I just found this old video on VHS. hehehe
2001, practicing in the bathroom for the acoustics… This song is too hard on my voice. 🙁
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Most embarrassing thing ever
I was transferring a bunch of old forgotten VHS tapes to my computer the other day, and ran across this video gem from 1993. This is easily one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever shared on the internet. Enjoy.
Song: “Why?”
Year: 1993
Original by Dave Eric Smith
Presence
A little while back I was playing around with an effect on my keyboard and liked how it sounded, and then added some controlled guitar feedback to it.
I used my Ensoniq esq-1 keyboard and Charvel Model 3 guitar.
Into The Knot
This is a very short instrumental that I put together as a music bed for a friend’s cat video. I call it “7-string punk”, even though I played it on a detuned 6-string guitar.
I used my Charvel Model 3 guitar detuned to a B, used my Encore POS bass guitar, and drum loops from Addictive Drums.
Mike Is Camping (Mike in the Woods)
There’s an interesting story behind this song, but you probably don’t care.
Back in the early 90’s, my friend Mike was really into 4-wheeling and camping in the mountains… as well as drinking lots of beer and shooting guns. My friend Chris and I were pretty much city boys, but we would go on many wheeling trips with Mike. Chris and I wrote the lyrics to this song in ’92, and the original version of the song (at that time called “Mike in the Woods”) was born.
I played the guitar and bass, programmed the drum machine and sang the lead vocals… Chris, well.. he pretty much just drank beer and shouted out a few background vocals.
In late 2014, I was sitting in my studio and I decided to remake the song. Chris didn’t participate this time, so I was able to redo the whole thing in about 2 hours. After you’ve watched this lyric video of the “new” version here, check out the original audio version of the song below it.
And 2 decades earlier… here’s the original 1992 version of “Mike in the Woods (Mike is Camping)”: