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Giving your own songs away and then saying they are
"free music downloads" is kind of b.s. but I am doing it
anyhow.
Download or listen to my songs, they are better than
half the crap on myspace... wait... I'm on myspace...
Damn!
.Click on the play button to listen
to all songs.
Then you can rock out. .
"free music downloads" is kind of b.s. but I am doing it
anyhow.
Download or listen to my songs, they are better than
half the crap on myspace... wait... I'm on myspace...
Damn!
.Click on the play button to listen
to all songs.
Then you can rock out. .
Guests: Mike Gustafson – Pennywhistle, The 20th and E
crew – Vocals
The Plan: “If my grandmother Kay were still here today
she would laugh like a racehorse and light up the day.”
Irish Family is a two chord Irish drinking song. My
buddy Mike G. said upon hearing the vocals, “did you
gargle rocks before you sang that?” I wanted a gravelly
tone so I recorded the vocals right after I woke up one
morning. I don’t expect many people who aren’t in my
family to download this but it is kind of fun. Mike G
purposefully butchered his pennywhistle part because
he is a cynic with a soft middle who hates and loves
everything in life.
Irish Family - Use play Button or Right Click here to
download
Instruments: Guitar, Vocals, Ambient sounds of
airplanes and fireworks.
The Plan: I wrote and recorded this in the evening of
December 31st, 2001 while waiting for a friend to pick
me up. It’s multi-layered guitars based in an altered
tuning I can no longer remember. Some heavily
reverbed monk vocals in the background help to
round it out. You can hear fireworks and airplanes that
I recorded from my porch that night.
2002 Year of the Smooth - Hit Play Button or
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airplanes and fireworks.
The Plan: I wrote and recorded this in the evening of
December 31st, 2001 while waiting for a friend to pick
me up. It’s multi-layered guitars based in an altered
tuning I can no longer remember. Some heavily
reverbed monk vocals in the background help to
round it out. You can hear fireworks and airplanes that
I recorded from my porch that night.
2002 Year of the Smooth - Hit Play Button or
Right Click Here to Download
Instruments: Guitar, Vocals, Alesis Airsynth, Ambient
sounds of airplanes.
The Plan: Another piece based on an altered tuning.
Easy to listen to and soothing even when the vocals are
bit flat. Because I lived in the flight path (Ocean Beach,
San Diego) the roar of airplanes are in most of the
recordings I made there.
I Said I Don’t Ever Want To Forget - Hit Play
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sounds of airplanes.
The Plan: Another piece based on an altered tuning.
Easy to listen to and soothing even when the vocals are
bit flat. Because I lived in the flight path (Ocean Beach,
San Diego) the roar of airplanes are in most of the
recordings I made there.
I Said I Don’t Ever Want To Forget - Hit Play
Button or Right Click to Download
Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Djembe, A toaster tray full
of wood screws struck with a spoon, Ebow guitar.
Guests: Andy Huse - Vocals
The Plan: Andy wrote this in preparation for meeting
in New Orleans to visit The Angola Prison Rodeo! We
recorded it on my laptop in the funky bed and
breakfast we took over. It is a cool, dark confession
story with lots of room for the guitars and vocals to
stretch out.
Angola Rodeo - Use Play Button or Right Click
here to download
of wood screws struck with a spoon, Ebow guitar.
Guests: Andy Huse - Vocals
The Plan: Andy wrote this in preparation for meeting
in New Orleans to visit The Angola Prison Rodeo! We
recorded it on my laptop in the funky bed and
breakfast we took over. It is a cool, dark confession
story with lots of room for the guitars and vocals to
stretch out.
Angola Rodeo - Use Play Button or Right Click
here to download
Instruments: 12 string Guitar, Harmonica
The Plan: No plan, just a mood guitar piece
with a little harmonica. Nice and short.
Oh Yeah, I Know - Use Play Button or Right
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The Plan: No plan, just a mood guitar piece
with a little harmonica. Nice and short.
Oh Yeah, I Know - Use Play Button or Right
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Instruments: Banjo, Guitar, Vocals, Knee Slaps,
Floor Stomps, Spoken Background
Guests: Joel McLeod – Banjo, Slaps, and Spoken
Word
The Plan: An interview with Joel about nothing
serves as a background serves as another
exercise in apathetic depression. Though the mic’
ing of interviews, knee slaps and floor stomps
made for excessive background noise, the song
seems to sound exactly as it should, to say exactly
what it does.
No Stay No More - Use play Button or Right
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Floor Stomps, Spoken Background
Guests: Joel McLeod – Banjo, Slaps, and Spoken
Word
The Plan: An interview with Joel about nothing
serves as a background serves as another
exercise in apathetic depression. Though the mic’
ing of interviews, knee slaps and floor stomps
made for excessive background noise, the song
seems to sound exactly as it should, to say exactly
what it does.
