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…

Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers: Conductor: Warren C. Martin Spring 1993 (School Year 92-93): Track 8 Notes: This is our alumni song. This version is not introduced by Mr. Martin

Si me recuerdas debe ser que hay algo en ti. Puede ser tal vez, que el destino es real y une nuestras vidas. Siento que hay algo en mí, esperándote desde siempre, por mil vidas hasta que te encontré. Viajaré otra vez sobre cerros y mar…

Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers: Conductor: Warren C. Martin Winter 1993 (School Year 93-94): Track 5

another oddity from the answering machine.

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.

Lyrics: Slow days start to shape my mind into a feedback of negative thoughts that undermine my efforts to get rid of impatience wasting all my time

Guitar and vocals. Kind of the opposite of last years 'Honey, Why You Stay With Me'.

other stuff i never finished

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

The first song I wrote.

I have had an itinerant life and most of the friends I've made are scattered to the winds. Or rather I am.

Here is something I just thought was funny, and then I added a bit of Buckethead's "..." for good measure. Vox by Throatrake.

Track originally composed by Jon Brion.

Track originally by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists.

Still You Loved Me Verse 1: I walked the path I chose, Blind to truth, deaf to grace, I filled my cup with fading things, And wore my pride like praise. I trusted hands that dropped me, And words that led astray, Till pain became my…

What do you guys do when you hit a wall? I'm looking at that wall and can't seem to get past it. I think taking a break is the answer, or take up painting instead?