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 […]
While flipping through the latest Staples flyer, I dared to read some of the “catchy phrases” that they’ve printed at the bottom of each page. The comment on page 8 reads: We can show you how easy it is to take your technical needs to the next level. This is a mixture of a couple […]
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? […]
Alex’s plea for more Commodore posts got me thinking – I actually have been doing lots of C= related posting still, just not here on my blog. It goes to other forums, such as Lemon64, AtariAge, and most recently, Denial (all linked at the right). This is pretty cheap, but here’s a (somewhat revised) post […]
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 […]
I often buy games for the Game Boy Advance without reading reviews first – when they’re in the bargain bin, and the game description on the box sounds promising enough. I’ve said often enough that my favourite genre of games are vehicular combat. Get in a car with machine guns, rockets, flame-throwers, and blow up […]
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. […]