No Stay No More - Use play Button or Right
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Instruments: Guitar, Vocals, Organ, Harmonica,
Sampletank Programming
Guests: Joel McLeod – Organ
The Plan: The first coast to coast musical collaboration
between friends. I sent the complete pro tools session
to my friend Joel in NYC via the internet. He added the
organ and sent it back. The song’s percussion is a
repeating arppegiated dual guitar bed.
The female vocal lead was programmed with Sampletank
in Pro Tools. Interesting chords and some background
oohs and ahs fill in the empty spots. The lyrics are about
growing up and apathetically growing old, hence the
play on words Spring to Fall.
Spring To Fall - Use play Button or Right Click here to
download
Sampletank Programming
Guests: Joel McLeod – Organ
The Plan: The first coast to coast musical collaboration
between friends. I sent the complete pro tools session
to my friend Joel in NYC via the internet. He added the
organ and sent it back. The song’s percussion is a
repeating arppegiated dual guitar bed.
The female vocal lead was programmed with Sampletank
in Pro Tools. Interesting chords and some background
oohs and ahs fill in the empty spots. The lyrics are about
growing up and apathetically growing old, hence the
play on words Spring to Fall.
Spring To Fall - Use play Button or Right Click here to
download
– Drums, Dave – Bass, Peter Carpentier – Recording
Engineer
The Plan: Chainfall is a grandiose studio creation with
an extended rockin’ solo at the end. Features killer
drumming by Cliff, amazing backing vocals by Lo
Presti and layered guitars to the hilt. The song begins
with a guitar with all the strings tuned to D flat. This
studio produced and edited piece never made it on to
my CD because I felt it didn’t rock the right way (and
though I was always proud of the lyrics I was also
embarrassed by my vocals).
Chainfall - Use Play Button or Right Click here to
download
Instruments: Drums, Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Guests: Bert – Drums, Cale Hix – Bass, Scott Gould –
Recording Engineer
The Plan: Another improv jam with a great beat and
bass line. Fun wah delay guitar and easy lyrics “my
mama she told me sometimes it’s a gonna be hard.”
It’s Gonna Be Hard - Use play Button or Right
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Guests: Bert – Drums, Cale Hix – Bass, Scott Gould –
Recording Engineer
The Plan: Another improv jam with a great beat and
bass line. Fun wah delay guitar and easy lyrics “my
mama she told me sometimes it’s a gonna be hard.”
It’s Gonna Be Hard - Use play Button or Right
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Instruments: Vocals, Banjo, Guitar, Harmonica, Sounds
of heavy machinery and radio transmissions recorded at
work, clock radio “This one goes out to Shawn, it might
be Shane but I think it’s Shawn…”
Guests: Joel McLeod – Banjo
The Plan: A song of the heartland written and recorded
with Joel in a Madison, Wisconsin hotel room in August,
2005. We were in town working at ESPN’s Great Outdoor
Games (basically lumberjack games). Joel’s beat up old
banjo, heavy machinery and radios, lonely harmonica,
lyrics of how an old farmer views a changing world.
Old Pictures of an Old Town - Use play Button or
Right Click here to download
of heavy machinery and radio transmissions recorded at
work, clock radio “This one goes out to Shawn, it might
be Shane but I think it’s Shawn…”
Guests: Joel McLeod – Banjo
The Plan: A song of the heartland written and recorded
with Joel in a Madison, Wisconsin hotel room in August,
2005. We were in town working at ESPN’s Great Outdoor
Games (basically lumberjack games). Joel’s beat up old
banjo, heavy machinery and radios, lonely harmonica,
lyrics of how an old farmer views a changing world.
Old Pictures of an Old Town - Use play Button or
Right Click here to download
Instruments: Drums, Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Guests: Bert – Drums, Cale Hix – Bass, Scott Gould –
Recording Engineer
The Plan: A funk recording project that we just
started. This live improv jam happened when Cale
aked how I got my Buscarino Guitar. This jam is totally
fun and totally funky.
My Buscarino Guitar - Use play Button or Right
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Guests: Bert – Drums, Cale Hix – Bass, Scott Gould –
Recording Engineer
The Plan: A funk recording project that we just
started. This live improv jam happened when Cale
aked how I got my Buscarino Guitar. This jam is totally
fun and totally funky.
My Buscarino Guitar - Use play Button or Right
Click here to download
Instruments: Sampled 1960’s funk beats, bass, guitar
The Plan: A fun funk creation. When I recorded I forced
myself to use the bridge bass line even though it was out
of key, hence the odd key change at a couple of points
during the song. Plenty of guitar solos with wah and
delay and lots of other juicy stuff. Astute rock ‘n rollers
will find a beat lifted from 311’s Stealing Happy Hours at
the end.
Shady Deal - Use Play Button or Right Click Here to
Download
The Plan: A fun funk creation. When I recorded I forced
myself to use the bridge bass line even though it was out
of key, hence the odd key change at a couple of points
during the song. Plenty of guitar solos with wah and
delay and lots of other juicy stuff. Astute rock ‘n rollers
will find a beat lifted from 311’s Stealing Happy Hours at
the end.
