I like to fancy myself a songwriter – writing more than a handful over the years (and co-writing quite a good lot more) and I’ve got it in my head that I can home brew an album. I’ve been inspired by the fine work of my good friend David Husted (his album is available on Spotify: Love’s Marrow and readily purchased at cdbaby).

I will attempt to “amateurize” my way through. I’ll start out with one old song, Christie, that I could never quite make work for our band, The Get-Up (which includes the aforementioned Mr. Husted, Bill O’Driscoll & Alan Schwartz – though the 2 songs available via the link are minus the talents of Bill O. ) and another, fairly recent, one: The Policy of Love (SoundCloud demo see below).  (Thinking of dedicating a future post to some Get-Up history – currently, we gather annually at a cabin for a weekend to play our songs and some covers for an audience of birds and squirrels.)

Instrumentation will include: Ibanez acoustic guitar, (maybe electric if I can fix it), Fender Bass (the bass is Precision, the playing probably not so much), Casio keyboard (more than a toy, but not a professional model – if they even make one), possibly additions of clarinet (if it still works), accordion (if I can find it) and/or didgeridoo (if I can get the drone going). Percussion will be handled via the keyboard and anything else I can tap, bang on, shake, etc.

Not sure on the software yet.  I have FourTracks Lite on my phone to at least get the ideas down (I used that to record the Policy of Love demo).

My musical tastes/influences cover a broad spectrum (loosely categorized here): Pop (XTC, Elvis Costello, Francis Dunnery, Madness), Progrock (Gentle Giant, Genesis, Triumvirat), Jazzrock (Gong, Passport)

Suggestions, as well as positive vibes, are always welcome.

-RecordEd