In the month of February in 2006 in New York, I joined friends Tim and Dan (aka Disasterock) a handful of times for epic jam sessions into the late hours (until the neighbors would knock on the door and complain). I vividly remember lots of snow, Pizza, and it being frigid in Dan’s house, having to play guitar for about an hour to get the cold out of my fingers. Nonetheless as a collective experience it’s one of the best I’ve had, not to mention musically.
This jam came out of a session a week earlier and we played it a couple of times afterwards incorporating new ideas and refining it. Still, it’s a jam. We originally called it “Can I Still Rock While I Get My B.A.”. This version is lovingly called, “Can I Still Rock and Hang with the Bachelor’s Associates”.
At this point I’d only been playing guitar a few years, and writing even fewer. Pretty much everything I’m playing is by ear and memory of positions.
Nonetheless, I think this is a cool little number that has some potential. Kind’ve has a Tortoise/Slint/Assorted Post-Rock vibe to it.
MP3: Can I Still Rock and Hang With the Bachelor’s Associates
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With the exception of the notes, this track is almost entirely controlled by a single pass of pitchbend data. Each time you bounce the song, it sounds different. So I bounced it a couple times and mixed them together!
MP3: HMHS Britannic
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30 Songs in 30 Days has taken a back seat to other priorities, but here are a few little ditties that I’ve put together over the last couple of days.
MP3: Backroads
This is a little fingerpicked acoustic guitar number I was messing around with; would go lovely with some vocals one day.
MP3: This Call is Important to You
This is an experiment in creating a new series of sonic limitations. There will be more of this in the future. I created a new drum kit for this track, and I ran the final product through my cassette player to give it an older, warmer sound.
MP3: Saints Hospital
This is a similar experiment as the previous, except focusing more on FM instrumentation. I whipped up a couple new FM patches for this.
Another one coming shortly!
This is a bit of a follow-up to the idea from the third piece for 30s30d, “The Battle of Vyazma” … more focus on ostinati-like guitar riffs and athletic drumming.. I could potentially see this idea melding with the prior one or acting on its own as a followup/sister piece.
MP3: The Battle of Varna
So today I decided to do something a little different. Or perhaps really different. I decided to rummage through my library and find some unusual things, put them together, and see what happens. What you have are monkey balls, paint cans, an organ sampled through an SNES, some big percussion, bells … I think that’s it.
On November 9th some 30 years ago there was a false nuclear alarm. People thought the Soviets were about to bomb us, but they didn’t.
MP3: Nuclear False Alarm
