https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog daily 0.75 2021-03-02 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/project-7-do-it-yourself monthly 0.5 2021-02-17 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/3w7c7j4imtqubr8p3thmehhoi3nh1s monthly 0.5 2020-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1605537690697-EX3TV3DG0L4FDVMQVDLP/anesthesia.JPG basement blog - Andrew Charon’s bonus track: Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/e1t8zij329uq39tg3hydxnzldan9nw monthly 0.5 2020-11-16 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/okbatzkcksw2h7ayctk78x4fg8mrs8 monthly 0.5 2020-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1605491772055-7QH43CKTPD569XJ21F6H/IMG_4322.jpg basement blog - Kearns provides his take on “I’ll Wait” https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/0rn29u0v3hdijro0sip5cpeqnp03li monthly 0.5 2020-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1605471262973-RR28HQOL0S62OCPPC7MV/Noah+Dolly.JPG basement blog - Noah does “Fly Me to the Moon” https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/e44vnr331mse53ya8rebsdzxz78whl monthly 0.5 2020-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1605471155687-9VMT6Q8Y56THXGYZQS5F/jeff_project_5.jpg basement blog - Esterby tackles “Like the Weather” https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/ny02i6j5y1ld0tjpd8n3110soq9347 monthly 0.5 2020-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1605388124181-NN8BQSA19KEAPJRLAH0S/image-asset.jpeg basement blog - Randy’s Musings on Nile Song and Coming Around https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/pqgp7fwyt1gt1muwkc1icinkwe3oz4 monthly 0.5 2020-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1605372302836-19D0DXVKD7O9LNH5PRO2/9E544A8E-AFA7-4D50-9991-5536B7C112A9.jpeg basement blog - Why Neil’s been such a slug for this project https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/e3xgpj3r1zj84je8p81dnlsdw7va1s monthly 0.5 2020-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1604856629229-F0SILFR0FM0PYUT7HWPW/image-asset.jpeg basement blog - Andrew’s reflections on Van Halen https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/vsbistalpu5c4c8haawvc2pfoh1kz5 monthly 0.5 2020-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1604628010000-7FR55U2WCBYE0C7DWRM3/Blondie-Dreaming-Synthy.jpg basement blog - Barrett “Dreaming” https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/s2s5w6t4tes6g266dhcecudr7lur9p monthly 0.5 2020-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1604547050927-H1V1WIM8EL43WT8MHUET/Ida.jpeg basement blog - “Scooter and Jinx” as interpreted by D Ida https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/kly2s34c2ynmek5ggoehp3bbrqpbfx monthly 0.5 2020-11-03 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/ecr062f4g0teb76ck73fnp6jm9z7jb monthly 0.5 2020-11-03 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/1e6p3knehp56ap049eob3x9ygwky1w monthly 0.5 2020-10-12 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/q7vydinxm6619plt2zfbcbchvk5njo monthly 0.5 2020-10-10 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/3mymfxpplcnduba8ch7lhmk8yky0rf monthly 0.5 2020-10-10 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/juap76imefrf6ez0y07ydlzv3l7k3d monthly 0.5 2020-10-09 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/t8cogozrtel7920adwlim6ws9cjgx4 monthly 0.5 2020-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1602033826112-6R5VHOMYZZS413LUJV6Z/image-asset.jpeg basement blog - A reinterpretation of an excerpt from the interlude in “Orion” Yes. This is what I look like now during the pandemic. https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/3vm6pb76grv75nxkyiauofm6q74emj monthly 0.5 2020-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1601845231990-UU4XBUBA7NILW7BM6ZFJ/image-asset.jpeg basement blog - Jeff Esterby covers Anna Domino https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/yz48fnyqu68ki81sxvnicogm7vgpcm monthly 0.5 2020-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1601762298588-W5771W136R23C5VQTHQM/image-asset.jpeg basement blog - Randy’s love of “Holiday” https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/59fdrjpe4csbgyu7m0ziopwfevnow8 monthly 0.5 2020-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1601761973573-ZIA2C3ZAYPQCXWB7BU3Z/TomS.+Forever.jpeg basement blog - Tom covers “Forever” from TV’s Full House https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/zbcs5gzetm2al8gmvd2tf1jwiswonv monthly 0.5 2020-09-29 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/ox03t0z6p26jnh2fbztprk46od5fe7 monthly 0.5 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1601325522643-LXVOMRZN99UVKBX8LZJS/And+I.jpg basement blog - Czahr talks about covering “Just You” Eric “Czahr” Scott covered “Just You” off of Noah Warren’s “TV on the Radio” playlist. https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/8f8qdnsxxp4fjfa7c7q7nacaz234sl monthly 0.5 2020-09-27 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/noah-reimagines-clay-pigeons-and-sex-and-candy monthly 0.5 2020-09-08 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/let-em-in-as-interpreted-by-dtron monthly 0.5 2020-09-07 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/chris-danforth-talks-about-his-cover-of-box-elder monthly 0.5 2020-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1599278658285-26LW19B8CCDRQ07GML1Q/MOOG+and+Stethoscope+MIc.jpg basement blog - Chris Danforth talks about his cover of “Box Elder” D’s Moog Werkstatt https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/jackass-cutting-room-floor-mix monthly 0.5 2020-09-04 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/czahrs-jackass monthly 0.5 2020-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1599103685967-JX9NQCP8YZ0GO6TMG98R/Jackass.jpg basement blog - Czahr’s Strange Invitation https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/neil-covers-janes-addiction monthly 0.5 2020-09-02 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/jeffs-overview-of-xanadu monthly 0.5 2020-08-30 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/danforth-summary-of-his-cover-of-so-alive monthly 0.5 2020-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1598493205967-J2FUDID9G53WP7O3RDFX/Tape+Machine.jpg basement blog - Danforth summary of his cover of “So Alive” https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/tom-talks-about-his-cover-of-so-goes-love monthly 0.5 2020-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1598492541277-WFDUCLH4SAIRSGBZG6XD/Tom+S+Project+3+pic.+jpeg.jpeg basement blog - Tom talks about his Project 3 covers https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/randy-dever-covers-into-the-night monthly 0.5 2020-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1598492384911-UTJ6CFRPJI1QYE3BQVPS/IMG_3848.jpg basement blog - Randy Dever covers “Into the Night” https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/czahrs-summer-playlist-for-project-3 monthly 0.5 2020-08-11 https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/gear-chat monthly 0.5 2020-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1595790097806-BH8T2WNVVQ7D1F4S080Y/4479288F-A101-4F23-865E-FB7CF06F0653_1_201_a.jpeg basement blog - Gear chat https://www.basementsketches.org/basement-blog/future-project-ideas monthly 0.5 2020-07-26 https://www.basementsketches.org/home daily 1.0 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614722934703-3EG4ZFV7AUMXMSRRVB5P/basementSketches-img-noLogo.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614723741028-6HZW7GX0B42QE35I1M0T/basementSketches-randy2-sq.png https://www.basementsketches.org/howitworks daily 0.75 2020-07-12 https://www.basementsketches.org/new-page daily 0.75 2026-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1595041742031-4O22JND2WRSGCD8TV90A/Neil+Warren+accordion.jpg just whatever https://www.basementsketches.org/videos daily 0.75 2021-03-02 https://www.basementsketches.org/test-page daily 0.75 2020-07-18 https://www.basementsketches.org/music-for-projects daily 0.75 2020-07-12 https://www.basementsketches.org/collaboration daily 0.75 2021-03-02 https://www.basementsketches.org/holiday-songs daily 0.75 2021-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1609296953561-NBJLOKBSZQ60X6EIZQQD/IMG_4893.JPG holiday songs - Auld Lang Syne 2020 (Tom Stromsodt and Neil Fasen) I felt it was important to cap the year with one last Neil collaboration and what better way to do it than using the girls new ukulele to usher out this dumpster fire of a year? -Tom Stromsodt Knowing that I needed a jump start on music making, Tom graciously lobbed up a soft ball to me and let me add some backing vocals, bass, and accordion to his rendition of the timeless New Year’s Eve classic, “Auld Lang Syne.” I’m just slowing getting my new recording cave operational and this gave me the chance to use it for something. Thanks, Tom! -Neil Fasen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1608821259531-2SCV30M9CNDIVWKGPN0C/image-asset.jpeg holiday songs - Christmas is Love, James Brown Cover (Jeff Kearns’s holiday song) I've been weirdly under the pool tarp these days. Pushing the threshold of my ribbon mic. This song helped me out in the mid 90's when I was selling thick sweaters from a kiosk in a mall. Fun to try to inhabit. Kinda off like a blue Flintstone. -Jeff Kearns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1608698601413-5EVUSL2ILQ0OOKSFD5LA/IMG_4498.jpg holiday songs - Carol of the Bells: 2020 Death March Edition (Randy Dever’s holiday song) Heh. Kind of a bleak take on this Holiday Fave. I’ll forgo the usual technical spiel, but I will say the Korg Poly-61 synthesizer absolutely rips. Mine is acting up and all notes are playing about a step and a half out of tune. I wanted to play it in a specific key, so I tuned all the other instruments to it. Pulled out some of my favorite sample material on this. -Devetron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1608429723900-UII55CK2N0HQ7SXO5VD4/image-asset.jpeg holiday songs - Snow is Falling in Manhattan by Purple Mountains (Czahr’s Cover) David Berman and the Silver Jews first came to my attention way back in the 90's when I had just gotten into Pavement and heard that Pavement was involved with the Silver Jews. Silver Jews were of course no Pavement, but then Stephen Malkmus was no David Berman. Both were great songwriters in their own ways. David Berman was particularly great with words. I was excited for his Purple Mountains release last year because another one of my favorite bands, Woods, served as producers. It's a great album, but sadly David didn't get to see much of the appreciation for it because he chose to end his life. When I was searching for a Holiday song to cover, I kept hitting roadblocks. I just can't do one of the classics because I can barely even handle hearing even the best versions of the classics anymore. As I was revisiting Purple Mountains the other day, this song came up and I knew instantly it would be the one. It sounds and feels like winter to me. It's not explicitly a "Holiday" song, but neither are many of what we typically consider Christmas songs (JIngle Bells is King of the Christmas songs and mentions neither Christmas nor holidays of any kind, just snow.) I also wanted to pay tribute to Berman, and there is a line in this song that he seemed to have written for that specific purpose: "Songs build little rooms in time, and housed within the song's design is the ghost the host has left behind to greet and sweep the guest inside, stoke the fire and sing his lines." I'm proud to stoke the fire he built and be a guest in the house of his song. As for the technicalities of my cover, the guitar work is not my best. I've been struggling with a severely pinched nerve in my left elbow for the last few months and I've only recently been able to actually play a guitar again without extreme pain and my hand going completely numb. It still goes numb if I play more than ten minutes so I didn't do more than a couple of takes, and this take had the least amount of bad stuff in it. Beyond that, I didn't do anything interesting. It's just several layers of an acoustic guitar with multiple GarageBand effects and my voice. Enjoy, have a most excellent holday and lets get the fuck out of 2020. -Eric “Czahr” Scott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1607480560920-WP5RNLH6GZ7Z1Y6Q5RXT/Photo+Dec+08%2C+8+21+34+PM.jpg holiday songs - 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night (Noah's Cover) This song terrified me as a child, and I haven't thought much about it until I ran across Fiona Apple and Phoebe Bridgers' interesting 2019 cover, (which is a dark and surly dirge of angst). It made me unearth Simon and Garfunkel's gem and this is one of my favorite sad Christmas songs. I try to pay homage to both versions: a nod to Apple's version in style and a nod to Simon and Garfunkel's version by including the death of Grumpy Cat to mirror their report of the death of Lenny Bruce. Fun fact: Simon and Garfunkel got Lenny Bruce's age wrong in their song, and Grumpy cat actually died in 2019 (in case you happen to need this info for your next bar trivia match). There are so many earnestly trite covers of this on youtube and I didn't think a 2020 version of this song could follow the same stylistic rules as the original. My angle in was this: I secretly love a good local news "kicker". It's a network's attempt to lighten the program and make their ultra attractive newsreaders somewhat relatable, (I never tire of seeing them try their hand at stilted ad-libs at the end). Editing this was a nightmare, as well as trying to sing harmony (Simon and Garfunkel make it seem so easy). I now have a loop of the contrived "sing-songy" tones every reporter uses to journey their way through the beats a local news tale. Hopefully this won't cause too much ear-bleed! 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https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-18-playlist-challenge-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/625b648c-0ac4-47b6-83dc-f3575058531e/TomPic..p18.jpg All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Tom Stromsodt covers Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider I’m pretty sure we let them kill the laughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/5271e0ef-6756-48f5-b0df-c3fce44a31fd/IMG_8807.jpg All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Randy Dever covers Jail Break by Thin Lizzy I did this at the last minute. I just used my bass, a guitar, Zoom multi effects pedal. Elektron Digitakt, telephone handset for a mic, Arturia MIcrofreak for vocoder and dumped the mix to cassette for some tape saturation and pitch effects. So, not a synth festival this time. Cheers, folks! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/8a4da390-2559-4008-9a3f-c84ad68b1654/KellyD.studio.jpg All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Kelly Duclos covers Minor Threat by Minor Threat Couldn’t Get it Right by the Climax Blues Band Fearless by Pink Flyod These three covers have two things in common: banjo and 4 track cassette transfered to GarageBand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/2c64b75d-42ab-4c6b-86e8-99c783ccbde0/D07E0545-3CD4-44B9-826D-9FA60F2C19D9.jpeg All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Jeff Kearns covers New Pleasure by Richard Hell Not too familiar with Hell but always dug the license he somehow gives himself. To find this new pleasure. With whatever’s at hand. Desperate ambivalence. Projecting with style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/113d3981-e55e-4bdd-951b-94e96102e628/thedoors.jpeg All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - KC McKee covers Five to One by the Doors I've been a fan of the Doors pretty much since I discovered rock music around the age of 13, and I've always regarded this song as being among their best. There is a vaguely threatening quality to it, and I had a lot of fun with the parts on this recording. That being said, Robby Krieger's guitar solos are way above my ability, so I didn't even try to reproduce them here. The following instruments were played on this recording: drums, bass guitar, electric guitar (slide and fuzz), faux-fisa organ, c-melody saxophone, tambourine, vocals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/3db14705-de0c-42de-b075-a42464569ea9/image.jpg All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Noah Warren covers Hungry Eyes by Eric Carmen Merle Haggard's "Hungry Eyes" was recorded in 1968 as a tribute to the Oklahomans dwelling in Depression Era labor camps. But when we think of "Hungry Eyes" we don't think of Merle Haggard, we think of the power ballad from Dirty Dancing. There were so many songs I tried to cover from the mega list, but none of them worked. I would keep scrolling past hungry eyes and the song would instantly get stuck in my head, so I just recorded this at the last minute to have something to hand in. Sorry Merle Haggard, it's time to eat your heart out at the Eric Carmen buffet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/d5d39ab6-c679-4c15-b545-455c3a37b2bf/IMG_4884.jpg All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Andrew Charon covers Fairies Wear Boots by Black Sabbath I’m not sure exactly what happened here. It all started during a golf outing with Grant and we were talking about Black Sabbath and Basement Sketches and I was like, yeah cool, I’ll cover Fairies Wear Boots. On my drive home was thinking about it and was like ok, what the heck have I committed to. I came up with this. This song is kind of sacred and complex in so many ways. And, watching Tony Iommi play this is just so incredible. So, I’d say this version was totally hack. When I was researching the song, somehow I tracked down a version of all of the parts of the original song split up and each part isolated was pretty mind-blowing. Isolated guitar, bass, vocals, drums, etc..and I originally imported all of the tracks into GarageBand and manipulating the heck out of them....the bass itself was pretty insane with distortion added to it. But I found myself remastering the original and I was getting lost in the mix so I ended up appropriating the vocals and doing my own sophomoric version of guitar as if it was played on a homemade cigar box. I really enjoyed listening to Fairies Wear Boots nonstop over the past few weeks, watching live versions of YouTube clips of old Black Sabbath, etc. For Basement Sketches Project 18 I finally graduated to Logic which was a nice change and only took advantage of a couple additional features that GarageBand doesn’t have. When I first started exploring, I was pretty determined that I was going to get a DJ Controller and Serato and DJ a mashup of Fairies Wear Boots and Snowblind. Also didn’t happen, maybe I’ll mess with Serato next time. Anyways, enjoy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/0fa64a66-72c5-4a0d-9041-c6e8712e58c8/minor_threat.jpg All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Jacob Sharff covers Minor Threat The summer of 1987 was transformative. I was between 6th and 7th grade. Thrasher magazine and Bones Brigade videos had opened up a completely new universe to me. I got my first deck, a Powell Peralta OG Ripper and spent the entire summer trying to skate any patch of concrete I could find in the small town where I lived. My new obsession with skateboarding naturally led to the discovery of punk and hardcore music, which was equally life changing. In 1987, Minor Threat was at the heart of this for me. A perfect soundtrack to bloody elbows and busted shins on repeat all summer long. The decision to do a cover of a teenage skate anthem came with a certain amount of nostalgia attached, and for whatever reason it felt like the only way to approach the song was with the least amount of seriousness possible, so I took that general approach.. and well, things got kinda weird. Here's a quick list of other notable events from 1987: The Simpson's debuted on the Tracy Ullman show, the Twins won the World Series, Guns 'n Roses released Appetite for Destruction, Fischer Price started selling the Pixelvision camera that could record video on cassette tapes, Nintendo released Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, Andy Warhol died, Star Trek The Next Generation aired for the first time, and, wait a second... isn't that the dude from Reading Rainbow with some sort of strange space visor on...? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/0af796ac-3600-4dfd-99ba-652e030f1329/seth_gold_soundz_image.jpg All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Seth Hogan covers Gold Soundz by Pavement I decided to severely limit my options and do this in one full take with just an acoustic guitar and vocals. Malkmus effortlessly sings this tune in an offhand way, but it is up there (pitch wise) for me and you can hear me breaking a bit on the high part. I didn't fix anything. Headphones fall off my head at 2:07, and you can hear them clattering to the ground. We've all been there when real life intrudes on the take. