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July demo: Waste of TV [5 MB]

This is track #7 on the little album I’ve been slowly putting demos up for. Also as a bonus experiment, there’s an album page and a tentative title for it now: Guess Who’s a Mess.

I’m not sure what else to do with that page, anyone have any ideas?

The obvious one everyone suggests to me is funding/donations or pre-orders. I’m iffy on that. Mostly I don’t want to owe anyone anything creatively (aka I may flake out). And the money I’d get isn’t going to make or break the production so it feels pointless.

So what’s left? Attention and collaboration/contributions?

June demo: This Meeting [4 MB].

I’ve been rearranging my office/studio place here with one of the goals being to achieve better quality recordings and mixes. Unfortunately I’m only half done so it’s actually worse in here right now. Gotta get me some acoustic foam.

So I failed at finishing a demo for May and I resolved to find an embarrassing enough apology cover to do. Here’s a rough cover of Heart and Soul by Huey Lewis and the News (but originally by Exile) to show you I’m sorry. Thanks to Ben for help with the guitars and bass.

Heart and Soul (cover) [6.3 MB]

I actually recorded it at the same BPM as the original so it was supposed to sync with the Huey Lewis video. But I can’t get it to work and I’m sick of it.

Update: I can’t embed it due to “a copyright claim by EMI” but here’s the video synced with my cover.

Update #2:

April demo:

Model Home (demo) [5.7MB MP3]

Two things about this track:

• It’s the first song on a concept album I’m working on. All the songs are roughed out (but incomplete) and the track order is decided. The other song I’ve released that fits on this album is Thanks for the Add (which will be track 5).
• This is the first song I’ve done in REAPER. I’m really impressed with version 3 and I’m trying to switch to it from Cubase (more on that later). The mix isn’t great on this song but that’s not REAPER’s fault. It is a demo so I’m forcing myself not to care.

Here’s my demo for March. It’s extra retarded:

I Command You to Be My Woman (demo) [4.5MB MP3]

The story behind it is this: my buddy JB from Songfight! asked some of his musician pals to write songs to surprise his would-be fiancee with just before he popped the question. I spent a month working on a very tender and sincere ballad and then shit-canned it at the last moment and wrote this thing.

Check out the other entries on Songfight. And I’d say wish JB good luck but she’d have to be jerk of the year to say no after everyone wrote all these songs. So I think it’s basically in the bag.

This is a song I’ve had around for a very long time but I could never get the recording the way I wanted. I resolved to do the best I could with it for this month’s demo and quit agonizing over it.

I’m still not very happy with the recording – getting the huge wall of sound I want without everything becoming muddy mush is rough. But the month is almost over and I’m out of time, so here it is for now:

Simplifyin (demo) [7mb MP3]

Trying to do a song demo a month in 2009, here’s the first of the theoretical twelve:

Certain Types of People (demo)

Update: BFF GrowYoYoRhino has put together a guitar lesson for this song:

He’s got it pretty much perfect.