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Obligatory last day Blog
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| (Monday, 01 March 2010) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| It's posted, it has 11 songs, and it has artwork. It's a Miracle. My partner says it's the best one yet w00t! I think only half the songs went into stage 2 writing (where the structure undergoes changes), which is not always a bad thing. Somet... (412 more chars) |
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Tonights work
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| (Wednesday, 24 February 2010) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| i'm up to speed - i have succeeded in writing some new songs, and have even started recording them. Yay. 5 of them i'm happy with 4 days to go. So my first question is .. alonetone.com/gumbo/tracks/cupids-own-knife-rpm can i get away with th... (122 more chars) |
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Gumbo Blog Surprise
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| (Monday, 22 February 2010) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Not been doing much of this, though i've been trying to make as many silly comments as i can. This was going to be your chance for revenge. But it's now your chance to hear demo six in the player Thinking Only Of You also at http://alonet... (112 more chars) |
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The Far End of the alphabet
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| (Monday, 15 February 2010) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| I have four songs up in my player now Party ( i got a third verse but it's not posted yet), Wonderlust and White Dove, plus a new one Unattainable. I really like the song - it's got that Gillian Welch kind of otherworldy-ness to it but i'm ... (239 more chars) |
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White Dove
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| (Saturday, 13 February 2010) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| i posted a demo last night for White Dove - one of those "it just rolled out like that' songs - but it was disatisfying because i misplayed the number of bars and had to leave a lot of space before i came back in for the next verse. I was going... (506 more chars) |
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Doubled my output!
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| (Thursday, 11 February 2010) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| New song up - that's a grand total of two (demos) revving up and into the groove here it sounds like an open tuning but it ain't (isn't) it just mostly one chord if you climbed into a boxcar headed west and two guys were playing this... (75 more chars) |
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PARTY!!
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| (Tuesday, 09 February 2010) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Finally I've got a demo up in my player it still needs another verse or two, maybe a verse and a solo but it FEELS GOOD@!! |
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Gumbo is 3.5% finished
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| (Thursday, 04 February 2010) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| i have two first verses and a chorus and i found a page of words in the back of my notebook from last year that never got used the chorus goes with one of the verses which is a plus, and that one and the other first verse have guitar parts demo'd ... (244 more chars) |
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Woo ! Safari can Bloggie
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| (Monday, 01 February 2010) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Nice to see that bug squished |
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Day Two ... no .. wait ..
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| (Monday, 01 February 2010) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Might as well be ... My laptop screen is out so no studio there is a computer on the kitchen table ( i kid you not ) so it looks like i will be making an Iron and Wine/Tom Waits type "whispered while the kids are asleep" type album inte... (190 more chars) |
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Gumbo *tracks here*
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| (Friday, 06 March 2009) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Hi *props eyelids open with matchsticks* I'm bushed. I finished uploading my album tracks to MacIdol. Which is (at present) the only place except a small (under the stairs) recording studio near Bristol that you can hear them. I suggest yo... (219 more chars) |
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This is (nearly) important!!
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| (Thursday, 26 February 2009) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| I'm in at 11 songs and 28.8 minutes.Last year I was 12 songs and I broke the 35 minute barrier. Of course last year I wrote longer songs because I was being unhappy, and wanted to get it out of my system. This year I wanted to write happier s... (174 more chars) |
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Gumbo: Where am I ?
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| (Wednesday, 25 February 2009) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Six tracks at the pre-mastering stage. ie all tweaking has finished. There are no red lights, and the soundscape is nicely spaced. five tracks to tweak and unpeak. It would have been four to do but I wrote and recorded another song this m... (226 more chars) |
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I got a Kazoo!
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| (Sunday, 22 February 2009) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Now you'd all better just watch out !! |
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Gumblog- all mixed up.
