None Of The Above - It Sucks - 13 - Secret MessageLyrics
None Of The Above - It Sucks - 14 - Booger (Alternate Take)
1995 - 1996 - Dreamcastles▼
From 1995 through 96 I tried recording MUSIC music rather than just trying to be silly. There were a few good things but it was mostly just flailing in the dark trying to do something different.
Album used to be called I'm No Enya but I decided to put it back to it's original state and track order.
Mostly done with the M1 and SC-88. The original "album" also had a bunch of random old Tony / Kelly / Julie songs - they are redundant as they are on earlier albums, so I've removed them to make this into its standalone form. Also the tape ended with a 10 minute rambling piece of crap in VERY raw form from 1990 - Chuck said it sucked (and it did).
Dreamcastles - 01 - Grayhound
Originally written in 1990 by Mike, some singer dude, and myself. This version is much different, but I don't have a recording of the original anywhere.
Dreamcastles - 02 - Why'd you leave me here again
Kinda odd re-imaging of the original Tony/Kelly song. I changed it to 6/8 (for reasons?)
Dreamcastles - 03 - Music Box Clock
I like this song but have no idea why I made it play like a music box (again, for reasons?).
Dreamcastles - 04 - You'll Never Remember, I'll Never Forget
Tomatoe Potatoe song re-recorded with SC-88. I have forgotten what this is about.
Dreamcastles - 05 - Shadows Of Future Memories
Genesis "Second Home By The Sea called" and wants to talk about this one.
Dreamcastles - 06 - Anger Of Song
Phil Collins "Do You Know Do You Care" vibes
Dreamcastles - 07 - The Day I Should Have Done Anything Else
Really bizarre version of older Tony/Julie song. WTF is with that CLANK every 2 seconds. Clarinet? Really?
Dreamcastles - 08 - Love's Overbite
Kenny G's cover of Love's Bite?
Dreamcastles - 09 - The Unknown
I have no memory of writing this.
Dreamcastles - 10 - Q
For some reason I took all the piano centric songs and just layered strange sounds on them. Prime example of what not to do with a piano song.
Dreamcastles - 11 - Tasha Cat
Tasha was my first cat. I named the song Tasha Cat because we used to jokingly sing "TASHA CAT! THE KITTY CAT" along with the music.
Dreamcastles - 12 - You Really (And Still) Are The One
No Smurfing Zone song re-recorded with SC-88. Original was better.
Dreamcastles - 13 - You're Walking Backwards Yet Again
Tomatoe Potatoe song re-recorded with SC-88. Original was silly, unclear why I thought this needed to be re-recorded.
Dreamcastles - 14 - Castles Of Dreams
No Smurfing Zone song re-recorded with SC-88. Original was better, this one is just obnoxious.
1996 - Catthedd - 2005 Remixes▼
Catthedd - Tales From The Litterbox - 00 - One Chord Song
Catthedd - Tales From The Litterbox - 01 - Doughnut
Catthedd - Tales From The Litterbox - 02 - I'm Telling You To Kill Yourself I Want Your Parents To Sue Me Later
Catthedd - Tales From The Litterbox - 03 - Ode To Boyer
Catthedd - Tales From The Litterbox - 04 - Barney's On Fire
Catthedd - Tales From The Litterbox - 05 - Mountain Dew
Catthedd - Tales From The Litterbox - 06 - My Loving Cat
Catthedd - Tales From The Litterbox - 07 - Little Bits Of Blue
Catthedd - Tales From The Litterbox - 08 - He Can't Fucking Solo
Catthedd - Tales From The Litterbox - 09 - jam1
1996 - Catthedd - Tales From The Litterbox▼
Catthedd - Cassette - 01 - One Chord Song
Catthedd - Cassette - 02 - He Can't Fucking Solo
Catthedd - Cassette - 03 - Little Bits Of Blue
Catthedd - Cassette - 04 - Dontcha Wanna Fuck
Catthedd - Cassette - 05 - Mountain Dew
Catthedd - Cassette - 06 - Barney's On Fire
Catthedd - Cassette - 07 - Donut
Catthedd - Cassette - 08 - Ode To Boyer
Catthedd - Cassette - 09 - Dedbugh
Catthedd - Cassette - 10 - I May Already Be A Winner
Catthedd - Cassette - 11 - Yeah
Catthedd - Cassette - 12 - My Loving Cat
Catthedd - Cassette - 13 - Welcome To McDonalds
Catthedd - Cassette - 14 - DSC Commercial Cover
Catthedd - Cassette - 15 - Primus Sucks
Catthedd - Cassette - 16 - Party With The Dead
Catthedd - Cassette - 17 - The Big Box Song
Catthedd - Cassette - 18 - LOUD SOUND
Catthedd - Cassette - 19 - Barney's On Fire (Alt Version)
In 1996 I decided to do a Best Of. The 4-track cassettes were loaded into a very early version of Cakewalk for Windows - the first time I could actually record audio (and import audio!) - the previous cakewalk I used was midi only. Unfortunately those files were lost in a hard drive crash - what is on the CD is the only version in some cases.