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/466691db-d677-463b-8ec6-1ec81de05d86/Czahr+other+pic+p18.JPG All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Eric “Czahr” Scott covers One Hundred Years From Now by the Byrds I chose this song based purely on the appeal of the song itself. The Byrds are a corner of classic rock that has escaped my attention over the years. Why? No reason at all, really. I think the seed of my ignorance might have been planted back when I was in high school and discovering Dylan and then becoming obsessed with Dylan, and taking the misguided attitude of, "The Byrds are only known because they covered a whole bunch of Dylan." I think they did technically crib Tambourine Man without permission, but Bob dug it anyway (“Hey you can dance to that!”) so whatever I guess. Anyway, I plan to correct my ignorance and better familiarize myself with their catalog. I really love this song, and hadn't heard it before this project. I decided to do a mostly straightforward cover and take the country twang out of it. I have no access to or ability to play a pedal steel so it kinda had to be that way. I just bought my daughter a new acoustic guitar and decided to use it for this track, so this recording features its maiden voyage. Beyond guitar, it's just vocals, beating on a super old tambourine with a toy ice cream scooper, a digital kalimba, and a Moog app. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/11e39d09-721a-4c89-b9e1-86bc95ab34ca/Snowblind+bear.JPG All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Snowblind by Black Sabbath First of all, yes, I covered another Black Sabbath song. I wasn't going to, but as I was listening to it on the playlist I instantly got inspired, grabbed my guitar and the version you hear came out almost fully formed. I did several takes on the guitar over the course of weeks because I am absolute horseshit at fingerpicking, but in order for my idea to come out it had to be fingerpicked. Having finished another 'pretty' cover of a Sabbath song...I think I could do several more. Had I the time, resources and energy I'd seriously look into doing a whole album. Maybe with other people playing to make up for my limitations. I am quite satisfied and proud of my Sabbath covers. There's just something satisfying about the transformation. While you're here, I came across a fun Sabbath story while I was doing this: In their early days the band was followed by a lot of people into the occult. The members of the band were very much not interested in that sort of thing, and would get irritated by all the satanists that approached them. One night after a show, they went to their hotel to find the hallway lined with satanists wearing black robes, holding candles and chanting. They jumped over them, went into their rooms and after deliberating what to do and formulating a plan over the phone, they all opened their doors at the same time, sang the Happy Birthday song and blew out the candles. This pissed off the satanists, who then left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/9f394ca8-4c5e-4ba8-9af8-5831edd2a195/Turtle+for+Bill.jpg All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Bill Fricke covers Listen to the Sirens by Tubeway Army There were so many great songs to choose from and I futzed around with a few but couldn’t quite find the time to work on as many as I wanted. I worked on Tom Petty, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Green Eyed Lady. I love that song. I couldn’t find a way to make it work ,but at the very least, I learned the bass part, which is something I always wanted to do. So, win on that. I went into the Tubeway Army (aka Gary Numan) knowing the song well. My friend and I covered it in High School as he had the synths. I had the guitar and my friends’ drum kit. It sucks, but it still exists for posterity on a CD. Anyhoo, I had no idea what to do. Just grabbed a drum pattern from GarageBand and the rest fell into place. It became a rock, Stonesy type song. I even did the Keith Richards open tuning. Why not? So, enjoy. No synthesizers! (as Queen would say) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/ca8cecf1-853d-4c54-9477-df983bb7adf5/Lego+dude.jpg All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Grant Eull covers Well ambition my have got the best of me yet again! With so many great ideas submitted by everyone I had a very very hard time choosing. My original cut was down to 16 songs and then narrowed from there. This challenge was truly challenging as I tried to pick some song ideas I thought would be easy for me and some that were way out of my lane of comfort… well at least one. Hope you enjoy them. Life A Gas This was the song that popped first for me. I have completed two other TRex songs from past basement sketches projects and love doing these, so it was obvious to give this one a go. Guitar This selection seems so out from left field and I loved that about it. I am a huge fan of this Cake record and I was hoping it would be an easier one for me. It wasn’t. Vocals were way more difficult than I thought they would be, and I never did find a good horn sound. The Theremin did a fair job for a free VST - also my acoustic is a pile of $#*%$^*%) - but overall I do like how it turned out. Beautiful World Um YES! Huge fan of DEVO! Love loading up the Arturia V Collection and finding sounds for synths. Had an absolute blast doing this, and very happy to have another DEVO cover in the can. Dirty Boots My wheel house… I think. This is my second Sonic Youth cover for basement sketches and I am becoming a bigger and bigger fan with each listen and cover attempt. I forget who submitted this one, but thank you! Jailbreak Another easy choice. Had my friend Randy Kramer again support on drums! Wishing I would have gone back to improve my lead guitars and worked on drum tone a bit more, but I just ran out of time. As Randy said, "good enough for rock n roll!". Passenger This is a repost on request as I covered this as part of the 1977 project… but I love how it turned out so I'm happy to post it again as part of Project 18. Take Me Home Loved everything about doing this cover. It was a huge undertaking, and I will never get over my sad vocal performance. That said, having Randy lay down drum fills over the drum programming and my daughter sit in on back ups really made it a fun time. Again, thanks to everyone for an incredible list of songs to choose from and for making my July a very productive learning experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/9799a430-4c18-4e8e-ad23-ce658c3c2a5c/buckowens-monsters.jpg All Projects - Project 18: Playlist Challenge 2022 - Neil Fasen covers Close Up the Honky Tonks by Buck Owens I was drawn to Close Up the Honky Tonks, because of it’s simple structure and nice harmonies. Then I found a Dwight Yokum version of it, and decided it was a sign. Long ago, I had helped my friend (and fellow basement sketches contributor) Chris Danforth record a Dwight Yokum song, 1,000 Mile from Nowhere, and that song and experience still hold a special place in my heart. 1,000 Miles was the first track of the first EP Chris put out after college. When I first moved from Fargo/Moorhead to Minneapolis, I heard it played on the local college radio station, 770 Radio K. I was so proud of Chris for getting his first release played on the radio and was so honored to have contributed to it. I thought Minneapolis must be the best place in the world. This Close Up the Honky Tonks cover balances sloppy with clean somehow. The tuning for the baritone ukelele is kind of funky, because I tried to use a capo on it. I was going to re-record it and just re-tune the ukulele, but I ended up liking the weird microtonality that the off tuning created and played with it a bit by juxtaposing odd keyboard lines. Each track was done rather quickly and wasn’t belabored or ironed out. https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-17-single-song-to-cover monthly 0.5 2022-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/43cc9c4b-23de-422b-88aa-6144f4baab1b/bjork-gettyimages-85353791.jpeg All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - Project 17: Army of Me We decided that we’d pick one song that everyone would have to cover. So we submitted song suggestions, voted, and Army of Me by Bjork won. So each contributor created their own rendition of it and a range of cool idea emerged. Check it out below! DOWNLOAD ALL OF THE TRACKS HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/917868e5-b21f-4289-941a-028daccddd6a/TomSProject17.jpg All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - Tom Stromsodt “Uff Da” Hadley plays some violin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/7baa926d-8552-45b3-812f-60c3705e65f5/2AD89D1D-EC46-4255-B723-B1C8C224FBE8.JPG All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - Andrew Charon This was an unusual song for me to cover. It’s not that I don’t like Bjork but I just never really been obsessed with her and haven’t spent much time with this song or with her in general. Many people who I’ve known have had some pretty bad experiences with Bjork in some way....in the capacity that when they think of her they think of this time of their life when things were a bit of a mess. Respectfully I didn’t want to bring up those emotions by listening to Bjork. Initially, I was going to take the approach of “what would godHeadSilo” do? But the EMG pick-up in my bass needed a new 9-volt battery. I got a little impatient and changed my approach with the dueling distorted guitar tracks. The last track I did for “The Wall” was a nice experimentation with harmonics but I was going for a fuller sound. It’s been fun playing guitar and trying to do some sort of metal/Floyd type of approach. It’s a bit of a challenge for me to play guitar. I’ve never felt like I’ve been all that great at it and it’s difficult for me to play live consistently without messing up. My mind wanders. So, GarageBand has been a nice solution for me to get creative with my recording. I like to think that it makes me sound like a better guitar player than I actually am. GarageBand is really quite nice for what I want to do. And, I record backwards in the sense that I record my guitar clean and apply effects after as it gives me a bit more flexibility and control. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/c4620cdc-89bb-46d2-bf11-99ec8b12dc49/KellyD.jpg All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - Kelly Duclos Have you ever heard "Perfect" by MJ Lenderman and Wednesday? It is fantastic. I heard it in my car on Radio K one day in late May and was able to Shazam it in time to find out who it was. It has that downstroke that you'll hear my man Lou B do on early Sebadoh stuff. That was the original inspiration for my Army of Me cover. I got the chords from a guitar tabs app and found them to be nothing close to what you hear on the original Bjork recording but I was happy with how they somehow worked with the downstroke approach. If I would have learned the song by ear only, I would have never arrived at these chords. I also took some long overdue days off from work and temporarily transplanted my gear to a tiny room not far away from home where I was able to make a ton of noise for the past couple weeks (see pic). Mixing and "mastering" were still done in the basement though ;) It is super fun to be a part of this project! Thanks, KD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/810bb6fe-8038-4309-95ca-1c7703567b58/For+Kearns.jpg All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - Jeff Kearns Almost didn't do this one but glad I did. Looking forward to hearing everybody's version. Cheers, Jeff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/689c3b84-1130-4843-bc1f-423e2aa6013d/IMG_7040.jpg All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - Noah Warren This endeavor sent me directly into pitch purgatory. I don't think I ever left. Yowza! I listened to Bjork's track a few times and then forgot about it, proceeding to make a series of accidents that I then shaped into what you are hearing now. When I was in middle school I had a bus driver who used to play our local 90's alternative rock station (93.7 KEGE at the time? Don't quote me). There were many rides home where I'd hear The Violent Femmes' "Add It Up" radio edit where the F-word was replaced with the bray of a goat. Somehow that made the song more diabolical to me. In service of that 90's memory, I wanted some barn animals in this cover. I was working on an iPad so I randomly dumped in a bunch of animal noises and used my apple pencil to make a pretty picture with all of the various elements on the timeline. I broke up a loon call and looped it and then realized I'm dangerously treading into Soul Coughing territory without a map. Oh well, at least I'm keeping it 90's! It was a fun exercise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/368a520a-368d-4723-83d9-0f2cca3db59e/army_of_me.png All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - Ian Royal My cover is a pretty straight-forward, pop-rock version. Firstly, let it be known that I'm of the record-until-you-get-the-best-take-and-then-copy-that-take school of producing. I work with Ableton Live 10 and a Focusrite Saffire Pro interface. I programmed the drums (Urgitone Kvlt Drums II: Seattle 91) first. I then recorded the bassline (Charvel San Dimas PJIV, di-ed from Boss Katana Bass 110). Main guitar came next (Fender Mustang, also di-ed, but clean, from bass amp into Guitar Rig 5). I did one distorted track and one reverb-y. To add some extra texture, I did kind of a droney, panning thing with my Epiphone Les Paul. Guitar solo done the Mustang, but placed into the droney/panning track(Waves' Doppler), with a similar, albeit one octave lower, version on its own track). Then I used a stock woodblock and chord stab (+ wah guitar stab) for those parts. Vocals, done last, and never my strong point, especially when most of it is, like, "sing-talking". I used a pitch corrector(Graillon 2) in the song's Cm key and Waves' OVox for the second part of the chorus. Throw Live's Meaty Analog Master on the main and call it a day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/4332eba5-e229-44ff-9f4c-e1f196464500/Keith_pic_Porject17.jpg All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - Keith Bohnen well this is a thing. i did about two hours of icelandic language pronunciation lessons on youtube so im sure this wont pass for anything resembling native and theres bound to be a plethora of errors for anyone checking but bjork did it in english so i figured id give it a go in icelandic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/04a45214-39aa-4d9a-8ec9-82de92012766/F83F35CA-F96E-46DD-8B0F-06578F30A28B.JPG All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - Bill Fricke Almost didn’t get to participate as I was in the middle of moving and all my stuff was in disarray for a long time. I had ideas of doing this as my alter-ego Spjork!, which is a long story. I used to be in an online forum for the Current when it first started. Along the way, there were a group of us who were very active and creative. Somehow, in all the stories and made up crap we did, we hit upon Spjork! We created a “Behind the Music” thread and his story was born. He was Icelandic, a shepherd, and had a varied musical career spanning Folk, Psychedelia, Punk, etc. Kind of like Walk Hard. Some of his famous songs were “Even Cows Have Eyebrows”, “Nyquil Dreams”, and “I Wanna Be Your Picnic”. There is a video for I Wanna Be Your Picnic and Gary Numan’s Metal on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHTKRs92V-I Anyhoo, it didn’t pan out for this and Spjork! Was sidelined So, I downloaded the “chords” for AoM from the webs and tried different things. I’m pretty sure they are not the right chords, but it was a good jumping off point. Eventually I decided to make it a happy sounding song, changing it from minor to major and make it poppy and shiny with a jaunty beat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/ae2f7110-042f-42a5-9cc9-c94df2688d33/DCA00330-E587-48A6-9AEC-49A569FCADCE.JPG All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - Tal Tahir I doubled the time and rocked it up. Kept it lean and mean (emphasis on mean) with just drums, bass and vocals. Oh and a couple of the actual samples used in the song from Zero-G DATAFILE 3. Shoutout to our very own Grant Eull for mastering help! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1cae55d2-41ba-4fca-a5b2-83430bed3639/ArmyOfMeImage.png All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - Grant Eull It was decided by the collective that Army Of Me was the song and I realized soon after resistance was futile. In my early sound exploration stages I became frustrated with an exhausted search for Bjork like synth tones; never finding anything even close (but coming across TONS of other great sounds). I got distracted easily… I also realized that singing this one would be an issue as well. I had to destroy myself and build a new version of me to accomplish this song using a new approach. As I said, resistance was futile so I embraced some cyborg creativity and got to work. With an arsenal of VST and hardware synths at my disposal and it was time to succumb to the dark side. The result is a much more distanced version from the original, but something my OMIEM cyborg alter ego finds favorable. Honored as always to be included in these challenges. Enjoy - human. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/b5db60d7-c009-451d-b9c3-1957bf925f70/image0.jpeg All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - KC McKee Just some production notes: this recording features drums, electric bass, electric guitar, piano, violin, viola, mellotron, bass synth, and vocals (which i recorded in roughly that order). All parts were recorded in a single *live* take and are otherwise unedited. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/4c7ead73-7c8b-4806-b4e9-eff0371c72ca/Donut.jpg All Projects - Project 17: Single Song to Cover - Neil Fasen I had no idea what to do for this song. I was certainly outside of my wheelhouse. I just tried to mess with the original riff, slow it down, and mess with it to sound like a different mode. Not sure I succeeded, but it was fun to mess around with this one. https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-16-pink-floyd-the-wall monthly 0.5 2022-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1d86b5e4-9893-4061-aae4-c8bc05d099a6/2086115.jpeg All Projects - Project 16: Pink Floyd the Wall - Project 16: Pink Floyd, The Wall We divided up the tracks and covered the album song by song, not hearing what the other contributors were making until tonight. Now here it all is together for the first time, our basement sketches version of Pink Floyd the Wall. DOWNLOAD A ZIPPED FILE WITH ALL TRACKS HERE Scroll down to explore song by song and read specific write-ups from the contributors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/a0f46880-3593-44f5-8d6b-0129ca6d4b85/IMG_7718.jpg All Projects - Project 16: Pink Floyd the Wall - Randy Dever on his covers of Vera and Bring the Boys Back Home I have thousands of hours (no hyperbole) into The Wall. My “The Wall” phase coincided with a teenage breakup and I really got into it! I’ve always found this pair of tracks to be evocative and was drawn to them. I had every intention of recording guitars and bass, but alas…. I kept more in the ‘sketch’ spirit of things Synths, samplers, vocoders and drum machines recorded in Reaper. https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-15-awesome-songs-from-movies monthly 0.5 2022-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/a3f87057-ecba-45d9-b2af-0b0c02188645/tempImageVeehBT.jpg All Projects - Project 15: Awesome Songs from Movies - Jacob Sharff covers In Heaven Everything is Fine Featured in Eraserhead "In Heaven everything is fine. You've got your good things, and I've got mine..." