Written using a mix of Virtual and Analog instrumentation. Arranged, Sequenced and Looped within Ableton Live.

MN Homebrew Radio show has a monthly writing contest. This month it was to use the word "wait" or "waiting" in your song. So the hook line of the chorus popped into my head at 5:30 in the morning and the rest of the song came pretty quickly…

I decided to keep working on this one a bit on the "keep messing with it" program.... added some backing vocals and some piano.... kind of like where its heading after the one take wonder before... Any other suggestions are very welcome…

This is the bonus track for "The Best of GEM" playlist. APATHY AND GREED Apathy and greed is in the human seed "I need more, to Hell with you" we say so well How we live and play to get us through the day Til we hear the bell that summons…

Next in the little pile of songs from the shoe-box. This one has the date 27th January 1994 written on it, but it's describing an episode from many years earlier when I was, I'm guessing, something like 12 or 13 years old. I had to go to a…

Gary and I did something good. ONE AND ONLY How many times have you been captured by a camera With no one really knowing who you are Caught in the sight lines in the background In the corner of their eyes Never looking closely at the…

words by oldrottenhead music by hooper I’ve come this way like those before me And those yet still to come It fills me with a sense of wonder To watch the rising sun how many times how many souls Have acted out these scenes It fills me with…

DOOR MAT Key - A A) My daddy treated Mama like a door mat D) Me and little brother didn't like that We E) never understood what was going A) down My daddy was the guy to fix your tv And he could fix a Fender or a Peavey (But) Daddy…

A steel string guitar improvisation I did last night before bed called “A Nagging Thought“. The piece prominently features a V+ to i (augmented dominant to minor tonic) movement. I usually don’t care for the sound of an augmented tried but in…

Buckle up.

Reg was talking to Elvis about Frank and he told him something he didn't know.you can have it all then at the end not remember it which is what happened to Frank the grind ground him down a sad ending for a great man......Dementia is a cruel end…

That busy life we all lead, sometimes we should take notice of that time flying by......... thanks Norm

I was drunk and feeling like a loser, so I wrote a song about it. It's the coolest song you ever heard... :)

It was a curious and wondrous thing. One night I was in my studio adding some percussion to the "Quiet Rituals" track by Barry van Oudtshoorn, when my 4 young children (with whom I was long over-due to be tucking into bed and reading a bed…

A countrified tribute to Mr. Eno.

(Remastered 22/10/2021) And this is the last of the little threesome of In Your Hands, Little Thing, and this one, When I Try To Be Me. It's in the key of 4th fret and was written just over a month later than the other two, on 19th March…

Thank you Greg Connor for putting his wonderful harmonica on this song. Enjoy!! My little steam train Rolling down the tracks My little steam train Going to take me back All aboard! The conductor shouts Hear that horn blow Hear…

track 1 of last days last days...

The chorus of this groove is in 5/4 and the verse in 9/4. You can hear me fall apart at the very end… guess I got worried. Lyrics: *Try not to get worried* *I am with you always* *Try not to get worried* *And don’t forget* *Simply…