"Miss She" is another step in my late-blooming evolution as a student of music. It's more ambitious in terms of attempting to create an atmosphere of sound, and less ambitious in that I "wrote" the words while standing at the mic. (The next song…

Wasting away another weekend with some scales and mode practice on the synthesizers. all the percussion is from the Juno drum patches and my fingers. For you folks out there who enjoy the mode stuff this is Phrygian in A A,Bb(A#),C,D,E,F,G,(A)

This is my 3rd home recording. I dug it out again and cleared the moth balls. "Tart it up a bit" as Sis would say. I found out that if you rub a strat the wrong way, it will talk back to you. I tried many times to re-create this guitar work…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Song recorded July 2009. Song originally by Santana.

Kinda cornball but what the hell. I gotta do one for the wifey every now and then. I think my drumming hiccuped somewhere around 2:40. Lyrics: just a day or maybe for a life time taken away by a women in disguise wrapped on a…

Seems to be that one song everyone likes. Lyrics: Stary night, the highway fades a hundred miles and I'm on my way I got up late Lazy days and even crazier nights there she was, on her way she stuck her thumb out for me to see…

I remember when we were young I remember waiting for the sun you said you loved me you said you need me you said you want me and that was forever I remember the stories of our days I remember the tears in your eyes you said…

Autumn in D minor (Instrumental)

Inspired by RFK's Mindless Menace of Violence Speech Lyrics Perhaps we can remember if only for a time that violence stops for no man being rich and poor,and black or white we share the same old dreams a captive moment in our lives…

another oddity from the answering machine.

Witness Protection by Jack Merlot copyright 2009 some rights reserved --- --- --- Can I get a witness? Cuz I've been a stranger and I know you don't recall my face at all But you were my sister, before you were famous, but now you think…

This is the finished version of Iris Florentine. The acoustic version is still up, though... Iris Florentina by Jack Merlot copyright 2009 all rights reserved --- --- --- young and lovely, with a wise patina tapping her toe like Degas' ballerinas…

The mysterious planet of the machines from Dune. Features a 9-note scale.

other stuff i never finished

The first beat I ever made, first song I produced :) Please forgive the ill advised symbol.