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/83e3da93-96a6-4f6a-aa15-4f16406058bf/MovingInStereoImage.png All Projects - Project 15: Awesome Songs from Movies - Grant Eull covers Moving In Stereo by The Cars Featured in Fast Times at Ridgemont High Well that was a blast. After much research and many discussions of this idea with friends I finally decided on a song. Again the options were plenty to choose from but I decided to go with Fast Times at Ridgemont High as it's is a classic movie with an excellent soundtrack. There is no song that sticks a scene in my head as much as The Cars Moving In Stereo. My version again is trying to play close attention to the original tones and mix …doing my best mimic. To complete this I had over 10 different VST synths running including 2 Jupiter 8s, 4 OBx-As, 6 Mini MOOGs, and 2 CS-80s, as well as an extensive amount of Reverbs and Neutron EQ plug ins. It crashed my CPU a couple times and I need to bounce a mix down to complete the song. It’s far from perfect, and certainly not note for note… but I am happy with it and I hope you all enjoy it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/563dd06e-d4d0-4c2f-b82e-f7d1b3614490/Screen+Shot+2022-03-06+at+9.02.39+PM.png All Projects - Project 15: Awesome Songs from Movies - Noah covers We’ll Meet Again Featured in Dr. Strangelove I had been thinking of doing this cover long before the invasion of Ukraine. This song has always been spooky to me. I believe I first heard it when I saw the ending to Dr. Strangelove, which is wonderful because I got to experience it with Kubrick's ironic stank all over it. I feel lucky that, in my lifetime, Kubrick and Weird Al Yankovic got to me first. "I lost on Jeopardy" will always play over Greg Kihn Band's "Jeopardy" in my head. Only comment I can say about the cover is that I found a synth called "Learner's Piano" that I really liked. It sounds identical to the piano loop used in Lizzo's "Truth Hurts". I added a nice easter egg at the end of the video, because I just couldn't help myself. CLICK ON THE PICTURE OF THE MUSHROOM CLOUD TO SEE NOAH’S AMAZING VIDEO OF HIS COVER! https://vimeo.com/685233069 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/385bc890-59af-4988-83f9-57a6c91a827e/D1AD5EA4-6D06-46C9-B1F8-94942A46035D.jpeg All Projects - Project 15: Awesome Songs from Movies - Jeff Kearns covers the Theme from Valley of the Dolls So not exactly to theme but this song bit me. Came out as I came into the world. Can't help but feel the sentiment. Blown out octaves and a lone uke. Warwick/Bacharach version was the template. Patty Duke's performance in the movie the inspiration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/38ea10a6-f231-4f67-b5a3-3d63037daf12/image_6487327.JPG All Projects - Project 15: Awesome Songs from Movies - Eric “Czahr” Scott covers Where Is My Mind by the Pixies Featured in Fight Club If you’ve seen Fight Club, you know the scene. Towards the end of the film, The Narrator (Ed Norton), having just been shot in the face, tells Marla (Helena Bonham Carter) “You met me at a very strange time in my life…” as Where is My Mind quietly begins playing in the background. Suddenly the music switches to full volume as Joey Santiago’s intro riff kicks in and buildings outside the window behind The Narrator and Marla explode. The scene gave me goosebumps when I first saw it, not just as a Pixies fan, but for its absolute perfect pairing with the scene. I don’t even like Fight Club that much, as a book, a film or a concept (it’s fine, and enjoyable, just doesn’t especially resonate with me) but that scene is one of my all-time favorite scenes in any movie, specifically for the use of the song. I watched a clip of it before recording my cover and it STILL gives me goosebumps. I love it. For my version, well, you guys know how I roll by now. I don’t have great gear, I have precious little time and privacy to create, so I bang out what I can – usually very quickly. It’s just guitar, vocals and a cardboard box for percussion. I did a relatively straight cover. Pixies have been with me since high school and are kind of sacred, and as such aren’t something I want to reinterpret. Upon reviewing the vocals, I feel like I sound like someone trying to do Jack White trying to do Frank Black, which wasn’t the intention, but I’m satisfied with it. I love the idea of putting our covers with the original film clips, but doing that is way beyond my film editing abilities, which are nonexistent. I’ll be surprised if I’m the only one who picked this song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/0295a8d5-fb24-4106-86d8-d71458d8d2e1/Screen+Shot+2022-03-04+at+4.53.33+PM.png All Projects - Project 15: Awesome Songs from Movies - Bill Fricke covers In Dreams by Roy Orbison Featured in Blue Velvet My first choice was “Deep Blue Day” by Brian Eno used in Trainspotting for the scene where Ewan McGregor goes diving down the toilet for his drugs. I did work on that for a bit. Then, I remembered the eerie Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet doing the Roy Orbison song, In Dreams. That is so iconic and creepy. And I love Roy Orbison, almost as much as Brian Eno. I started with a fairly faithful depiction and was pleased, but, as fate would have it, Rocket 2 U by the Jets came on my Sirius radio and I started singing In Dreams along to it. And voila, it gave me an idea. So, this is an 80’s funk/dance inspired cover of Roy Orbison. Enjoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/fb96abf8-0dc8-45a4-aada-bb92453f236b/Laura+Palmer%27s+Theme.jpg All Projects - Project 15: Awesome Songs from Movies - Colby Heston covers Laura Palmer’s Theme Featured in Twin Peaks Recorded this to GarageBand using only the touch pad screen on my iPad. No "real" instruments were used. I highly recommend headphones when listening to this. The recorded version of this song on the soundtrack is significantly longer but it basically just repeats the three main parts, so I consolidated it down. Here is a link to the scene where they discover Laura Palmer's body by the lake. Laura Palmer's Theme Scene in Twin Peaks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/81ef433d-a07c-432c-aa57-040412cf12bc/Royal+Tenenbaums+scene.jpeg All Projects - Project 15: Awesome Songs from Movies - Neil Fasen covers Needle In The Hay by Elliot Smith Featured in the Royal Tenenbaums I love Wes Anderson movies, and for a long time The Royal Tenenbaums was my absolute favorite. It’s still among my all time most beloved films. As far as Elliot Smith goes, I’ve never been a fan. I respect the shit out of the man, but his music just never hit me at the right time, except for this song probably because of this movie. I had to really rush this cover due to time management issues and puked it out very quickly this weekend. I pretty much just banged out the parts on my acoustic, went back and overdubbed some baritone ukulele and sliced up the acoustic track a bit, sang it through a few times, and then quickly added some atmospheric stuff. It’s not my most methodical submission, but I rationalize it by thinking this kind of song should be a bit raw. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/2dba19e8-4cbe-48b9-ad65-bfc2fe2bf543/maniac.jpg All Projects - Project 15: Awesome Songs from Movies - Tal Tahir covers Maniac Featured in Flashdance Welcome Tal Tahir to Basement Sketches! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/8f48796d-6858-40f1-9cff-1f5d300e2fa7/Screen+Shot+2022-03-06+at+9.37.41+PM.png All Projects - Project 15: Awesome Songs from Movies - Tom Stromsodt covers 9 to 5 and Danger Zone Featured in 9 to 5 and Top Gun respectively Sooooo. I got a new analog synthesizer. I also watched a Shangri La episode where they did a live album recording with a bunch of electronic instruments. I felt I could at least do the synth track as one continuous knob-twister performance. You know, it was a lot harder than I thought to remember what to do when but I got it. Anyways. Typical fodder from this old man. Jay, inspired by my King Coffey solo in Danger Zone, came in and brought things closer to edge, increasing the temperature of the intensity at the end. I also made some videos. Love - T. TOM CREATED VIDEOS FOR EACH. SEE THEM INLINE BELOW! https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-14-anything-goes monthly 0.5 2022-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/b46f57b2-2901-4917-b5eb-1e411b7ec942/Ween-GodWeenSatan.jpg All Projects - Project 14: Anything Goes - Colby Heston covers Don’t Laugh, I Love You by Ween I was chatting with Neil after Project 13 and mentioned how much I wanted to cover a Ween song.Here it is...late. "...and when you locked me in the sun, to the tinkle I would run." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/2f6fb24d-a516-41c2-a6f2-dee45d04065e/ice_capades.jpg All Projects - Project 14: Anything Goes - Jacob Sharff covers Judy is a Punk by the Ramones The story of Jackie and Judy is an interesting one to imagine. These two juvenile delinquents seem like they were going to some weird extremes to have a good time. Going to Berlin to join the Ice Capades. Signing up with the Symbionese Liberation Army. These girls were wild. In the song The Return of Jackie and Judy, they went down to the Mudd Club and they both got drunk. The Mudd Club was a pretty crazy scene in the late 70's. Very avant garde. Apparently it was named after Samuel Alexander Mudd, the physician who treated John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. But that's a different story and a different song.. Judy is a Punk is pure rock-n-roll bliss, distilled down to its simplest and purest form. Magical. It was probably the first song that made me realize that if arranged correctly, 3 chords and a minute and a half is all you need. That, and maybe a little bit of glue... heh, heh. No frills. Zero extras. I mean, even the first 2 verses are identical. I have to admit I've always thought that was pretty brilliant. According to Wikipedia, this repeated verse is a reference to Herman's Hermits rendition of "I'm Henry the 8th I am". Maybe it is... who knows? Wikipedia also claims that the chorus of Judy is a Punk is a reference to the children's song "There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" (Perhaps She'll Die). Again.. maybe? Who's in charge of these so-called Wiki facts? Once again, this one was thrown together pretty last minute and so I didn't attempt anything too ambitious here. Was basically just trying to make something (anything) as quickly as possible without thinking too much about it. Used an acoustic guitar and a crappy old Casiotone MT-205 and then hacked away at it in garageband for a bit. Tambourine got thrown in last second. Not sure this went quite in the direction I had envisioned, but since I'm just feeling good about getting something (anything) made before the submission deadline, I'll just end with this quote from Dee Dee... “I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.” ― Dee Dee Ramone. ... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/c61a31e6-654f-4151-9e0e-8d48523547d5/image0.jpeg All Projects - Project 14: Anything Goes - Noah Warren covers Over at the Frankenstein Place by Richard O’Brien, The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Meatloaf has always been my number one Karaoke go-to. When I head he passed I felt sad, but a part of me braced myself for some anti-vax lameness. Dammit, Janet, I hate when I’m right! I was listening through his catalog and slowly getting pissed when suddenly, his song from Rocky Horror Picture Show came on and I forgot how nostalgic I was for this movie. I would incessantly rewatch the VHS and show it to any person who’d fallen prey to considering my friendship. I believe this was his first movie and I thought the best way to honor his passing is to do a cover of “Over at the Frankenstein Place.” It’s a great song to hear on your way to purgatory :). For those who have a life and aren’t familiar with this musical: This is the song Brad and Janet sing after they’ve suffered a flat tire in a thunderstorm. They see a light on at Frankenfurter’s castle and Riff Raff, a Quasimodo/Renfield/David Bowie-esque man-servant is observing their approach. I love how much this song from the cast recording reeks of mid-seventies dingy glam. Rocky Horror and the Jesus Christ Superstar film were on heavy rotation in my household. Anyway, Meat, I hope my half-baked and harried harmonies provide a proper dirge for you as you exit this earthly plane. Hot Patootie, bless my soul, heaven can wait. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/daad3a88-6ea4-4b2d-b951-01257ad35944/real+John+Stewart.jpg All Projects - Project 14: Anything Goes - Randy Dever covers Gold by John Stewart and Stevie Nicks This is another good highway tune that Q98 in Fargo introduced to me. It is a bit more straightforward than most of the other covers I’ve done. I don’t really know anything about this John Stewart except that he made a song I like and got Stevie Nicks to sing on it. She doesn’t appear in the music video, however. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/d22ba651-ed8f-4d38-9a55-af95e2794b4c/9CE191BF-67F2-43DA-A8C5-219110B1F476.jpeg All Projects - Project 14: Anything Goes - Jeff Kearns covers Now Be Thankful by Fairport Convention Spent the better half of January on the Big Island. This song had been circling me. Sheshed on the lanai with uke. The coqui frog chorus providing the nightly backdrop. Recorded on phone then fleshed out the rest at home. Trying to milk the island vibes for all they're worth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/0bddae61-eacf-469a-a570-20d691bf0c73/closetome.jpeg All Projects - Project 14: Anything Goes - Neil covers Close to Me by the Cure I saw Close to Me by the Cure as a compelling cover opportunity, because it’s essentially just a bunch of little riffs and noodles laid over one another like a handful of different little modular blocks. The Cure released a few different versions of Close to Me and explored variations in which they reassembled these parts differently, from the Head on the Door album to Galore, The Singles compilation to Mixed Up. Each version introduced it’s own unique flavor but stayed true to the core ingredients. Working on this song, I realized that I favor process over product when it comes to my Basement Sketches covers. I think more about the things I’m trying to figure out than the listenability of the finished product. In this case, I was trying to come up with different ways to recreate these melodies using my random assortment of instruments and limited computer options. As is often the case, Tom helped me get rolling by providing a nice solid beat for me to build upon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/4b97d6aa-b10a-46ab-b1f2-c4c99b3920ca/image0.jpeg All Projects - Project 14: Anything Goes - TOOTH (Dale Flattum) covers Gut Feeling by DEVO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/20d87170-569d-463f-ab0a-44ef392f1858/george+h.+jpg.jpg All Projects - Project 14: Anything Goes - Bill Fricke covers Beware of Darkness by George Harrison I kind of had this one locked and loaded, but I didn’t know it until I went back to it after attempting something else. I went through a George Harrison “All Things Must Pass” phase earlier this year and recorded three songs from that album, which turned 50 last year. George was my favorite Beatle and All Things Must Pass is his best album. Beware of Darkness is second only to All Things Must Pass in terms of my favorite songs from this album. This is my attempt at a “Bill’ Spector production as Phil produced the original. There are a lot of little hidden things such as choir, strings and several acoustic guitars. The vocals are right at the edge of my range but I managed to eke out some decent vocals, and I’m kind of proud of them. Not to mention that I had to figure out slide guitar by trial and error. And the lyrics are so incredibly pertinent to today, despite being written over 50 years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/94b49517-84ad-4a9d-8272-6df3b782a552/tempImageMgh3Ye.jpg All Projects - Project 14: Anything Goes - Tom Stromstodt and Jay cover Brokedown Palace by the Grateful Dead This cover was by request. I’d like to tell a fresh faced boy in a Fugazi shirt that he’d cover the Dead as an old man. He would have punched me in nuts. I tried to keep the rollicking level and looseness high by one-taking most of it, so mistakes abound. Jay played Ukulele and sang sweet backup. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/80b9e57f-b628-4958-adb4-414c435027f5/sliderCover.jpg All Projects - Project 14: Anything Goes - Grant Eull covers Slider by T.Rex Once again it was extremely difficult to decide on what to record… more so this time than ever. Our options were endless; should I cover a Mats tune? I have always wanted to cover Within Your Reach and I have the drum machine and flanger to do it, but wait what about something off Weezers Pinkerton, I had just learned all those songs this summer and always loved The Good Life … could I sing it? That record made such a huge impact on me… wait what other records made big impacts on my life, there are too many, but… Anyway I spun around like this for more then a week. Ultimately, I decided to go for a T-Rex tune because I loved how Dandy In The Underworld turned out from our Project 10. T-Rex Slider in my humble opinion is the ultimate “cool” song. The strings were a huge challenge but I found a free plug in by Spitfire Audio that had a nice sampled Cello and it all worked out ok. I may get around to some of my other ideas as I continue sketching, in the meantime “I slide”. Enjoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/d7352aff-2fd5-4aa2-b117-2d49c3adc487/Czahr+pic+for+project+14.JPG All Projects - Project 14: Anything Goes - Eric “Czahr” Scott covers Bucket by Neutral Milk Hotel I will try to keep this as short as possible. Neutral Milk Hotel is very, very near and dear to my heart. I don’t generally pick favorites because it’s too difficult, and ultimately pointless, but I would be lying if I said In the Aeroplane Over the Sea doesn’t always immediately pop into my head the moment anyone asks me “what’s your favorite album”. There are many reasons for this. It was the soundtrack to my most formative years as a music lover and as a young adult navigating their first Serious Relationship. It all began with a late night answering machine message from one very serious sounding Neil Fasen. “Czahr. Neutral Milk Hotel. They’re fucking amazing. I can’t explain. This is Neil.” It was brief, cryptic and I knew it was meaningful. I had just woken up in the morning for work and knew Neil would still be sleeping so I didn’t call him back for details. I looked online (this was 1998, there was very little) and saw they just had an album come out. I had time to stop by the Electric Fetus before work, so I rushed there, found the album and headed home to check out a little of it. I remember the clarity of those first chords and how they hit me. I was instantly transfixed and paralyzed by the music and had to struggle to turn it off so I could go to work. Holy shit. It was like weird aural voodoo, hitting my brain in a different way than anything else I had listened to. This is already too long, but there’s more. When I got the message and the album, I was a couple days away from leaving for a trip to the Czech Republic to visit my girlfriend who was studying abroad. All I had for portable music was a cassette Walkman, and I wanted to travel light, so I put Aeroplane on one side of a cassette and On Avery Island (which I had rushed back to the store to buy after finishing Aeroplane) on the other side. For my ten days traveling around Europe, Neutral Milk Hotel was my only soundtrack – but I LOVED it. That trip was one of the high points and low points of my life. My girlfriend broke the news to me that she realized she was a lesbian and broke up with me on a train, with the unspeakable beauty of the Swiss Alps passing by through the train windows. That one moment is my favorite moment, believe it or not. And to top it off, the last day of my trip involved me losing my passport and plane tickets and spending an unplanned day in Amsterdam with a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank that I had purchased at the airport to pass the time until the US Embassy got me sorted out. And as we all know, that just happens to be the book that inspired In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. When I found that out later, it kinda blew my mind. So, Bucket. Bucket was actually the first Neutral Milk Hotel song I ever heard. After listening to Aeroplane for the first time, I recognized the singer’s voice and realized they were the band that did my favorite song on the Periscope Records compilation that I had recently bought solely for the rare Beck song on it. Bucket is simple, fuzzy, low-fi and the same progression of four chords throughout the entire song. But I love it, and when Neil said we should cover anything we wanted, Bucket immediately popped into my head. I tried to keep it faithful to the original. Enjoy. https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-13-1991 monthly 0.5 2021-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/ce21df14-1877-4c3c-a3d9-2fb138977eef/GTRS.jpg All Projects - Project 13: 1991 - Colby Heston covers Crush by Smashing Pumpkins In 1991, like many others, I was becoming disenfranchised by the music that I had previously enjoyed. Bands like Guns N Roses and Skid Row were quickly being replaced with Jane's Addiction, Dinosaur Jr. and Smashing Pumpkins. When Gish came out, I absorbed the whole album. It was such a blend of psychedelia and fuzz rock. Not quite cock rock and not quite grunge - somewhere in the middle. I kept Crush fairly straight forward. I would recommend listening to it with headphones on as I experimented a bit with panning. Hope that you enjoy it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/df676289-c31e-4dd6-921f-739eb0bb5dfc/madonna.jpg All Projects - Project 13: 1991 - Jacob Sharff covers Justify My Love by Madonna OK, so this song was actually released at the very end of 1990. But aside from that minor technicality, I think it’s safe to say it had the bulk of its impact over the course of '91, and it ranked #21 on the 1991 year-end Billboard Hot 100 chart. Plus, I ditched Madonna on the last project, and y’know… didn't wanna leave her hangin. Just to clarify, I've never been a big Madonna fan or anything. I've also never liked this song very much. I think my memory of the song when it came out probably has much more to do with the controversial nature of the video. There were also the legal issues with the drum beat being stolen from Public Enemy (who were accused of lifting it from James Brown in the first place). Anyway, I guess a song that so blatantly ripped off a drum beat and was banned for a video with explicit sexual content was sort of interesting to me at the time for those reasons at least, despite the fact that it was a pretty boring song. I guess my idea with this was to approach the song as a parody. Try to push it to an absurd extreme. After cutting out a couple verses and quite a few of the other dumb lyrics, I still managed to stretch it out to the original song's length of over 5 minutes by getting a little too carried away with the extended ending part I added. I had intended to continue layering and building this to make it even more climactic (pun intended) but just sort of ran out of time and called 'er good enuff. In the process of making the song, I had a great time messing around with the microKorg and getting weird with the vocoder, and I also stumbled across a strange online audio archive of orgasm recordings. So for those reasons alone, I'd say it was time well spent. Basically, just attempted to have some fun, not take it too seriously, and above all... tried to keep it seXXXy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/0f587aaa-25f9-40f3-8317-108ab98f6f59/MyBloodyValentine-Sometimes-Barrett.jpg All Projects - Project 13: 1991 - Barrett Haroldson covers Sometimes by My Bloody Valentine I was not aware, nor was I a fan of this band in 1991, I think I was too busy with Nevermind and the Use Your Illusion albums. As a thread through my song choices, movie and tv soundtracks will generally turn me on to new music. In the case of My Bloody Valentine, Lost in Translation turned me onto this track and the band overall. I think songs paired with the right cinematic visual will give it a whole new context, in this case BIll Murray and Scarlett Johanason returning from a night of partying and karaoke in Tokyo gave this song a whole new context. MBV's sound and production was so unique and thick and layered, drenched in chorus, reverb and distortion in a way that I can't tell what's all happening but I love it. Instead of layers of distorted guitars, I tried to layer a ton of ambient piano, pad synths, orchestral layers (Labs). For some reason layering a ton of those gave a very different sonic wall of sound that felt cinematic and dense in a way that felt appropriate for the song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/992dc482-1bca-4cbf-9d6a-834a7d85fac1/Slash+drawing.jpg All Projects - Project 13: 1991 - Eric “Czahr” Scott covers November Rain by Guns n’ Roses Guns N' Roses were my favorite band up until 1991. I had the denim jacket with patches to prove it. Use Your Illusion I & II changed all of that. It felt bloated, messy and like a concept album without the concept. I chose one of the most bloated songs from the album as a kind of reckoning - an attempt to satisfy the disappointment I felt back then. I went for a very basic and stripped down version, something that The Tallest Man on Earth might do. I condensed the song into a more manageable chunk by ignoring the solo, and by cutting off the last third of the song which was just there for more Slash soloing (props to Slash, he always deserved better than GNR). I basically wanted to preserve the melody and boil the song down into something I'd actually want to hear. Ever since school started there has been at least one person sick at all times, so I had even less time and energy than usual to complete this so forgive me for being a day late and eleven dollars short. