Liberation Square
Liberation Square by RegularGonzalez
Got a little nugget for you here. I'm trying to gather 10 songs for RPM this year to get me back in the swing of recording and playing regularly. I have a bunch of piano songs that have been gathering dust on demos and in my head over the past few years so I'm going to try and polish them all up into shiny pieces of musical gold.
Here's the first one, named for the location of the major world event happening during its production. I'm trying SoundCloud one more time since it appears they have stopped treating me as if I was pirating my own music.
So, let's cross our collective fingers that I can get this album done and keep putting songs up unmolested.
Radar Detector (Song-A-Week #2)
I apologize for the delay. This one took longer than I wanted for both personal and musicalogical reasons. So there's this guy Darwin Deez, and my cousin says I used to go to summer camp with him, but I don't remember him. Anyhow, he's making really catchy awesome music right now and his song "Radar Detector" has been stuck in my head for approximately forever. So, I covered it. I couldn't decide between piano and wurlitzer for my performance, so I blended the two sounds on my Triton. For the drums I recorded a few live improv takes and blended the two best.
I'll try to get the next SAW out soon to make up for the delay on this one, and it will probably be an original to avoid back-to-back covers.
Meanwhile, enjoy Song-A-Week #2: Radar Detector (originally by Darwin Deez)
Radar Detector by RegularGonzalez
It’s The Creep (Song-A-Week #1)
Okay so here's the story... Earlier this year I needed a vacation but I was dead broke so instead I got a free 10 day trial to World of Warcraft and vacationed in Azeroth. I had enough fun in those ten days to want to stay longer and so I paid for a month of the game, got a few characters up to the mid level, and then quit when I was ready to go back to caring about my real life experience instead of experience points in WoW. I did, however, enjoy listening to The Instance podcast while I was running around The Barrens with my Troll Hunter, Barglenawdle, and his vicious red raptor, Zouss. I didn't renew my account after that one month, but I did continue listening to The Instance as I moved on to other things, including Starcraft 2.
Last Friday morning I woke up and got to work at my day job, turning on the latest episode of The Instance to provide the audio fuel for my morning productivity. Much to my surprise, the intro contained a message saying a new Starcraft podcast called "The Creep" had been started by Scott from The Instance. I immediately subscribed in iTunes and started reading the user comments, the first of which complained about the mundane intro to the show. Since I have been playing a lot of Starcraft 2 these days, I would love for The Creep to be a good podcast, and a good podcast needs a good theme song.
I broke out my Dobro, wrote down every crude joke I could think of involving the Starcraft universe, and then added a piano track to flesh out the song. I really wanted to work some of the main SC2 theme into the song, but I couldn't get it to work. Instead, I just went for a style I guess I'm calling Terran Ragtime. I've sent this off to the folks at The Creep, and we shall see what they think of it. I have not yet listened to Raid Warning, which is one of the two parent podcasts to The Creep, but from what I've heard of The Instance, I imagine my song will be well received. Whether they'll actually want to use it as a theme song shall yet be determined, but I imagine it will at least make it into the end of the show.
So, seeing as how it's Monday and I promised I'd post a new song every Monday, here is Song-A-Week #1, It's The Creep. My apologies to those outside the Starcraft universe who don't get any of the references. I hope you find the song enjoyable nonetheless, and next week's entry should be a bit less topical.