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Song: Quadruple-A Battery

Frenetic Stereoear Here’s the sixth song from the album “Frenetic Stereoear” titled “Quadruple-A Battery.”

Quadruple-A_Battery.mp3

This one has a number of different guitar tracks/sounds in it (4 to be precise) and a wah-wah kind of bass. It’s a simple song, but with a few extra bits thrown in, and some nice counter rhythm. As usual, the drums are pretty boring. As for the name… I can’t remember why I called it “Quadruple-A Battery,” but I like it.

On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being awesome) I’ll give this song a 6. I actually think this one is a little short, and I could have explored it a bit more… Maybe I will in the future.

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Song: Attack of the Mole People

Frenetic Stereoear Here’s the fifth song from the album “Frenetic Stereoear” titled “Attack of the Mole People.”

Attack_of_the_Mole_People.mp3

I had a hard time mixing this one, but in the end, I think it turned out OK. The sounds at the beginning and end of the song are from the lift on the Light Force truck. When we were loading it one day I had the recorder running to capture background noise. The title is in reference to the Mole-Richardson lights we were using that day.

On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being awesome) I’ll give this song a 6. It’s got a heavy-ish sound to it, which I like.

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Song: Potato Shirts & Skins

Frenetic Stereoear Here’s the fourth song from the album “Frenetic Stereoear” titled “Potato Shirts & Skins.”

Potato_Shirts_Skins.mp3

This one has some nice bass, but the guitar is sort of, I dunno…lacking. The second half has the guitar doing some off-time thing, which I’m not sure works, but hey, I just went with it. The background sound in the song is from the lightning talks at BarCampMadison3, I think it’s before the talk where everyone was in the room talking to each other, and the recorder was just rolling, so there’s great audio of people talking, but you can’t make out anything that anyone is saying. I threw on some Fuzz-Wah and Platinum Reverb and it worked.

The name was originally “We’re all out of potato skins!” in reference to the night the wife and I hung out with the guys from The Black Jew Dialogues and went to Applebee’s and Larry tried to order from the Gluten-free menu. I ended up changing it to “Potato Shirts & Skins” because I thought it sounded funnier.

On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being awesome) I’ll give this song a 5. I like how the drums and bass go together. The guitar could be better. Heck, the whole song could be better, but really, it’s not that bad… right?

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Song: Snack Saw of Redemption

Frenetic Stereoear Here’s the third song from the album “Frenetic Stereoear” titled “Snack Saw of Redemption.”

Snack_Saw_of_Redemption.mp3

I took a jazz beat and slowed it down, and by now you can probably tell I like the phaser pedal. This song managed to go on for 2 and a half minutes, though I’m not convinced it should… The title came about because you can hear a hacksaw in the song, and I originally came up with “Hacksaw of Redemption” not really knowing what it meant, but liking the sound of it, but then I changed “hacksaw” to “Snack Saw” in thinking about the “Shawshank Redemption” and saws, in cakes, and bars (and barres) and that’s what happened. Yeah, that’s how it works.

On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being awesome) I’ll give this song a 6. The offbeatness of it, a bit of variance from the bass, and the phaser on the guitar, just sort of work for me…

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Bakery at VerveCast

Photo Challenge: Bakery

We finally did another Photo Challenge at Z2, and the theme was bakery.

Check out all the photos, because there’s some pretty cool ones in there… I mean, besides mine!

You might also notice that I’m blogging at VerveCast as well… You can see all of my posts if you’d like. I’ve recently written about Makerbot Industries, the resolution of the RED ONE, and Strip Tweeting

Of course you could just see the whole blog… There’s other good authors beside myself, and we’re publishing almost every day.