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Tom O'Brien
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3/26/2026 1:39:44 AM
Playing Frankenstein
I found some old tracks from 15+ years ago, and in listening to them again, it was clear that I was a beginner at this whole home recording thing. My arrangements were bad, my production was worse, but when I listened to just the main voc and acoustic guitar, I could tell that I had hidden some really good songs in really bad sounds.
So, fast-forward to 2026, I'm taking the corpses of these dead songs that hadn't been listened to in a long while, and trying to re-animate them - saving some parts, adding some parts, flipping a few switches and what-not, and hopefully, making them more palatable to the ear.
I wrote this song, in 2010, about someone I loved who was coming out of a severe, suicidal, depression - it made me think of Lazarus rising from the dead.
Lazarus 2026
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Bryon Tosoff
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3/26/2026 10:56:42 AM
thanks for this backstory and the evolution of you as a songcrafter singer songwriter
Yeah, good song! added it to The eYe. its got some cool vibes going on, i so dig it great feel and groove, well done , you are a good musician player and singer!!!
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Richard Scotti
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3/26/2026 11:28:40 AM
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This is one Frankenstein experiment that really worked out well for the creator! Fantastic lead and background vocals (some of your very best)
Great melody and song construction with top notch rhythm acoustic guitar playing (also some of your best) Creative bridges that really vary the vibe strategically.
Wonderful resurrection of a past life. I’d love to hear how the bride of Frankenstein turns out!!!
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jingo
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3/27/2026 4:01:16 PM
I was hoping to read that you were incorporating the Edgar Winter classic into your live act, as that would be pretty cool.
You have a nice voice for this kind of material, glad you are able to give some love to the vocal track. Sounds nice, don’t know what it was before but this was an easy listen.
Just throwing this out there: if you rework it again think about replacing the flute section with a keytar solo, as that would be, well, you know, pretty cool.
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Tom O'Brien
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3/27/2026 10:50:35 PM
A keytar! Gotta bring in Stevie! You know what other odd instrument I love - the mellotron! Listen to the "flutes" on "Strawberry Fields" or the end "vocals" on Marvin Gaye's "Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)" - it's just a beautiful, un-natural sound.
Thanks for the kind words!
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Chris Hance
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3/28/2026 4:03:43 AM
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Had a listen Tom, I thought it sounded great, and I loved the flute. My pal picked up a flute from a local auction, and I said I might be interested, I went round to his place and neither of us could get a note out of it, there was something weird about it, and I wondered if it was a left handed instrument or something...
Anyway, I liked the track Lazarus 2026, and put it up on Tunes In My Head.
Well done
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