Not done one of these for a while.
A little instrumental written & recorded on today's Bank Holiday day off.
I've called it 'Almost June' because how the hell are you supposed to name instrumentals anyway?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to The 1998 Khmer Rouge apology, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers’s first movie FLYING DOWN TO RIO (1932), Gali Atari, Baltimore artist Eric Block, Mayor Tom Bradley, singer-songwriter Ed Bruce, Pablo Casals, Bernard Cribbins, Rick Danko, Ted Danson, Yvonne Elliman, Marianne Faithfull, Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, New Orleans clarinetist Willie Humphrey, Scott Joplin’s 1902 song “The Entertainer,” Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna, Jude Law, Franz Liszt’s 1857 symphonic poem "Die Hunnenschlacht,” jazz-Celtic singer Laurel Massé, Clyde McCoy, Dina Merrill, Mary Tyler Moore, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, cellist-composer Kiyoshi Nobutoki, Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket), Paula Poundstone, Cozy Powell, rockabilly DJ/singer-songwriter Glenn Reeves, Jim Reid, The San Francisco Symphony, Marco Antonio Solís, Barbara Steele, The Supremes’s 1965 single “My World is Empty Without You,” Ray Thomas (Moody Blues), “Billy” Tipton, Jo Van Fleet, Jon Voight, Roger Voudouris, and my friend and musical compadre “Easy” Mark Tomeo. I lack photos of Mark and I together, so I grabbed pivotal images from Mark’s fascinating career as a champion of pedal steel, resonator, and twang guitar + singer-songwriter. He was in the Grammy-nominated “New Wave cowboy” band Rubber Rodeo (shown here)—in the 80s RR played at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco while I just happened to be lurking nearby. The world got smaller when Mark and I met in Pennsylvania, performing and recording with Ben Kaplan, some Badlees-spinoff projects, and extensively with the band Neon Cactus. Circa 2000 I was working with Davy Jones (Monkees) on his JUSTME series of original recordings. Davy wanted a pedal steel guitarist, and I summoned Mark. Here’s “Hold Me Tight,” a Tex-Mex samba we did; the Mike Nesmith-ian arrangement was Davy’s idea:
Meanwhile HB EMT. By the time I get to Phoenix anything can happen…
11/20/2023
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"Even Past the Wayside" improvised, playing, playing in strings music lomey marsupialo 🦘🦘🦘🦘 part of the 'wayside' topic series of songs
I will start with this song, from my new album, The Waves. Hi, I'm Galen. I make music, tell stories, and write. Here I hope to write about some music I have recently released into this wild wild world we currently reside in. "Stand Your Ground," seemed a good place to start, and holds both the message and energy I felt could set this spinning, rocking and rolling, and interfacing, and I thought I might try uploading directly to this platform to see what happens. By my standards the structure here is a pretty typical pop song structure with verse chorus verse chorus bridge shift gears and slow way down, and. But would you have guessed that this was entirely improvised? Well it was. Usually I'll maybe have a couple of chords and feel something is brewing and I'll just hop right on it. It's what I imagine setting yourself on fire is like. Performed live, one take, and on the spot. I left the little hiccup at the beginning to point toward this process. But other than that, it's pretty seamless. The give and take in the lyrics of tough times, and resilience makes me happy. "When you insides spill out, and you can't put them back inside / When you feel flushed and ashamed / And all you want to do is hide" contrasted with the message "Stand your ground / And you'll be golden," is the very message I need to be telling myself right now. So, wish me luck. Have a listen if you will. And blessing on your own efforts to Stand Your Ground. One last note I'll share: I also like how when the song starts slowing down (hello live acoustic options) my voice shifts to a lower register as well. My father has always told me he prefers this version of me. After years of screaming over very capable drummers, I sometimes forget it is there, but this album has let that vibration in for certain. (Thanks, pop!)