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| (Saturday, 21 February 2009) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| I think I just finished up my song allocation. I have eleven which allows me to stomp on one of them if I can't get it to work. A distinct possibility. i just spent the last hour trying to figure out why one particular track (two actually - Truck an... (584 more chars) |
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Mumbo Jumbo Gumbo
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| (Tuesday, 17 February 2009) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| First the bad news. My partner is away from home for a friends birthday party at the weekend. so I'll have the kids pretty much from lunchtime saturday til bedtime sunday. the good news I can stay up all night Saturday recording and be just as... (23 more chars) |
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Testament de Gumbo
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| (Thursday, 12 February 2009) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| after a manic and inspired first week I have been quietly picking through the rubble and polishing lyrics a bit, and I recorded a new backing track yesterday and came up with lyrics without really associating them. And then just ploughed ahead and ... (744 more chars) |
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Gumbo Is Up Early (Lunchtime)
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| (Saturday, 07 February 2009) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| It's the weekend!! I can string more than two sentences together (just watch me). With work peaking at maximum for the last few weeks, I've come into RPM with a plan and a half this year. But it'll probably work out the way it always does. PLAN A... (1283 more chars) |
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Songs In The Key of Gumbo
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| (Tuesday, 03 February 2009) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Yes! I have produced something! At Last! Two songs from the dark side of my grand plan, out of left field and into the front runners. "Jimmy" is a lyric I have put three 'tunes' to, and the last one chomps at the bit because it sounds pretty cl... (603 more chars) |
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You're all too busy
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| (Monday, 02 February 2009) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| You're all too bus being creative to pay much attention to another darn blog so I'll be brief. In fact I'll just copy paste from another Forum. I've got a couple of songs recorded to a basic demo level with unpolished lyrics and a couple of idea... (695 more chars) |
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New Gumbo Blog Entry Shock
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| (Saturday, 17 January 2009) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Blowing a Gale round the Eves and Adams up here on the hill today, so we went out to play football (actually I just watched the under 12s) and now we've got the fire stoked and the kettle on, and the Under 14s are in the kitchen baking cakes. So. ... (913 more chars) |
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Blogs work on Safari Shock
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| (Wednesday, 07 January 2009) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Well I'm testing the theory. Good to see everyone gathering again. I look forward to some riotous evenings watching the bpms go by and catching up with you good nutters. I hope to be sillier this year (not hard considering my recent output). Las... (229 more chars) |
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Lightning Strike
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| (Sunday, 06 April 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| On Saturday morning (29th) at 11.15 we got a near miss lightning strike that blew out our electrics (both the transformer fuse on the pole and the meter fuse on the house), our heating system (€2.5K), our phones (and melted the lines up to the house)... (1210 more chars) |
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What Daze It? - Gumbo
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| (Friday, 29 February 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| I'm posted. Sent My CD. Wrapped and stamped and it's on it's way. I think I must have somehow left my brain in the wrapping. A Big Thank You to Michelangelo for adding the cool JawHarp to "A Most Holy Ruckus", which is now the album opener, and for... (550 more chars) |
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Blog - you're kidding, Gumbo
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| (Wednesday, 27 February 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| No time to blog LOL I'm mixing in a great Jawharp track from Michelangelo into "A Most Holy Ruckus" A few tweaks and redo's to sort out after todays burn. I have my track order sorted out but if you think I'm writing all that out you've go... (472 more chars) |
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Gumbo Dilema
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| (Monday, 25 February 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Listen to this and have a read. Lived In The Town I've been hearing something on my RPM track "Lived In The Town", like African singing in the background. It's kind of hard to grasp the sound of it, but it's been flitting though my head for... (1027 more chars) |
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97.1% consumed - Gumbo
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| (Sunday, 24 February 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Well I bit the bullet and converted at 128 kbps, and uploaded. Thereby filling my "Tiny Jukebox" to within an inch of it's capacity. Rainin Blues has been resung. Sam is abed after bagles. Casserole is in the oven. WAIT - I sound like so... (190 more chars) |
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Saturday Night Gumbo CD
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| (Saturday, 23 February 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| No don't panic, it's a preliminary "see how it all sounds in the car" CD nipping off half an hour up the road for a quick beer with ma chéri (and a pad and pen). Here are the judges results. Track Listing : Thoughts : To do Holy Ruckus :gene... (1192 more chars) |
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A Most Holy Ruckus - Gumbo
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| (Friday, 22 February 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| The final piece of the puzzle was slotted into place. Now it's TWEAKIN' TIME ";~) a banjo part I recorded at Xmas (so sue me) has finally metamorphosed into a song. The idea has been SO hard to pin down. Til tonight (and without toast, thou... (449 more chars) |
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Time For A Quick Requiem? Gumbo Update
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| (Friday, 22 February 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Week four always reminds me of the scene in Amadeus where Scarlatti comes to call with his bag of Silver, and Mozart accepts the challenge to write the worlds greatest version of "So Long It's Been Good To Know you" in the the decrepit damp cold can... (2307 more chars) |
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Valentines day Massacre - Gumbo 'the survivor'
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| (Monday, 18 February 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| So I got home on Valentines Day with a sore throat, posted "Twilight" in my player for the Sad Song Valentines Day BearHat Challenge (I hope he's alright) watched a film with my Beau and went to bed. Profile Link I had a day booked off on Fr... (1178 more chars) |
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Gumbo Update - Where am I?
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| (Sunday, 10 February 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Ok, the first two songs are in the last blog page. i have to back track to figure out what is going on, here are the links: But I Won't Say Where It Just Happens Like That "It just happens" needs new percussion and redoing the lead gu... (2663 more chars) |
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Gumbo first two songs and snow!
