Rock and roll has always been a contrary form of music. At once ‘the devil’s music’ and the soundtrack to the American Dream, it has leant itself to as much commercial dogma as rebellious transgression. Rock and roll is both savage and servile. It’s sexual awakenings and automobile sales. This moral and ideological duplicity is Please read on...
Category Archives: Music
Preface: Posts relating in any way to music reside here. These may include the discussion of any experimental compositions that I have created (mostly batty), opinions on albums, album artwork and musical genres (mostly derogatory) and occasionally previews of works that I have made commercially available …
Lowered Expectations
Benny and I have been rehearsing and recording for our Wet Face project for some time now and – provided that the venue staff don’t get cold feet – our first performance is imminent. Having ‘mastered’ (for ‘mastered’ read ‘bathed in distortion and given a perfunctory mid-range spike‘) a few tracks in the last week, Please read on...
Sickly Headache
It occurs to me that some people looking for information on an ailment using the search term Sickly Headache might chance upon this music post. If you are one of these people, I recommend you DO NOT press play on the post’s associated audio player. The title of the post (and track) refers to the Please read on...
Can’t Touch Me
Not to be confused with U Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer, this is a grinding piece of punk blues co-created – through correspondence – with my good friend Mickey Fordola for a project (currently on hiatus) called The Hemotions. The techy stuff: The backing track features my Gordon-Smith SG, drop-tuned to C, in the Please read on...
Dilapidated
For this experiment, I put my resonator through Gearbox‘s extraordinary ‘Bronze Master’ effect and bathed the resulting signal in expansive reverb. Due to the Bronze Master’s perculiar ability to help you create unusual harmonics and the resonator’s sensitivity to soft plucking, a broad range of murky, eroded sounds can be achieved. At low velocities the Please read on...
Bobby Howitzer
Some time ago, my alter ego ‘Bobby Howitzer’ made a set of dirty rock ‘n’ roll mashups titled New Rock and Roll is the New Rock and Roll. The original tunes were repurposed as the backing tracks for Bobby’s high impact kareoke performances. The live collision of blues howling, plundered beats and chopped up riffs Please read on...
