I wanted to write a song about Fez going into the hospital – but it’s hard because he doesn’t really like music. I kept thinking about a song I wrote a while back and that seemed to express what I was thinking. [audio: http://radioghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/TourniquetsFez.mp3] Quicktime or Download Tourniquets & Windmills: Oh I never said this …
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My friend John Herman is putting together a festival of steampunk plays. He solicited songs to go along with the plays and thus I got to write a song for Leslie Poston’s play (adapted by Leslie and E. Christopher Clark) “The Smokers”. “The Smokers” takes place in a kind of 1984-like world where smoking is …
It was as though Earl himself was at the cloudy helm of Hurricane Earl. Take a look at Earl’s book…really nice. I miss him on R&F. This song was mastered, retracked, re-arranged and juggled about by the super musical, super talented John Presley. [audio: http://radioghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Hurricane-Earl-Douglas.mp3] Quicktime or Download Hurricane Earl Douglas Has blown out all …
I wrote “The Concession Song” a few days ago, but after hearing Ron talk about his recent appendectomy experience, I started singing the Concession song with new hospital/appendix related lyrics. [audio: http://radioghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AppendixSong.mp3] Quicktime or Download Lyrics: Well it’s appendix time, oh my goodness appendix time We’ve got morphine and catheters and crazy things I can’t …
I don’t know how to make money doing voice work or writing songs, but I’m pretty good at fulfilling the pro bono gigs. Which is not a complaint. All things being equal (and aren’t they anyway?), I’d rather do things like this, if I can. So I got an email from a guy from the …
So apparently it’s some kind of shuttle tradition that the astronauts wake up with a special song. Usually it’s something soaring like U2’s Beautiful Day, but for the last shuttle mission ever NASA is sponsoring a song contest for shoe draggers like me. Thanks to @Eastsidelama for twittering about it! The NASA people will pick …
The last cover song request I got was from Blowhard a couple years back. He wanted me to do a version of Donovan’s “Atlantis”, which is pretty much impossible for me. It’s just too complicated and Donovany. But @hackcomic on Twitter tonight asked me to sing this old spiritual song, “Down in the Valley”. To …
I’ve been listening to R&F here and there when I can and doing music here and there and finally those heres and theres came together a little bit. I’ve also been walking around for the last few weeks with this sort of churchy chorus that goes “now a man ain’t nothing but an old day …
It’s hard to believe but Ronnie Two Shoes has invented the best cupcake the world has ever known. “The Ron Bennington” cupcake is a chocolate and peanut butter man-on the street spectacular and was chosen as the winner of the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars! Congratulation’s to the fine people at Molly’s Cupcakes! Ron wanted a …
Part 2 of the Secret Music of Yesteryear! I started messing around with a 4 track when I was 19 or so (a Yamaha MT1X). I probably used it for 10 years and even though I’m pretty useless with mechanical/electrical/real items, I got to where I could fix it when it broke – replace the …
