More frequent blogging should resume a-pretty soon. My game project is in the final stages of playtesting, and will be sent to the big N today or tomorrow. If they don’t find any faults, off it goes to be manufactured! In the meantime, I think I have a few loose ends from my music series […]
Here’s the other chocolate thing. I’m not even sure it was supposed to be a bass guitar, but it does have 4 strings, so let’s assume that’s on purpose. I wonder if there’s a term for the maximum “chocolate-resolution” they can get out of the medium and the molds? Maybe that’s why they went for […]
Okay, now that I’m done embarrasing myself with my mostly-solo album, it’s time to embarrass Darren again. Darren wrote this, vocalized it, and likely had a lot to do with the drum machine side of things. I don’t know if we actually programmed it, or just used a bunch of the built-in beats. My contribution […]
Track #7 on the album is “Quarters”, which has already been dealt with. On to the 8th and final track of “Robin Plays and/or Sings”: To wrap up university, Darren and I took a choral ensemble class. It was a great experience in many ways. We did a concert at the end of the 6? […]
Track #6 is an instrumental of “Morning Has Broken” which probably has another name when there aren’t any words attached to the song. “Traditional English Melody” or something 🙂 As far as I remember, I recorded this on two tracks – acoustic guitar on one, and acoustic bass guitar on the other. The acoustic bass […]
Track #5 is “Don’t Care About The…” which is the most personal song I’ve ever written, though that’s not really saying too much. It’s fairly angry, written about some friend and/or family problems that I believe are at least mostly behind us (this was recorded more than 10 years ago). I play bass and guitar, […]
Track #4 on Robin Sings And/Or Plays is “You Set Me Free”. The verse text is taken right from Psalm 118:5-6: In my anguish I cried to the LORD, and he answered by setting me free. The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? I play bass […]
In the early 90s I went down to Florida a few times to visit my grandparents Ed & Bea Harbron. They owned a trailer, and spent every winter down there. I went down on my own to visit them for spring break, probably in 1992. One afternoon we went to one of the huge flea […]
So here we go, working through all the songs on “Robin Plays and/or Sings”. Track #1 was Meaningless Love Song, the first recording of me playing bass ever. The second track on the album is “Love Is A Scalar”. I think this is the first song I ever wrote. I remember writing it in Mr. […]
Exactly 10 years ago today – January 18th, 1996 we had a really big blizzard in Thunder Bay. It was so big that work closed down, and I got to stay home. So I spent the day recording and piecing together from other recordings my one and only “mostly-solo album”, called “Robin Plays And/Or Sings”. […]