I Don't Have to Dream -New Song

I've written a lot of tunes over the years with Samantha in mind, but this is only the second time I've written one as a gift. This one is for our 18th wedding anniversary, which means we've been together for 20 years! Holy crap 20 years?! Wow! Time flies...

The song is called I Don't Have to Dream. That's right "It may be hard to believe, but you're right here in front of me. Nah, it ain't so hard to see, that I've got everything I ne-ee-ee-eed. I don't have to dream..." You know I love you baby!

The ukulele is pretty obvious, but the rhythm is with a hairbrush and a stick on a wooden washboard. I like alternative percussion.

In Over My Head

Well, it's a great title I chose for this weblog, as that's the way life can seem. I played at People's cooperative yesterday and forgot my memory chip so, although the audio levels of my recording would have been great I had no recording to speak of.
I'm going to assume that I forgot the card because of everything else going on in my life.

The family and I moved in July to find a better place for doing business, and now we're being forced to move again. Our roomate is a complete psycho. He keeps guns in the house, including a 9mm handgun and a "tactical shotgun" as he calls it. He threatened to shoot our friend and colleague because she told him she wasn't interested in him. Now he told Samantha that he wants to slit my throat. And he can't understand why we're being so unreasonable! People ask us how we meet all these psychos (more about the other psychos later). It's just luck I guess.
So, anyway, the gig at People's was great, it's one of my favorite places to play, I get to be theme music for an egalitarian establishment whose motto is "feeding the revolution." But because I didn't have my chip I'm going to have to upload a couple of more segments from the Alberta Street Co-op.

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WHISPERING WIND
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LAST NIGHT
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Alberta Street Coop 8-27-05

Saturday was a great time playing at the Alberta Street Coop. I've decided to start recording my gigs, but this time the audio was peaking out. Next time I'll keep the levels lower than I expect. I played some improvised blues that was pretty cool (aside from the peaking).

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