SwampJaw McLaughlin

Swampjaw McLaughlin, 50/90 2008

So back to the drawing board. I apologize in advance.

October 1. Post My Bail
September 30th. Julia Brown Has The Best Album
September 29th. Bailout
September 27th. Time to Put the Toys Away
September 27th Getting Lucky With a Black Hole
September 27th Styrofoam Cup
September 26th. Cantina in C++
September 25th. Sticky Situation.
September 15th. The Hole
September 14th. NP.
September 12th. All things Are As One.
September 12th. City of the Future
September 11th. Canadian Loverboy
September 6th. Exersaucer (with Debs)
September 6th. Asif.
September 4th. Election.
September 4th. Stretchy.
September 4th. Kingwood Kowboy Escapes
September 4th. The Wonder of Gin
September 2nd. Sell My Soul to the Devil (with Nancy Rost)
August 25th. Soggy Towel River (With Debs, HET, Nancy Rost, Hoopshank)
August 24th. World Party in Westminster (with Pigfarmer Jr, Tim Wille, Nancy Rost, Hoopshank)
August 23rd. 5090 Ate My Brain.
August 21st. Parables on Parade.
August 21st. Rivet.
August 20th. Eclipse (with Lachlan Kingsford)
August 19th. Pinch of Pleasure.
August 19th. I Know What a Terrorist Looks Like
August 15th. Steal the Bacon
August 14th. Eclipse solo.
August 14th. Lay Siege to your Heart.
August 10th. Goodgulf
August 10th Hairy Toes
August 10th The Ballhog
August 10th Spam Gangree
August 10th Tim Benzedrine
August 7th. Shure Thing.
August 7th. Thursday Night Music Club.
August 7th. Bang Bang Bang.
August 7th. Nuns on Acid.
August 6th. Half Moon.
August 6th. Big Boot.
August 4th. Smoke Free.
August 4th. Lost in my Home Town.
July 30th. Witching Hour with Helen's Evil Twin.
July 22nd. Make John McCain Exciting
July 14th. Happy Fun Time.
July 12th. Lyrics for Poison the Well.
July 12th. Hobos Ditched on the Gila Monster Route.
July 11th. Turn The Tortoise.
July 10th. Oblong Box.
July 9th. Catch the Bullet with Your Teeth.
July 8th. I Hate the Sound of My Voice. Take that, Erik & Elaine!
July 7th. Elvis Sheds a Tear.
July 7th. Water.
July 6th. Pris. Been sick for a couple of days, and was then just well enough to take a class in primitive fire making. Obvious motivation to write....

SwampJaw McLaughlin, FAWM 2008

For this year, I'm recording at Secret Base Studios... or the guest bedroom, if you're picky. I'll try to update the web page with photos or whatever as I go. And yes... I won't quit my day job!

Good news.. Swampjaw McLaughlin are a band. Jody is going to make everything sound good. If it sucks, it's his fault!

Two photos of Secret Base studio...

Feb 29th, 2008 -- Instant Noodles

Feb 29th, 2008 -- Cordial Punk Scene

Feb 27th, 2008 -- Funtime with Laurie and Chuck

Feb 25th, 2008 -- The Ballad of Amdahl's Law

Feb 24th, 2008 -- Transplant My Love

Feb 24th, 2008 -- Sunday is Scone Day

Feb 23rd, 2008 -- New McDonalds

Feb 23rd, 2008 -- Canary

Feb 18th, 2008 -- Non Biological Fairy Automatic

Feb 18th, 2008 -- It's All Very Simple

Not the way I want it (and the guitar parts are really mushy), but gotta keep moving...

Feb 18th, 2008 -- Uptown Downtown.

Jody sent me the bass line and drum track, and I overlayed a bit of (really weak) lead guitar work. Man, I suck.

Feb 14th, 2008 -- There Is No Spoon, a crucio track.

Feb 9th, 2008 -- Slow Learner, real drum update.

And of course, more vocal processing so that I sound a bit more like BB King, and a little less like PeeWee Herman.

February 9th, 2008 -- Most Expensive Kind There Are

With and without drums.

And a little YouTube clip...

February 9th, 2008 -- Meg

The good news is that Jody has agreed to help out with the FAWMing, so I'll put in some real drums, bass, and whatever else we can throw together. For this one, though, I sequenced the drums myself. Meg....

February 2nd, 2008 -- Harmony Bus Leaves on Friday

There's a FAWM song called Harmony Bus that I really like. So, I did a take on it.... Harmony Bus Leaves on Friday.

February 2nd, 2008 -- Holiday in the Cambodian Sun

No guitars, just the synths and vocals.... Holiday, with the GP5...

Feburary 2nd, 2008 -- Slow Learner

You'd never guess that I teach university students. I run into a lot of Slow Learners as part of my day. The GP5 files are here too. Please fix me. The GarageBand sources are available on request!

February 1st, 2008 -- Ice Storm

I've been doing a lot of travis picking in the run up, so stuff like this falls out pretty easy. School is cancelled today, so the kids are running around the house. It's an ice storm. So.... the song is called Ice Storm. Leo Kottke has one with the same name, but his is much better. The MP3 is recorded on my Telecaster, into Garage Band with their acoustic guitar patch, echos turned off. The video is through the Macbook camera and mic, and on an acoustic picked up in Sapporo, Japan, in the middle of winter, appropriately enough. There's also a GP5 version of the song..

January 31st, 2008 -- The Studio

Just a short video intro to the studio. Steve_apple_head showed off his, so I figured I should do mine too. Pretty swanky, no?