This is a little backing track I came up with last night. Again, it is just a framework for something. It could be a proper song or I could go and ruin the vibe by attempting to solo all over it. Decisions, decisions, eh?
And so the demo track “Balls” has pupated and turned into the rather ugly butterfly “Stand Up and Be Counted”. I think there might be a lyric in there somewhere, but I present an instrumental cut complete with me putting on my best electric lead guitarist impression. Oh how I wish I could really play. Heigh ho, you make the best with the tools you are given. Alternative title is “Keep the Cat off the Ham”.
One of the staples of my childhood was watching “The Benny Hill Show” on ITV and if you aren’t familiar with that particular show, it always ended in a Keystone Cops-style chase with Benny being pursued by various characters to the inimitable saxophone track. Well the player and composer of that song was a musician called Boots Randolph and he died this week after slipping into a coma. When he was alive, he said that not many people could play his tune and that he was proud that it was his trademark. Well, for some of us it was a cultural watermark and there’s always a wry smile whenever I hear that piece of music.
And here’s evidence that this song can make just about anything funny…
So I have made a concerted effort to do some more recording. I’ve been slacking off lately, preferring to play silly games on the Xbox 360, but with some new drum loops at the ready I’m going to produce some more mediocre musical musings. The first one up is a bit of a cut and shut job. It’s working title is “Balls” because I think it sounds like a load of old sphericals. It’s a work in progress, so I am not sure exactly how it will end up. Anyhoo, get your lugholes around this old noise:
I am a bit of a stats whore and every month I look on in glee to see how much data I’ve shifted off this site over the past thirty or so days. For the month of June, I managed to put out there over 83Gb of data, mainly video and music files, of course. 83Gb! Wowser, that’s a lot of data and a personal best for the site.
This is clever. It is a website that allows you to search for music and plays it back in a seperate Flash player, allowing you to search some more. You can even embed playlists created by searches you’ve made and here’s the one I’ve done for a couple of the MP3s hosted on this site.
SeeqPod Music beta – Playable Search
