(Not a) Song for Ike Turner

This song calls for electric guitar, but I can't seem to coordinate the technology and the time to record, so here's an acoustic "rehearsal" movie until I can Garageband it sometime. The reference to Bentley's Roadhouse and the Lower Village People near the end of the song is a tribute to my friend Andy's band. Bentley's is on Route One in Arundel.

Inspirational Ancient History

The Stringrays

Meg and I went out to Rafters while we were down at St. Simon's Island, and heard the Stringrays play. They had a different drummer -- a sub, Meg speculated -- and this cool sax player featured in this clip wasn't part of the band, but I got a kick out of finding this when I got home. I love this song (have been practicing it on guitar a little lately), and the sax also evokes our other musical outing of the vacation, the Army Jazz Ambassadors in Brunswick.

Fort Mountain Breakdown

I made this video from Tom Martin's shots a couple years ago, with a soundtrack that I created in GarageBand.

The Receders

I was looking at the OneTallMomma blog, just to see if Ashley really had stopped keeping it up, and another guy named Jeff had posted a comment, so I followed his link and read some of his stuff, which led me to his band, the Receders and some of their performances on youtube. Here's one:

Bruce Springsteen's "State Trooper"

A cover of "State Trooper," ostensibly for Pete's collection.

Love, Music, and Alcohol

This is my most-recently-written song, in a wishful performance with a costume and some props.