Many of the songs are different than the original cassette versions. In addition to remixing the levels and EQ, I apparently sped up some of the tracks because at the time I thought it made them sound "more energetic". In some cases, I also redid vocals, as well as replacing ALL the instruments and drums with a Roland SC-88 Sound Module - because for some reason I thought it would be just a great idea to make the songs into General MIDI format. In hindsight (to me at least) the songs lose some of their personality/quirks from the original keyboards, and end up sounding generic and sterile.
I sent the resulting .wav files off to (some guy) from the internet who had a CD burner and he made 20(?) copies for me for like $200 which at the time was OMG I MADE A CD. I have one copy, DSC had one at one point (that probably got thrown into their wall of shame and smashed to bits). No idea where the rest ended up.
The cover was taken from a copy of Weekly World News that Dan had at some point. We decided it would be a great cover for an album called "Huh?" someday.
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 01 - Running With Scissors
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 02 - Doughnut
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 03 - 9-Inch Claws
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 04 - Barney's On Fire
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 05 - I May Already Be A Winner
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 06 - My Loving Cat
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 07 - Tidal Wave
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 08 - Bad Idea
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 09 - Sonic Kills Mario
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 10 - Barforama
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 11 - Bored - CNN Junkie
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 12 - I'm God
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 13 - Mondays
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 14 - Hamster In Your Hair
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 15 - One Chord Song
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 16 - Little Bits Of Blue
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 17 - Cabbage Head
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 18 - Love Is A Lie
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 19 - Happy Face
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 20 - The Nethack Song
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 21 - I Need To Be On Mars
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 22 - Killer Station Wagon
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 23 - The Happy 50's Song
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 24 - Dr. Grumpus
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 25 - Ode To Boyer
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 26 - Slime Creatures From Outer Space (added 3rd harmony)
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 26 - Slime Creatures From Outer Space (original)
None Of The Above - HUH¿ - 27 - Tickle My Elmo
1996-2019 - DSC▼
1996 - Ode To Boyer - Broadcast3
1996 - Ode to Boyer
1997 - 1053 Jingle
1997 - Rock 1053 Wake Up (Cover of someone elses jingle!)
2001 - DAAAAAVE
2001 - Do The Bromo
2001 - Ode To Boyer (Piano Version)
2001 - Ode To Boyer Redux (Piano Version)
2005 - He's A Flaming Homo Broadcast 2
2005 - He's A Flaming Homo Broadcast
2005 - He's A Flaming Homo
2005 - Jingle Contest Finish
2005 - Kimmie Jingle Broadcast
2005 - Kimmie Jingle
2005 - My Shelly Dunn Broadcast
2005 - My Shelly Dunn
2006 - 01 - Bromo Phone
2006 - 02 - KGB Idiot
2006 - 03 - The Chain (OVERLY LONG BORING VERSION)