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/beb5a124-1668-4daa-ad74-d23ac469688b/29B5091F-4D85-429F-82D2-AAD34DC5EA10.jpeg All Projects - Project 13: 1991 - Jeff Kearns covers Alcoholiday by Teenage Fan Club Teenage Fanclub’s Catholic Education Lp really got me when it came out. I was so looking forward to their next release. Bandwagonesque was great but I missed the sloppy rock of before. That was how I approached Alcoholiday. And that album cover. Yellow bag of money on a pink background. Strangely difficult. I also thought of Alex Chilton playing this song with them. His scream at the end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/5b5be59f-f5a2-48d2-8aae-4b9601c64254/Noah+Flannel.JPG All Projects - Project 13: 1991 - Noah Warren covers Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) by C+C Music Factory This song was ubiquitous in this era of my life. Hailing from Powderhorn Park, my sister and I moved to a rural area where television and Stephen King novels were my only conduit to civilization and a greater culture. We watched the Tracey Ullman Show witnessing the birth of The Simpsons as they hit the airwaves and made us all evolve. What glued me to this song in particular was its use in the season 8 episode “Homer’s Phobia”. It was such a random choice and my first memorable exposure to comedic absurdity, alternative lifestyles and the mighty craft of steel work. Also, the singer of this song’s hook, Martha Wash, was done dirty- I remember watching her on Arsenio Hall (Here’s the clip, the 2:20 min mark) where she proved she was the true source. The C+C Music Factory video had a model lip-synching to her. That blew my little brain. I believe it was post Milli Vanilli, so we were collectively becoming disillusioned and learning to not have a cow, man. Eat my shorts. I can’t do any better than Martha, but I wanted to give this song the Bon Iver Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth treatment. At least, that was my aim. Where I ended up seemed passable enough to share. All done super last minute while I was down with a cold last Friday. I used Garageband on my iPad because I’m just too lazy to use a real setup and also because I didn’t think this experiment would work… I’ll let you be the judge? Freedom Williams’ rap lyrics are dope… Not! We’re not worthy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/62b64011-f854-4a1a-ae53-4d2d415952b5/GrantEUpTownBar.jpg All Projects - Project 13: 1991 - Grant Eull’s 1991 covers Throwing Things by Ned’s Atomic Dustbin Punch Me Harder by Superchunk Planet of Sound by the Pixies " 91, was sort of an upside down or sideways kind of year for me personally. Wasn't at all certain about myself and I struggled with a ton of anger issues. I broke way too many guitars in the early 90's but sort felt like angst was pretty accepted... could it have been the music? Well as "songs from the year 91" became the project for this basement sketch I decided to just embrace the guitar driven anger of youth and see what came of it. I had totally forgotten about this Ned's Atomic Dustbin record; what a great example of "college" rock and I was super happy to find out that the Pixies released Trompe Le Monde in 91 because this band was a huge influence on my life. Lastly, Superchuck's Punch Me Harder just felt like this was the theme for my life back in 91 so it was a must. Enjoy... oh and I'm happy to be a much less angry person now." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/55fed34f-32d3-4c94-8eb0-5f284226389d/R-621105-1331382467.jpeg All Projects - Project 13: 1991 - Bill Fricke’s 1991 Covers Alive by Pearl Jam. A country/rock version which was fun to do Until the End of the World U2 — straight up cover. This is my favorite from Aching Baby. Shiny Happy People - REM. All synths, instrumental. It is almost an “Enya”version. In 1991, I was 26 years old, married, and pretty much listening to Cities 97 and whatever my wife at the time was into. I know two albums that came out that year that we owned. One was an Enya album, and the other Loreena McKennitt. So, you know where I was at. Nirvana annoyed the hell out of me and I didn’t care for most of the grunge bands either. I was too old and not angry enough for it to matter. However, I could still rely on U2 and REM to get me through. I did listen to the alternative rock station a lot, so I did hear Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Pearl Jam, etc. The only band that I liked was Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder fascinated me. His voice, his manner, and intensity was striking. I didn’t follow them past a couple of albums, but he’s still fascinating. I now can appreciate the cultural impact that these bands and albums had, and can listen with a more open mind now than I could then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/9d8e699e-e3a9-41b4-98b4-51370b870233/Axl.jpeg All Projects - Project 13: 1991 - Tom Stromsodt’s 1991 covers Estranged by Guns n’ Roses Planet of Sound by the Pixies Estranged: It occurs to me now that this song is probably a lot about how Axl was an asshole to Stephanie Seymour. Which is unfortunate. One day I’ll finish the last six minutes of this sucker. Planet of Sound: I bought a guitar pedal with a manufacturer’s description of “this thing sounds like garbage”thinking “finally, somebody understand the tone I’m after”. That’s really all you need to know about me. The girls sing back up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/12b9bff8-b33f-43e7-9447-1645ae9cdce5/tumblr_ngdw21pJ1h1rkdt95o1_1280.jpeg All Projects - Project 13: 1991 - Neil’s 1991 Ween Covers 1991 was a year of transition for me. My musical tastes were changing. Guns n’ Roses and Metallica, previously two of my favorite bands, were putting out terrible music, and meanwhile I was discovering all of this incredible stuff people seemed to be just making on their own. Ween’s album The Pod became a one of my high school soundtrack albums. I listened to it a ridiculous amount, so when the 1991 challenge was presented, I had to honor the album that had made such an impact on me. Unfortunately, my family and I have all been sick this past week. Thankfully, we don’t have Covid, but we’ve all been knocked out with bad colds, which really put a damper in my grandiose recording plans. I managed to use some old tricks to knock these out quickly, but it’s not my best showing. Oh well, Ween would be disappointed if I put too much effort into these tunes. https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-12-return-of-the-playlist monthly 0.5 2021-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1629583217035-UF3WT5QGLHVRMT0PHBID/img3.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - It's back. The classic playlist cover challenge that started it all. Each contributor creates a playlists of 5 songs via Spotify or YouTube or something that enables other people to hear it. Submit your 5 song playlist by August 28 Each person who wants to cover something, chooses a song or songs from the playlists submitted. The only constraint being that the song or songs you cover can't come from your own playlist. People submit their songs as they complete them, and I post all songs to the site at once the evening of Sunday, September 26. Final day to submit covers will be Sunday, September 26 Download all of the songs here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1633294377594-NYO5WFNL2U41QTDMHB7F/DEVO100.png All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Grant Eull covers 100% by Sonic Youth and Gates of Steel by DEVO. After a bit of FOMO from this project I decided to see what I could accomplish in a day. It really feels great to have learned so much about my recording gear that I can sketch out a couple covers in less than a day. Feels super satisfying. I know the one synth line on the DEVO song is "off", but I couldn't resist giving it a go as it's an all time favorite!. I loved the list of submissions from everyone and had a very hard time choosing songs to attempt. I continue to be honored to be part of this super talented group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1633217144968-34WDQLQIM9M4C5GSZS6S/le_fermier_te_dit.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Jeff Esterby covers Angus Desire by Sparks Sorry for the last minute entry again - also totally blew it on submitting a playlist this round so I really broke every rule in the book on this one. Cuff me. Sparks is a huge influence on me and one of my favorite bands ever so as soon as I saw this one I started recording it and it was really hard. So hard in fact that I just sat on it forever and then just sort of pitched and distorted it until I eventually gave up on it. Enjoy the mess. Also great work, everyone! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632874549676-CEUUAX1UFB2VXKASNIXO/barrett-pic.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Barrett Haroldson covers All I Need by Radiohead With creativity, sometimes when I get stuck I try to not overthink it but let experimentation and chance bring something new. I had recreated All I Need into something that sounded more like a movie score with some swelling synths, distorted horns and was about to work on a final mix. While I was doing that YouTube played the next video which was the vocals to True Love Waits. Somehow the 2 really worked together so I felt that was far more interesting. It may be sacrilege to diehard Radiohead fans but was fun to make. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632787158600-5ETHMB49NJUR6ANSY6XE/0B7BB317-ED88-4E27-9B4B-93E2270D71C1.JPG All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Andrew Charon covers I Didn’t Change My Number by Billie Eilish I waited until the final day of the deadline to start to record…the deadline is always good inspiration. It was between this song and “Country Death Song” by the Violent Femmes. I wanted more experience recording vocals and guitar and thought this one would be a fun exercise since I feel like my singing is a bit weak. Though my initial thought was to make the transition at the end of the song more psychedelic metal I think it worked out pretty ok. Lots of learnings with this one on my end but I had a blast recording it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632787075139-E1M8DIFU5QHB0Q4CVK6H/Randy+D.+p12.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Randy “Devetron” Dever covers Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel Decisions were made. Some real ham-fisted, blunt-force edits here. I used my bass, a telephone handset mic, Elektron Digitakt, Yamaha SU-700 and Korg Poly-61. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632709728820-6749MLYJPJUGH7ZA5VOK/Plane.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Jeff Kearns covers Viet Nam by the Minutemen war is not funny. masculinity sometimes is. I pulled a rib muscle singing this fucker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632703887661-X3W75NZPKRY9TRW64FJX/TOOTH_Ruletheworld.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Dale “Tooth” Flattom covers Everybody Wants to Rule The World by Tears for Fears 1984? 1985? / Big Brother was watching / MTV / The way the verse walks into the bridge / These dudes knew what they were doing / BANNED even / another mope-a-dope cover / slow it down and make it sad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632703621497-2B8KB2ZTPL3HRWWZD7VF/image0_1.jpeg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Tom Stromsodt’s Project 12 Songs Mr Crowley I learned and recorded the beginning of this song within 30 minutes of Neil posting it (Andrew’s playlist). It was the clearest decision I’ve ever made. Jay plays the second solo and channeled Randy better than I could have imagined. Sundown Fast facts: 1. This song was the #1 song in the land during my first month on earth is the year of our lord, 1974 2. This song is about Cathy Smith, Gord’s ex-girlfriend. Smith was a backup singer, drug dealer, and legal secretary who later went on to inject John Belushi with a lethal speedball. She died of Covid last year. 3. Gordon Lightfoot is a Canadian treasure. Jay provided focused, modal blues melodicising on the electric guitar and sweet chorus harmonies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632703263014-NV9LI2HIPI5LTR6G2CD2/Prince+and+Noah.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Noah Warren covers I Didn’t Change My Number by Billie Eilish So I had zero-point-zero time to do the kinks project and I didn’t meet the deadline. I felt bad so I pushed myself to finish something this round. Turns out I had even less time, (ah sweet irony). I guess the lesson learned is that my perception of time is a fickle mistress, if that makes any sense, (eat your heart out Christopher Nolan). I was pleased as punch to see Neil include a Billie Eilish song on his playlist. I really like how she and FINNEAS work- incorporating real world sounds and whatnot. Nice to see Eililsh return to her Reggae roots in this record. ;) I still haven’t seen her documentary, (zero-point-zero time, dammit!), but doing this cover was interesting. I thought it would be easy to sing in her key. Boy was I wrong. Hats off to Billie for being able to pull off her sound in an authentic manner. Had fun, Had no time, but had fun. Here it is! Good to be back and thanks for listening! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632703083762-PIVQX4GOKFEY4VML377H/tour_de_france_feminin_1984_103010.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Mark Schumacher’s cover of Tour de France by Kraftwerk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632702943485-2YHKDZ3FRJ9VMKZKJ0MF/Minutemee.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Jacob Sharff’s cover of Viet Nam by the Minutemen When required to do the math, I realize that Double Nickels on the Dime has been on regular rotation in my music collection for well over 30 years now. What is more amazing is that I’ve never gotten tired of it. There aren’t very many albums I can say that about. The Minutemen, perhaps more than any other band I can think of, completely defined the idea of what I thought punk rock was supposed to be. They were a band that made me want to immediately go buy shitty gear and start my own band. Strangely, I don’t think the idea of covering a Minutemen song has ever even occurred to me. Perhaps it was just too sacred. Off-limits. I don’t know. But after spending way too much time learning the keyboard part for Borderline and trying to figure out an interesting way to cover Madonna, I abandoned that idea and decided I would wade into the sacred waters and take a stab at Viet Nam. My initial idea for the song was to do something counter-intuitive and to attempt to be ironic by slowing it down. I do realize this is probably one of the most obvious choices one could make when doing a cover. But also, I’m not gonna pretend for a second that I can play as fast as any of those dudes, so that’s the default direction I took with this one. After pulling out Ballot Result, the 1987 posthumous release of live recordings, and realizing (to my surprise) that there is no live version of Viet Nam on that record, I decided it would also be fun to make a cover that sounded like it was recorded live. For whatever it’s worth, I think I made an effort to channel some D. Boon energy in there somewhere, and while in the process of making this, I may or may not have also been secretly fantasizing that I was recreating a long lost bootleg version of the song, recorded in a small, dirty bar somewhere south of San Pedro…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632702356007-JGJ8KPUJDMBEVIB1GU6Z/image_50733825.JPG All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Eric “Czahr” Scott’s Project 12 Songs What Deaner was Talking About by Ween Ween. Always a problematic band in one way or another, yet always near and dear to my heart. My first exposure to Ween was from my parent's answering machine. Let me explain. My high school friend had just gotten GodWeenSatan and was so excited to share the absurdity with me, he called when nobody was home and instead of leaving a message he played "Got a Weasel" in its near entirety with no message. My parents naturally assumed it was for me, and I in turn naturally assumed it was from the person who had left it (some of you know Mat Sanborn, heheh). Anyway, Deaner. I've always loved this song. It's a breezy and easy chaser after gorging on the buffet of Chocolate and Cheese. It's one of their "normal" songs. I've never tried covering it before, and was delighted to find that it's super easy. School just started, and I'm gearing up to return to the office after 18 months away, so I needed something easy. I needed Ween. They're always there for me. Technical stuff...eh, acoustic guitar, a drum pad, a moog app, all hastily fed into the sausage grinder of Garage Band. It's not my most careful recording, and it's fairly straightforward, but there it is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632702495635-RLSGF0QQCH7D5XC7H6QV/Rake.JPG All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - The Rake’s Song by The Decemberists I've always had a weird relationship with the Decemberists. I love the lyrics, I love the melodies, I have no problems with the musicianship and I really enjoy some of their albums, but I always end up feeling that what I'm hearing sounds a little too sterile. Their stories and melodies beg for a dirtier, less refined sound. Ditch the bathing and deodorant, let it stink. They’re Neutral Water Condo. Anyway, it's back to school season so a song about murdering your kids seemed fun. I thought it would lend a little weight to it if I tried for a slower, more Tom Waitsy sort of style. I did a couple takes where I actually tried singing in a Tom Waits voice, but it sounded like someone with a cold failing their Muppets audition so I quickly deleted those. Enjoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632701871866-CKJFAYLPSF11E7E7Z77U/374862_10150533226727715_491420064_n+%281%29.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Bill Fricke’s Project 12 Songs M.E. by Gary Numan When I was in like 9th or 10th grade or so, a friend of mine was really into Gary Numan and we used to go to Roger Dodger Music on Lake Street and play with the synthesizers for hours until we got kicked out. We later recorded a bunch of Gary Numan songs with a small mixer and two tape decks. I played drums and guitar, he did keyboards and vocals. It was a horrendous noise. We never recorded M.E., but it was always one of the songs l liked. First thought was to go small chamber ensemble with strings and woodwinds. And that’s what happened. I’m super fond of Numan’s melodies and his signature interval jumps and I’m pleasantly surprised at how well they translated to a string treatment. Again, done with GarageBand orchestral sounds, strings, oboe, flute clarinet, bassoon, etc. Sundown and Shilo I had to cover these to honor my mom. She loved Gordon Lightfoot and Neil Diamond. I highly recommend the documentary “If You Could Read My Mind” about him on streaming. It gave me a whole new respect for his songwriting. I had forgotten how amazing his voice is. Sundown is pretty much a straight forward cover. A little bit slower and more electric guitars, perhaps a little more countryish. Shilo is just acoustic guitar and vocals. Done very quickly, but it has it’s charm. I almost started crying while singing because the song hits home for me, being the kid who felt left out and turning to music to be my friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1632704114371-MFA0KBAUI7EN561JLDN0/AC7E5BA6-3FBD-4AAF-AE41-2A24E8DE4E31.jpeg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Neil Fasen’s Project 12 Songs Do You Love Me Now by the Breeders This songs conjures up very palpable memories of High School. I listened to Last Splash a ton back then. I saw the Breeders at First Ave, and I also saw them open for Nirvana at Roy Wilkins. I loved them. Tom and Matt helped me with this one. Shilo by Neil Diamond My plan was to strip everything natural from this song, the smokey vocals, the acoustic guitars and tambourines, and instead try to do my best Cher “Do You Believe” impression. