Highlights from Bedroom Concert the 1st (MP3s)
Howdy folks.
As per a few people’s requests, I singled out some songs from Bedroom Concert the 1st (the ones I actually more or less finished all the way through) as individual tracks:
- Wobbly Boat (original by me) — lyrics here.
- Behind the Garage (Eric’s Trip cover)
- Bang Bang (Nancy Sinatra cover)
- I Love You, Always (Brian Jonestown Massacre cover)
- If I Love You (Brian Jonestown Massacre cover)
- Dear Prudence (Beatles cover)
- Across the Universe (Beatles cover)
I also added album art & stuff to the metadata (I just figured out how to edit metadata! and that it’s kind of important to do that. So I did). Here’s all those ‘highlight’ tracks, plus the full concert, all .zipped up for your convenience: [ZIPPITY doo].
In other news…
Aside from my weird acoustic songs, I’ve been happily busy with another band I’m in (as the drummer), in which we rock out! It is fronted by awesome dude #1: Jon, and complimented by awesome bass player dude #2: Trevor. Here’s the thing, though. We’ve yet to choose a name. Here are bunch of possibles I’ve been spit-balling in my notebook over the last while, or that I’ve loosely ripped off from places:
- Del Monte Fashion Peas*
- End Times Puppet Show*
- Time-traveling Jon and the Strangetalkers from Nowhere
- The Party Scientists*
- The Whistling Kidnappers*
- The Flirting Hermits
- On Watch For Martians
- Naked Poets
- The Storywhistlers
- The Boxcar Beekeepers*
- The Unanswered Questions
- The One True Truth!
- Animate Objects
- Snow Angels (of ____)
- etc. (I could do this all day).
And hey, whatever we don’t pick, feel free to steal! (But until then, BACK OFF. Get your own band name).
Soon I’ll probably post some clips from our jam/practice sessions. I just want to make sure it’s okay with the band mates first.
Meanwhile, I’m on the verge of finishing some more new songs, and have been cooking up some crazy ideas with pals of mine, like open-source albums, premonitory EPs and more! Tune in soon and tune in often.
This post brought to you by Del Monte Fashion Peas* …Nature’s peas.
An Odd Story From My Childhood
So I sent my mom this video (how could you not send your mom this video?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
And this was her reply. (Quimby was my Cabbage Patch doll, by the way):
…you were a lot like her when you were that age. I remember the time I came home from work and you had all your dolls and teddy bears on facecloths and towels on the family room floor and you told me it was a hospital and that Quimby had to have an operation because she had Hot Blood. I asked you what you had to do for that and you said that you had to suck out all the Hot Blood and put Cold Blood in her.
I am so totally fascinated by the minds of children!
Check THIS out.
I think, ultimately, I’m going to end up making folksy children’s records, like when I become a mother, probably. But they won’t be cheesy, they’ll be really good. Kids deserve that and are so underestimated in what they can appreciate, given the opportunity.
Maybe I’ll make a whole album about the Blue Lady and Bloody Mary… But I don’t know, maybe that would be exploitive and lame. But I think kids could appreciate an epic concept album if it were coming from the right ‘place’.
Don’t even get me started on kids’ entertainment in this day & age… I will be the PeeWee, not the Teletubby, of Children’s songwriters.
Anyway. Early day tomorrow. Drawing maps for work. Just tryin’ to help people find their way to church.
Bedroom Concert 2008-02-16
All live. All uncensored. All the brooke. All the time.
Bedroom Concert the 1st
by the brooke (a tiny ocean).
Breakdown of the Set:
(note: this wasn’t intended to be a ’set’ at the time. it’s just me… just trying to understand my life… through music*)
‘Party Sciences’ take 1‘Party Sciences’ take 2(I decided to axe takes 1+2. I don’t like em as much)- little improv thingy
- ‘Sugar Mountain‘ by Neil Young (the beginning, till I realize I don’t remember the rest of words)…
- little improv thingy
- ‘Rather Be‘ by Rick White/Elevator To Hell
- tiny part from ‘Cut Out The Wick‘ by Rick White/Elevator Through
- ‘Behind the Garage‘ by Rick White/Eric’s Trip
- ‘Across the Universe‘ by the Beatles
- several failed attempts at ‘Angeles‘ by Elliott Smith
- ‘Wobbly Boat‘ (an original by me)
- ‘I Love You (Always)’ by the Brian Jonestown Massacre
- ‘If I Love You’ by the Brian Jonestown Massacre
- ‘Dear Prudence‘ by the Beatles (1 and 1/2 takes)
- ‘Mother Nature’s Son‘ by the Beatles (until I mess up)
- teeny tiny intro bit of ‘Plateau‘ by the MeatPuppets
- a quickly-abandoned attempt at ‘We Dance‘ by Pavement
- little improv-majigg
- ‘Sugar Mountain’ by Neil Young (again… until, again, I remember that I don’t know all the words)
- beginning bit of ‘Ohio‘ by Neil Young (do I have ADD?)…
- ‘A Horse With No Name‘ by America (until I run out of parts I know)
- improvy thing
- ‘Party Sciences’ by me (with Tim Boucher influences) take 3
- ‘Party Sciences’ take 4 (lyrics & chords are in the comments)
- ‘Bang Bang‘ by Nancy Sinatra
The end.
And remember kids, when life gets you down, do what I do. Reach for a delicious, nutritious bucket of Del Monte Fashion Peas. Nature’s peas.
[UPDATE: go here to see the ‘album cover’ I made since this post, and to download the concert!]
“Wobbly Boat” (Demo #1)
Here’s a song I wrote.
It’s called Wobbly Boat [mp3].
Coming up next on the brooke show: A Sunday Bedroom Concert (#1)
I Love This Kid!
Ethan Haller from New Zealand is way cool! …which just further proves my theory that people from New Zealand are way cool!