50/90 is over. What do I do now? The plan was to do the same thing I did after RPM and FAWM ended... just start another album in a month project. Well I started it, but it's going really slow. There are only five songs in the works, and…

Unless my math skills have failed me, this is song #50 and 50/90 is complete! WOOHOO! This song broke my one 50/90 rule... sort of. The rule was that all ideas get used immediately. Nothing gets dropped and everything I try stays. The idea…

Another song that is entirely in 7/8. I like this one a little bit even though the riff seems a bit forced. The guitars are all Les Paul. I won’t try to hold you back I won’t try to keep you down I just want to build you up I just want…

This one is pretty sad. Sad as in, it's not very good, not sad as in it's a sad song. I spent one afternoon working exclusively in 7/8. This was the third thing I came up with. It's the worst of the three. I still sort of like the groove…

This is the 47th 50/90 song posted, but it was the 49th idea. I figured one last head banger before I was done. The lyrics are supposed to be political without really trying to pick a side. Eh. The guitars are all ES-335 how do we handle…

Not quite sure what I was going for musically with this one. It was just a couple of off the top of the head ideas. Not a lot of thought or planning. The lyrics are an Florida Man story about a guy who called 9-1-1 to ask for a ride to the…

This is the 45th song posted for 50/90, but it is really the 50th song to be worked on. Somehow it seems fitting to close off the festivities with a sappy love song that swings a bit. Of all the crap I've written this summer, this is the…

The verse and the chorus are pretty much the same thing except the chorus is louder and heavier. I consider that a gimmick and a bit of a cheat, but I very often really like the way it works out. Shoot me. The lyrics are about being afraid…

Something tells me I'll be mixing this one again soon. The lyrics here are specifically about 9/11, but I guess it would apply to any major event. I was just listening to the accounts of people who were there at the time and comparing their…

The verse is a 12-bar blues phrase, but the rest of the song isn't. Clever? Probably not. The lyrics are kind of about work stress, but maybe not completely. I can't really tell anymore. The guitars are all Stratocaster. Mixed up confused…

I thought going into 50/90 that I would need to do some quick recordings of really simple arrangements. Maybe just acoustic guitar and voice. Nope, not really. This isn't meant as filler. This idea is something I noodle on almost every…

I had planned for more pieces for this song but it was late and I was tired so I quit while I was ahead. The next day i stitched together the few riffs I had into a song structure and decided it was set. Then as I was recording the leads I decided…

This one was forced. I had just finished recording guitars on another couple of songs and made myself come up with something new. I wasn't very into it at all, but now that it's finished it's not as bad as I thought it would be. The lyrics…

I love playing in 7/8 time, don't you? There was a day late in August when I simply decided that everything I was going to work on would be in 7/8 time. I ended up with three songs. This is the first of them. I was also considering overdoing…

Throughout the whole zaniness that is 50/90, I have never written, recorded, and mixed a song in one day. Until now. This whole thing was done on Saturday 9/6/14. The vocals were recorded in the car while I was waiting to pick up one…

Nothing special about this one. The riff is kinda cheesy, and the lyrics are a lot cheesy. It has a pre-chorus section which is unusual for me. That's about the only thing that's interesting at all. The mix might be awful, but I was 99% asleep…

The music was written in a hotel room in Niagara Falls, Ontario. When I first recorded the rhythm guitars it hit me how 80's corporate rock this was. It sounded like Journey and that pissed me off. When it came time to write the lyrics that…

The music was written in a hotel room in Montreal (I think) and the lyrics are about how stupid the Market Basket situation got in New England (ironically, as I was recording the last vocal line a friend sent me a link to a stream of Artie T's…

On Facebook, my sister in law (a middle school teacher) told us that my niece said the second day of kindergarten was even better than the first. My sister (an elementary school teacher) said something along the lines of yippee for good days…

The music was written in a hotel room in upstate New York. How rock and roll is that? I occasionally find myself very inclined to throw electric pianos at everything. This comes from such a phase. The part in question here was recorded using…