2006 - 03 - The Chain (SHORT VERSION)
2006 - 03 - The Chain
2006 - 04 - Ride My Big Toe
2006 - 05 - Beatboxing
2006 - 06 - Dave Rickards
2006 - Bromo Phone - Broadcast
2006 - Dave Rickards Broadcast
2006 - KGB IDIOT broadcast
2006 - Ride My Big Toe Broadcast
2006 - The Chain Broadcast 1
2006 - The Chain Broadcast 2
2007 - 00 - Bolts White Boy Rap
2007 - 00a - Bolts Jingle Broadcast
2007 - 00b - Bolts White Boy Rap Broadcast
2007 - 01 - Can't Stop The Chargers
2007 - 01 - Chin Dong Time Broadcast
2007 - 02 - Chin Dong Time
2007 - 02 - Contest Announcement
2007 - 03 - (BIT) bromos_got_no_panties_on
2007 - 03 - bromos_got_no_panties_on
2007 - 03 - The Chin Dong Broadcast
2007 - 04 - (BIT) bromos_got_my_panties_on
2007 - 04 - bromos_got_my_panties_on
2007 - 04 - Short Timers Broadcast
2007 - 05 - Hey Emilito Broadcast
2007 - 05 - The Chin Dong
2007 - 06 - Contest Results
2007 - 06 - Short Timers
2007 - 07 - Hey Emilito
2007 - 07 - Who Wants Pie Broadcast
2007 - 08 - Shelly Dunn Day
2007 - 09 - Who Wants Pie
2008 - 01 - Mr Poopy Pants
2008 - 01a - Mr Poopy Pants Broadcast 1
2008 - 01b - Mr Poopy Pants Broadcast 2
2008 - 02 - Whacking Off - Broadcast
2008 - 02 - Whacking Off
2008 - 03 - Boyer is an unfunny guy - Broadcast
2008 - 03 - Boyer is an unfunny guy
2008 - 04 - Emily's Bloody Butt 1 Broadcast
2008 - 04 - Emily's Bloody Butt
2008 - 05 - Emily's Bloody Butt 2 Broadcast
2008 - 05 - He's A Homo After All
2008 - 06 - Boyer Man (acapella)
2008 - 06 - Boyer Man
2008 - 06 - He's A Homo After All Broadcast
2008 - 07 - Boyerman Broadcast
2008 - 07 - To-Jam - We Write The Jingles
2008 - 07 - We Write The Jingles Broadcast
2008 - 08 - To-Jam - God Bless The DSC
2008 - 09 - Ruth Girl (instrumental)
2008 - 09 - Ruth Girl
2008 - 10 - (BIT) Poopy Democracy
2008 - 10 - Poopy Democracy
2008 - 11 - Ruth Girl (MUSIC ONLY)
2009 - 01 - Kimmie Jingle (Ruth edited out)
2009 - 02 - Welcome Back Ruthie
2009 - 03 - Welcome Back Ruthie (alternate version, unaired)
2009 - 04 - Wrong Again, Naturally
2009 - 05 - The Dick
2009 - 06 - Tune Into It
2009 - 06 - TUNE_INTO_IT (early)
2009 - 06 - TUNE_INTO_IT (early2)
2009 - 07 - Defective (unaired - cussing)
2009 - 07 - Equipments Defective
2009 - 08 - 1-0-1-5-K-G-B
2010 - 00 - Fake Generic Test Jingle
2010 - 01 - DSC_ON_JACK
2010 - 01 - Let It DSC
2010 - 02 - KIMMIE_EDITED
2010 - 04 - Name Game
2010 - 05 - Mexican Leprechaun
2010 - 06 - Spank The Monkey
2010 - 07 - VITH
2011 - 01 - Welcome Back Shelly
2011 - 02 - Welcome Back Shelly - Alternate Ending
2011 - 03 - DSC_Ditty
2011 - 04 - Emily_got_back
2011 - 05 - JEEPS
2011 - 06 - Upper_Deckers
2011 - 07 - Little Miss Fishy Pants
2011 - 08 - Jack FM Idiot
2011 - 09 - Back In The Barrel
2011 - 10 - crackleback_girl
2011 - 11 - DSC Does Mars
2011 - 12 - Crackleback Girl
2011 - 12 - Dave Rickards (Tony Mason)
2011 - 12 - Dave Rickards (Ynot Nosam)
2011 - 13 - This Is ASNR Territory
2011 - 14 - Boyer's Ass
2011 - 15 - another_bit_bites_the_dust
2011 - Name Is Your Buzzer
2012 - 01 - emilitos_new_valentine
2012 - 03 - bitkilla
2012 - 03 - hansen
2012 - 04 - scissor_sisters_in_love
2012 - 04 - thanks_ruth
2012 - 05 - Goodbye Elaina
2013 - 01 - welcome_back_to_dsc
2013 - 02 - welcome_back_my_friend
2014 - 01 - DSC Epic
2015 - Emily Australia Munster Mash
2015 - Emily Australia Music
2018 - HALL OF FAME
2018 - It's The End of our show
2018 - Shelly's Goodbye (Now You Get The Hell Outta Here)
2019 - Not Doing Your Birthday
1997 - 2006 - Writers Block▼
There was a long period of time where I didn't write much of anything. At this point I'd moved past the 4-track recorder and was recording everything digitally onto the PC. There were some random recordings but they were all lost to a hard drive crash and are gone forever. Good thing I moved to the PC.
