song

most of the time by bob dylan

i should make note that this is based on the alternate take for "oh mercy" found on the 2008 bootleg series album

three covers. one was recorded last week, the other two in june lever pulled by john frusciante wallow by luke doucet true love will find you in the end by daniel johnston (as covered by matthew good)

lovestain by jose gonzalez

here is a song, "reaching the peak" composed by darnell stewart and myself in early december 2007 and recorded on december 5th, 2007. i thought i had previously posted it, but i guess i haven't. it was to be used as the soundtrack to a snowboarding slideshow that a friend of mine was doing. electric lead guitar - darnell acoustic, bass, mixing - me

here is the march 22 08 set in zip format and setlist 1 opiated (tragically hip) 2 counting down the hours (ted leo & the pharmacists) 3 lotus (rem) 4 strange love (depeche mode) 5 sunny (morrissey) 6 going to california (led zeppelin) 7 crosses (jose gonzalez) 8 two step end - into - typical situation (dave matthews) 9 smith (brian danchilla) 10 emily, please (luke doucet) 11 so real (jeff buckley) 12 why must i plead? (richard thompson) 13 rocky world (daniel lanois)

here is an acoustic set that was all recorded last night. except for two songs (that make use of the same vocal equalization effect), everything is raw and basic - no amps, no reverbed vocals, which is what i wanted this time. songs flow well into each other - the good and the bad. there are 15 tracks, 4 have been recorded before - 'strange love', 'why must i plead', 'behind blue eyes' and my own song 'smith' (previously titled 'smith & reflections'). but the other 11 songs are new!

well, over the weekend i spent $200 and bought a midi keyboard interface - the behringer UMX61. here is literally one of my first experimentations with it...the possibilities of sounds are fairly limitless as it comes with 50 high quality virtual instruments each with many, many settings (as well as hundreds of downloadable instruments (pirated or not). the UMX61 works with all the major recording software - neundo, cubase, ableton, etc. knowing the concepts of midi but not the many steps in setting it up with this software was tricky...and i'm sure it will take sometime to get used to...my keyboard skills will improve too, as right now i know basic chords.

wrote and recorded four new songs yesterday. they are called (in order of creation):

• destruction
• cleanse the slate
• falling away
• searching

they are my first new songs of 2008 and located on my "album" page. the guitar kept fairly simple (all songs make use of a capo at different fret positions) and except for "destruction" (which has a lead guitar on a second take) where done in one take...so some improvisation, but they all came out fairly strong, by my humble standards.

another ryan adams song. this time cannonball days jeff buckley's version of the leonard cohen song hallelujah two of my finer performances