The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
First done by Dock Boggs back in the 20s, it's a great piece of melancholy parafunalia. Eerie to think it's a suicide note and reassuring to know he was still a tough old bird 40 years later.
Wrote this one yesterday. If your reading this in a weeks time, eight days ago. I know the long notes wobble a bit. But need a little more confidence to give it stick.
First done by Dock Boggs back in the 20s, it's a great piece of melancholy parafunalia. Eerie to think it's a suicide note and reassuring to know he was still a tough old bird 40 years later.
Several years ago I had a short lived duo with an oboe and English horn player named Nat. This is a demo from that period. It's an old old chord progression of mine that never really had a melody and Nat improvised this melody in the studio to…
Another wacky production from the stretchy, bouncy, and elastic world of Rubber. Special thanks to Mark (Launched) for writing this one for us.
We had a whole bunch of fun with this song and you will too.
Enjoy!
Flies in my lunchbox
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For some weird reason Ernie's been sneaking around as of late. He gets home stinking of rancid pork. Burt's suspicions are growing, but he's still in denial about the whole thing. This same sort of thing went down a few years ago before Baby Green Ernie was born. Burt reminds himself that this phase will pass.
Another wacky production from the stretchy, bouncy, and elastic world of Rubber. Special thanks to Mark (Launched) for writing this one for us.
We had a whole bunch of fun with this song and you will too.
Enjoy!
Flies in my lunchbox
(Help…
CROSS-OVER POLYRHYTHMS
This is actually a type of enharmonic polymeter, where 2 rhythms with **different meters** (i.e., a different numbers of beats/measure) are played at the **same tempo**: the measures do not line up each time. These rhythms…
Another wacky production from the stretchy, bouncy, and elastic world of Rubber. Special thanks to Mark (Launched) for writing this one for us.
We had a whole bunch of fun with this song and you will too.
Enjoy!
Flies in my lunchbox
(Help…
Another wacky production from the stretchy, bouncy, and elastic world of Rubber. Special thanks to Mark (Launched) for writing this one for us.
We had a whole bunch of fun with this song and you will too.
Enjoy!
Flies in my lunchbox
(Help…
Recent Comments
Excellent slide guitar work, great vocals.
Tremendous lead guitar there Doug. Super vocals Greg, great track all round.
Aaye likes this one all the way down to the bottom of my arrrgyle socks!
Well done! Tight and pro - but I don't get the lyrics... what's wrong with me???
Awesome bass and really cool stereophonic uke hook. Your onion brought some tears to my eyes... and definately kept mine moving!
Ouch! My neck is a bit sore from aggressively nodding my head to the beat!Good one!
Just ducky Mr. Gumbo. I love it!!
you have a very unique voice, kind of reminds me of andy partridge of XTC
Sounds good Bri
My sort of music. Great.
From the samples I've been listening too, DB was a monster banjo picker, among other things.
Neat-o!
Proper job
For some weird reason Ernie's been sneaking around as of late. He gets home stinking of rancid pork. Burt's suspicions are growing, but he's still in denial about the whole thing. This same sort of thing went down a few years ago before Baby Green Ernie was born. Burt reminds himself that this phase will pass.
Back for another listen. This is just twisted, but I like it!
Very cool groove! Nice work!
Great catchy tune gents! A real toe tapper
How touching! Beautiful stuff!
Yeah, I love this track - it has really grown on me! It's so quirky and smart. I love the backing vox and the crunchy guitar riff especially.
I just love the break at 1:50 in this one.