After the tragic massacre at Columbine, the media for some reason immediately blamed Marilyn Manson and published unfounded stories on the news that the troubled attackers were driven to their acts of violence by his music. There is an obvious question that comes to mind – “can music actually be blamed for someone to going on a heartfelt killing rampage?” (the answer is no,...
Read MoreI picked up some new recording gear over the Summer – and then as fate would have it – promptly did not have much time to actually start playing with it. This is a quick demo to test out my Blue Yeti USB microphone, I literally learned this song a few minutes before recording it and was sight reading the song so it does not have some of the fun guitar bits you would expect from a...
Read MoreHere is a song I have been working on this past week. It’s a different style from the music I usually write, more of a rock-ballad and more radio-friendly than the majority of what I have previously written. It actually started with the bass riffs and the rest of the song came together quite quickly in GarageBand. I got everything arranged approximately how I wanted it then imported the...
Read MoreA rare recording of “Super Cool” from 2005. This recording fits somewhere between the 2004 and 2006 demo discs but was never included in either. I wrote this song as a teen in the ’90s but it was not included on the Wretched demo, and although it was played often back then it pre-dates that demo. If memory serves me correctly there was a version of this song intended to be...
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