Assembled some drum and keyboard loops to try out some new plugins, then added live bass (over numerous takes), and finally recorded my dumb voice narrating a trip to the airport. Really wanted to fall back on my usual trick of employing speech…

This one combines a bunch of things I like: rain, storms, weird keyboard patches, auditory snapshots of a particular time, sleep, and NOAA weather radio. (I developed an affinity for that last one while working third shift alone at Kinko's way…

The words come from a story by Robert Chambers (public domain, and available on Project Gutenberg). Think I recorded the weird noisy guitar part first, then played along on drums, then added the voice.

I like Captain Beefheart, but I'm not good at showing it. :)

Another one on the Cat Head Lowebow, this time with more effects.

Paean to a local state politician who stepped up to the national stage. Also, this track is one of the reasons we started using a click track in 2018...

Another pastiche/casserole of studio scraps and robot voices. Tulip, our youngest cat, has a ray gun keyboard solo just after the 4-minute mark.

Makes me think of a small New England port town in a storm, for some reason.

Test recording of the Cat Head Lowebow #4 that I bought from Johnny Lowebow a couple of years earlier. The Lowebow ended up being a studio mascot, and "Cat Head Blues" a theme for that year's RPM Challenge, so I recorded some drums and added this…

I wrote the main riff at least 25 years ago, and finally got around to recording it. The drum part was recorded at band practice. I got a wild hair and sped it up to about 1.8 speed, liked it, and used it. "Eggbeater Jesus" is a local artistic…

Another "the chord sequence spells something" track. I'm fond of those.

Real drums, bass, and guitar. Think the "vocals" were taken from another track and heavily manipulated. I like 'em. :)

DAW plugin drums, live guitar and bass. I don't really hate everything. Mostly just the sound of my own voice.

DAW plugin drums, live guitar(s) and bass. I made computer voices say some words so I wouldn't have to.

More DAW plugin drums, live guitar and bass. The computer voiceover artist finally got sick of my crap. May go back and re-record with actual voices at some point, but I appreciate the contempt dripping from this nasty British fellow's every utterance…

Live drums and keyboard accordion. Our British friend gets in a couple more sentences.

One ambient guitar take, plus another computer voice so that I (and you) don't have to hear mine.

Looped ambient guitar, plus more computer voices. I really liked the tiny touches of world-weary sarcasm in the second and third iterations.

Live guitars and bass, programmed parametric drums, and more computer voices. Not referring to a single, specific WETJ - there are plenty of examples. Credit for "Buddha Bubba" goes to the late, great Bill Hicks.

Live drums, guitars, bass, and keyboard. My wife pointed out the similar chord sequence/intervals to "Save Tonight" by Eagle-Eye Cherry, but I think mine starts in Bm, and theirs starts in Am. :)