Shady Deal - Use Play Button or Right Click Here to
Download
Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Egg Shells, Bongos,
Mini Mexican Accordian
Guests: Andy Huse - Vocals
The Plan: Another song written by best friend Andy,
Smooth Sailin’ is a great number about his mom’s
sailing school. Andy arrived in San Diego for a visit
with this song in his pocket but we had too much fun
getting out and about to record it until the last night.
We got drunk while we recorded it and had a lot of
fun.
Smooth Sailin’ - Use Play Button or Right Click
Here to Download
Mini Mexican Accordian
Guests: Andy Huse - Vocals
The Plan: Another song written by best friend Andy,
Smooth Sailin’ is a great number about his mom’s
sailing school. Andy arrived in San Diego for a visit
with this song in his pocket but we had too much fun
getting out and about to record it until the last night.
We got drunk while we recorded it and had a lot of
fun.
Smooth Sailin’ - Use Play Button or Right Click
Here to Download
Instruments: Samples from 20 or so artists including Enya,
The JB’s, White Zombie, Mano Negra, Live, Last Crack, The
Lounge Lizards, Vai, Overkill.
The Plan: I sat down at the computer in the fall of 2000 and
eight hours later stood up and had this. A poppy little
number named “Birth” because that is what it felt like
moving to San Diego, breaking up with the girl I moved out
there with and starting over.
Birth - Use Play Button or Right Click Here to Download
The JB’s, White Zombie, Mano Negra, Live, Last Crack, The
Lounge Lizards, Vai, Overkill.
The Plan: I sat down at the computer in the fall of 2000 and
eight hours later stood up and had this. A poppy little
number named “Birth” because that is what it felt like
moving to San Diego, breaking up with the girl I moved out
there with and starting over.
Birth - Use Play Button or Right Click Here to Download
Instruments: Guitar, Drum Samples, Vocal Percussion
The Plan: A short mood guitar piece with plenty of
effects and some beat box drums. Recorded in
December of 2006.
Decemberence - Use Play Button or Right Click
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The Plan: A short mood guitar piece with plenty of
effects and some beat box drums. Recorded in
December of 2006.
Decemberence - Use Play Button or Right Click
Here to Download
Instruments: Guitar, Harmonica, Keyboard, Bowl of
change, crumpled tin foil struck with pencil.
The Plan: It was a cool night in San Diego in 2000.
Of course every night is cool in San Diego when you
come from Tampa Bay Florida. It is a mood piece of
a quiet evening with low lights.
Cool August Night - Use Play Button or Right
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change, crumpled tin foil struck with pencil.
The Plan: It was a cool night in San Diego in 2000.
Of course every night is cool in San Diego when you
come from Tampa Bay Florida. It is a mood piece of
a quiet evening with low lights.
Cool August Night - Use Play Button or Right
Click Here to Download
Instruments: Old funk beat samples, Guitar, Bass
The Plan: A simple piece based on one of the main
themes of the soundtrack for The Good The Bad and
the Ugly. It is a sparse musical interlude that I
eventually remixed for my dad with no drum sample.
Finding Morricone - Use Play Button or Right Click
here to Download
The Plan: A simple piece based on one of the main
themes of the soundtrack for The Good The Bad and
the Ugly. It is a sparse musical interlude that I
eventually remixed for my dad with no drum sample.
Finding Morricone - Use Play Button or Right Click
here to Download
Family Stone’s “Dance to the Music”
Guests: Andy Huse – Vocals, Jesse Salazar – Spoken
Vocals, Joel McLeod - Whistling
The Plan: Written after a debaucherous visit with Andy
and Jesse to Rosarito, Mexico. Jesse repeatedly offered
translations that people were constantly asking if I was
Shane Sanchez for whom the whole country was
seeking out for retribution of heinous crimes. Andy
retells the visit as though I were an outlaw. Jesse offers
a drunken spoken word, and Joel’s whistling offers a
western feel. The tongue in cheek performance is so fun
that it allows me to forgive this one for all its faults.
Shane Sanchez Use Play Button or Right Click
here to download
Guests: Andy Huse – Vocals, Jesse Salazar – Spoken
Vocals, Joel McLeod - Whistling
The Plan: Written after a debaucherous visit with Andy
and Jesse to Rosarito, Mexico. Jesse repeatedly offered
translations that people were constantly asking if I was
Shane Sanchez for whom the whole country was
seeking out for retribution of heinous crimes. Andy
retells the visit as though I were an outlaw. Jesse offers
a drunken spoken word, and Joel’s whistling offers a
western feel. The tongue in cheek performance is so fun
that it allows me to forgive this one for all its faults.
Shane Sanchez Use Play Button or Right Click
here to download
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