1997 - I'm Not Funny Anymore
I think at this time I was just plain out of ideas for "funny" songs.
2004 - Allergy Drugs
You can see the quality of the recording efforts was pretty awful.
2004 - Less Than Nothing
2004 - Nothing
Preview of the Tony Sound of the 2010's
2004 - Odd Todd Def Leppard Contest
At the time, "Odd Todd" was a famous web cartoonist making videos. At one point he held a contest to cover any Def Leppard song. I was at work and used a pair of headphones to record this. I submitted and he responded that this would have probably actually won, but he didn't want to take away from the others that put REAL effort into it. I did get a free Odd Todd mug out of it though.
Re-recording of an old song from the cassette era.
2005 - Obnoxious Blues
Just flailing around for something, anything
2005 - Wozzy
2006 - another random weird zr76 recording
2006 - random weird zr 76 recording
2007 - Jam Master Jammin Tony Mason Remix
My attempt to recreate the hard rock "remix" of Jam Master Jammin by Run DMC. My guitar interface was picking up a ridiculous amount of interference, but it was actually kind of cool and I left it in.
2009 - I'm Still Not Funny Anymore (revised maybe)
This seems to be a re-recording attempt of the first song on this page. Drum beat changed and the instruments are a bit better.
2007 - 2008 - Dearth Of Marmalade▼
When my mom passed away in Feb 2007, it messed me up nicely for a long time... which produced this happy batch of songs!
There isn't a heck of a lot to say about them, but at least I was writing again regularly.
None Of The Above - Dearth Of Marmalade - 01 - Songs That Don't ExistLyrics
The first song where I tried to actually write REAL lyrics. It's a bit all over the place, but it was a start. The song is about how I had all these goddamn songs and my mom never heard ANY of them. The people who heard it seems confused and taken aback by "lyrics?" so I didn't try again for a couple years.
None Of The Above - Dearth Of Marmalade - 02 - What Is This
I have no idea what this is.
None Of The Above - Dearth Of Marmalade - 03 - Last Night
None Of The Above - Dearth Of Marmalade - 04 - You Have Mail
None Of The Above - Dearth Of Marmalade - 05 - Garmin
Just making up titles at this point.
None Of The Above - Dearth Of Marmalade - 06 - Graydragon
None Of The Above - Dearth Of Marmalade - 07 - Anything
None Of The Above - Dearth Of Marmalade - 08 - Anything Else
Followup/continuation song to the one before this.
None Of The Above - Dearth Of Marmalade - 09 - Byebye
None Of The Above - Dearth Of Marmalade - 10 - Snow
None Of The Above - Dearth Of Marmalade - 11 - Home
This is one of the better things I ever wrote. I don't generally like my own stuff but... this one has "something".
2009 - Clever Album Title▼
The era of "I should see if I can write songs like Ben Folds". I had a lot of trouble with the whole "make up a character/story" bit. His songs sound like they are about real people. Mine sound like they are cartoon characters.
I could never find the correct solo for the ending. I tried about 5 different things, piano, strings, synth... never happy with any of them.
2009 - Clever Album Title - 03 - 97
I wanted to do a song with french horns like Comfortably Numb
2009 - Clever Album Title - 04 - Wherever
Really early instrumental kinda proggyish but not really.
2009 - Clever Album Title - 05 - Hold Music
The only thing this song is good for is hold music.
2009 - Clever Album Title - 06 - Dust
I don't really remember this one. Following my formula of "repeat the melody line over and over with different chords"
2009 - Clever Album Title - 07 - Falling
Re-recording of old Tony/Julie song that never really got completed. The original had esq-1 piano that just sounded like worse than a casio sk-1.
2009 - Clever Album Title - 08 - Full Circa
Also following my formula of "repeat the melody line over and over with different chords". This one was pretty good though. Circa was a band that happened after Yes and had some of their members in it.
2009 - Hiding Under The Covers▼
Wow that is a clever title, right? :P So from time to time I get it in my mind to cover a song I really like that I think I might be able to make a decent attempt and not completely embarass myself.
Tony Mason - Hiding Under The Covers - 01 - Colorful (Verve Pipe)
Brian Vander Ark consistently blows me away.
