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  • Here is some stuff under my name. Lot's more at rreplay and on the waydio, above.  Download here or here or in in the waydio. Enjoy, and let me know if you like them!

    Thomas Square Blues- 5:38

    Reworked "99 percent Blues" as an ascoustic rocker with slide guitar.  The new verses describing what has been happening since the 8 raids (so far) on the deOccupy Honolulu encampment. 


    99 Percent Blues - 4:04

    I recently recorded an homage to Jimi Hendrix's "Red House," (instrumental -- not Jimi's! -- here), and decided to write some words for it related to the Occupy Movement here in Honolulu and around the world.  See the blog for the story. 

    The Revolution will not be on the Internet - 5:28

    Sampled modems and dialtones and guitars under words inspired by Gil Scott Heron and dub poet Mutabaruka. Part of the Artists' Use of the Word Revolution project from Alan Dunn.


    Bomb the Beach - 5:01

    . . . a page from the news, inspired by the day the Israelis bombed a Palestinian family having a picnic on the beach, killing several of them.


    (What's the matter with a little) Class War -- 2:42

    What's the matter with a little class war? Huh? (Scrubby remix)


    goto work -- 5:21

    Found sounds and processed guitars to make a swirling wordless narrative soup. Kinda ambient with a subway driving through it. "Go to Work" uses these sounds from the great Freesound Project.


    I was never really cool -- 3:58

    Still working out the lyrics on this one, but it rocks pretty good as is. Kind of like a cross between REM and exile-era Stones trying to sound like the Pixies doing a 1960s bubblegum psychedelic song.


    Breathe -- 1:30

    A short instrumental. A bunch of guitars. Soundtrack music. Scene — rainy day, urban sidewalks, neon sign in a window, hot coffee in a paper cup.


    Dronebox Tramp -- 3:18

    What happens when you put a dronebox with a tramp?


    Ambient 1-- 5:28 -- and Ambient 2 -- 5:37

    Ambient soundscape with one guitar and tape loops. Tres chill.



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  • 99 Percent Blues live at (de)Occupy Honolulu

    Here we are holding down the Sunday jam at Thomas Square for (de)Occupy Honolulu: Michael, Laulani, Dave and Laulani, who is trying to video while singing backups and playing ukulele, and myself on slide and singing.  Michael plays upside down and backwards, Jimi Hendrix style, and David has an endless stream of classic folk songs [...]

  • Thomas Square Blues

    Extension of “99 percent blues,” acoustic with slide guitar and my sweet new Gibson acoustic on rhythm.  The new verses reflect the 8 raids on the Thomas Square Occupy Honolulu encampment.  Still there though!  Come down Sunday afternoon for Food Not Bombs and a jam with Laulani Teale and myself.  Bring yer [...]

  • 99 percent blues

    OK, so what’s a blues song without some words? I finished my tribute to Jimi Hendrix’s “Red House” by cutting some vocals dedicated to the Occupy movement, and the ninety-nine percent struggling to wake up from the nightmare the one percent is inflicting on us every day with corruption, oppression, and greed.  Oh, and if [...]