This is pretty much my favourite recording besides the North and the Sea stuff, and a couple Richard Pepper tracks we helped out with. Darren did drums and vocals, I did guitar and bass. In some ways this song was very much a preview of what was to come in NatS. Darren had written the […]
I’m not totally sure if this is Darren and me playing, or just me. For sure I’m playing bass, and maybe Darren is on guitars, or it’s me multi-tracked. Maybe Darren will remember. Petra was one of my favourite bands in the late 80s and early 90s, and this was one of my favourite songs. […]
I’ve been looking for another one or two Heads Up! tracks, but can’t seem to find anything except this instrumental by Ron, and only Ron. If you don’t like it in the first minute or so, the next four minutes aren’t going to do anything new to change your mind. Maybe Ron or Darren can […]
I had a few different recordings of this song to choose from. None of them were perfect. I chose this one because Darren doesn’t stray into his Ernie voice much, and it’s the only one with a “guitar solo”. Like all our stuff, this is very high on the cheese scale, but at least it’s […]
This song is more than a little bit quirky. Like, a lot quirky. I believe at one point there was the idea that all our songs would contain “Head” in the title somehow. I don’t think we got very far with that, but I’m pretty sure the overall sound of the music Ron had made […]
Another instrumental. Too much bass in the mix, and not enough skill in the bass, though I’m surprised I held on as well as I did, and didn’t get lost. Ron does some neat piano stuff that sometimes can be heard over my noise and the Casio-rhythms. Shroom has some cool less-is-more single note guitar […]
Week 3 (week 6 if you include all the vacation I took) of my parental leave from work is almost over, and I haven’t accomplished many of the things I had hoped to. In total I wrote about 11,000 words between my two NaNoWriMo novels, way short of the 50,000 word target for the month […]
This next Heads Up! track is some good fun. I’m pretty sure the song is the demo on Ron’s keyboard – no idea what the title is, maybe it has the word “Lake” in it? No offense intended to Ron if he is actually playing this! Darren adds his unique guitar style, and you end […]