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1630715555621-NR959CM9EMDLLC9NAIGN/image4.jpeg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Mark Schumacher’s Playlist Passion Fruit by Drake At Last I am Free by Robert Wyatt My Jamaican Guy by Grace Jones (You Caught Me) Smilin' by Sly & The Family Stone Hi a Skoellyas LIV a Dhagrow by Gwenno Link to Mark’s playlist on Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1630243711460-DZ6UJQ5006XDMLWU69ER/R.Dev+Pineapple.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Randy Dever’s Playlist Cisco Kid by War Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft by Carpenters Gold by John Stewart Shilo by Neil Diamond The Breakup Song by Greg Kinh Band Link to Randy’s playlist of Youtube Link to Randy’s playlist on Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1630243944665-SA43VQDXDM7JK064BZAQ/image8.jpeg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Jacob Sharff’s Playlist Gates of Steel by DEVO Rub ‘Til It Bleeds by PJ Harvey Honesty Is No Excuse by Thin Lizzy Bummer in the Summer by Love Baby Bitch by Ween Link to Jacob’s playlist on Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1630244587027-MT0WUQJ7IOEZS75AG3FM/vegatarian+burger.JPG All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Noah Warren’s Playlist Murder By Playlist 1. John Wayne Gacy, Jr- Sufjan Stevens 2. Down in the Willow Garden - cover performed by Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones 3. The Rake’s Song- The Decemberists 4. Country Death Song- The Violent Femmes 5. Where did you sleep last night- cover performed by Sleigh Bells Yikes! Country folk are spooky. Link to Noah’s playlist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1630111082360-H0CIB5C3BX7BP4SRYJ7Q/Kearns+car.jpeg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Jeff Kearns Playlist Love is a Losing Game by Amy Winehouse Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden Borderline by Madonna The Sign by Ace of Base Too Involved by Teenage Fanclub Link to Jeff’s playlist on YouTube https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1630111331440-4HMPNH9WODQW4GBOK3HH/Photo+Oct+28%2C+7+53+11+PM.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Brian Eveslage’s Playlist Hold Your Head Up by Argent M.E. by Gary Numan Sea of Love by Phil Philips Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson Saved By Zero by The Fixx Link to Brian’s playlist on Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1630022114787-ZAD68MK3EY8WY7KVN73B/Photo+Oct+28%2C+9+40+50+PM.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Jeff Mooridian Jr.’s Playlist Forget Marie by Lee Hazelwood Tour de France by Kraftwerk Psychedelic Woman by Honey and the Bees Band Angus Desire by Sparks Banshee by Santigold Link to Jeff’s playlist on Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1629949116659-ULAWO5RRF0TSRCA84KK3/Barrett%27s+Amazing+Organ+pic.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Barrett’s Playlist Little Girl In Bloom by Thin Lizzy Never My Love by The Association Mockingbirds by Grant Lee Buffalo I Lied by Lord Huron, Allison Ponthier Joy Inside My Tears by Stevie Wonder Link to Barrett’s playlist on Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1629948528760-8VEO05L76KBKV7RQWXEY/image3.jpeg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Chris Danforth’s Playlist Stutter by Elastica Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears For Fears The Sweetest Taboo by Sade Kiss You All Over by Exile Link to Danforth’s playlist on YouTube https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1629858484840-G42R8PX3WRUK5V870895/image1.jpeg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Colby Heston’s Playlist Poledo by Dinosaur Jr. What Deaner Was Talkin’ About by Ween Starlight by the Superman Lovers Take Off Your Cool by Outkast (feat Norah Jones) Do You Love Me Now? by the Breeders Link to Colby’s playlist at YouTube https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1629765660862-UCY2ZQPC3DE9FAH1GGOY/Czahr+pic.JPG All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Eric “Czahr” Scott’s Playlist I Found Out by John Lennon Viet Nam by the Minutemen Dragon Attack by Queen Music Jail, Pt. 1 and 2 by They Might Be Giants Dawn by Kikagaku Link to Czahr’s playlist on Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1629770604217-JE2BK5HXWX69XOAM5HI4/image2.jpeg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Bill Fricke’s Playlist phot by Grant Eull https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1629686309075-ZC6N582NHC8U6X736H9E/image10.jpeg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Matt Rahaim’s Playlist These Dreams by Heart Because the Night by Patti Smith Eternal Flame by The Bangles We Belong by Pat Benetar The Day the World Turned Day-Glo by X-Ray Spex Link to Matt’s playlist on YouTube https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1629589460605-QQJS0U9KEMGN2DJO87W4/img2.jpg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Andrew Charon’s Playlist 100% by Sonic Youth Careful With That Axe, Eugene by Pink Floyd Mr. Crowley (live) by Ozzy Osbourne Sway by the Rolling Stones For The Turnstiles by Neil Young Link to Andrew’s playlist on YouTube https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1629589969074-VNBUO328PRXJ1QINJ8MI/image9.jpeg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Tom Stromsodt’s Playlist No Myth by Michael Penn Lovemachine by Supermax The Wind Will Carry Them By by The Rokes My Uncle Used to Love Me by Roger Miller Brokedown Place by the Grateful Dead Link to Tom’s playlist on Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1629590165892-D00K5UOBCFCQ9SYA2FBL/image5.jpeg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Neil Fasen’s Playlist Caustic Acrostic by Fugazi Mandinka by Sinéad O’Conner I Didn’t Change My Number by Billie Eilish All I Need by Radiohead Ballad of a Thin Man by Bob Dylan Link to Neil’s playlist on Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1629590281523-Q3HLNC8TL9L2GAXIA3X9/image0.jpeg All Projects - Project 12: Return of the Playlist - Grant Eull’s Playlist Bye Bye Love by the Cars I’ll Be You by the Replacements Think About You by Guns N’ Roses Is There Something I Should Know? by Duran Duran The Ocean by Led Zeppelin Link to Grant’s playlist on Spotify https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-11-the-kinks monthly 0.5 2021-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1628644374443-1L9XVF36IIAYRAGTNGC8/image.png All Projects - Project 11: The Kinks - Mark Schumacher covers Party Line https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1628475618788-UY2OC3XE4WVNELUZB2IJ/51GSes9z4pL.jpg All Projects - Project 11: The Kinks - Tom Stromsodt covers This Is Where I Belong I opted for a rare optimistic Kinks song. I hope we honored their spirit with both the haphazard process and result. -Tom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1628470411684-HGYOQOAA9IJRDSXWBYDL/IMG_6849.jpg All Projects - Project 11: The Kinks - Randy “Devetron” Dever covers Apeman I’ve always had a disproportionate fondness for this song. They would play it every now and then on the big FM Rock station in Fargo (Q-98). The themes resonate very strongly with me. I took 4 hours this afternoon on the last possible day to produce it. I had decided I wasn’t going to do one this round as I felt I didn’t have any worthwhile ideas. We had houseguests all weekend and they left at about 1:30 PM. I got a bug up my apeman behind. There was no time for any kind of perfection or polishing it. I intended it to come out like a smooth T-Rex version of the song, but the vocals came out more like Alice Cooper at some of his more theatric moments (think “Steven”, if you know it). Hope you can stand it. Haha. -Dtron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1628472655570-9LB3QB68PYO3VH4LT93M/pic+for+project+11.jpg All Projects - Project 11: The Kinks - Jeff Kearns covers Something Better Beginning So many great Kinks song. This one spoke to me. The conventional verse into the sweetest of choruses. Being drawn to things you can't fully control. Top shelf risk taking. Taking the skin for a spin as the kids say. ~J https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1628392167315-CFWWJE3PRHMC8ZDHCSRU/GiveThePeopleWTWbackCover.jpg All Projects - Project 11: The Kinks - Grant Eull covers Well straight out - the KINKS were never really a thing for me. This project ultimately introduced me to so many great songs and now the KINKS are definitely “a thing for me”. Thanks to everyone on this group that voted them to the top for this project. Ultimately, after considering a number of songs and listening to so many albums I decided to just stick with songs from the only vinyl KINKS record I own. 1981’s Give The People What They Want came into my life when my former band PESTER back in 2002 or so decided to cover Destroyer. I had never heard the song before but fell in love with the lyrics and the nod it has to other more classic KINKS tunes. Destroyer It had been years since I thought about this song but I am grateful for the chance to give it another go and get a documentation of it with my hack vocal stylings. It was super fun to bring a portable mic out to my living room and record my slightly out of tune piano. The sloppy energy of this song was something I hope to have captured accurately and it was an absolute blast to revisit for this project. Around The Dial I just love this song. It has the pop punk sensibility that I believe influenced many midwest bands. This song was for sure a stretch for me to sing. So, I decided to just layer it in a number of harmonies. I layered the hell out of it to help hide my imperfections. It at times is way over the top, but it was fun to attempt and ultimately I believe it worked out pretty well. No digital harmonizes just my hack of a falsetto, and natural scratchy voice. I had to go back and layer more guitars just to blend it a bit more … so the final mix is pretty thick in comparison to the KINKS original song. In the spirit of sketching I decided to just have fun and do what I wanted. - Grant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1626493425567-99VI2GQTP6T0ZS5NDLRD/20210709_121302.jpg All Projects - Project 11: The Kinks - Bill Fricke covers National Health National Health is from the album Low Budget. It's a great new wavey kind of song about nervous tension and how exercise would help. I tried an 80's synth pop version and couldn't find the voice. I later decided that it might make a great "show tune", as Ray Davies loved story songs. So, using GarageBand orchestral instruments, I came up with the background and then created three characters, Dr. Smythe (an eccentric British physician), Mr. Henley, (a stoic, grumbly British businessman) and Nurse Biddy (the nurse). All the lyrics from the song are here, but put together to tell the story of Mr. Henley being "treated" by Dr. Smythe with an odd medical device he created to treat "Nervous Tension". It goes off the rails by the end. I'm quite proud of it. It is something so completely different. And I owe it all to you guys for the opportunities to stretch out. Don’t Forget to Dance I love this song, it always makes me tear up a little every time hear the “you do the thing you love the best” part, both the music and lyrics.It lends itself well to a country treatment. I did two versions, but am submitting the slower one. It’s an homage to late 50’s/early 60’s country crooners like Jim Reeves. They didn’t have the twang, and they sang so earnestly. I’m proud of the twinkly piano, “pedal steel” and twangy guitars. Fancy I inherited one Kinks album from my sister, “Kinda Kinks” from 1964 or 65. Other than the hits, they were always under the radar for me. Doing a deep dive into their catalog, I came across the requisite 1960’s “Indian music” influenced song, “Fancy” on “Face to Face” from 1966. Given my penchant for this type of thing, I dove in and within about 2 hours it was mostly finished. Just went by intuition and happy accidents. Rather than keep producing it to death and piling on more and more instruments (which is one of my weaknesses), I decided to stop and move on. Note that there is a musical “nod” to “Love You To” by the Beatles that crops up here and there. I have been listening to more “Ambient Americana” music by bands like SUSS lately, which has had an influence on this. I plan on tackling other Kinks songs with more chords. -Bill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1629765088370-FBGAXDW5HWJ7KR827V9G/Dave_Davies2.jpg All Projects - Project 11: The Kinks - Jacob Sharff covers Strangers I've been meaning to contribute to the basement sketches for awhile now, and I guess it took a Kinks assignment to finally get my shit together and dust off some equipment to make it happen. I've always been intrigued by the Kinks, even though for the longest time all I knew or had heard were just the radio hits, like "You Really Got Me" and some of the cheesy 80's hits like "Come Dancing". It wasn't until much later that I took the time to actually listen to some albums in their entirety, starting with their earlier 60's records, and then of course eventually I discovered Village Green Preservation Society and Lola vs. Powerman, which both blew my mind, and to this day are probably 2 of my favorite albums of all time. What has always fascinated me about the Kinks is how weird and unpredictable they are. It continually feels like you can keep peeling back layers to reveal something new and unexpected. I've also always been attracted to the way their songs can be so serious and dark on one hand, but also juxtaposed with such strange absurdity and humor. Obviously, there are countless Kinks songs that would be fun to cover, but I definitely felt a strong pull from Lola vs. The Powerman. The song 'Strangers' is one that has always hit me really hard in the gut and has forever been one of my favorites. I consider Dave Davies to be kind of like the George Harrison of the Kinks, with the power to summon the occasional dark magic which produces songs that I think are just a bit more special than the bulk of the band's output. I think 'Strangers' is unquestionably one of his best. While I certainly didn't attempt to re-invent the song, and wouldn't claim to have done it any major justice here, I am hoping that in the spirit of the Basement Sketches it works on some level. I started by sampling the drum outro and used that to construct the beat for the main body of the song, and then kinda went from there. My only goal was to try to hang on to, and maybe even accentuate the melancholy feeling of the song. I made a conscious effort to not overthink the process and to stick with first takes, even if they weren't perfect. Basically just tried to keep it fast, fun, loose, and "sketchy". So, here ya go... -Jacob https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1627750654267-69V7EWC92NJBB4V69BT9/image_50383361.JPG All Projects - Project 11: The Kinks - Czahr covers Time Song A few years ago I read something about a previously unreleased song resurfacing from the 1968 Kinks album, The Village Green Preservation Society, which is one of my favorite Kinks albums. I got kind of excited and when I heard it I fell in love with it and it has since become one of my favorite Kinks songs. It's a simple, slowish song about time and being positive set to a hummable melody in C and G. Basically the sort of thing that I usually aim for when I set out to write a song. When we picked the Kinks I knew immediately this was the song I'd probably cover. I had a bunch of weird ideas for it, and tried a bunch of different things (slower and distorted for one) but ended up going with a fairly straightforward cover: strumming an acoustic and trying to match Ray's lilting vocals as well as I could. I did toss in a little pitch pipe ran through a GB filter for a swirly spacey sound halfway through because I couldn't resist adding at least a little bit of my own seasoning. I cook much the same way. As a fun little bit of Czahr history, the very first piece of music that I ever picked out for myself was a 7" record of Come Dancing. It was the first song I can remember hearing that I couldn't get enough of. I was 8 years old. I had never before even considered the fact that one could buy a song they liked, and one day while I was in a White Mart drug store in Alexandria with my mom and brother, I saw the record of the song I couldn't get enough of and asked mom if I had enough money to buy it. Luckily I did, and I went home with my very first piece of recorded music, which is still sitting next to me as I type this. I should have covered that song, right? No way, it's too sacred for me to touch! -Czahr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1627868092192-MEM389C3PZXS2Z0J3MNX/Dale.JPG All Projects - Project 11: The Kinks - Dale Flattum (Tooth) covers Come Dancing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1627868365397-KZIS7LTSV16P9SJBHVLQ/IMG_5957.JPG All Projects - Project 11: The Kinks - Neil covers This Time Tomorrow I had grandiose visions of covering Strangers. I tried different approaches in the early days of project 11. I tried changing the key. I tried different instrumentations. I struggled with the changes back and forth from 4/4 to 2/4 with my click track. I overthought the shit out of it. Friday night I thought that the deadline was looming (and was clearly wrong), and I didn’t know what I was going to do. I went out to one of my favorite restaurants with my wife, a rare treat. During the dessert course of what had been an absolutely lovely meal, I suddenly felt light headed. The next thing I knew, I woke up with my wife talking to one of the restaurant staff members saying, “You can call off the paramedics. I can take him to the hospital.” I’d passed out or had a seizure, and I pissed myself. Great. This is just what you want to do at your favorite hip restaurant. We quickly paid and shuffled out the back as quickly and quietly as possible. I went home and cleaned up. Feeling fine, I decided to stay home and play things by ear. The next morning, I called a nurse line, and they insisted that I go to the ER. I did. Long story short, they don’t totally know what happened. Since I came back and was fine for the rest of the evening, they didn’t think it was a stroke or a seizure. All tests of my heart seemed good. Mysterious and humiliating. Confused, embarrassed, and fearing for my general health, suddenly the details of a cover didn’t seem so important. I cracked out this version of This Time Tomorrow without overthinking it. This may not be my most complete cover, but at least I didn't fucking die. -Neil https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-10-1977 monthly 0.5 2021-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1624500027704-Y97W3TSKZJ5Q0Z192SJW/Colby_Bee+Gees.jpg All Projects - Project 10: 1977 - Colby Heston covers How Deep Is Your Love by The Bee Gees Deadlines...they're arbitrary, right? All apologies to my Basement Sketches brethren for missing the original deadline. It's been a crazy summer so far. Growing up as a child of the 70s, the Brothers Gibb were my jam. I had multiple albums of theirs and played them on my Dad's turntable frequently. When I started looking at songs from 1977 and saw that was the year that Saturday Night Fever came out, I knew my fate. I didn't do myself any favors with this one either. The song is in Eb Minor. A smarter person would have probably transposed it down to D Minor but I've never been one to make things easy for myself. Also, I'm not much of a vocalist so taking on a Bee Gees song was daunting. Everything was tracked in Garageband on my iPad using my Akai Midi Controller, Sterling Bass and a Baby Taylor. Hope that you enjoy it! Colby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1623724110606-YIG7J1IS9ONYFG2G8X3T/Suicide1977.jpg All Projects - Project 10: 1977 - Brian Eveslage covers Ghost Rider by Suicide Now I gotta let Wayne know I finally finished. Brian (For those who don’t get the joke, check this out.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1623723479476-30QT21VDO63R4MVDPD1M/3sCompany.jpg All Projects - Project 10: 1977 - Mark Schumacher and Karl Qualey cover the Three’s Company Theme Mark submitted some Three’s Company fan fiction, but it was far too long and questionable to post here. We can provide some links to this content for those who have an interest. Please reach out for details. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1623642176903-6ZJP59DU28ZNQOHQQOA0/pre_pinkflagb-2.jpg All Projects - Project 10: 1977 - Tom Stromsodt covers Eddie Money and Wire Tom’s comments on his Eddie Money cover, “I opened this up with the intention of “fixing” a few things…it is what is. Two old friends giggling uncontrollably on the floor.