I have a playlist on Soundcloud of my own original rock music and I’d love for you to check it out, preferably on some good speakers, up loud. I’m really proud of this, and would love to hear what you think.
If you have “I like music” in your profile, you must listen. It’s the law!! 🫶
I used to work with this cool lady and she would always take an interest in my songwriting. Every Monday, she’d ask how the weekend jam sessions went and if I’d recorded anything new. The weird thing was, anytime I had something uploaded for her to listen to, she’d listen to it through, and then tell me that it’s “not her kind of music” which is fair enough, but it always bemused me that she would take such an interest if she didn’t like what I was making.
One day, I decided to write her a song that she’d enjoy.
Spotify and Apple Music were playing at work all the time, so I knew what sort of songs she was into. Classic Rock. Australian Pub Rock in particular. She was a single mum in her 50’s, a strong, hard woman, an Aussie battler.
I wrote Proud Woman in a weekend, and recorded it at home on borrowed equipment. A mate I regularly jammed with did the vocals for me and when it was done, I uploaded it to my SoundCloud and gave her the link when I got to work.
She liked it.
The experience taught me the value of an audience of one. Even though the recording is rough, the focus on writing a song for one person with the aim that they - that person in particular - enjoys it, I think gave me a different perspective than when I was either writing purely for my own enjoyment, or simply going with some random song idea.
Nothing's Shocking, the first album by Jane's Addiction, is 35 years old. I saw the video for "Mountain Song" on 120 Minutes and bought the album on cassette the next day.
Between this album and Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails (1989) I wore both cassettes out. I listened to Nothing's Shocking pretty much every day until Pretty Hate Machine came out, and then I listened to that one everyday. Side note: I spent my 39th birthday in 8th row at the NINJA tour featuring both bands after seeing them at the first Lollapalooza in 1991.
I feel old. 2) I feel like both albums hold up.
Happy 35th Nothing's Shocking. You're still brilliant.
DarKou : La chanteuse de Lacuna Coil ! Normalement tu devrais reconnaitre le skull sur son pull. Ça me parle mais j'arrive pas à retrouver d'ou ça sort...
Brunus : Aller sans regarder la tof je parie sur le logo du Gratefull Dead ! [plein d'amour et d'espoir pour la nouvelle génération de rockeuses, qui sans doute honore les anciens !]
After the Pulp video, and Yard Act, I was trying to think of another semi-recent band that made use of sprechgesang, and Cake came to mind.
Cake never really got any respect from critics - they were always slotted in as the "smirking, wise-ass college band". But, I mean, you could kind of say that about Yard Act, too...and Pulp.
Not to say Cake is as good as those bands, but I do enjoy their "shtick".
Great plan #Dgar. Release your new track on the same day that Taylor Swift drops her new album. Brilliant. Oh, and The Wiggles dropped an album too? Great. That’s just great.
Rolling Stone: 250 greatest guitar players of all time (not including classical). Some infuriates me, some informs me, some of it pleasures me, some of it bugs me. The latter--they left out Buck Dharma (Donald Roeser) of BOC. I was glad to see them include James Williamson of Iggy & the Stooges fame, Ron Asheton of the Stooges, Greg Sage, whom I shared a stage with, Steve Jones, Zappa, Fahey, Lou Reed--but they left out Sterling Morrison...and they left out Buckethead. #rock
I'm a #software#engineer living in #Saskatchewan, #Canada, the middle of the prairies. I've worked in countless domains, but find #python generally useful for many of them, and have been using it for nearly 30 years.
I'm a #HouseRabbit enthusiast and have had them for more than 20 years.
Ha fourberie ! Quand t'arrives à la piscine pour la session monopalme de la mi-journée du vendredi et que dans le bassin intérieur y'a aquagym en musique et que... c'est https://youtu.be/j0YXfeNxJJ0 ! 🤩
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J'ai nagé 1h30 avec ce morceau en tête ! Comment tu veux faire tes séries sérieusement ! 😂
En partant j'ai félicité la collègue MNS qui encadrait l'aquagym !
🤘 😎 🤙
Out on the road today
I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
As I was pulling into the QT for an iced tea tonight, a late-model, white Cadillac hearse was driving away. On the back window, a large, round #GratefulDead sticker inside a circle of fancy-font text:
Dead
Sled
Damn! Too late for a picture. In-state plates; I'll be ready next time.
I was listening to my own music last night, which is not unusual, I listen to my own music quite a bit. I like it. But as I listened to it last night, I began to view it for the first time as a body of work. I’m not sure what it was before that moment, but as I played through the almost-hour long collection of my original songs, I was struck with the feeling that this is… a thing, a representation of something, I’m not sure what. I’m usually good with words, but I’m finding it difficult to describe the shift I felt. I know I must continue to add to this body of work, and that the work must stay true to itself. Music for the sake of music, and tunes that I personally enjoy listening to over and over again. I’m not sure if it was because I’d just binged on Ween, or maybe had too much sugar, but it was like an epiphany, and The Dgar Project has taken a new seat in my own consciousness. I am a songwriter, and this year, I’m writing songs.
Here’s the link if you’d like to open up the #Dgar for yourself and see what’s inside.
Affiche de 'La tournée du siècle", soit pour mon bureau soit pour la chambre de KiD.
Pour celleux qui se demandent, à Pau nous avons eu droit, dans l'ordre de passage et pour 45 min par groupe :
Not Scientists - Dirty Fonzy - Les Sheriff - Tagada Jones
Darcy étant absent sur cette soirée mémorable !
Je n'ai pas pris de photos, je n'avais pas mon smartphone et peu de gens les sortaient et c'était très bien comme ça ! S'pas le public mainstream quoi ! 😜
🎉 MEME MONDAY! 02/05/24 🎉
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