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- Mike Golner: guitars, basses, keyboards, looping, programming and recording.
Man, I've been doing this stuff forever. And I really don't have much to show
for it. The advice I give to people considering a music degree or a similarly artistic
education, is - don't. If you want an education - go to the library, if you want a degree -
go to college. So if you do go to school, you may as well get a degree that will help you pay off the loans!
All ranting aside, let me just say that all my stuff sucks. It was totally fun, and I learned
an awful lot about how to get sound onto tape, but it's all poot. None of it is current,
none of it is finished, and I really never expected to share it with anyone, but well here I
am with all the technology in place to do so, so why the hell not?! Fire up the way back machine!
(Maybe once all the sections of this website are in place I will turn my attentions
to creating some new music, drool slobber!)
The Tracks:
- 1) CarrotStick - This one was really just me getting reacquainted with
the program Acid.
I used a guitar set up as a baritone: BEADGB, with a really skinny bass string for low B.
A silly song with silly sounds, but probably good as the theme music for crashing a car into a wall.
- 2) HeadBump - Man you can really rattle your speakers with
Audiomulch.
As a guitar player I don't really know much about synthesis, the domain of the keyboardist for many years,
but these types of programs let you wreak some serious havoc. This song (like Zappas Dancin Fool)
is purposely designed to be really hard to dance to. Try it - go ahead!
- 3) Little Sister - This is the nicest acoustic guitar
tone I've yet recorded, and the sad thing is that I don't exactly know what I did!
It had something to do with preamping . . . Valuable Lesson: write stuff down. This
one was always intended to have a bass part, but I never got around to it. The guitar
has a whole lot of low end though.
- 4) Po' Duane - A total wanker. I'm not really too comfortable
playing long solos, but I was totally jazzed at how close to my
live sound
the GT3
straight into the computer was sounding. You can really hear how my having
not used picks in a couple of years affects the tone and note selection, more
wood tone and angularity to the lines. All that Allman Brothers I grew up on is
in this one, and in fact I stole the drums from a Duane Allman anthology, from
when he was a Muscle Shoals session player.
- 5) Fearful - This song is from my first crack at Acid (how
often can you use that sentence and have it really not be drug related?). I
was obviously concerned about Yugoslavia at that time, I had a Yugo. No, actually I was
concerned at how quickly and effortlessly humans slip into savagery. The fall of communism globally was not the end
of mans inhumanity towards his fellow man - racial, ethnic, and religious hatreds rose up
instantly to replace the cold war. Yay. I was even considering gun ownership
for civil defense back in those days. Somehow I am not feeling entirely more comfortable
these days, either. Boo. My favorite thing about this song is the barking dog.
- 6) Evilman - My very first looped drum beat. Not very interesting
or creative I'll admit, but I was digging the fact that it actually worked and I
began fooling around with the effect busses and backwards sounds and other cool
stuff that digital does so well. I was feeling blue after a difficult breakup,
and I ran across a cassette tape with this ridiculous evangelist dude, and his
bizzarre rant seemed like a good topic for this one. Note the satanic backwards vocals:
If you flip the tape over it says "wash behind your ears, respect your elders, buy low sell high".
- And, oh man, there is so much more, I'm entirely skipping all of the super
enjoyable bands I've had the pleaasure of hitting the stage with, but I think
I'd better turn my attentions to the other pages on this website, and not bog
down now! I'll be be back though.
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