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1623638917606-K22SR1HL1D5OZLAX5XWC/IMG_6148.PNG All Projects - Project 10: 1977 - Randy Dever covers Dust in the Wind by Kansas I don’t know what made me settle on this song when 1977 was such a musically-rich year. I am an outsider to the world of turntablists and scratch DJs, etc. A few months ago, I discovered scratch DJ battle records. They are rad. Top-tier scratch DJs would press records specifically designed to help them win DJ battles. They would typically have long beats on one side and loads of short samples and scratch fodder on the other. After the battle, some would release the records to the general public for home-gamers to scratch it up at home. I used a song-length drum beat from one of DJ QBert’s battle records. So, I just layered a bunch of stuff over the beat. I made this last-minute and all today (Saturday, 6/12/2021). It’s kinda raw. I used the Elektron Digitakt (some samples), the Arturia Microfreak for vocoder, Korg Poly 61 for synth sounds and the ribbon controller on the Yamaha SU700 to simulate scratching actual records. I really wanted to put in more Queensryche samples, but I ran out of effort. Dtron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1623639089857-N4RWZUCIEEXJJ97X7P33/Grant+Eull.png All Projects - Project 10: 1977 - Grant Eull’s 1977 Covers When starting project 10 (1977) I was super inspired by the amount of amazing music from bands I knew… but records I had been less familiar with. I originally had a very very hard time narrowing down songs to learn and record. In my mind I wanted to attempt 10-15, so I could cover a number of styles and make up for not having as many songs on my “music makers” page. However, once I started I found that I was getting frustrated by the process of trying to mimic original tones and production sounds. Without owning any original vintage gear, not being able to find exact matching midi-drum patterns and being limited with my skills in drums programming and sound synthesis I eventually settled on the approach I call (good enough/have fun). Once I settled into this more laid back style the process was much more comfortable and I really had a blast tracking and mixing all these songs in my home studio. Studio GEAR Used for 1977 project: DAW - Reaper Interface - Zoom R8 Drums - Addictive Drums 2 Electronic Drums & Synth Sequencing - FL Studio Bass & Guitar Amps - IK Multimedia Amplitude & Zoom R8 onboard Emulation Guitars - Modified Gibson SG special / Gibson Les Paul 65 Special Reissue with P90s Synthesizer - KORG Minilogue XD Grant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1623639846896-Y9MD8QOUGCXFYQSYJWJ7/NoahGreenScreen.JPG All Projects - Project 10: 1977 - Noah Warren covers Tonight’s The Night by Rod Stewart “If you’ve made it this far, you’re the real hero.” Actual words on their website. Noah quoting Little Cesar’s Pizza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1623640710185-961CGZ5J4JJ04U4Y4LU4/Kraftwerk.jpg All Projects - Project 10: 1977 - Bill Fricke covers Eno, Kraftwerk, and Donna Summer The legend goes that when David Bowie and Brian Eno were working in Berlin (possibly on Low or Heroes), Eno came into the studio with a copy of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love”. He is purported to have said something like, “I have heard the future of music, and this is it.” To which Bowie allegedly responded with, “Well, you had best put it on then.” I can attest to that feeling when I first heard “I Feel Love”. Being 12 in 1977, and at the height of my KISSmania, shunning disco as being the devil’s music, my head exploded when I first heard “I Feel Love”. The synth bass line blew me away, and the whole song was almost trance-inducing. I can’t remember when I started getting into Kraftwerk, probably at 14. Trans-Europe Express was also eye-opening. Its evocative of train travel and the thrum of the rails. It was interesting to hear how they updated it over the years as technology caught up with them. In trying to decide what to cover for this project, I really wanted to do both songs. Then, after playing around with them, discovered that they share a common key. Why not combine the best of both and see what happens? I’m very pleased with the outcome. I’ve uploaded three versions: “I Feel Love on the Trans Europe Express”, using the IFL disco beat and “On the Trans Europe Express, I Feel Love” using the TEE beat. There is about a 50/50 split in terms of parts of each song used. Its essentially TEE all tarted up in different ways. Both turned out way beyond my expectations. I decided to add Trans Europe Express as its own cover as well. This was done in Garageband with stock GB synths and drum sounds, with modifications. The mellotron proved to be very useful. Most of the melody lines are mellotron with choir or mellotron with flutes. Now I just need a real vocoder. This project was a blast. Looking forward to hearing what we all came up with. Bill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1623641400334-BK77Y6GS0EW88KRFWGNQ/81cdB32gqkL._SS500_.jpg All Projects - Project 10: 1977 - Jeff Kearns covers Just Remember I Love You by Firefall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1623642552103-084HAPGP1L36MFHDEK33/9636152931_b8610a880b_b.jpg All Projects - Project 10: 1977 - Neil covers Billy Joel For those of you who know me, this isn’t surprising. For those of you who don’t know me, this might change your opinion of me. Neil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1623643696009-6NKX1QYWD4WSRDTYWR8R/F4E22DC0-065C-4B81-9F31-133338A29BA1.JPG All Projects - Project 10: 1977 - Andrew Charon covers Dogs by Pink Flyod I'm not sure exactly what happened with this one: I spent a ton of time working on Pigs on the Wing and ended up covering Dogs. It ended up being a true sketch, and I wanted to experiment with transitions between quiet and abrasive. "Dogs" was interesting in the sense that it's this 17+ minute "journey" with many parts...more of an experience similar to Pink Floyd's older work however this album was a bit less electronic then their previous few albums. By the time I started listening to Pink Floyd in 1987, in my opinion, it had been awhile since they had really released anything interesting so I was really discovering their older releases. I guess that was the challenge with growing up and getting into music in the 80's...having to resort to music from the 70's. Andrew https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-9-full-album-cover monthly 0.5 2021-04-15 https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-8-women-in-music monthly 0.5 2021-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1615606066031-OT4VE5MVZ6JGANUEJIGU/Nina%2BSimone%2Bpiano.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Neil’s submission: Nina Simone Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone, was a bad ass. She was arguably a prodigy, playing piano by ear starting at age 3. Originally she aspired to be a concert pianist. She enrolled at Juilliard and then applied for the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, just to be denied despite allegedly having an amazing audition. Pissed off, Eunice started playing nightclubs under the name Nina Simone, so her family wouldn’t hear about her playing “the devil’s music.” Though up until that point she’d never fancied herself a singer, the nightclub required Nina to sing. So it was ultimately circumstance that launched Nina Simone onto the path to become one the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century. Nina was an advocate for Civil rights, speaking and performing at events including the Selma to Montgomery marches and releasing songs like “Mississippi Goddman.” She became famous for her stage presence and earned the title “the High Priestess of Soul.” She’d stop concerts mid song and wait for silence, if she felt the crowd wasn’t sufficiently engaged. Nina didn’t fuck around. She knew how good she was and she demanded the respect she deserved. That’s punk rock. Many of the songs Nina Simone performed and was best known for were covers, so I think it’s fair game to cover a song that Nina made famous through her own cover version. She also has a number of great originals, including the aforementioned “Mississippi Goddamn.” Anything is fair game from her repertoire. -Neil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1617586102067-8B8UUICG75UKSLA6I64K/Noah+Project+8.jpeg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Noah Warren covers “Feeling Good” I listened to most of her catalog and watched a lot of YouTube uploads of her live work. There’s one live Montreux performance where she revisits “My Baby Just Cares For Me” that just floors me. She introduces it by mentioning it’s off her first record, a hit she sang before she had a lifetime of suffering to experience. I couldn’t touch that... or most her classics. “Sinnerman”, “See-Line Woman” and “I Put a Spell On You” were my backups, but I wanted to try “Feeling Good”. This song has always creeped me out. There was probably an easier way to accomplish this, but I had to sing it in one key, knowing it would come out in another- a lot of confusing musical math. Lastly another Youtube video I love is her ‘76 Montreux performance of “I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)”. I’m quite glad I fell down the Nina rabbit hole for much of March. -Noah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1615254877262-UA5T8UIE14Y9B95J5YAU/Talbot-Kate-Bush.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Jeff Mooridian’s submission: Kate Bush The first person I think of is Kate Bush, though I'd really want to cover one of her songs so I almost don't want to mention her (I've never done a cover btw, so not even sure I can do one anyway), and I'm sure I'm not the only person to mention her. What an oeuvre, but of course, The Dreaming is pretty solid straight through. Like this song a lot: https://open.spotify.com/track/1VsQhQbF4SwVvbbFeQ5EOa?si=55ec3dd4682a4f8d -Jeff Mooridian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1617585897653-QQQHFKBVC9BIO1DWSXZR/IMG_5042.JPG All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Randy Dever covers “Experiment IV” I remember being blown away by this lofty, high-concept song when I first heard it. If you aren’t familiar with Kate’s “Experiment IV” perhaps you should listen to it first. Here’s a link to the music video they made for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTUcoR8_pyE The premise is that the narrator is a musician/scientist involved in a military experiment to produce a sonic weapon – “a sound that can kill someone from a distance.” This goes against the narrator’s principles, but they agree to it anyway. In the video, the experiment goes horribly awry. As a synthesizer/sampler/drum machine enthusiast, I would be lying if I said I haven’t envisioned similar concepts. I had planned to make an audio depiction of the actual experiment., but may have ended up being extra iffy and I didn’t have enough time. Instruments: Percussion bells, shaker egg, Elektron Digitakt, Yamaha SU700, modified cassette player thing, Arturia Microfreak (vocoder), micro-cassette dictaphone. I would like to thank William Shatner for his pioneering vocal style. It is becoming familiar ground for me. -Dtron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1615771557928-X7MUANZV5K70JLYPDZM9/Bill.Fricke_pic1.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Bill Fricke covers “Love and Anger” in the style of Joy Division Yes, this is quick out of the gate, but earlier in the week when I found Kate Bush was nominated, I had to do Love and Anger. However, it has coincided with my recent obsession with learning and recording Joy Division and early New Order songs. So, what if.... Joy Division covered Kate Bush? I pared down the lyrics to keep the hopeful ones out as much as possible to keep with the JD style. Liberties were taken with structure. The hardest part was trying to sing Ian Curtis-ish-ly-esque? I plan on tackling other covers. So many great ones to choose from. But it was too much fun to not share now. Hope ya'll enjoy it. -Bill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1615253901721-VIZHK3VYUK6P60JI3C19/ann+and+nancy+wilson+%282%29.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Colby Heston’s submission: Heart For Project 8, I would like to submit Heart (Ann & Nancy Wilson) as my female artist(s). The reason I chose the Wilson sisters/Heart is that I feel that the music that they created helped to pave the way for women in Rock and Roll. The influence of Ann's vocals on Barracuda and Magic Man and Nancy's guitar work on the intro to Crazy on You are still present today. Thanks, Colby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1617585737186-V6JO1PTSKKUE3B1PHRIE/These+Dreams.jpeg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Jeff Kearns covers “These Dreams” Got to know this song by randomly hearing it through the years while driving. Good cinematic feel. Borrowed a Jazzmaster for the tremolo arm. Inspired by the keyboard swoops. Nacy Wilson's astral plane vocal. At the heart of all that 80's hair. Thanks ! Jeff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1617154299267-W4FF7C2RSIJQZ5AOUWZ4/Bad.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Tom Stromsodt covers “Bad Animals” by Heart I decided on doing a Heart song but those Wilson sisters can really wail. After a day of listening, I was struck by how closely many of the songs were aligned with the era they were recorded in. Bad Animals was an interesting example. It was a fairly straightforward Em vamp with a somewhat hopeful chorus but it was recorded in an over the top late 80s fashion. I wondered what would happen if I made a mess of it. The results are below. -Tom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1615428217017-XXEOK0Z9RHWFQG7AWOO4/Aimee_Mann_October_2008.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Randy “Devetron” Dever’s submission: Aimee Mann I choose the enchanting Ms. Aimee Mann. When I hear her sing, it really pulls on the old heart strings. Evocative as all heck. I may be disproportionately affected by her voice because of the strong association with her many songs in the film Magnolia – “Wise Up” in Particular. “Voices Carry” is so, so very good and she has never stopped. I listened to her as a frequent guest of “The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling” and she just seems so rad and cool and kind and gracious. I don’t claim to be an Aimee Mann scholar, but yeah. Go Aimee. -Dtron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1617421987410-NGQVBXCJ9HCP0Z7UOYVV/90.jpeg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Barrett covers “Save Me” I was on the verge of submitting Aimee Mann for my artist, but I’m glad Randy did so that I could cover one of her songs. Her albums have always been regular fixtures in our household, such a distinct style and voice, also super funny in Portlandia. I love soundtrack to the movie Magnolia, it felt fresh and integral to the picture, like Simon and Garfunkel in the Graduate or Air’s Virgin Suicides soundtrack. Save Me comes at the end of the film and hovers over a singular shot. Trying to push myself on each of these challenges, I thought it would be interesting to try an orchestral version of it as would be expected in a film score, maybe an alternate version that ends up in the trailer or during the credits. There is an album by Ramsey Lewis that I love right now called Mother Nature’s Son, it is an album of amazing synth-infused, heavily orchestrated jazz covers of Beatles songs which definitely had an impact on my approach. I didn’t have as much time this round to learn and record all of the parts so I leaned on an existing midi track a bit more, especially for the little runs and flourishes that I don’t think I am capable of. Most of my attempts at making a more traditional orchestral score sounded a bit generic, so opted for a Mellotron to take the place of the rhythm guitar foundation and a few of the flute parts, replacing the bass line with pizzicato strings and building up several layers of strings with some heavy reverb to create swells that were less realistic but felt more intense and emotive. Most of these instruments are free Spitfire Audio Labs or from the Arturia library. Throw in a sprinkle of vibraphone and here it is. This is a photo of Aimee Mann listening to my cover curiously in her den. -Barrett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1615254041473-WQNS3MPP4BWSGE4OPSYC/X.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Jeff Kearns’ submission: Exene Cervenka from X. Always had a soft spot for Exene. The way she careens on the edge of hysteria but stays tethered to the mission. Finding humor in a hard place. Strength in sharing her vulnerability. Poetic calm in the chaos. Always wondered what Westerberg might have got from her during their early 80's tours. Why Elliot Smith was afraid to meet her when she reached out. X left some magic in the cracks. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHCopndI4OeEkkct8-pQKb5jAaaqcBT-R Thanks, Jeff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1617241404385-QIR36NQW9MMSPPD58EOQ/EXENE-CERVENKA-small.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Jeff Mooridian Jr. covers “Some Other Time” I chose Exene and her cohorts. I just watched a bio on X that was pretty great. She's kooky and sweet, a great lyricist and I'm down with her vibe, generally speaking. (The later Trump comments are, sigh, a bit weird, but let's move on shall we?) Her harmonies are truly original: not even going to try to mimic them. The lyrics are impressionistic and/or oblique, at least in the verses–and especially on this tune. I also have a new appreciation for the band's musicianship on top of everything else. There's quite a bit of depth there, especially for how simple their tunes are. A drummer whose favorite band is Captain Beefheart always has my nod of approval, too--for whatever it's worth. Anyway, I'm currently armed with only a synth and Logic but managed to twist out my own version of "Some Other Time" from Wild Gift–through a YMO/Kraftwerk filter? This is my first cover ever. It's pretty fun. I guess I like the Residents' style of covering songs, that is, converting them into their own, so hopefully I'm getting close to that approach. Like I said, I pretty much laid it out with a few tracks of synth. I also decided against drums for some reason. I just liked the space, I guess. Vocals were very rushed, though I did about 8 versions. I was going to run it through a vocoder but Logic's vocoder is pretty "meh". My mic is pretty bottom of the barrel, else I don't know how to work it--very high tech stuff, right? Yada, it's not my "Evita" in short. I have to vacate my place for Covid reasons, so that's that for both vocal attempts and this project anyway. Also, about the vocals: Sorry. Not sorry. Love, Jeff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1615517846598-9F06RZJER9B49Z5AUZUA/6353_5a570102ff1655264e06f782078b5af0.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Barrett Haroldson’s submission: Debbie Harry I overthought picking someone but then came back to someone I simply enjoy listening to — Debbie Harry and Blondie. When I was a kid, one of the first records that I really got into was a 45 of Blondie’s The Tide Is High, a cover of the reggae track (the fact that it was a cover is a recent discovery). They were the furthest thing from where I grew up. Thinking about it now, bands like Blondie, Beck and The Beastie Boys that weaved together many influences were a vessel for a broader world of music and art to someone that lived in a small town cultural dessert. Recently, the song Atomic popped up in a movie and it stopped me, I couldn’t place it and sent me down a rabbit hole of Blondie albums. With fresh ears, it feels stylish and timeless - like it could have been put out today or 40 years ago. With basement sketches cover projects, I find it nice to have source material that is accessible to the broader group — sheet music, tab, midi is out there for those of us that need it, to then take it in whatever direction works for the cover. -Barrett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1616987618442-RZRTDCC8MJJPALAR85XL/Blondie.