group of ideas im working on. live take straight to the end.

This song written by Mark Imsdahl..I found it over at Greg Connor's ...I liked it so much that I asked Greg and Mark if I could do an electric version of it and they agreed...i want to have Mark blow some harp on it when he gets back from vacation…

Collaboration with jip1965 I was emailed a piece of music entitled 'Glomp' (I kid you not) with a note saying "Chorus words something like... river flowing...the sun is shining lol" I sat and listened to the music a few times, not knowing…

They were talking about money on NPR. I found a picture of a very large banknote.

They were talking about Jack Teagarden on NPR. I decided to go with the other kind of tea garden. Layered, like rows of tea trees...

A customer came into the shop and wanted to talk about lentils. So be it.

The sort of banalities that help one get through the day . . . the radio is playing music so I'm relying on conversation for inspiration . . .

They were playing something "different" on the radio; a Charles Mingus tune. So I played something "different" too.

impro for improfriday

xenharmonics for improvfriday :)

little critters singing

A rough cut of a song I wrote because I miss my boo.

Fruity Loops. Just messing around with a new template and came up with this. First two minutes is almost like a club song, second half is quite different, but I think they mesh well. Might end up working on this some more, but feel like it is…

In my late teens I was in a hard rock band and this was one of our songs. This recording is not the band but myself doing all the instruments and vocals. Our singer Kevin wrote the lyrics but I forgot some of the lines and adlibbed a bit of it…

This was from about 4 yrs ago thru a Guitar Center King of the blues online collaboration. I was using Guitar Rig Jimi Hendrix Octavia on this.....pretty hairy sound right there.

solo piano in Raven tuning http://www.johnsmusic7.com/

French children's song... in a punk style!

Song about the Chiapas revolution

about school bullies.

A french song! Very Kitsch!

about japanese culture. Good, bad and weird!

As the AIDS crisis exploded in the 1980s, Matt began to write lyrics that dramatized the impact on society. Matt sings the lead vocal.

Matthew absolutely loved horror films. He sings the lead vocal on this early demo tape.

Sung by Matthew Garey.

Sung by Matthew Garey.

Matt composed the music for the original musical 1001 Nights (help--was that the title?) in 1974. The Kennedy Center play production class presented the musical as its summer project that year. Here Matt records a rehearsal tape.

Sung by Matthew Garey.