Tony Mason - Hiding Under The Covers - 02 - September (Green Day)
Patty called this "Not your best effort". Urk
Tony Mason - Hiding Under The Covers - 03 - Girl and Her Horse (Carbon Leaf)
I was listening to a lot of Carbon Leaf around here
Tony Mason - Hiding Under The Covers - 04 - Bittersweet (King's X)
One of my favorite bands
Tony Mason - Hiding Under The Covers - 05 - Trogdor (Strong Bad)
I recorded this for Susan's kid Duncan
Tony Mason - Hiding Under The Covers - 06 - Long Division (Death Cab For Cutie)
I was listening to a lot of Death Cab around here as well
Tony Mason - Hiding Under The Covers - 07 - Lack Of Color (Death Cab For Cutie)
See above
Tony Mason - Hiding Under The Covers - 08 - Kathy's Song (Paul Simon)
This was on a best of and I really like the vocals here. I can't play guitar so any time I attempt a song with guitar I have to replace it with piano.
Tony Mason - Hiding Under The Covers - 09 - Touriquet (Evanesence and Richard Cheese)
This is a lot older than 2009, but I don't remember exactly when it was recorded. My cover of what Richard Cheese would sound like trying to cover Evanesence. (?)
2010 - Hit It Florian▼
Florian was the name of Brad's grandfather. Somehow this because a thing for None of the Above whenever we said "HIT IT!" ...we added Florian. Who knows why.
2010 - Hit It Florian - 01 - Dearth Of Marmalade
Title is referencing a joke by Dave, mimicing Boyer from DSC as he was complaining about the lack of jelly packets at Denny's. "There was a dearth, David! A DEARTH OF MARMALADE!" I really liked how that sounded.
2010 - Hit It Florian - 02 - Chase The Sun
In my opinion, this is the best thing I ever wrote. It is about my mom, and the plane trips back and forth to Michigan as I dealt with her dying. Getting through the last verse took (not kidding) about 3 dozen takes because I broke up while trying to sing it. This was as good as it was going to get.
2010 - Hit It Florian - 03 - Melody Moves Sideways
Instrumental. The string motif was a happy accident - it was supposed to be a clavinet, but I selected the wrong patch. Wow are the strings 100x better.
2011 - Hit It Florian - 04 - Cornered
Song about having a complete mental breakdown and being thrown into a pysch ward hold for 72 hours. I do not recommend.
2011 - Hit It Florian - 05 - Left Behind
Another cover of Jose Gonzales. I really like singing his stuff, my sinigng style has a lot in common with his.
2011 - Hit It Florian - 06 - The Last Rabbit
Instrumental
2011 - 2012 - Puppies and Kittens▼
I had the lyric "Because everythis is puppies and kittens" that never went anywhere. Fun album title though.
01 - caved
Echoes of Legends of Zelda dungeon music or something?
Fry can't understand why Leela would go out with that idiot Chaz
06 - facade (dane drums)
Dane from Modern Frontier plays drums on Facade. I always loved this guy's overdrumming. Excellent!
07 - melody moves sideways (dane drums and vocals)
Dane from Modern Frontier wrote some lyrics for Melody Moves Sideways. He has as many issues as I do!
08 - not mine (elaina's)
Elaina from DSC posted a song she played piano and sang on. I liked it so remixed it. She came over with Boyer and recorded the vocals for it!
09 - comfortably numb (pink floyd)
Yeah another cover. Gawd. Stahp
10 - disconnect
Disconnect the damage done enough; embrace the blows and lonely lows. I disconnect I'm damaged stunned and numb embrace the blows and lonely lows. - Pure Reason Revolution
Not much to say here. Kind of just slogging through and had a lot of stream of conciousness writing going on where I'd record 4 bars, change it, repeat.
More Ben Folds chanelling here. Vocals are pretty good here.
02 - everybodys dead
I don't remember what inspired this, whether it was DSC, some video game, or The Walking Dead. Maybe all of the above?
03 - avoidance
Friend of mine had two boyfriends going at the same time and couldn't choose which one to stay with (in the end, it was neither). Weird long solo sections. Stupid ending.
04 - run
This and the next 5 songs all went together as one big "concept". I don't know what about though. They all follow the "just make it up every 4 bars as you go along" formula.
05 - water
Experiments with chord changes
06 - jazz odyssey
Yes the bass line for Anyone Can Rap is there.