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Andrew Charon covers “Call Me” I remember listening to Blondie when I was 10. It was 1980 and my family lived in California at the time. I remember going to this little pizza place with my parents and playing Blondie over and over in the jukebox. It’s weird thinking about moments when I was my kids age and how the world was different. Blondie was so fun at the time. Maybe I saw a picture or two of her but that time was pre MTV and I just didn’t really know much about her and her scene. Anyways, the biggest devastation that I remember while living in California was when John Lennon was shot and killed. I was dumfounded that such a thing could happen…and remember the conversation with my dad where he talked with by brother and I. In addition to everything else, we decided that it’d be a good idea to throw away our cap guns he had just purchased for us. Now, 40 or so years later my kids listen to musicians like Lizzo and Melanie Martinez and have access to their TikTok feeds tracking their everyday lives. All of this while we’ve been quarantined for a year and live five blocks from where George Floyd was murdered. I’ll never forget the look on my youngest daughters face when we told her the details about his death. Anyways, I’m curious how music from this time will link to my kids childhood as they become adults. This track just kind of happened. When I saw that Barrett had selected Blondie I knew right away that that is who I’d cover and that the song would be Call Me. Initially, I wanted to do something a bit different and decided to learn the song on guitar thinking I could combine the guitar with synth and do something that you’d maybe hear on the Flaming Lips Embryonic. I spent a couple of weeks messing around on guitar and finally got all of the parts of the song down. I took a night to piece it together in GarageBand and it transformed into this really nice lo-fi mono track that sounded like it was recorded on a Tascam with my high school Squier(?) guitar and Crate 10 watt amp. I used my Epiphone nylon string guitar and played all of the tracks through GarageBand’s “Worlds Smallest Amp”. In the end I liked the simplicity of only the guitar track. As for the vocals I randomly and recently ended up coming across this DJ on Instagram called @koozebane and briefly became obsessed with how he combined tracks with other tracks to create new experiences. The vocals were inspired by his work. Enjoy. -Andrew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1615428321870-2MD0FOVMLV14NC6WY21B/LanaNoah.JPG All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Noah Warren’s submission: Lana Del Rey Okay, before you laugh (or maybe while you laugh), answer me this: If everyone hated you, and I mean like really, REALLY hated and/or dismissed you, would you make 6 albums and put out a book of poetry? I have my laundry list of lady singers, Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple, Ani Difranco, Solange, Suzanne Vega - (dammit, why didn't I pick Suzanne Vega)…however I'm choosing to celebrate Lana Del Rey, mainly because when her persona surfaced in 2011, she had my curiosity...but now she has my attention. Most artists I either like or feel completely indifferent toward, but her music tends to somehow linger in my subconscious. It helps that much of it is delivered stylistically as cinematic surrealism drenched in noir, but I appreciate how her work has evolved over time, tripping from nihilism to meaningfulness and back again. I may not worship all of her tracks, but each album usually has at least one or two songs that I revisit regularly. For some reason, her song "Love" (from 2017's Lust for Life) has a chorus that puts me in the same dream-like zone that I fell into after seeing David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, "You get ready you get all dressed up, to go nowhere in particular..." NPR's Ann Powers wrote a bang up piece about her, "Lana Del Rey Lives in America's Messy Subconscious" https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757545360/lana-del-rey-lives-in-americas-messy-subconscious In the article Lana breaks down why some women don't simply hate her, they really REALLY hate her. My closing thoughts: she's besties with Father John Misty, so she can't be that terrible. Finally, I hope one day, when safe gatherings can happen, I get to sing "Venice Bitch" at someone's wedding. -Noah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1616894627753-4CYC40U278EM1HO6RAR2/LanaDelRey-HighByTheBeach.png All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Neil covers Lana Del Rey’s “High By The Beach” Like Bill, I didn’t know the music of Lana Del Rey very well prior to this project. But I came to appreciate her songwriting style, after listening to a bunch of her songs while researching possible covers. And speaking of Mr. Fricke, I was inspired by how he covered that Kate Bush song in the style of Joy Division. It got me wondering how I might do some kind of mash up of my own, covering someone’s song in a different style. When I came across “High By The Beach,” it seemed only natural that such a tune would lend itself to reggae. I’d never attempted to play a reggae song before, so this was going to be an undertaking for me. I knew I’d need help, but I feared that if I were to explain what I had in mind, nobody would want any part of it. Neil trying to play reggae? No thanks. I sent Randy Dever a short progression without any context and asked him to record the line using his melodica. He was a trooper and cranked out a melodica track for me without knowing what song it was for nor having any real sense for what I was doing. I then wove it into what I was hobbling together. It ended up being an essential part that helped my weird reggae aspiration take shape. Like all of these projects for me, it’s a learning process, and I managed to learn a few new tricks this time around. -Neil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1616554386487-ZV2WMIJV4AXTGVMIVBNG/bill%2Bshadows.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Bill Fricke covers “Mariners Apartment Complex” I just want to say thanks to Noah for nominating Lana Del Rey. I know who she is but never listened to her music. I happened upon Mariners Apartment Complex and it hit me instantly. Beautiful song. The chord progression, I realized, was very similar to Wicked Game. Being a huge Chris Isaak fan, I restrained myself from mashing this up with Wicked Game. Although there are a couple of guitar lines in this that hint at it. As I listen to it more, okay, there is definitely a Chris Isaak vibe. Just a little bit....Alright, perhaps a lot bit Hardest part for me is always vocals. I want to bury them and run them through processors. Progress, not perfection. The music fell together quickly. -Bill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1615254440950-PHV8B4NEN6RDO0KWM33F/Laurie+Anderson.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Bill Fricke’s submission: Laurie Anderson I submit Laurie Anderson for the project. She is quirky, innovative, poetic, and upon re-listening to some of her music last night, it struck me that there could be some interesting takes on her music. The most well-known is O Superman from Big Science. The album Mister Heartbreak is ripe with material. Strange Angels is also good fodder. Cheers Bill F. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1616470578961-KUUFRFJ3UC5MOTYMIKWC/Czahr+pic+for+Project+8.JPG All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Eric “Czahr” Scott covers “The Lake” by Laurie Anderson I chose a Laurie Anderson song because, aside from a deep respect for her, I feel much of her music is open to interpretation and reinterpretations. I chose The Lake from her 2010 album Homeland because I really love the lyrics and the melody. "I walk accompanied by ghosts" is such a great line. In the spirit of that lyric, I wanted to use something from my past so I went digging through my box of old music supplies. I was delighted to find an old Maxell tape simply labeled "Radio Noise". I have no recollection of this tape, of making it, writing on it, putting it into the box. But it's definitely my handwriting on the label. When I saw it, I thought, "There's no way this can actually be just radio noise or contain anything interesting." Well, it was all radio noise and shuffling through stations from maybe 20-25 years ago. I must have been nicely toasted when I made it and squirrelled it away. So, throughout this recording are a couple of tracks of my old radio noise, courtesy of my old ghost. The rest of the song is just acoustic guitar, vocals, a pocket kalimba with effects, a Buddha Machine, and a little Tardigrain. -Czahr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1615605945863-ELLS2TTP2255C4VW1EO7/cyndilauper.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Tom Stromsodt’s submissions: Cyndi Lauper There was something so undeniable about “She’s So Unusual” that it managed to get through to even the most Motley Crue infested of brains. Maybe it was the gratuitous use of Captain Lou Albano? Whatever it was, it still makes me a little weepy when I hear Time After Time. -Tom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1615428057537-5PZDPN6AQ4CORT862QOB/miley-cyrus-dooo-it-video-2015-billboard-650-compressed.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Andrew Charon’s submission: Miley Cyrus For Project 8, I have to select Miley Cyrus. I have this soft spot in my heart for musicians who constantly redefine themselves. At one point of me being a dad to two girls, her music was high on our playlist. However there was a point of her career where Miley Cyrus collaborated with The Flaming lips and they released an album Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz and some of the songs were nuts (and definitely not in the least super kid friendly). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu5iAgJ65dA There was a song on that album called "Twinkle Song" that reminded me of one of my favorite songs by Neil Young called "The Last Trip to Tulsa". Kind of a dream-like psychedelic journey. It was hard to imagine that this was the same musician who I listened to with my girls however felt like this song was outstanding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtiK2QXMn8g She's got a wide range of music to work with on Project 8. Have fun, Andrew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1615254604868-GYGZCJAY9XFC47W09Y27/250px-Carter_Family_1927.jpg All Projects - Project 8: Women in Music - Eric “Czahr” Scott’s submission: Sara Carter My artist submission for Project 8 is Sara Carter, of the Carter Family. Sara was the original singer and songwriter of the Carter Family, playing rhythm guitar and autoharp. She pioneered a style of playing lead and rhythm simultaneously that became known as “Carter Scratch”. Those original Carter Family recordings are the roots and seeds of countless songs and musicians to follow. You can hear most popular country music melodies in those songs. What has always attracted me to these recordings is their essence. Each of them is like the very soul of a song. There is only vocals, guitar and autoharp. Never any percussion or keys or horns. Recording quality is poor, Sara’s voice isn’t traditionally ‘good’ and when A.P. harmonizes it becomes immediately apparent why he usually doesn’t sing. Yet the bare melody, the words, the feeling of the song is all there. This is why Carter Family songs are so covered. They are great songs to cover straight, or you can add all kinds of elements and take one almost anywhere. One of my songwriting secrets is to start with playing a Carter Family song, then change the chords and melody, then change the words, and I’m left with my own song that has no resemblance to the original. I’ve tried this with other artists and it has never really worked as well. For me Sara’s old songs are just as much an ingredient as they are a finished product. -cz https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/misc-covers monthly 0.5 2021-02-14 https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-7-do-it-yourself monthly 0.5 2021-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614576837042-5PNTDBVMZVDXK09MUH1V/IMG_0888+5.jpg All Projects - Project 7: Do it yourself - Passive Aggressor This track was written less as a song but more as a score, maybe for a fictitious true crime podcast or a menacing driving thriller. I started this track a while ago as a means of experimenting with the arpeggiator features in GarageBand. It was a drawn out basic minimal piece for a long time. To offset the lead synth, I started adding in more ominous layers — backwards organ chords, synth swells and piano lines to get it to have a more sinister someone following you vibe. The biggest challenge that I had was getting the exported mix to sound like it did in the software, I figured out that GarageBand has an auto-normalize function that is meant to make exporting quick ideas sound better but it was making the output much quieter, this has been my biggest frustration with all my mixes so far. Things used on this track - GarageBand, Tyrell N6 for the big synth swells, Felt Instruments’ Lekko Piano, Kotakt Hybrid Keys for piano layers, Analog Lab Jupiter 8, Drawbar Organ, various drum machines and lots of Valhalla plugins. -B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614571887716-CBPGQCT4BMFHCM6PXU9M/image0.jpeg All Projects - Project 7: Do it yourself - Sensational Plant I’ve been listening to a podcast on Spotify called Welcome To Your Fantasy. It chronicles the birth of the Chippendales exotic dance empire in the 80’s. The show plays clips of Donahue interviewing an audience member who reacts to Chippendales by declaring, “Satan is the great deceiver.” This fundamentalist’s fashion choices fascinated me. This led me down a Phil Donahue rabbit hole, and I stumbled upon one of his biggest moments- when several of his audience members started to faint on his show, one-by-one. They stop the show and evacuated the studio for fear of a gas leak. Later it was revealed to be a hoax organized by a man named Alan Abel, who was an Andy Kaufman-like prankster. Long way of saying I really like Phil Donahue, his show ran for nearly 30 years and he deserves a song. As you can hear, it’s just a basic demo, with a malfunctioning cheap ukulele I have that glows in the dark. I channeled some Michael Stipe/soul coughing vibes. Paul Simon-esque lyrics- although I assure you I am nowhere near their genius. Here’s the youtube clip that kind of inspired the song: https://youtu.be/gFrRvMmMA7c https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614572095262-CWMH0TE3THFEL5T8MGKT/IMG_4831.jpg All Projects - Project 7: Do it yourself - Macho Jam 4 I made this one this afternoon and hereby submit right before the deadline. It was an old idea I rehashed. It is just four notes phrased three ways over a drum beat. Fresh jams did not come easily this time around. Samples from a Boss DR-110 drum machine and a recording of a blender played back through the Elektron Digitakt. Korg Poly-61 and DSI Evolver for synths. Melodica is also played. I tried to add some heavy guitar in there but it sounded stupid. -Randy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614561629362-SW3277R52T6H0CX7UYHK/akai+MPK+mini.jpg All Projects - Project 7: Do it yourself - Undo This song started as an idea on guitar. I used my akai 25 key midi controller and came up with an electric piano part and built it off of those two components. Everything was recorded in GarageBand with a Focusrite audio interface. -Colby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614551382358-D8K6BPO4S5EV91TFRUS6/inspiration.JPG All Projects - Project 7: Do it yourself - Underworld Gradient I've written a lot of music this month, but mostly monkeying around. I think I'm going to use this particular track for a soundtrack project. I think. This tune came about by experimenting with arpeggiators in Logic. You can get some weird "overtones" and other phenomena (for lack of better description) using this feature especially when you link them with other instruments/tracks. Basically I'm saying this is a happy accident. My synth work is limited to a CZ-101 as the MIDI controller and Logic Pro. It's definitely enough to tool around with and have fun. I also use a phone app called Auxy sometimes, but recently they got "wise" and started charging up the ying-yang for things, soooooo. Nevertheless, their sounds are really great. Too bad. When listening to this track, imagine being in a van with 6 people tooling around the jungles of Indonesia. Seriously. Anyway, enjoy the fruits of my wandering, serendipity and naivete. Best regards and maximum love, Jeff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614565560888-6A9CA8GV1J5KQPM1RJ8P/92D05B22-752F-4336-B842-641BE065B66B.jpeg All Projects - Project 7: Do it yourself - Grace In Each Other This tune came last December. The fatigue of trying to square the crazy might have been the catalyst. The takeaway image for me (rather than problematic toxicity) was of that feeling when you look down from a plane over the ocean and see that pattern of waves. How badass they are. The crazy loses its grip. Thanks as always! Jeff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614454994809-QR4U9CXKJW641FE5HTFN/ACDEA89A-8B88-467B-AFE5-CDEC42BC1385.JPG All Projects - Project 7: Do it yourself - Talk-Singer All month, this riff was the only thing I would play every time I picked up the guitar. I forced myself to turn it into a song but finding a structure and writing lyrics took several attempts before it felt like it was something. Recorded on my phone using the built-in mic, the mic on the ear buds and a multi-track app. - Mike Brady https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614397706155-X1Y7DAG66LLY8X0ITXL4/20210225_214023_resized.jpg All Projects - Project 7: Do it yourself - Feb Psyche Here is my first submission to the group. Several days ago, I came up with a simple chord progression and had ambitions of making it kind of psychedelic. It turned into a country song. So, I came up with something different. This one became more of what I was going for, or was it? Had fun playing with the guitar sounds and trying to sing. Recorded in Garageband using GB drum pattern that I messed with. The rest are guitars in various forms, plus bass, and mellotron from GB. Looking forward to doing more. Enjoy! Bill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614218711051-T015WG28YJJCXQUYNAFX/E8AC2889-8C3D-4436-BB9A-0743356005DD.JPG All Projects - Project 7: Do it yourself - Step On Me When Neil announced that Project 7 was to create an original song, I had a rough idea of what I wanted to do with this project. As always, I wasn’t really certain where I was going to end up, however I knew what my starting point was. I’m submitting three variations of the same song. They are a series of sketches/prototypes that are based on a song that was written when I was back in high school in 1988 by a band I was in called Jennifer's Veil. Fast forward to 2015, my friend Phil (the singer/songwriter) and I decided it’d be fun to re-record some of our old songs and ended up wrapping up 2 tracks at the time. We didn’t really do anything with those recordings but our big accomplishment was to have recorded together. Now it’s 2021 and this opportunity came up to continue to work on the songs. Though Phil was on board with creating some updated tracks it unfortunately didn’t logistically work out for him to create new vocal content so I was able to “appropriate” some of the vocal tracks from the 2015 recording session. In 1988 the original Jennifer's Veil recordings were on a Tascam 4 track and I remember there were many alternate mixes to some of the songs, so I thought I’d carry the spirit of that along to these tracks. It’s interesting to me working with MIDI, synths, etc because it’s easy to swap patches to create a different feel to the music. Once the structure of the song is created, it’s simple to clone it, swap and manipulate sounds, move things around a little bit in the sequencer and come up with a completely different variation of the same song. I’m curious if that’s a common thing for composers to do who create in MIDI with multiple devices. The first was the pulverizer mix (I ran a couple of channels though a “Pulverizer Demolition” filter in this track). Phil and I had recorded multiple layers of vocals and all were utilized in this version. After this version was complete, I wanted to do something more minimal so I created more of an ambient mix. While working on this, I decided the final version would be called the “bleep” mix and designed the song around that concept. The vocals ended up being more of a whisper in this one. Also, included was the original 1988 track. Though I remember playing the song live on my Gibson Ripper bass, I’m not sure if I actually played bass on this recording or not. Stay healthy and safe. Andrew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1613936192060-UH76WZKAZUBQYNIR1Q52/TomS-project7.jpg All Projects - Project 7: Do it yourself - Average Ordinary Life I struggled a little bit with how to approach this one. Write a specific song for the project? Submit everything from February? In the end, I just submitted the first thing that got "done". Lyrics are hard. I tend to write better under a specific construct or theme. Currently, I'm working on a series of songs about the banality of self destruction. Or, as Randy so eloquently put it, "life". Hence this song. I don't always work in the "bad metal" genre but it is a big part of my DNA so I'm not afraid of it. I'm an old dude writing songs for an audience of three. It is what it is. Let's see. Gear. The Peavey "Rage" is featured prominently on this track. One of the bass tracks, the lead guitar, and one of the vocals all went through it. I used the mic that comes with the wii U to record all three. The song started as a drum beat based loosely on a Glenn Kotche sticking from his Instagram feed. Karl Q. gave me some Bonham samples 15 years ago. These were mapped onto the midi from the Roland kit. It's all soft synths using the free LABS plugin, which everyone should download. Very Truly Yours, t. