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Til The Sun Goes Down

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Blueprint for an Anti-Hero is a quiet reckoning in loud times.
Wars, extremism, rising fascism — and yet, we stay silent.
When truth dies and our foundations crumble, we go with them.

This live-recorded unplugged track strips everything down to acoustic guitar, light percussion, and voice — raw and real.
A reflection of a world where we've stopped caring for each other and started caring only for ourselves.

A song for the ones still paying attention.

Blueprint for an Antihero (Live & Unplugged)

another song idea from the past about 7Os rock stars....
a cautionary tale to watch the wine and the whites and the chicken cacciatore ....


Roll Daddy Roll

He's willin’ and wild 
A music smorgasbord 
Kind of like a 1972 Lowell George
Smoking gun
Flame for hire
7 years to glow
Giddy up and get down 
Roll Daddy Roll

Daydream  running
Always riffin’ at the ready
Kind of like a 1978 Tom Petty
Guitar shake
Build that pyre
39 years to glow
Giddy up and get down 
Roll Daddy Roll

Roll, roll break your mama's heart 
Boat be sailing, how to finish what we start
Roll, roll till it falls apart tonight, tonight

Once Cleveland rocked
Now the sound has gotten softer
Lester wrote a eulogy for Mr. Peter Laughner
Ain’t It Fun
To die young
In 5 more years Bangs' bell would toll
Giddy up and get down
Roll Daddy Roll

Roll, roll break your mama's heart 
Boat be sailing, how to finish what we start
Roll, roll till it falls apart tonight, tonight

May your days be filled 
With power chords and glory
Watch the wine and the whites
And the chicken cacciatore
And don't be fooled by innocence 
She will take your head you know
Giddy up and get down
Roll Daddy Roll
Don't be fooled by innocence 
She will take your head you know 
Giddy up and get down roll Daddy roll











Roll Daddy Roll (acoustic)

featuring Sparky and the Sanitation Workers
(Sparky on sloppy drums an' keyboards😆  )
Thanx to Eric for letting me use his drum kit (enjoy the 12-pack, buddy)

Recorded out at the airport in The Slug Dogs rehersal warehouse.

the Trashcan Club

Dedicated to Johnny Ramone who once showed me how to bang an electric...got my hands on one again..could be yer worst dreams come true..

opening sound clip is Lou Reed talking to Danny Fields after hearing the Ramones for the first time...

I Just Threw Up in My Mouth

I just threw up in my mouth 
The blood and the booze I taste them both
My future's heading south 
Straight to the bottom, straight to hell 
I'm going down, down, down
I'm going down 

That bitter taste  in my mouth
Of Big Banks, Big Biz, they hoard all the wealth
It ain't good for my health 
Take you straight to the bottom, straight to hell
The dream going down, down, down
I'm going down 

Salivation
Incorporation
Ingest and Digest
Lease termination 
Regurgitation 
Fuck Obligation 
This Land and my Gut’s got
Acute Ulceration

Refluxing acid in mouth
The burn and those Billionaires building their moats
Shove this tube down my throat
From my gullet to my bottom
Slide it down 
I’m going down down down 
Shit’s going down 

Doctor help me, feel me, heal me
Help me get ready to fly
Such a funny guy

on Vacation 
from these Libations
Abstain Avoid
my Inclinations
try Dedication 
not Medication
I Sort my Stomach
but I can not Save our Nation

I'm holding it in
All this bilious liquid
I won't swallow their sin
They say be grateful and grin
Push up from the bottom, Get Out
Turn it around, round, round
Spread those profits around, round, round
Get those boots off the ground, ground, ground
Grow some love in this town


I just threw up in my mouth  
I just threw up in my mouth  
I just threw up in my mouth 




I Just Threw Up In My Mouth or  Reflections on a Dyspeptic World While Receiving Endoscopy


as a child of the 60s and 70s Friday nights meant watching the Brady Bunch and Partridge Family
Had lots in common with Jan as the song eludes to. ( though no black wig for me..so far...)
Of course Jan and her Marcia Marcia Marcia rant became a pop culture phrase in the 90s and a meme in the 2k years.. .. funny for sure...but she deserves more our Jan
I wanted to write her a tender song from my adolescent perspective.
Marcia had Davey Jones.. now Jan gets a little  homemade Hand on the Rock... 

