Week 37: The Little Side of Your Little Eyes

Here’s the text from an idea I mentioned in last week’s post. I’m posting it in my continued efforts to share work in progress, and since I didn’t have any new recorded stuff this week, here’s this. This text, however, doesn’t immediately connect (in my mind) with the Stayed and Gone theme that has [...]

Week 36: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 4

Also included NAPquisite Corpse 1.0

In a recent post DD was talking about the difficulties he was having finding a vision before starting to work on his movie. I often wish things were that simple for me – get a vision, bring it forth. For me it’s a substantially more tortuous process. I get [...]

Week 33: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 3

I continue to work on sketches and various attempts at music, while at the same time trying to come to terms with how much I like Burt Bacharach and Gerry Rafferty. Cause, what else am I to do?

Double Sunglasses Sunday*This is an arranged version. Where’s my captain’s hat?

Double Sunglasses Sunday (solo)*This is [...]

Week 32: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 2

Ok, here it goes. At the bottom of this blurb are sketches of two songs. I picked these two because they both stem from the same conceptual and harmonic root, though the second one has diverted from it quite a bit at this point. I think both songs also cover some of the range [...]

Week 31: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 1

I am trying something new. It makes me a little nervous, but what the hell, I’ve done way stupider stuff that makes me nervous too. What I’m going to do is to start using this forum to present and hopefully discuss work in progress. After 30 weeks of writing mostly about music, and getting [...]