Archive for October, 2008
Dubious by Nature
by Tom Anthony on Oct.28, 2008, under Music
Some time ago I would spend time in a little Irish pub in NorthPort, Long Island, NY. It was a warm and accommodating place where most of the folks I hung out with were from County Cork, Ireland. I’m not sure why that was the case, but it was. I played darts and drank a ‘wee bit of Old Jamie’s and told stories with some of the coolest people I knew. My favorite memory was of playing guitar with the guys that hung out there. That’s actually the main reason I would go. Sometimes a flute would appear, and once someone whipped out an accordion.
This song reminds me of some of the music we were playing in NorthPort. I Finished the mix just now – I hope this does not get tedious to listen to… it’s as long a recording as I have ever posted here. But I just wrote this and performed it in the last 90 minutes… it is still echoing sweetly in my ears. This is a straight up live recording.
Sweet Meet Blues
by Tom Anthony on Oct.24, 2008, under Music
Oct 24, 2008
What a great evening I’ve had. After a full week that went well, and at the end of a fun night, I found myself wanting to play. So I did. I was really inspired tonight, and it came out of my fingers as an upward spiral of good spirited blues. I think there is a better mix to be found in here somewhere, but good bad or indifferent here is my “Sweet Meet Blues“
August 7, 2010
My site were all compromised by hackers in July and as I finish the re-build I have reposted this tune with a different mix under the Re-post category. This mix sounds a little too raw and more like a circus than a song…
Storm of Love
by Tom Anthony on Oct.03, 2008, under Music, Re-post
This is a song I wrote about 20 years ago to and for the Mother of my Daughter. It has words, but I’m not ready to sing quite yet.
I was so frustrated earlier this week trying to set up my studio so I can record music I had to buy myself an early birthday present. It’s a digital recorder made by Boss, which in turn is owned by Roland, the same company that makes the synthesizer I use. (It’s a Roland Fantom-S BTW… see more here ) What an unbelievable difference in sound quality.
So here is the first recording on the Boss BR1200 created within four hours of opening the box, reading the instructions… O.K. reading a few of the instructions, hooking up the audio cables from the Roland to the piano and from there to the recorder. Plugged in my headset so as not to wake the neighbors – and came up with this version of Storm of Love.
8/8/2010
Note: I consider this a re-post since back in 2008 the individual track files were posted as MP3s . That messed up iTunes and a random work track would be posted to the podcast.
Friday Playday
by Tom Anthony on Oct.02, 2008, under Music
I really wanted to record something new tonight, but the little black box which connects the keyboard to laptop has an unacceptable hum. Drat.
Well, actually I got lucky. Moving some files around I noticed a set of three tracks which I had not produced yet called Friday Playday. I originally recorded these tracks on March 18, 2007. Sounds impossibly long ago against the backdrop of my current “new” life.
I call this a track and not a song because as I poke around inside my existing recordings I notice that I have played a lot of very different variations on surprisingly few themes. In other words I hear the same melodies and counter melodies across many recordings, but they seem pretty different because of the musical arrangement. This is upbeat, all me – playing across three or four different tracks, and (I hope for your sake) not completely unpleasant.
