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 …
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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 …
Old Music, Part 1 I wanted to put some music at the end of the The Unreliable News video, and I had just stumbled on a folder of old songs, so I put one in, kind of at random (Noonday Sun, which is the first song below). A couple people have asked about this older …
I guess I never put this up…but here’s the Special Delivery song for Sam & Dave: [audio: http://radioghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SpecialDeliveryFinal.mp3] Quicktime or Download Here’s the Special Delivery website.
Chapter 4 of Kittery Embers will be posted tonight or tomorrow (I just have to finish up the second song). In the meantime, here’s “Butterfly with a Bloodshot Eye”, one of the new songs for Chapter 4: [audio: http://radioghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ButterflyBloodshot.mp3] Quicktime or Download Lyrics: I take your heart, it’s a butterfly Too fragile for the wind …
Sam is now our new ambient artist in residence. He’s been asking me to bring my “piano” downstairs so last week I hooked up my little midi keyboard and Sam’s being really digging it. Today, while I was washing dishes, I heard him settle on this one sound and a little simple pattern of two …
Sam and I hike up Welch Mountain every week or so during the summer. It’s just a couple miles down the road to the trailhead. We have lunch and sit on the ledge. Every time we go, Sam walks a bit more of it himself and then when I get him in the backpack he …