07 - in the distance
Something is in the distance?
08 - closer yet
Something is closer yet?
2013 - 2019 - Duck▼
I didn't write a heck of a lot during this period. I spent a lot of time 2012-2014 playing in a cover band up in LA with Jorge, Deena, Kevin, Leo, Mike & various special guests (Chris!). This fell apart at the end of 2014 in quite a messy fashion, people not talking with each other anymore and all that. In 2015 I asked to sit in with Quiet Talking James's band "Redhanded" and played numerous gigs with them from 2015-2021 at "Carver's Steakhouse". It was a lot of fun. This time it just kind of fell apart because of a combination of Covid, getting too old for this shit, and having no place to play anymore other than next to a dumpster out behind Mainstream in Poway.
The title "Duck" came because I did a google search for "You Feel Dead Inside" (a nethack thing) and this is one of the images that came up. It was such a weird hit that I made it an album cover.
Duck - 01 - insomnia
Duck - 02 - 27mg
I started VERY slowly weaning off Cymbalta here as it was killing the creativity. The first step was to go from 30mg to 27.
Jorge sent me the drum track and I wrote the song around it. This is a mostly true story. One year I got a note for Christmas that my parents had ordered me an "Odyssey 2" (I really wanted an Atari, and it works better lyrically). Fast forward 6 months and my dad coming home drunk with a used Odyssey 1 video game instead which was essentially pong. Demanded I hook it up at 2am and play it right then and there. Good times. Ironically, this system is rare and valuable now, but at the time I was just utterly devastated. Eventually I bought my own fucking Atari 2600.
Duck - 04 - Caturday (W Jorge V)
Another song with Jorge kicking ass on drums. I was experimenting with VST guitar sounds here.
Duck - 05 - stop-405
On our way back from seeing a concert in LA, Chris and I got stuck in a godawful traffic jam at 1am on the 407 in LA. We got home around 4am.
Duck - 06 - file_not_found
Very weird time/beat on this.
Duck - 07 - reed_alert
Look Chris I can write something heavy and proggy oh wait no I can't.
Duck - 08 - Pink Fraud Wish You Were Animals (W Jorge V)
Just a jam with me and Jorge where I rip off Pink Floyd in many ways.
Duck - 09 - mio2
Patty: "Did you call the song MIO because you are drinking water with Mio flavoring?" Tony: "....yes"
Duck - 10 - light
Duck - 11 - surfer
A friend asked me to write a song so she could write the lyrics. After a few years I gave up and just went with it as is.
Duck - 12 - then
Rewrite of "Then Along Came You" early Tony/Kelly
Duck - 13 - futures (jose gonzales cover)
I like this song a lot but hate the ending on the original song which is just kinda noise. Tried to come up with something else.
Duck - 14 - this is weird
Ya know, it really is! WTF
Duck - 15 - ballast
Throwing off the dead weight
Duck - 16 - left behind (jose gonzales cover)
Another song of his I really like.
Duck - 17 - get in the car
Mostly stream of consciousness writing
Duck - 18 - interesting year
It amuses me now that 2019 was an "interesting year". It sucked, but 2020 was worse, 2021 was even worse and now 2022 is worse to the point that I worry that writing all these notes is moot because humanity is really intent on destroying itself. It is sad that I think that maybe it is for the best. We sure fucked things up.
2013 - Catthedd Jam Sessions▼
Sean came by to make noise and drink beer - first time we'd hung out since 1997!!
2013 - 01_old and fat
2013 - 02
2020 - Hired Sticks▼
These are some songs where I hired/asked someone else to sit in and play drums rather than my boring drum machines.
2011 - 97 (Dane Raicot)
2011 - Melody Moves Sideways (Dane Raicot)
2020 - Colorado (Fiver Drummer)
2020 - Facade (Fiver Drummer)
2020 - Run (Fiver Drummer)
2020 - Surfer (Fiver Drummer)
2020 - Recordings▼
During the first year of Covid, I didn't really write anything. I did put up a few "live" videos on facebook of me playing along with some of my older songs, with some having drums done by session drummers off fiver.com. I modified some of the songs when the lyrics were stupid and remixed/changed some instruments and solots.
