Strutter....Yes from the band KISS.......

Ok it was over a year ago and I actually really like this song. This is done on my Boss800 recorder. You can probably pick up the kids in the background. I had a lot of fun on this one.. just click and paste..
http://s21.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NNGPXYMXYHSJ21J31F5D4E31F

I need new music!!!!!!!!!

I am posting this because I am having a breakdown. I need to listen to new music but can't find anything out there I like. So if anybody has any suggestions please feel free. Look at what I listen to now under my profile and you can see what I like. Lately I have been listening to Wilco because I've seen Pete likes them and The Mosquitos. Please give me some more......

How Stuff Works...

I ran into this website a while ago and I actually sent it to Mikey. Its a website called How Stuff Works. You can find out anything and everything if you have nothing better to do. For example: if you want to find out how Music Royalties work, no problem. Gamma rays, no problem. This Blog site.....problem. Prison reform, Pete...no problem. My kids....problem
Anyway its a really interesting site, and please check it out. If you have others please tell me....
http://www.howstuffworks.com/index.htm

Recording Problem..and Gibson J185 problem

Ok, I know Im no engineer, but I have my Lexicon compressor/effects unit and I can't figure a way to go from my mic to it. It doesn't have the same input that I need. Do I go from recorder to compressor to recorder and use the recorder as a pre-amp?
I know what you will say "Get the Ableton and you wont have these problems". I think I will go to the music store and get something but what I will get I don't know.
2nd, When I play my Gibson J185 I can't hear the high notes when I play it. Not only while I play but when I record you can't hear it. I use the compressor/equalizer that's built in to the Boss1600 but I don't think I should need to. Is there an adjustment to it?

My Song......

Ok here is the first cut of a 15 minute song/story I have been toying with for a long time.
The jist of it is... About a man, a stuborn man who feels and who is losing touch with his family. He is so caught up in work and trying to get out of his head he doesnt realize what is going on. His wife, Mary tries to get thru. His boys, Nathen and Billy try, but can't.
The opening song is the man walking down the beach going thru memories of his life with his family. Hearing thier cries for attention. I need to add a few vocals but it lets your imagination travel.
The song is further up the story. Its about the man caught up in drugs and work. He feels noone understands him. I used only 1 chord for him to show his narrowmindedness.
The wife is gentle and is trying to get thru by talking to him, he doesnt listen.
The boys are trying to get tru also. Then finally, like all relationships it comes to a head where the wife and the boys leave. Leaving the man alone and scared.
Finally he wakes up and realizes it was a dream and wants to make right (for now).
I used different chord changes to show the different charactors well anyway just click and listen. I have a lot to do with the song. I tried different effects with vocals and they need work....michael :) P.S I have no idea why the file says what it is but its the song...
http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2404O2964GHJ73SK8AD9Z5UZ50

Simple Twist of Fate

I dung this one out from my old Boss800. I love playing Dylan and singing it. For some reason I can sing Dylan and play at the same time. So here it is, I have 2 different vocals going bouncing to and fro... Also did 2 different leads on this. After a while its not bad to listen to. I will be on vacation next week and will be recording some originals.http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2JNTICH9XDLVC3BEG2B7RJHZG9

"GREYHOUND GIRL"

This is a quick Greyhound Girl. I decided to add drums and use my new GRETSCH. I love the sound of it. I used my Gibson J185 and a little bass and thats it click and paste and dont laugh at the vocals my kids were crazy, but who cares let them have fun.....
http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2CGG44KBM8B5O1M9PB5RATEQIX

Feeling like Im losing touch?

For the first time ever I feel like I'm losing touch with the boys. There have been a lot of changes at work (for the better, I hope), and I have been wrapped up in it. It has been consuming my head and I feel I need to get out of my head lately. Not by using drugs but just closing myself up and not talking or getting involved with anybody close to me. I get that way sometimes, just shutting everything out. Its not fair to them because they don't understand just like I didn't when I was young. So, today I wil stop thinking and worrying. Just have fun and make their childhood memories pleasant as possible. I will start getting them involved in my recording instaed of shutting the door and yelling if they run in. At least when we listen to the songs they can hear themselves and that will make for good memories, for all of us. I am not going to be like my biological dad. Again, I am not going to be like my biological dad.
So, next post will be my recording of "Greyhound Girl", which I use my new GRETCH, and if you hear the kids running around, oh well........

"BABA MARTINEZ"

Just a little recording I did months ago. I was just listening to it. I thought it was calming to me after listening to it for a few minutes. It reminds me of a early 70's band that did a song named "POPPY" I cant remember the name. Copy and Paste http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=28YQ77IZ82RQQ2G2DWINWK425B

Imagine fear of music???

Imagine living in a country where you have to listen to what little music you can get your hands on with headphones or from underneath a blanket in the dark. With fear of getting caught and sent to a jail or worse. I know some can’t imagine that, like my kids for instance. I still can’t imagine we do live in a world where it happens. Banned from listening to Bach, Mozart, Strauss, The WHO, Neil Young or Bob Dylan???
We do though. What kind of childhood did these dictators have? Were they too neglected of music and punished for listening to it. I always wondered what these tyrant’s childhoods were like. Were they as nice and fragile as my boys? What were they like at 3 years old? We probably couldn’t imagine them being dictators and murderers, could we?
As I give my 534 album collection to my son, I wonder if he will cherish every note and verse as I did? I will sit with him on a long Sunday and go thru them and elaborate why at 6 years old I fell in love with Tina Turner on “TOMMY”. Or how I listened to “YESSONGS” for one month straight, and why “HARVEST” is one of my favorites.
I can see it now “Daddy, Paul isn’t dead” or “I want to play sloppy drums like that guy”. I always am grateful to live in a country where I can sit down to listen and teach my children music. It just makes me sad to know that there is a father somewhere else that can’t because of fear of being taken away from his family forever

Gary from California....Soooooo lucky

Well Gary Stockton from California is out there in England going to the Basement show. He is so lucky to be out there. Sometimes you wish you did something just to say "I was there when...". Well Gary gets to do that, Im sure something great will happen that he will be able to say it. The show will be Great!!!
I have the room all set up with surround sound so me and the boys will be rockin..
Hey Gary just yell out "HEY Z-MAN!!!!!"