I Really Didn’t Mean It!
SONG I wanted to write a mid-1960s jukebox-in-a-diveBar song that sounded like Buck Owens meets the Rolling Stones….
Goodbye My Baby
SONG I wanted to write a perfect powerPop song, it’s not perfect but it rocks….words/music john carmody
Mary What’s-Her-Name
SONG A waltz written for Mother’s Day…it’s in 3/4, 4/4 and 5/4, with John Orem on drums, me on the other instruments…
pasta la vista
SOUND DESIGN …Amelia Earhardt emerges from the Spanish desert as a banshee…I composed and recorded this in one sitting, playing everything except drums.
dogHeaven ’99
SOUND DESIGN A black humor’d take on Clinton’s impeachment trial, w/a midEast groove & Stalinist show trial overtones…I play everything except drums (John Orem).
Leon
SOUND DESIGN …i wanted to write something that sounds like what Blade Runner looks like….I composed it, played everything but drums and cello.
…the lady vanishes
SONG Guitar dynamism and tension….In retrospect, this snippet of a bigger piece was influenced a lot by the Stone Temple Pilots…
li’l duce loop
SOUND DESIGN An Italian jazz pizza abstraction in 7/4 time, written by me & performed by me and John Orem… Dig it!
Mailbox
SONG A pretty waltz written in a moment of bleakness….being selfTaught, I can’t read or write a note of music but still composed & arranged each part of the string quartet….
in cog neat-o
SOUND DESIGN Picture a scene: snakes slithering for miles in the great southwest, scrambling for redemption….I composed this, played everything but drums and cello…..
Arbor Day
SONG You can kinda tell I was listening to The Jam quite a bit when I wrote this one…it’s hard to get a song in under 2 minutes, I came damn close, but…..
All Dogs Look Like Andy
SOUND DESIGN This collage is an idealization of Trotsky discussing patterns in Mark Trail, while listening to Hungarian music.
