Thanks for the kind remarks, Dave! I decided to check out this album first because I love the title. I'll let you know what I think in about 63 minutes!
(Lyrics posted below) A fun song I wrote with Kenneth from songcrafters.org. Its about having fun making music with friends from all over the world, connected by the internet and these great music sites that we all belong to.
I came in from…
Lyrics/Vocals - OldRottenHead (over at Soundcrafters.org). Music - Dave Berry. Recorded on Boss BR-1200, Epi Sheraton, Bass, Synth. Drums are played by me on my new Roland HD-1 (I have had it two weeks, timing is a little shaky, bloody hard this…
I'm gonna have to set aside some time to listen to this entire Lobster Man album. What have I been missing?
Love the lead break on this one - right in yer face.
Good version. I've heard so many covers of this, my favorite one is by New Riders of the Purple Sage. An old country classic originally done by Lefty Frizell but written by someone else.
A frightening thing, to go from being a man to becoming a Lobster-man.
Now Gather around me hearties
For I've got a sad tale to be told
Hoist the colors ye bilge rats
The call rang out, we were off for gold
Grog in our bellies, horn-pipes…
If you'd described this to me I'd have said it'll never work...
... but it does!
It's one of my least favourite Beatles songs (and I'm a big Beatles fan), this has made me reconsider it as a song in itself. Nice one.
I'm trying to bring him round.. but it don't look good.... his gone a funny grey blueey sort colour...... but if i remember right..... he looked that way when he came down the cellar in first place...........Elvis just lays beside him going ummm...ummum... and dribbling it must have been one hell of a night after i left....
This is another of my miniatures, kind of 'baroque' style. It's from 1998, and I consider it my best guitar composition. Not a good interpretation here, but it took me a lot to play it this way after all these years. I hope you like and/or enjoy…
Well, this is a single minute of music around this wonderfull 'Angel Eyes' song. I hope you like and/or enjoy this miniature. Have a great 2011 alonetoners!
Beautiful, this the deal. European folk and classical, what a great mix. Sounds like the kind of stuff Bert Jansch & John Renbourn used to get op to. I am now officially a fan of your guitar playing.
Very very good. This is very original sounding. You have a very nice touch on that nylon string. I hear classical, latin/spanish flavour, blues even, its all here in this wonderful track.
Blues funk soul baby. I love this one Regs...s...s...s...s...s...s...Junk man baby, junk man!!! who hoo. I don't even know how to get this loose, I need to try someday.
This is as real as it gets. Thats a song. I really like your sounds guys. Comparing my sound to The Band, and my electric guitar playing to Neil Young, well thats about as high a compliment as there is in my books, so thank you, two of my biggest heros there for sure. So a big thanks from Atlantic Canada (Saint John, NB) back at you.
A new song that I've been working on, still yet to be titled, but heres a live recording as part of the Winter Bridge Sessions (video to accompany on youtube).
It was recorded on a bridge at night in the winter ... aka Winter Bridge Sessions…
I didn't like the 1st version so i changed it so here it is. imagine Sitting in the forest listening to the breeze being free and wanting to follow it..........................
yeah, the forest is more than a place, it is a state of being, a feeling inside as you walk along the dirty city streets. Thats the way this feels, the electronic instruments and even the vocal place me in the dirty mean streets of the big city, the feel and melody and vibe of the song places my soul in the forest, deep, where the filth and choas cant reach me. I may be driving my car, but in my mind I am deep in the forest. And those little creatures talking to me, always chattering away in my brain, thats the feeling this song gives me.
absolutely, totally, completely love this song Tharek. This is the treatment that this song needed, it sounds so frigging good this way, unbelievable brother. That Geir is some kind of guitar god.
My first attempt at a Blumlein or Mid/Side recording. This one is actually a mid/side recording as I used a directional mic in combo with a figure 8 ribbon mic set at 90 degrees from the main mic. Thanks to Pat Broaders for the loan of the ribbon…
Holy wow that is an intense acoustic sound. I woul dsay perfect recording, very good job, and what a composition, there is so much air in this piece, and light and even dare I say it, joy. Wonderful song.
There is that deep Reg soul...deadly style here. This is deeply recorded, deeply grooving, deeply felt by all who dare click the dark brown triangle...why?...why not...
"High Life" is a musical genre that originated in Ghana in the 1900s and spread to Sierra Leone, Nigeria and other West African countries by 1920. My friends from that part of the world consider this be the "go-to" rhythm for just about anything…
Thanks Norm, I posted the lyrics. Now then on to this great groove, Yeah baby thats really moving isn't it. Is this one track or a few tracks overdubbed together? I am moving every part of my body to this groove.
I'm getting sick of the same old chords.
LYRICS:
I'm retarded
I'm a stooge
I can keep myself amused
Have a hand in
my abuse
Set a spark and light the fuse
I'm retarded
I am rude
I am average
I'm obtuse
We don't use that word…
I'm getting sick of the same old chords.
