/user-291890055?ref=clipboard
For more BB, and you will want more: https://soundcloud.com/user-358500314?ref=clipboard
And with myself and others here:
https://soundcloud.com/natt_brus

Long Phase (A Monkey Blood Lowdown Hoedown)

Mississippi

Sorry about this.  

Sometimes ya just need to get something out of your system.

Ya know how it is, right?

Queue Blues

Standin’ here  quietly, biding my time
Masked up by the supermarket waitin’ in line
One in, one out, never moved a yard
Started to rain now, comin’ down hard.
A shopping cart wheel slams into the back of my heel
She does that one more time it’ll be a homicide deal. ….cue blues…

Lady there got purple hair that’s springin’ out everywhere
Nuthin’ better to do, showin’ off her new tattoo
It says “Don’t be like all the others just be the unique you”
Cool dude with the laceless shoes says all his friends got that one too.
Bald guy with the funny eyes is looking at his watch
Then pauses thoughtfully, readjusts his crotch. ….cue blues…

Now it’s just a guess, I realise, but I’m thinkin’ maybe from his size
Could it be him they say has eaten all the pies?.
There’s a real skinny guy too, down there at back of the queue
Looks like he could do with eatin’ a pie two.
Lady right in front of him ‘bout to go into labour
I can tell from here her fella’s facemask is doin’ all of us a favour. ….cue blues…

That twitchy kid from skid row ain’t no good at keepin’ quiet
I’m a-figurin’ that sugar makes up most of his staple diet.
His momma ain’t noticed he’s vibratin’ down the line
‘cause her face is in her iphone, most all of the time.
And the gappy toothed little girl with the sweet Shirley Temple curls
Is starin’ at the pie guy with the funny eyes
Who’s talkin’ over there to the billowed purple hair, and…..
Ah man this line ain’t ever goin’ anywhere….cue blues…
                                                                               ….got the queue blues…

Photo by Adrien Delforge on Unsplash

Queue Blues

Secrets | Van Halen

In memory of Eddie Van Halen, Rest In Peace...

In my quest for rediscovering Eddie Van Halen’s music, the music of my youth, I am choosing to make covers of the less obvious material, not the hits or typical guitar shredders choices. I prefer to explore the ones that in my view are cool songs, and also highlight Eddie talent as a songwriter. Of course making these covers pose to me the possibilities of really getting into Eddie’s unique and peculiar playing style when taking the lead. I would have loved to hear a full instrumental album from Eddie, the more so when you hear him experimenting in the studio (yes, there are some recordings where Ed and his brother are testing then new material) without the vocal parts. Songs like Girl Gone Bad are basically instrumentals with some Dave vocals added. Also most albums contain intros and instrumentals where Eddie shows us sneak peaks of his extended capabilities. Imagine a full album like that, maybe the music vault in his home studio is full of it...

Anyways, I am approaching these covers in that light, trying to play them in honor of Eddie as instrumentals, where I feel free to  use the playing style I loved and learned from him in my earliest years playing guitar. Thank you Eddie... For everything...

-Dan

Secrets

Secrets | Van Halen,  remembering Eddie (Cover)

Sometimes you just have to give the bass some space and let 'em go.  Check out Mirko Borach's deep slap bass playing - we've got the beatbox going, a little synth work and Stringburner!
 
Follow Mirko's serious grooves:  https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
And for an extensive playlist of the almost 70 tunes we have recorded together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/stretching-it-out-with

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  Be well.

Give and Take - Mirko Borach / Jamie Rhind

Jamming around one or two of Billy Gibbons’ classic guitar licks with a few of my own licks.

Blue Jeans Blues (Instrumental)

SEDIMENT (JunkHeap (c) Nov 2020 / Remixed/Fixed Aug 2023)

Youtube video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yIn6nzd-oo

There are things from your past
that follow you along,
and some never seem to resolve
with each passing year,  
they build on.

Never seem to fade away.
Take a left turn right here, 
leave the pavement, gravel under the wheel.
A bitter pill, painful I know.
it's time to say how you feel.

Sediment.

Hardens to rock over the years,
the daily pressure, and compression
of your fears.
The tears stream down through the cracks, 
you know.

It's time to make it fade away.
Take a left turn right here, 
leave the pavement, gravel under the wheel.
It's time to see it in the rear view mirror;
dust to disappear. 

Forever.

Sediment.

Chords  Am, E, G, D, A, E, G

Sediment

Chance

Having fun creating tracks in Pop, Rock, Blues, Electronic, Trance and Vocal styles . You will find a mix of styles and sounds for many tastes, throwback as well as modern. I always fall for a catchy groove or a funky beat!

Selected tracks are available for download.

Open to collab - I would love to swap some grooves with folks.

Don't Mess Around with Bruno

EdZ314