Category: music and video

this is jimmy cliff’s harder they come, played by plan b in puerto viejo on my dad’s bday, 12-26-2009. memo, claudio, iñaki, kiko, and me on guitar and vocals.

and here is i can see clearly now

here is action pants playing ooh la la , an old faces tune.

did this one with tony on july 2. there is some cool stuff in there, a melodica, this weird slavic-looking banjo thing whose name escapes me, and this casio:

i am pretty excited that my podcast feed seems to be working again. so if you are subscribed in itunes or have it in your rss browser, the tuneage should be flowing again. this next one i did with tony at new bellevue. june 26. all these are unfinished works in progress. here we are… Continue reading yay the itunes feed is working again

UPDATE: I PULLED THE VIDEO TO RECUT IT. SHOULD BE BACK UP SOON. i finished the video of phil and i flying out of oakland and barnstorming various bay area landmarks. i think it turned out pretty cool. you get to see a lot of the places that the boate visited from a completely different… Continue reading flying video

liz came over and we worked on some of the recordings we have been tracking. things really gelled well on a couple of them today, we are at the end of the process, adding things really carefully for flavor. it’s amazing how much of a difference little tweaks here and there can make to songs.… Continue reading a good sunday

i was sitting here just now strumming the guitar and saw a dvd that i am going to watch soon, bound for glory, about woody guthrie. i remembered one of my favorite songs that guthrie sang, hobo’s lullaby, pulled up the lyrics on the computer, set the microphone in front of myself and this is… Continue reading hobo’s lullaby

to protect the innocence is the provisional title for a work in progress (mp3). i watched fellini’s 8 1/2 a couple weeks ago, and there is a great scene where guido’s (marcello mastroianni) stunningly beautiful wife luisa (anouk aimie) calls him on his shit for writing about their relationship and putting it up on the… Continue reading to protect the innocence

i wrote and tracked some vocals to the song that i recorded last week. it’s called out of my own way (mp3). i didn’t really mix it, sorta slapped it together, but i think most of the parts are there. out of my own way words rush by and i try to make sense of… Continue reading out of my own way

i recorded another song tonight. for tonight it’s called march forth (mp3). my settings on the master fader are a little…hot. it’s not distorting too much, but i have the overall signal squeezing TIGHT against the final limiter. not bad for six hours work. TURN IT UP LOUD.

i like this new song that i have been working on (mp3) but i can’t seem to settle on the lyrics. i think i just have to keep working at it until it feels right, but in the meantime that means a lot of time spent with the microphone on, the track rolling, and me… Continue reading have i mentioned what a chore it is to write lyrics?

many years ago my friend and one-time manager mike halle turned me on to a willie nelson song. this afternoon, with a little time to kill before running out to a dinner party for my 40th, i remembered the song, it seemed to fit my mood, and decided to give it a shot. i recorded… Continue reading funny how time slips away

i wanted to sing a cat stevens song the other day, so i did a google search for the lyrics and wound up on his site. there is an area where fans submit their cover versions of his songs, so i recorded into white tonight. my dad was the production designer on harold and maude,… Continue reading cat cover

my brother complained that the guitar riff in “why and why not” needed something more. i’m a little out of practice, but i think i gave it. now it needs a real drummer. please listen to this at an extreme sound pressure level.

so i tracked some vox for the song i came up with last night. give it a listen. it’s about my favorite parable by kafka and phil’s theory that the man from the country awaiting entry could have passed through the gate to the law at any time, and it was only fear that caused… Continue reading why and why not