It's a good thing these are just demos and not a real attempt at doing anything... real. So the vocals... the clipping... the distortion. No excuse. It's spoiled the entire song for me. This is the second of two songs that I recorded in…

Yes, yes I know. The guitar melody sounds a lot like the jazz standard "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." I understand and I'm sorry, but it's so rare that I come up with an instrumental melody that I just have to run with it when I get one. The vocals…

First off, the inspiration for the lyric was my MacBook Pro being unable to connect to my wireless mouse. I kid you not, that's where it started. It sort of evolved into a fictional account of one of my customer's network about to crash. I…

I had a neat idea for a riff but I was busy doing other things and couldn't record it for future reference. When I did get a chance to sit down with a guitar later that night I couldn't quite remember it. I came up with something that was in…

The twist for the June music project is that everything is recorded and mixed on an iOS device (all but two on an iPad) and then remixed on the full Mac version of GarageBand. This is the first Mac mix. I worked the riffs to this one out…

I have loved this song for eons. Any time I've found myself in a cover band I've tried to get it into the set list but I have never once succeeded. I've never actually recorded a cover before. Prior to buying a Strat I had no desire to, but…

This is a rewrite of an RPM/FAWM song from February. I sped it up and added some muscle while changing up the vocal and lyrics. I like it much better now. (The old version is on my alonetone somewhere. It's called Forced)

Yup, @floridaman again. This time a couple stole money for crack and told the cops they were kidnapped and forced to steal the money. No way anyone will see through that story, eh? This mix feels mushy. It's made worse by the tons of sauce…

The lyrics aren't from @floridaman this time. They are from @floridawoman. It's a story about a gal who disliked her neighbor, so she had her house bulldozed. Nice This was the last March/April song to be have the tracking finished. There…

This is from March but it was a bit of an after thought. I had planned on the 10th song being something else (it eventually made it into the April list) but I noodled this together on my iPad one night. I also recorded the rhythm guitars on…

There is a reason why this is the last of the 10 songs from April to be finished. It's kind of a sloppy mess of a clunker. The main riff was actually written during March but I didn't get anywhere with it. I revived it in April and... well…

This was the last of the April songs to be worked on. The riff in the chorus was actually written during RPM in February but I never got a chance to finish it. It was on also on the list for March but it never got off the ground. Finally in…

A song about cats. No really. The lyrics are about cats. I am being 100% honest. I need a lyricist, badly. I wanted to keep this one simple but I ended up with all sorts of soupy sauce everywhere and I compressed the hell out of it…

Tempest Fero Lives again! My first real band was called Tempest Fero. We shoulda rethought that name. Anyway, this was one of the first four or five songs we wrote. There should be keyboard, but I don't have the skill or the patience to…

This song marks two milestones in my silly little music recording existence. First it is the very first time I recorded a song that used electric guitars that only used a Fender guitar. When I bought the Strat last weekend this was the only…

I was listening to the two Jack Bruce/Robin Trower records from 1981. I was sort of digging the whole aging-white-guys-making-a-show-of-being-funky vibe and decided to steal it. The result is this cheese ball of a 12-bar. In GarageBand…

One of the few songs on my March Music list that entirely came from March, at least in terms of the music. The lyrics were written in May, but who's counting. The guitar solos were played on my new Strat. It feels so weird. The title comes…

This one dates back to 1992 or 93 or so. It falls in the wasted years between the end of the band I started playing with in high school and the band I started playing in after leaving college. It was played by a bunch of short lived bands in…

This is an April song. It's bad enough that I think it might be completely ripped off of a 2013 RPM song, but the mix turned into a sloppy mess. I might remix it, but then again I might just give up. The lyrics are about our failed attempt…

When I finished RPM at the end of February I decided to immediately start on a new project for March. I called it RPMarch. At least I did until I failed to finish on time. This was the first song I worked on. The bass part actually dates back…