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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:14:42 PM
video festival
I did this on facebook with my videos, wrote some inside stuff, thought I'd share it here.
for all those who never saw me perform live, here's the most recent of me singing (starts at 40 seconds in).
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:15:47 PM
for the nostalgic, who remember lovingly times that weren't as fucked up as now.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:17:02 PM
This one got all of 23 total views, with a song that even my old adversary Kenny Lee liked. Brings to mind the question Why should anyone continue to make music at all? Answer: Not for you, for myself. and posting them online is just like putting on a different shirt, that's for me too, not for any of you, obviously.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:17:55 PM
I wrote this song as an answer to my spouse asking me again and again, "When are you going to start making money with this music hobby?" I told her that would be coming, and that it's more than just words this time. Turns out it wasn't.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:19:57 PM
I wrote a bunch of these Neg Tendencies songs years ago, when I was high every minute of every day. In this case, I had torn out a page from Hit Parader magazine with lyrics from the Olivia Newton John hit. For some reason the lyrics struck me as cool for a party song. Wrote a new tune for the lyrics, it's one of my favorite melodies I ever wrote. Tried to get the rights from the songwriter but he or the publishing co. just snubbed me, so I called it satire. Weapon X shows why he's the greatest bass player out there on this song.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:21:03 PM
I actually wrote this song waiting for my girlfriend to come over when I knew that great sex was imminent. yes my apartment was as messy as the shots in this video. Also has me doing a line of frogmouth vocal. haha Contains one of the most insidiously brilliant lead guitar solos I ever wrote. Interstellar drummer where'd you get that moonrock beat!
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:22:04 PM
Here's a slower sad song about a real person. I have all kinds of songs over the years. Some people just hate my voice. I grew to like it, probably cause it's the only one I got. I am a better piano player than guitarist, I just don't hear much piano in my head, I always hear guitars. heh Video shows my daughter and my apartment complex. Don't track it down and come to kill me, please.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:23:01 PM
Since it's Halloween season, here's a video that features me trying on a bunch of hats in the middle of it. Something you may not notice is that every verse changes keys and I sing them all wonderfully. :D The song is a combination between early Beatles and hair band.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:24:11 PM
oh the exquisite futility of being an indie artist, knowing nobody gives a fuck and I could post my life's work on facebook in one night and know it won't change a thing, knowing there is absolutely nothing I would ever be able to do to change my fate. My songs are still alive now but when I die they will all die with me as soon as the sites they're on stop paying their server bills. Not that this matters because few ever listen anyway. But I myself have enjoyed listening to all my songs once again. and when the morning comes I'll open the blinds.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:25:15 PM
This is the most brilliant bit of social commentary I've ever done. I stupidly put the absolute best bit of music I've ever recorded after the 3 minute mark of this song so few have ever or will ever hear it. lyrics: I think it's time your lame ass starts to again give a fuck. haha You don't and you never will.
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10/7/2017 3:26:30 PM
Here's an a capella song and video we did to a song written by one of my partners, the great Jillianne Wright, someone who basically gave up on the indie music game long ago. I should've saved this one for the end of my video festival, because the lyrics say it all. With all the preparation and the building and creation now, where did the excitement go? Feel very honored that I got to sing on this song, and I'm also proud of the Pet Soundsy instrumental I wrote and recorded at the end.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:27:31 PM
My personal favorite of all the songs I've ever recorded and easily my best ever guitar playing. It's also like the 2nd song I ever wrote on guitar back in like 81 and I've gone downhill basically since then. I also hold a vocal note longer near the end of this song than I've ever heard anyone indie or mainstream hold one. Is there an olympics for this sort of thing? This song is innately sad like me. I often wonder how I've even gone on, well it's cause I have this stupid dreamer side, at one time I even thought I could woo Supergirl!
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:28:29 PM
a psychedelic song influenced by the Beatles' Revolver. The song is about my daughter and she does an audio cameo in it. In a way part of her is just like me. She goes out on our deck to escape with her iPod. I used to go to my room and play the latest album I bought at Korvettes. Don't know how I would've gotten thru my youth without Elton, McCartney, Chicago, America.. Later on the good records stopped showing up in the New Releases bin so I turned to my own music and indies.
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10/7/2017 3:29:41 PM
a true story about my 4th grade teacher who abused me physically. Video includes pics taken when I went back to my elementary school to revisit my feelings about all that. I still occasionally do searches looking for her name because I had fantasies about finding her and killing her. Well that's a little exaggerated, the truth is, I did think about her thru the time I turned 25, but immediately upon finishing this song, I stopped thinking about her. Music has been the cure for many of my mental problems actually.
I should add here there's a goth synth solo in the middle of this that I'm really proud of. I think it's Steve Ison's favorite FT song.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:30:39 PM
This song depicts 7 years of my life I spent living in a town called Hellam PA. Shows the house we lived in, the cat that crawled in thru our bathroom window and became our pet. Shows the convenience store we stopped at almost every day of the week, of which there's a separate song about called Roy. Sometimes it breaks out and I know what we're fighting about. We get so involved in just watching our time running out.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:31:49 PM
This song goes out to all the indies. I remember being at a place in time not long after the advent of the mp3 file, where there were over 100,000 artists all in one place online and they all thought they were gonna be stars. I was one of them. In fact I think I believed that more than anyone I ever ran into. as you realized they false advertised in the magazine where you found your dreams.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:32:43 PM
Babe Ruth helped shape American culture. He was a freak of nature. This is when heroes, people were real. As technology grew, with little screens and digital fucking songfiles, silicon breasts and steroids, our culture got fucked up the ass by the Barry Bondses of the world, the record books and the politics of the world got wiped out by phony fucks.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:33:36 PM
I decided early in my recording life that I would make space for a guitar solo in every one of my songs. So after I'd been recording like 27 years, I decided I would do a project featuring all those guitar solos called Guitarnado. This of course resulted in literally a ton of abuse from my indie peers, who chose to take the posture "he dares to give himself any credibility as a guitarist!" but I mean there's a lot of creative guitar there, not sure why what I did was so criminal, still.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:34:32 PM
This song is the absolute magnum opus from my current band. The intro is actually a separate song musically depicting masturbation called Pounding the Pud. :D I wrote the song itself long ago but it actually depicts my journey as an aspiring music guy. To make music requires a ton of belief in yourself. You put that belief out there, and you end up basically hanging yourself because you're supposed to follow the unwritten rule to be humble as an artist while at the same time trying to get your music out to others to inspire them to listen. The result is a lot of self-hatred.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:35:30 PM
This song has been called the lost Led Zep song. It actually the best Led Zep song since Physical Graffiti. :) It's the song I PM to girls I like (blushing). I don't think it did much for Melissa. :D
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:36:36 PM
Song about a strange guy named Stammy. Gee I wonder who that is? There's no way you'd ever guess until he picks up his guitar. Video is by Dave Latchaw. Features a kazoo solo at the end. Some folks never even try.
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Father Time
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10/7/2017 3:37:36 PM
Another song based on a true story, musically reminiscent of Watchtower. It's an ear warm, caution. There must be some kinda way outa here.
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Two Silo Complex
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10/8/2017 5:04:58 PM
thank you for sharing all these videos with the short stories your videos are pretty entertaining. I'm terrible at video just don't have the knack for it but I admire those that know how to create them.
Well done.
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Father Time
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10/9/2017 10:31:52 AM
Thanks a lot, Ken. Much appreciated. I was hoping at least somebody commented on this, it would've been embarrassing otherwise. You have never adhered to the general mode of behavior here and this community is better for that.
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