Had a guitar lesson today. Jammed on some chords. The chords happen to be the same as (or similar to) those in Jimi Hendrix's Hey Joe. We just chose them randomly as a basis for experimentation with different voicings. Anyway, got home and…

This is another old melody. I dusted it off, gave it some clean clothes, and sent it off into the world.

Slack key guitar and baritone ukulele. Hula version. Pauoa Liko Ka Lehua is about the beautiful flowers (Lehua) of Pauoa. The double entendre (kaona or hidden meaning) involves a girl with swaying hips.:)

Instrumental song from my RPM album "Inside Words". Album inspired by old comic books.

parisian hand bags.

My plan for the 2009 RPM Challenge was to get up a couple of hours early every day and take care of business before the business day started. I didn't want to take any time away from the family so that was my only option. This song is from the…

This was supposed to be a 3+ minute fade out to end the album, but I was too lazy to do it so I just let it play. The rhythm guitar is my original scratch track, note the screw up in the last verse. in the quiet of pre dawn I sit secluded all…

I had more or less run out of ideas so I tried noodling in drop D tuning and this is the result. I almost like this. Not quite though. The lyrics are nonsense. over flow and over blown no resistance shown over rated over head come to me…

Beginning to run low on ideas. I went back to my standard add-a-minor-seventh-to-every-chord gimmick. As for the lyrics, I wrote them on NHL trade deadline day and couldn't believe my Bruins traded for Mark Recchi. One month later it's looking…