OT: Shamelessness. Really pitiful. Talking about me, of course!

[Todd Spango]

If you go to http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/2716/ you can stream
and/or download 2 albums of my garageband recordings as mp3s. Free!
I'd love to hear what you guys think of this stuff.

The two albums are:

1. Unseen Hand, which is an album of songs, done in styles ranging
from rock to country to folk (mostly rock), and

2. Marigolds, which is an album of... well... ditties, for lack of a
better term, that I refuse to characterize as anything but larks.

Feedback appreciated but not required...

--Mr. Matt Duane "Frogmorton" (don't ask) Griffin

[Stiiv]

On 19 Apr 2006 14:45:11 -0700, "Todd Spango"

Post by Todd Spango
Feedback appreciated but not required...

Nicely done, Mattodd. Cool & funny.

Stiiv
http://www.stiiv.com

[Todd Spango]

Hey, Stiiv!

Glad you liked it. I kinda hope there was at least some of it that was
like fingernails on a chalkboard, but I'm glad that on the whole you
liked it. Did you hear a Devo influence anywhere? I was thinking
about it; I assure you it's there, but it's not entirely overt. In
which songs (if any) did you hear that I'm a huge Devo fan? I hear it
most in ..okseller and maybe Weird Scenes (etc.).

T'anx fer lissnin!

[Stiiv]

On 22 Apr 2006 09:51:30 -0700, "Todd Spango"

Post by Todd Spango
Hey, Stiiv!
Glad you liked it. I kinda hope there was at least some of it that was
like fingernails on a chalkboard, but I'm glad that on the whole you
liked it. Did you hear a Devo influence anywhere? I was thinking
about it; I assure you it's there, but it's not entirely overt. In
which songs (if any) did you hear that I'm a huge Devo fan? I hear it
most in ..okseller and maybe Weird Scenes (etc.).
T'anx fer lissnin!

Definitely in Weird Scenes...also in the "punk" track, which was kinda
like a DEVO/DK's meld. DEVO? It's all over you!

Stiiv
http://www.stiiv.com

[Fr▲nk P▲nuccأ‬]

Post by Todd Spango
If you go to http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/2716/ you can stream
and/or download 2 albums of my garageband recordings as mp3s. Free!
I'd love to hear what you guys think of this stuff.

Time allows a limited sampling:

Smooth Pencil Shavings "+=_very old_=+"
Mannix took acid! Watch out. He may stumble into Peggy's "soft
things", creating an awkward interracial moment.
Reminds me of my brother's music:
http://webpages.charter.net/rudypan/ApocalypseOnTheRiver.mp3
http://webpages.charter.net/rudypan/Bush%20Thoughts.mp3
http://webpages.charter.net/rudypan/LateWinterNoodling.mp3

..okseller
Sounds like a solid song. That style is not my cup of pee, so I can't
really offer a valid opinion.

Unseen Hand
...ditto...

Matinee
...ditto...

The Act
...ditto...a little Monkees-like

Two Black Mules
...ditto...Yee-haw, sorta

IDIOT!!!
Cool. Best song so far. Has a little of that "don't bother the
neighbors" vocal restraint. Would like to hear a full-tilt version.

One Nickel Blues (1+1=1)
Genuine blooz sound. Like the others, good playing, but vocals are dry
with a bit of mic wind pop.

Go Jandek Go
Lurvs the low organ drone. Trippy. Cool guitar discordant twangins.

3 Fifield (With Mike)
Nifty porno music. "Not the yellow plastic unit!" Very Residential
when the vocals kick in.

mugwort
My fave so far, I think.

Weird Scenes From Inside the Avant Garage (edit)
Sounds like one of the tracks from that SPIRIT album from the 80s. It
featured Billy Mumy and others. It was about the Wil Eisner comic
character.

microtone three (The Saucer March)
Absolute killer. Really puts me in the Xmas mood. Sound-tracky.

cage bender
Prance of the lepre-cornholes! Lively. Kronos Quartet-y.

Dit Dit Too
Bruford-y! Likes it. A little Marc Ribot in there too. I'm freakin
out, man.

Indecision
Sounds like native American traditional - wif a beatbox! Smoke the X
pipe, glowstix up the wigwam, etc. Ripe for samplin wif a sublimely
uneducated rapper stuck over it.

Out of time. Downloaded a few for safe keepin. May hear the others later.

Recording setup?

____________________
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http://reperkussionz.blogspot.com/

[Todd Spango]

Thanks for the feebakk Mr. Frank!

The recording setup is mindnumbingly simple -- just apple garageband, a
shure microphone with a usb adaptor, and me. Drums are generally
either midi or appleloops, some entire songs are loops (Saucer March,
for example), though I do generally try to mess 'em up, if I'm just
using samples.

Interesting that you mention that Saucer March is "sound-tracky" I
definitely have a video of that song in mind, partially described in
the "song info".

Thanks for takin' the time to check out those tracks, I had a lot of
fun making 'em.

Cheers!

--Matt