Hey, Ma, Look What I Found!

Wish You Were Here (Waters-Gilmour)
The Simple Things (Demo) (Morgan-Sookman)
(Past The Reach of) 12 Step Help (Grungier Mix) (Wall-Morgan)
Rock Hard (Extended Instrumental) (Morgan-Sookman)

Going through the ol' mix CDs to find lummage for the site, I unearthed several interesting songs & variants. Here's some details:
1) WYWH: More jam band goodness. Drenched in reverb to accentuate that "you are there with us in the very small and very hot room with us" vibe. Don't ask what "up the gay" refers to...and I won't tell.
2) ST Demo: I like this this simple, tuneful little keyboard piece which later grew into a uber-produced Pop Machine staple. From small things, Mama, big things one day come...
3) 12 Step: I experimented here with a "heavier", more overdriven mix on this Osmium crowd-pleaser. Crunchy.
4) RH: Reachin' back to '90 for an alternate version of an early track. Dance, cowboy, dance!

Turn Off (Instrumental)

Turn Off (Instrumental)

(Morgan-Wall)

Grrrr and Whirrrr go the machines in the Osmium arsenal. Occasionally we like to try to keep current with the kids and spew out some heavier sounds...this version spotlights the crunchy geetars and analog-y synth goodness. Extended post-adolescent misanthropy has its occasional advantages.

Al: Keys & drums
John: Guitars
Dave: Bass & guitar

Teen Rage

Teen Rage

(Junior Cheeseburger)

Mmmmm...I think I'll have another Cheeseburger! This tasty treat takes on the trials and travails of today's totally trendsetting teens...it's a toe-tapper! So sit supine and swing to the sounds of the Seventies supplied by the Svengalis of supersonic stirrings....chow down on a chewy chunk of cheddar by the Cheeseburgers!!

Featuring D.Lux Cheeseburger, Junior Cheeseburger, Tex S. Cheeseburger and California Cheeseburger

Electric Rain

Electric Rain

(Morgan)

There's a riff of deep heaviosity floating in here somewhere, perhaps to be distilled and deployed in an appropriate manner in another setting. So this is a step to be followed by others...

Solid Gold Pony

Solid Gold Pony

(Junior Cheeseburger)

We're back with 365's favorite cartoon band, The Cheeseburgers!! Sit back and enjoy this slick and creamy slice of 70's-flavored processed music spread...I'll leave it to the enlightened listeners to decide whether this song is a sex metaphor, a drug metephor, an automotive metaphor or a song about a horse. Or any combination of the above. Ride the pony, baby!

Featuring D.Lux Cheeseburger, Junior Cheeseburger, Tex S. Cheeseburger and California Cheeseburger

(Don't Put Me) In A Box

(Don't Put Me) In A Box

(Morgan)

Why not? 'Cause I said so!!!!

Al: Voices and musics

I Want You Back

I Want You Back

(Wall)

No, not the Jackson 5 song. A fun John Wall composition that I enjoyed singing on...I remember not being able to be at the tracking session for some reason, and had to come up with a vocal melody on top of this very cool fully-produced track. Enjoyable, and very cool.

Al; Vox
John: Guitars
Dave: Bass, keys, geetar, drums

Fallen Elite

Fallen Elite

(Morgan-Wall)

New lyrics for "Curtains of Steel" (see about 3 entries back). In addition to the new lyrics, we added some angry mob yelling at the beginning for reasons I quite frankly can't remember. Oh, well, nice to press Mike into service as he happened to be around for one of his own sessions...

Al; Vox, keys, drums
John: Guitars
Dave: Bass, add'l keys & guitar
Mike, John & Al: Angry mob

Zen Gospel Singing

Zen Gospel Singing

More DUUC goodies. All menfolk this time, singing a very amusing ditty about...well, singing. Mebbe I'll post the video when I get a chance...

Jazz and Gospel

Java Jive
Never Turnin' Back

I return here as one of the featured soloists in the Dupage Unitarian Universalist Church choir. "Java Jive" is a jazzy Manhattan Transfer number, and NTB is a gospel spiritual (!), so enjoy the technical virtuosity on display, very little of it coming from me...

http://www.box.net/shared/static/16ar15rqcg.mp3

Curtains of Steel

Curtains of Steel

(Morgan-Wall-Sullivan)

Back to the mid-90's, in the midst of my "rock and roll hernia" phase. (i.e. it sounded like I had one when I was trying to be "emotive".) This came about since John had met a guy who wanted a song written to his lyrics. We duly obliged with this ode to mild emotional dysfunction (a terrian I have subsequently re-mined many times). It holds together well instrumentally, which is probably why we re-recorded it with new lyrics when John's buddy later sniffed that it wasn't what he was looking for. Waste not, want not, I say.

Al; Vox, keys, drums
John: Guitars
Dave: Bass, add'l keys & guitar

Back Again

Instant Revolution! (Psych-In Mix)
Byzantium (Bassy Mix)

Got my first final out of the way, so yay me. This means a will start posting songs again, hurrah! Here are a few now. We are now rocking of the beat, yes!