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FunnyFaceKing, very cool playing and singing! you look like you have lots of confidence to get up on a stage!

my favourite part is around 2:26, where you introduce a sound that is kinda like a backwards-synthesizer noise or something. and how it gets sort of quiet around 4:00. love it! but how can i download it to add to my iPod, hmmm?

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hyperlexian, thanks for the compliment!
which video are you referring to?

both, but i like the rendition of the house of the rising sun best of all!

the effect I was using was a Phaser....thank you again for all the compliments!

Lol, you're messing with people's minds here.

TBA I had about three attempts recently that I never posted, one that I think is a wonderful tune but - Soundcloud's player makes it sound like a horse is chomping on the bottom end (ie. it doesn't transfer to low grade mp3 without lots of really bad aliasing/artifacting), think I'd be willing to spend $200 to get a technician to tell me what I'm doing wrong as its a sound I'm dying to make work.

This one faired ok, but, on some of the kicks you'll hear that chomping. Working in pure audio is still a little new to me and I'm dying to sort out how people get around that issue without losing the bass-end of their songs.

And yeah... I know that was all greek to you , just need a shoulder to cry on here and there.

no one's mind was being messed with

hyperlexian was talking about my video

yeah, i neglected to include your username as well, but i figured you'd know! i was simulcomplimenting, you sharp fellow.

i was talking about both, and did not properly edit my post. sorry for the confusion.

thank you for clarifying that

I've been playing guitar since December 20, 1978. Since the early 1980s much of my guitar playing has been while riding a bicycle "no hands" at the same time. I've written hundreds of songs but most have never been recorded at all. There are a few dozen of my older songs with audio files available on my web site, but all the recordings are crappy. I badly need to be recorded, as opposed to being recorded badly, especially because right now I am playing guitar and especially singing much better than anytime before in my life. Still, even though my singing is now much better than anything you will find yet posted, I am not known as "The Bicycling Singer."

Someone else in another thread on WrongPlanet browsed my web site and liked Crazy Metal and Evolution, two songs I wrote when I was in R Band in the early 1990s. They both reflect my autistic traits. Crazy Metal suggests that trace elements we are exposed to in our environment can affect our biochemistry, making everybody crazy: "It's in your water and in your food. It's all around you: the air you breathe."

I have sensory issues due to my neurology, so I also sing:
"My peace and quiet, it's what I need. My peace and QUIET! It's what I need!"

As for evolution, that subject has been one of my obsessions for at least the past forty years. As one who loves truth, I am most offended by the dishonesty of the Creationists. Their biggest lie is equating evolution and atheism, but they also distort or deny the evidence, misquote scientists, and continue spreading lies that have been refuted a thousand times. Lying for Jesus is still lying. I wrote a song in 1991 called Evolution that is sadly still relevant. The end of each chorus goes "You'll just have to face the fact: you're related to a monkey!"

Our understanding of evolution has increased greatly since I wrote that, making it even more incredible that so many people can still insist it doesn't happen. Since then, we have found fossils of fish becoming tetrapods, whales with legs, and dinosaurs with feathers. The genetic evidence found in the past twenty years is even stronger than the fossil record: endogenous retroviruses, pseudogenes, and human chromosome 2 that is clearly two ape chromosomes fused together.

These aren't necessarily my best or deepest songs. I will save those for another post. I will share one more fun one though. Mary Lou is about a young man wanting to see a certain young woman naked: "Please let me see you get naked. Let me see you naked, Mary Lou!"

Again, sorry for the crappy quality of the recordings. Hopefully I will somehow get some studio time sometime in the near future while I'm still at the top of my form, and in addition to recording dozens of new songs I would like to re-record at least some of my older ones too.

Namaste, TBG

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it sounded good last night.
i will have to polish it up i think now i hear it today.

so i removed it

Here's me playing I Will Always Love You:
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Comments and criticism will be appreciated.

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Newest song I did. Sort of ambient Alternative Hip Hop

Here's something I wrote some years ago. My band is currently preparing to record(I HOPE) and I'll have an 6 song demo up before Christmas if all goes well.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQgDPK90qKQ[/youtube]

This is a YouTube video I made two years ago for my 1995 song Red Baron. The song lyrics and images used (by permission) for the video are all historically accurate. This version has a delta blues sound to it. When I played this song in 2009-2010 with a new bass player, I started playing and singing it more aggressively, harder rock. I hope to rerecord the music for another version of this video, but this version is good as it stands (of course I may be biased).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUQuMarsV4[/youtube]