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Down to the Mountain (Please Set Me Free)

Seems like the chorus has a mind of its own and has settled out into something like: Let me beSet me freeLet me be me, oh please, pleasePlease, set me free though we’ll see what happens once the Kincaid get their greasy mitts on it.

May 7, 2021

Down to the Mountain

Set me free

May 7, 2021

Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music (again)

“Three notes in a scale…”

April 28, 2021

Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music (dance mix demo)

For odd reasons. was tuned to about A 415 when I recorded this. This tune was inspired by a New York Times article from the 1910s:

April 28, 2021

Memory Lane (demo)

Out on a jaunt Seeing the hindsights

April 26, 2021

Memory Lane

Here is the first song in a five-song mini-concert recorded last month and initially posted on ye old booke of faces. This one has lyrics by Peter K. Hirsch: Next up, a bit of early 20th century science history, “Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music.”

April 26, 2021

Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music

A scientist’s dream… Three notes in a scale

April 26, 2021

Standup, Mixer!

Don’t forget that out here Someone loves you every day

April 26, 2021

Carnegie Hill

Shoestring fries at Jackson Hole PLJ playing Billy Joel

April 24, 2021

Chanson

Yes, I drink champagne Because I never feel real pain

April 24, 2021

Down to the Mountain (debut)

I don’t need majestic splendor.

April 24, 2021

Dirty Ol’ Sunshine (debut)

Here is my first complete take of a new song I’m really into:

April 24, 2021

Music will continue until morale improves

More music coming soon!

April 24, 2021

Carnegie Hill

I’ve written a new song and have been learning how to play it. This is the first demo version I’ve felt comfortable enough to share more widely:

December 30, 2020

Bird Song (instrumental)

On my electric solid body uke with a pocket amp and a bit of delay, for the last day of Jerry Week. Also posted at the big book of faces and audio-only on shmow-kwow with a kind of permanent public link for the video up on bop rocks.

August 10, 2020

Ain’t No Sunshine

this house just ain’t no home any time she goes away

May 17, 2020

Who Loves The Sun? (waltz)

A cover of a favorite VU song as a waltz, for the Layers of Meta album UNTITLED 1, performed by small pleasurecraft (Christian on vocals, lead, and rhythm uke & Dan Brodnitz on backing vocals, guitar, keyboards, and production).

January 20, 2016

carry that water of love to me

Got on a Dire Straits kick recently and started teaching myself to play “Water of Love,” one of their first hits. Here is a sort demo mixdown of a draft arrangement (experimenting with a new way to embed audio):[soundcloud id=’223586915′]

November 27, 2015

Creampuff Trainwreck

Source: Youtube

July 26, 2015

Bertha – still working out the kinks – but raucous

Source: Youtube

July 26, 2015

A town the size of Mountain View

Starting to get this cover tune into shape (a Hunter/Garcia original that debuted on Jerry Garcia’s first solo album, Garcia, and popularized by the Dead):

September 28, 2014

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