LYRICS:
I'm retarded
I'm a stooge
I can keep myself amused
Have a hand in
my abuse
Set a spark and light the fuse
I'm retarded
I am rude
I am average
I'm obtuse
We don't use that word…
Comments on Dave Berry's stuff
Love this Dave sweet as a nut and brill playing ,, Dunny
I think you did a great cover of this song. I am a Neil Young fan also! :-)
One of your best vocals to date Dave. Nice work, and fine guitfiddle work.
Sweet tone and cool mix...thanks on talking blues
I like the 'Dave's touch'..! Very nice cover, man!
Thanks for the kind remarks, Dave! I decided to check out this album first because I love the title. I'll let you know what I think in about 63 minutes!
I like it!
Interesting song!
hey, this is a damn fine tune!
hell yeah dave icame over to see all the fun.
I gotta agree with Henner. It is your best vocal. This one suits your stripped down sound perfectly.
Can't say I've heard this before from you Dave. Without a shadow of a doubt, the best vocal I've heard from you, BB. Must be a Canadian Thing!!
I'm gonna have to set aside some time to listen to this entire Lobster Man album. What have I been missing? Love the lead break on this one - right in yer face.
Good version. I've heard so many covers of this, my favorite one is by New Riders of the Purple Sage. An old country classic originally done by Lefty Frizell but written by someone else.
I've heard tell of this many times, but I have to admit I've never got round to listening to it before. Superb :-)
If you'd described this to me I'd have said it'll never work... ... but it does! It's one of my least favourite Beatles songs (and I'm a big Beatles fan), this has made me reconsider it as a song in itself. Nice one.
This is one of my all time favourite songs (though I've never heard The Band's version). Great cover - love the backing vocals, really effective.
Bring a bottle with you the doors open ...i cant get up to shut it.......
Great cover by the way
I'm trying to bring him round.. but it don't look good.... his gone a funny grey blueey sort colour...... but if i remember right..... he looked that way when he came down the cellar in first place...........Elvis just lays beside him going ummm...ummum... and dribbling it must have been one hell of a night after i left....
Comments made by Dave Berry
Absolutley, totally stunning. This is your own composition? that is very, very impressive.
I do indeed like this, wonderful feel. Its snazzy man.
fantastic. Utterly fantastic. I love the vocals here.
Beautiful, this the deal. European folk and classical, what a great mix. Sounds like the kind of stuff Bert Jansch & John Renbourn used to get op to. I am now officially a fan of your guitar playing.
Very very good. This is very original sounding. You have a very nice touch on that nylon string. I hear classical, latin/spanish flavour, blues even, its all here in this wonderful track.
Blues funk soul baby. I love this one Regs...s...s...s...s...s...s...Junk man baby, junk man!!! who hoo. I don't even know how to get this loose, I need to try someday.
Ahhhhhh yeah.....beauty song
This is as real as it gets. Thats a song. I really like your sounds guys. Comparing my sound to The Band, and my electric guitar playing to Neil Young, well thats about as high a compliment as there is in my books, so thank you, two of my biggest heros there for sure. So a big thanks from Atlantic Canada (Saint John, NB) back at you.
Yup, deadly song. Thats a jig almost, dance music on acoustic. Great energy here.
yeah, the forest is more than a place, it is a state of being, a feeling inside as you walk along the dirty city streets. Thats the way this feels, the electronic instruments and even the vocal place me in the dirty mean streets of the big city, the feel and melody and vibe of the song places my soul in the forest, deep, where the filth and choas cant reach me. I may be driving my car, but in my mind I am deep in the forest. And those little creatures talking to me, always chattering away in my brain, thats the feeling this song gives me.
absolutely, totally, completely love this song Tharek. This is the treatment that this song needed, it sounds so frigging good this way, unbelievable brother. That Geir is some kind of guitar god.
Holy wow that is an intense acoustic sound. I woul dsay perfect recording, very good job, and what a composition, there is so much air in this piece, and light and even dare I say it, joy. Wonderful song.
incredible man, so much feeling here.
There is that deep Reg soul...deadly style here. This is deeply recorded, deeply grooving, deeply felt by all who dare click the dark brown triangle...why?...why not...
Thanks Norm, I posted the lyrics. Now then on to this great groove, Yeah baby thats really moving isn't it. Is this one track or a few tracks overdubbed together? I am moving every part of my body to this groove.
deep soul groove here, rocking groove. I dig it.
Love it...love it...love it...love it
Just a damn fine, lovely song...I did it man...I dig it.
This is ripping, man. I love this groove. Deadly song. Thanks for the advice on echoing up on my drums a bit, great stuff, thanks.
Ahhhhh, thats funny...you guys like Wilco I take it, who the hell doesn't. I lobe this, man o man. Wetband gets my vote.