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| (Sunday, 03 February 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Everybody is out making snowmen this morning! You don't know what an occaision this is! It's pretty rare for us to get snow that lasts for more than a morning, and we've had snow on and off since the first of Febraury. Magical. It's the one thing ab... (3015 more chars) |
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Gumbo first song (but I won't say where)
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| (Friday, 01 February 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Last night I was sitting with my guitar tuned to an open G waiting for Midnight, and I got started on a little riff. I spent a couple of hours last night just playing around with it and ended up with a demo recording but it still felt a bit lost. Thi... (1349 more chars) |
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Gumbo Mumbo Jumbo
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| (Monday, 14 January 2008) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| I just read Dazzleships Blog and thought I ought to qualify my comment. This is a very inspiring time with the momentum building and I really appreciate the buzz. But that doesn't mean we can't warm up with a few tunes and a glass or too. A frie... (229 more chars) |
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Give Up Yer Gold
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| (Friday, 21 September 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Nope! It's not a request for the Hear CD payments, though I must get that sorted out and off to Mick. No! Wednesday (19th of September) was International Talk Like A Pirate Day and I had a couple of hours in the evening to concoct a little tune fo... (432 more chars) |
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Belly Button Boogie
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| (Wednesday, 27 June 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Thanks to everyone who contributed to the recent discussion on CD titles for the Hear Music compilation submissions. Now that the 'issue' is cleared I feel I can follow up on Kai's suggestion and turn the thing into a song :D http://www.macidol... (76 more chars) |
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Ireland Joins the Party
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| (Friday, 30 March 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Actually the Party has been going for a couple of hours already at this end, and we are in full swing, as is our wont. Just heard the The Fog by The Digbees, I have the wine, and the little nibbly cheesey things, and I promise to stay awake fore... (112 more chars) |
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Last Gumbo tune posted
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| (Saturday, 03 March 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Just a quick note and then I'll stop plugging myself I posted the last track of the CD online and it's now part of the linkage on the Time Will Tell CD page I didn't post it for ages as it was part of the Dark early songs and at first I didn't... (271 more chars) |
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Free Download of the Gumbo CD
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| (Saturday, 03 March 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| I liked Floppy Jalopy's album page and did something similar for my CD tracks. Time Will Tell by Gumbo There is still one track to upload (soon) and the links goto the song pages at MacIdol which also contain Download links for the near futu... (200 more chars) |
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How do you stop writing songs??
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| (Friday, 02 March 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Two new song ideas today. It's supposed to be my day off. Where do I complain? I have food and wine and a movie all lined up (Spirited Away). I have clean sheets on the bed. I was thinking of getting a haircut. Damn. The good news is that the 12 s... (572 more chars) |
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It goes up to Eleven!! - Gumbo
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| (Monday, 26 February 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| After a week of being under the weather, and pretty lackadaisical the impossible happened, and I decided to make the best of it. Recorded a spontaneous Tom Waitsian blues shouter last night, and patched and tweaked a song I thought would not get fin... (526 more chars) |
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Ain't got time for the rhythm and the rhyme.
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| (Monday, 19 February 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Well after feeling great having five songs finished and five written I find a week goes by with lots of domestic things to take care of, and not getting any further with my unfinished tracks, and now my internet has faded from broadband back to extr... (405 more chars) |
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Gumbo Ten!!
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| (Monday, 12 February 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Well I just went through the tracks I've been playing with over the weekend and wrote a new lyric last night and I counted them up and put rough copies onto a cd to play on other systems. The finished tracks are linked to below or are up in the Samp... (721 more chars) |
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Gumbo Album title?
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| (Monday, 12 February 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| My Working title for this album is "Soup it Up" which extends the Gumbo theme a little further, but as I get to the halfway point with songs I find other titles suggesting themselves "Beetling Around In Bebop Hair" is a line that appeared in my las... (459 more chars) |
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Gumbo Five - Ain't Got There
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| (Saturday, 10 February 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| OK the next one is up (actually there are three more more which are virtually unsharable ) but the survivor is this last minute Punk Rockabilly "quick and dirty" sod the levels epic of 2 minutes 24s Ain't Got There written so I didn't forget t... (348 more chars) |
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Gumbo Four on the floor and picking up the pieces.
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| (Wednesday, 07 February 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Fourth song is out and about, a Punk rhythm'd rockabilly Swamp infested Demon baiter with fire in it's heart and love as a distant memory. i swear the ether is filled to the brimstone for the grand finale. I love this thing where you start thin... (1280 more chars) |
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Gumbo One Track Mind
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| (Monday, 05 February 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| This was triggered by a Forum Topic (can't find it now) where folks were discussing recording styles, which gave me the Title. There's a version up in the Sample Engine and You can go here to listen or download the version I just put a bass o... (152 more chars) |
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Gumbo - Demon Eyes
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| (Monday, 05 February 2007) Written by Gumbo Stu
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| Second song up is a Chantlike Acoustic guitar roll about those lovable unconscious urges we all have. Written in a splurge after reading Dylan's Chronicles vol1 This version is the basic model, acoustic guiars, bass and drums. There is another ver... (268 more chars) |
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