facebook 01 - random noodlingVideo
testing 123
facebook 02 - homeVideo
guest drummer version
facebook 03 - 97Video
guest drummer version
facebook 04 - runVideo
guest drummer version
facebook 05 - falling asleep at a red lightVideo
aka insonmia
facebook 06 - work in progressVideo
facebook 07 - facadeVideo
guest drummer version
facebook 08 - same as yesterday aka dearth of marmaladeVideo
I suck at lyrics
facebook 09 - surferVideo
guest drummer version. Since I never had full lyrics, I just play the melody on piano here
facebook 10 - avoidanceVideo
Wow I changed the solo section to something really odd
2021 - Catthedd Jam Sessions▼
Sean and his son came by a couple times in 2021 to make noise and drink beer (ok, kid didn't get beer). The May sessions were pretty much just one continuous improv with no planning or coherence. You have been warned!
The July sessions we worked on giving some songs some actual structure and some planning (albeit very QUICK planning). I added some vocals (??) to the Drinking Beer with a Straw song for one of my Songtober 2021 efforts.
2020-05 01_wenis
2020-05 02_no_vocals
2020-05 03_chair
2020-05 04_the synth enters
2020-05 05_off the rails
2020-05 06_cat_blanket
2020-05 07_a lot of noise and rhodes
2020-05 08_testicle
2020-05 09_ballad
2020-05 10_piss
2020-05 11_pepsi
2020-05 12_slow agonizing death
2020-05 13_video_essay
2020-05 14_abc
2020-07 - 01 welcome_to_amerika
2020-07 - 02 drinking_my_beer_with_a_straw
2021 - Recordings▼
I didn't do much in 2021. A couple Catthedd jam sessions led to some noise (posted on the previous page in it's own section).
2021 - Bertie
Trying to sound like a song that might fit on Tuca and Bertie
2021 - Music Box Clock redo kinda
Old song retooled with less instruments
2021 - Soundfont Experiment
Screwing around with the soundfonts from Undertale
2021 - Songtober▼
In October 2021 I tried the "record something every day" challenge. Results were mixed, some cool stuff, some crap, and some WTF. I recorded a few old songs that had been laying around in my head unrecorded, or re-recorded them in some fashion. Did a couple covers. A lot of improv/just hit record and see where it goes.
10_01_21 Snowy Undertail
Piano Improv
10_02_21 Some looped BS
Loop Stacking/Ambient
10_03_21 Porn from the 5th dimension
Synth Funk Weirdness
10_05_21 oingo boingo song
Old synth song ala Oingo Bongo
10_06_21 March Of The Objects In The Rear View Mirror
Orchestral Arrangement Improv
10_07_21 Stairway to ... Somewhere
VERY Weird Cover
10_08_21 chirp
8-bit Chiptune
10_09_21 damn these shrooms are a trip
Ambient Improv (on shrooms)
10_10_21 Some old song from a long time ago
Old song Piano
10_11_21 Still
Electric Piano Improv
10_12_21 Tony at age 8
Ambient Chordness
10_13_21 Monopoly Improv Beeps and Boops in 3 4 5
Electronic
10_14_21 5 of 7 would listen again
Mellow Groove
10_15_21 please hold
Sounds like Hold Music
10_16_21 Travel Through Time With My Family
Old song ala TMBG
10_17_21 Don_t Tell Me Goodbye
Old Piano Song
10_18_21 wander
Ambient Improv
10_19_21 When you run out of ideas
Ambient/Electronic Improv Groove
10_20_20 tomorrow tomorrow (Elliott Smith Cover)
Straight Up Cover
10_22_21 Catthedd - Grasping At Straws
Cannot Categorize This
10_23_21 Phonin_ It In
Wurlitzer Funky Jam
10_24_21 I AM AN X-WING FIGHTER
Electronic (?) Loop
10_25_21 rain
Experimental Ambient
10_26_21 woop
Weird Synth Groove
10_27_21 another old song on piano
Piano
10_28_21 downwyrd
Dark Ambient Piano/Strings
10_29_21 one crack please
Bitcrush Noise Groove Thing
10_30_21 sunlit
Old Song Idea Piano/Guitar/Drums
10_31_21 Goodbye (Bo Burnham Cover)
Cover with some interesting alterations
2022 - Songtober▼
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2023-2025 - Just stuff▼
01 - there was an attempt
02 - to blow the dust off
03 - which failed miserably
04 - scattering everything
05 - to the four winds BUT
06 - it revealed the hidden secret underneath
07 - a simple beauty that had been there all along