Middle Sister Jan

I watched her on the screen
In the 1970s
My favorite Brady, middle sister Jan
For me, Marcia was too perfect
Cindy just a baby
So Jan, I gave my heart to her, in our fantasy TV land

Like her I was bespectacled
Fair haired and full of freckles
The insecure and awkward school yard show
I did not make the football team
Or hang with Greg and Peter
Like Jan, I was a little slow to say hello

Hey Jan
I think I understand
What it's like to feel unappreciated 
But girl it's time to change our attitude
We've got so much more to offer
Forget those Marcia, Marcia, Marcias 
Hey Jan
I got faith in you
You are just like me you see
I hope you feel it too

Friday nights on ABC
With that clean cut family 
Jan was the voice that I could comprehend 
Anxious about the future
Jealous in the present
Lying about George Glass, her made up new boyfriend 

We were both introspective 
Confused with the objective 
Reflecting on our reflection in that mirror on the wall
Plagued with indecision 
Disadvantaged pole positions
How we looked, how we talked
How far we’d fall

Hey Jan
I understand 
You being stuck in middle land
But there's lots of ways to find some gratitude 
You don't need that black wig wonder
Let's forget our social blunders
Hey Jan
I got faith in you
Sweet Jan I see on my TV
I am just like you

Jan Brady, see, she’s a lot like me
Maybe she's a bit like you








Middle Sister Jan

my 70s nostalgia train continues.
As kids we loved Bruce Lee and his movies and his death was very upsetting..I remember it well
When I got older I appreciated his teachings on how to live a life as an  athlete,  an artist and as a person.
Bruce cowrote the first 2 verses  as i used some sayings of his
you can hear 3 soundclips of him..first is from the movie Enter the Dragon, the others from an interview.
song is simple..the feeling behind it complex

A Little Bruce Lee Goes A Long Way

Empty the mind
Be formless, shapeless
Like water flowing
Don't waste time cause time is life
If you think it so
It will be what you become 
That one kick practiced 10,000 times

Hand on the rock
Open it up
Don't be a fist of fury
Be happy but never satisfied 
Obey the principles 
But don’t be bound by them
Be water my friend 
Don't pray for an easy life

Them old soul ways and teachings
I didn't learn them when I was a kid
I was more mesmerized by his fighting thighs
Those crazy Kung Fu moves he did

Now I wanna put some Bruce Lee in my life
My quarrelsome mind
Leave it behind
Defeat my worry and calm that strife
Be open to the message
Find peace, Find the light
A little Bruce goes a long way in this life

Mirror, Mirror on every wall
What is real 
What is reflection 
They must shatter, let them fall
Destroy the false, the fake
Find your truth behind them all
Be water my friend

July ‘73
I remember that day
When I heard he was taken
His end a mystery 
For my friends and I
Those summer nights 
We posed, we practiced, we entered the dragon
Not ready to face the world outside

Let us put some Bruce Lee in our lives 
Speak to change 
And rearrange 
See beyond the black and white 
Just a speck of him
Is all we need 
To season up our spice
A little Bruce goes a long way in this life



Lyrics  Bruce Lee/ Hand on the Rock
Music  HotR




A Little Bruce Lee Goes A Long Way

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Thirteen

Live at the Roundhouse

Detectorists (Full Studio Version)

Folk indie punk singer songwriter, guitars, keyboard. Jordan Watkins co-wrote 7 songs and plays guitars on those songs (as attributed). Also writing credits (as attributed) to Nigel Boot, K. Biggle and M. Rambout on 8 songs.

Putting my stuff out there "where funk meets punk"- using dynamic Shure SM58 microphone and Ableton 11 live recording software. Hohner Strat, Epiphone ES339 guitar, Taylor GS Mini Acoustic, Hohner harmonica and Yamaha keyboard E463.

Fave bands - L7, Lemonheads, Fat Tulips, Joy Division, Strawberry Story, The Smiths, Shonen Knife, Sex Pistols, Heavenly, The Fall, Slits, Bhundu Boys, Vaselines, The Pastels, Teenage Fanclub, Shalewambe, Jonah Moyo, Billy Bragg, Felt, Velvet Underground, Jeffrey Lewis, Jimi Hendrix....plus loads of other stuff.

Thanks in particular to Damian Smith and the Journeymen, QB Bills and The Strums for getting me into the Soundcloud community, and John Stone for listening from the start, and all those great musicians around the world listening in. Wonderful that music that didn't even exist a day, or even hours ago gets to go around the world. Always brilliant to be amongst the first to hear new stuff.

Remember, inconsistency means, even if one track is dodgy, the next might be a masterpiece. Keep listening folks, and keep making great music.

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1. A MILLION TEARS FOR YOU
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3. SWEET HOME ALABAMA
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3. KEEP IT SIMPLE, DO IT WELL
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