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1613832476192-F59U6CF840IQV1PG6FQT/Czahr+project+7.jpg All Projects - Project 7: Do it yourself - Be This song came out of nowhere roughly one week ago. Up until then I had no ideas for Project 7 and was considering being a hack and dusting off an old song. During work one day a melody popped into my head, accompanied by words. One of those moments where a song drops out of the void almost fully formed. I scrambled to write down the words and record the melody before it left my brain, as these things do. It turned into a bit of a cursed song, as all of my attempts to make any kind of reasonably well recorded track were foiled by one thing or another. Strings broke that I had no replacements on hand for, kids screamed, cats scratched and hammered on closed doors, and then finally my USB mic decided it wanted to crackle more than it wanted to record. In the interest of getting a song up, I decided I was OK working with what I had and ended up growing kind of fond of the scrappy quality. It is a sketch after all. Maybe I'll put more work into some day, or maybe this is all it'll ever be. Whatever the case, I like it. It's an upbeat folky thing about trying not to overthink things and just enjoy life as it happens. The lyrics fit the nature of the recording I suppose. There's absolutely no fancy gear used, although if you listen closely you might hear my old Buddha Machine burbling away in the background. -Eric “Czahr” Scott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1613587039178-Z3UK309C0E9HOLPIAE6M/IMG_5057.JPG All Projects - Project 7: Do it yourself - Old Eyes Open I’ll be the first to admit that this isn’t one of my better songs, but the point of basement sketches is not to wait for perfection but rather to share progress. It is in that spirit that I submit this tune that I created over the past week or so. As you will likely be able to tell from listening to it, I have basically tried a series of experiments and strung them together into a song. I played around with using the Moog iPad app with GarageBand for iPad and then transferring into a GarageBand session on my laptop. I did some experimentation with different ukuleles and vocal layering. In the end, I viewed the process as a helpful experience for me in terms of learning new approaches and playing around with ways to more effectively use audio apps. Hopefully, this will be encouraging to anyone who might be inhibited to share their songs. Clearly, I didn’t overthink nor overproduce this one. This submission should make anyone feel at ease about sharing their own ideas, no matter how imperfect you might believe them to be. It is intended to be a sketch after all. -Neil My initial submission of Old Eyes Open is so bad, primarily because I left in the cheesy beat throughout the entire song. Please review the “Better Mix” version. https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-6-leftovers monthly 0.5 2021-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1611632928859-4KBHF76AG7MFW9VD8020/image-asset.jpeg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers - Barrett covers “Close to Me” by the Cure Leftover from Neil’s project 4 playlist I set out to make a more ambient version of Close to Me but the poppy hooks of this track kept fighting their way back in. This version utilizes several pianos by Felt Instruments that have a warm, beautiful and eerie tone. -Barrett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1611542606626-LSPQAZ5OTG0YAXUU89NQ/IMG_4674.jpg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers - Noah covers “Kiss Me Son of God” by They Might Be Giants Leftover from Neil’s project 1 playlist I really wanted to do this song as Billie Holiday, but the key I chose didn’t work with my Billie Holiday impression and it just sounded awful. Then I accidentally shifted all of the elements off tempo and the whole thing had to get reconstructed. I think Billie messed up my project on purpose. Anyway, here it is. I had to sing it over my bathroom sink, because it’s the only place in my house with adequate light at the moment. -Noah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1611539714372-Y5EHRYBJLDUNUO1ESCHN/572BD731-837C-4985-A010-7CB8BE028DF8.jpeg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers - Jeff Kearns covers “You Better Run” by Pat Benatar Leftover from Randy’s project 3 playlist Nice to collaborate with my buddy Fritz. His drinking water had that coming of age in 81 vibe. -Jeff K. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1611516410406-UDX697F924VOHZ7DAP3X/bela.jpg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers - Andrew covers “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus Leftover from Jeff Kearns’ project 4 playlist I thought it’d be interesting to try to do a cover of Bela Lugosi’s Dead and, when I started, had no clue how it would end up. It’s one of those sacred songs and I quickly realized how impossible it would be to even try to attempt to record any type of vocals a fraction as good as Peter Murphy. The end result is a sketch I created in Reason. -Andrew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1611452757486-9P05FMYB9VNJ364CCTVY/IMG_9768.jpg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers - Randy covers “Beds Are Burning” by Midnight Oil Leftover from Neil’s project 4 playlist It took me a long time to settle on a song this time. The original was WAY too upbeat so I had to do something about that. Used two instruments: Elektron Digitakt and Sequential Prophet Rev2. -Dtron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1611291403518-ZO5PNUC5KUASF6HAJ4K3/Igloo+on+fire.jpg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers - Chris Danforth covers “Love -> Building on Fire” by Talking Heads Leftover from Neil’s project 5 playlist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1611030054391-A8S6F1H6BKDZZALQ3OIM/IMG_3568.jpeg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers - Tom S. covers “Angel of the Morning” by Merilee Rush Leftover from Dave’s project 2 playlist We were going to try this song the first time around but we thought it would be too hard to sing. We were right. Like every song since Christmas, the kids new ukulele is featured prominently. -Tom Stromsodt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1611528900894-20CJMRBRE8M0R4PKP572/the6ths.jpg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers - Neil and Tom cover “Night Falls Like a Grand Piano” by the 6ths Leftover from Danforth’s project 2 playlist Since a few folks asked for a little more time, I figured we could sneak in one more. I’d intended to cover this one but only got as far as the basic chord progression and vocals. I send those basic tracks to Tom late last night, and he made it something special. -Neil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1611112297673-OC0K7A5JOAOKFJHM6QFR/IMG_4985.jpg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers - Neil covers “Dropout” by Urge Overkill Leftover from Randy’s project 2 playlist Eddie “King” Roser, bass player for Urge Overkill, was a legend in rural central Minnesota. He grew up in the small town of Litchfield, which was less than 30 miles from my hometown of Paynesville. In the early 90s, Urge Overkill signed to a major label. Before long they were popping up on MTV and touring with popular famous bands of the time, like Pearl Jam. The youth of Litchfield started bands like crazy, inspired by Eddie’s success. This was super cool for me and my friends in Paynesville, because we had our own high school band but nobody with whom we could play shows. Thanks to the Eddie Roser inspired Litchfield high school band explosion, we suddenly weren’t alone. So when Randy posted an Urge Overkill song on his project 2 playlist, I was instantly interested. I felt an obligation to pay homage to the King. Also, the lyrics of Dropout are fairly relatable to anyone who’s done time in a small town or small city. In my mind this could be a song about Fargo or Paynesville or any place with young, disenfranchised people. As I am prone to do, I started with Tom Stromsodt and asked for some beats. The programmed beat in the original song is really the backbone of the tune, so I thought it would be essential to have something different percussively but equally solid. I texted this idea to Stroms (Tom Stromsodt) and within a few hours four beats were on my phone. That man is a fucking machine. With a sold foundation in place, I played around with my usual tools (accordion, baritone ukulele, bass, singing…) and then got a mix that felt pretty good. Tom took my mix, added some additional magic, and it got the vibe I was looking to capture. -Neil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1610427163737-4FXNQ3LESQTC0W25F874/Bjork+I+Miss+You.jpg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers - Neil covers “I Miss You” by Bjork Leftover from Danforth’s project 2 playlist I love Bjork, but I typically would never consider attempting to cover one of her songs, primarily because her vocals are often too insane for mortal people such as myself. But as I was reviewing the leftover songs from last year, this one lured me in. It felt like something I could simplify sufficiently and surface a different vibe from the original. -Neil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1609620561164-PUK7GWU16ZOK57SSS4VL/BA2F3854-F59D-4020-A9E2-9136E4B446CA.jpeg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers It all started with Tom, Neil, and Brian exchanging playlists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1609646044500-8TH965EKLDWGNBGQWV0V/IMG_4382.jpeg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers More great musician friends joined up in the Fall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1609643438966-WVTPZOKTCD1T6BTSN9QC/IMG_3764.jpeg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers Then we opened it up and 9 or 10 new friends joined the gang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1609648013220-SCAKUM9N6VQ0CLNYIIZ4/IMG_4490.jpeg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers Winter descended upon us, but we kept cranking out tunes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1609644950034-H215LFGEHOQJV1IIM3RB/4DC7DF35-A2FB-4FF1-BD7B-1FA3FDA2B40B_1_201_a.jpeg All Projects - Project 6: Leftovers And then, people really took it to the next level. https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-5-winter-songs monthly 0.5 2020-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603243181581-KFYT704EXKF9BU02R6TJ/Kearns+project+5.jpeg All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs - Click on this amazing Muppet picture to link out to Jeff Kearns’ playlist on YouTube Jeff Kearns’ Project 5 Playlist Some Other Time by X Here I Go Again by Whitesnake Perfect Example by Hüsker Dü Walking Dead by Alex Chilton Like A Daydream by Ride https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603509370228-1TGI8GH0F2HASJRTD91P/JE+5.jpg All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs - Click on this rather disturbing image of Jeff Esterby to link out to his playlist on Spotify Jeff Esterby’s Project 5 Playlist Time (Clock of the Heart) by Culture Club Loverboy by Billy Ocean Coming Around Again by Carly Simon You Can Do Magic by America 5a.m. by the Millennium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603243982685-PKM2L9FF61KOHJM1OH1U/Noah+project+5.1.png All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs - Click on this obviously fake effigy of Noah to link to his playlist on YouTube Noah’s Project 5 Playlist Down in Mexico- The Coasters (Death Proof) Hip to Be Square- Huey Lewis (American Psycho) Somebody to Love- Jefferson Airplane (Cable Guy) Just Dropped in- Kenny Rogers (Big Lebowski) Life Day Song- Carrie Fisher (Star Wars Holiday Special) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603244250452-KI0YF1ONGOGR3FRKSSS6/image3.jpeg All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs - Click on these instruments to link out to Randy’s playlist on YouTube Randy’s Project 5 Playlist Kiss Me Deadly by Lita Ford Bad Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell There is a Mountain by Donovan Chantilly Lace by The Big Bopper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603157249991-8T8S3NASISM1ZVW6SWAC/IMG_4489.JPG All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs - Click on these guitar players from the Heavy Metal Mater band to link to Neil’s playlist on Spotify Neil’s Project 5 Playlist Hey by the Pixies Oh! Darling by the Beatles Thursday by Morphine You’re Crazy by Guns n’ Roses Love > Building on Fire by Talking Heads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603242860324-1U54A33CJHIA77PM5CGA/AC_basementsketches2.png All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs - Click on this lovely picture of Andrew smoking a cigar to link to his playlist on YouTube Andrew Charon’s Project 5 Playlist Sister Morphine by The Rolling Stones I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry The Nile Song by Pink Floyd Halloween by Mudhoney (Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth by Metallica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603244414872-3HVYHAW6FNBT3SMJ75AN/Barrett-Drums.JPG All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs - Click on these drums to link out to Barrett’s playlist on Spotify Barrett’s Project 5 Playlist Another Girl, Another Planet by the Only Ones Sometimes Always by the Jesus and Mary Chain Do Nothing by the Specials Where Did Our Love Go? by Soft Cell Feel Flows by the Beach Boys BONUS TRACK: Stonehenge by Spinal Tap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603761852552-05E6OF2VUZKLB68VYXU2/IMG_4141.JPG All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs - Click on this Mickey Mouse faced guy to link out to Dale’s playlist on YouTube Dale Flattum’s Project 5 Playlist Life in the Gladhouse by Modern English Revolution #9 by The Beatles Department of Youth by Alice Cooper One Dyin’ and a Buryin’ by Roger Miller Albatross by PIL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603244689299-RRHWIMPMAOQ2BJ0WI3SR/62317001812__F390F6A7-69F4-4691-94A0-591D66C3554C.jpeg All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs - Click on his photo of a rickety, old, lean-to in order to link out to Danforth’s playlist on Spotify Danforth’s Project 5 Playlist Dreaming by Blondie You Make Loving Fun by Fleetwood Mac Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House by Yo La Tango Apple Scruffs by George Harrison Hope She’ll Be Happier by Bill Withers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603156748752-DLVJKDAV22E49CCGC145/TomS+Project+5.jpg All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs Click on this wild looking device to link to Tom Stromsodt’s playlist on Spotify Tom Stromstodt’s Project 5 Playlist Dear Angie by Badfinger Opus 40 by Mercury Rev I’ll Wait by Van Halen Shake Some Action by Flaming Groovies Charlie Don’t Surf by the Clash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603683244607-83KUG6K3L5MY9L6LB7YT/Brian+Porject+5.JPG All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs - Click on this amazing photo of Brian wearing a red visor to link to his playlist on Spotify Brian’s Project 5 Playlist Intruder by Peter Gabriel Everybody Wants Some by Van Halen Like the Weather by 10,000 Maniacs Scooter and Jinx by Sonic Youth Volunteers by Jefferson Airplane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603243567884-IN2BQ0WEUXURUEPS2RAS/unnamed-2.jpg All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs - Click on this skeleton leaning on this guitar to link to Eric “Czahr” Scott’s playlist on Spotify Eric “Czahr” Scott’s Project 5 Playlist On and On by Trixter Don’t Close Your Eyes by Kix Love of a Lifetime by Firehouse Love is on the Way by Saigon Kick House of Pain by Faster Pussycat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1603163691122-IA1R5WRNZ9BPQZ47K6GH/Box+girl.jpeg All Projects - Project 5: Winter Songs - Click on this box girl to link to Elliott’s playlist on Spotify Elliott Jackson’s Project 5 Playlist Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra with Count Basie Black River Killer by Blitzen Trapper Tenement Song by the Pixies Swnerve by Cid Rim, Petite Noir Let It Go By by Fiora, Robot Koch https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-4-decent-into-fall monthly 0.5 2020-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1601171559570-XVTPUIP1BNMKN15RQR4O/C5937595-EBF1-4547-A690-DBA3C6F2F2F9.jpeg All Projects - Project 4: Fall Covers - Click on this picture of Jeff skatin’ with a little dude to link to Jeff Kearns’ playlist on YouTube Jeff Kearns’ Project 4: Fall Covers Playlist Look Through my Window by the Mamas and the Papas The Windows of the World by Dionne Warwick Box of Rain by the Grateful Dead Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus Roll With It by Oasis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1601170122124-38S0JH4QGOJHAETFWEA8/Noah+Profile+Insta.JPG All Projects - Project 4: Fall Covers - Click on this crazy drawing of Noah to link out to his playlist on YouTube TV On The Radio,Noah’s Project 4: Fall Covers Playlist I dig Pain by Pain (CHiPs) Forever by Jesse & The Rippers (Full House) Just You by James-Donna-Maddy (Twin Peaks) Pathetic Little Fat Man by David Bowie (HBO’s Extras) Zou Bisou Bisou by Megan Draper (Mad Men) Curious what Noah is thinking? Read his blog write-up here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1601263202417-33CWK3AF8F8N1EPJ1OU6/Karl.jpg All Projects - Project 4: Fall Covers - Click on what appears to be Karen choking Karl, to link to Karl’s playlist on Spotify Karl Qualey’s Project 4: Fall Covers Playlist L’éléphant by Henri Texier Life Goes On by the Damned Der Kommissar by After the Fire Love Will Keep Us Together by Captain & Tennille Land of My Dreams by Anna Domino https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1600133603378-6S82WD34H8VBEXX7JWHF/TomS.Project+4.jpeg All Projects - Project 4: Fall Covers - Click on these instruments to link to Tom Stromsodt’s playlist on Spotify Tom Stromsodt’s Project 4: Fall Covers Playlist Free by Cat Power SOS by Abba High Risk by Jan Terri Turtles Have Short Legs by CAN Needle’s in the Camel’s Eye by Brian Eno https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1600737408660-H3L6Y7XZ1H60UW0NL4Y8/barrett-03.jpg All Projects - Project 4: Fall Covers - Click on this cool looking desk with tapes and pencils and all sorts of stuff to link to Barrett’s playlist on Spotify Barrett’s Project 4: Fall Covers Playlist Moon Over Marin by Dead Kennedys Telephone Line by Electric Light Orchestra Bikeage by the Descendents I Can Change by LCD Soundsystem Orion by Metallica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1600021450100-XS0XLNR24IUEEJ6KESSL/229B57DA-74B2-4C91-99D9-81214A537F01_1_201_a.jpeg All Projects - Project 4: Fall Covers - Click on Neil’s face to link to his playlist on Spotify Neil’s Project 4: Fall Covers Playlist Beds are Burning by Midnight Oil Hollow Log by Beck Close to Me by the Cure Androgynous by the Replacements Rock n’ Roll Suicide by David Bowie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1600736954749-T1G3PT16VBUXCSZJ0NMI/image-asset.jpeg All Projects - Project 4: Fall Covers - Click on Jeff’s masked face to link to his Spotify playlist Jeff Esterby’s Project 4: Fall Covers Playlist Pearl of the Quarter by Steely Dan I Know There’s Something Going On by Frida Stormtrooper in Drag by Paul Gardiner and Gary Numan Slave to Love by Bryan Ferry Love T.K.O by Teddy Pendergrass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1601761722924-VFU82WM95I544P1UPS7Z/image2.jpeg All Projects - Project 4: Fall Covers - Click on those puckered lips to link to his playlist on YouTube Randy’s Project 4: Fall Covers Playlist To Bring You My Love by PJ Harvey Under the Milky Way by The Church Mama by Genesis I'd Love to Change the World by Alvin Lee and 10 Years After Love is Like Oxygen by Sweet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1600133259802-NSL1OT6AMHDSFR1GK616/6556BCF9-6161-4CCB-847B-958F227A6481.jpeg All Projects - Project 4: Fall Covers - Click on these gorilla fingers on a keyboard to link to Czahr’s playlist on Spotify Eric “Czahr” Scott’s Project 4: Fall Covers Playlist Frogs by the Handsome Family I’m Sad the Goat Just Died Today by the Frogs Unicorn Tolerance by The Mountain Goats Ghost Mountain by the Unicorns Animals by the GOASTT (The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1600827992443-WM2IC8ENCO7C1WIEMU0Z/Brian.jpeg All Projects - Project 4: Fall Covers - Click on this hideous woman to link out to Brian’s Spotify Playlist Brian’s Project 4: Fall Covers Playlist Life in a Northern Town by Dream Academy In A Big Country by Big Country Radio Free Europe by R.E.M. Safety Dance by Men Without Hats Overkill by Men at Work BONUS TRACK: Holiday by The Bee Gees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1600053634576-WLZ2TTJRY17Y46T4GYTC/Danforth_basementsketches_Project4.jpeg All Projects - Project 4: Fall Covers - Click on this pastoral scene to link to Danforth’s playlist on Apple Music Chris Danforth’s Project 4: Fall Covers Playlist Dirty Water by the Standells Walking on a Thin Line by Huey Lewis & The News Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean My Tennessee Mountain Home by Dolly Parton Sisters of Mercy by Leonard Cohen https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project-3-late-summer-playlist-cover-challenge monthly 0.5 2020-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1598492094643-VVHNNID1LOLNTMHJ68CP/IMG_3793.JPG All Projects - Project 3: Late Summer Playlist Cover Challenge - Randy Dever’s Playlist 1.Ocean Man by Ween 2. Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground 3. So Alive by Love and Rockets 4. You Better Run by Pat Benatar 5.Beauty School Dropout by Frankie Avalon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1597580208396-UN4HRLTXH9ZPRJXJ6MSM/0E190F26-07BD-4938-9B57-AF7B14B5171D.jpg All Projects - Project 3: Late Summer Playlist Cover Challenge - Noah’s Playlist “One Hat Wonders” You Can Leave Your Hat On by Joe Cocker Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat by Bob Dylan Hovering Sombrero by They Might Be Giants Raspberry Beret by Prince & The Revolution Wear My Hat by Phil Collins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1597188450312-M286GMKYQZ3LLGG629EL/IMG_4186.JPG All Projects - Project 3: Late Summer Playlist Cover Challenge - Chris Danforth’s Playlist “The Same Stale Shoes” After Images by Moor Mother French Guy by Rocket From the Crypt River Deep, Mountain High by Tina Turner It’s All Over Now Baby Blue by Them Jack-Ass by Beck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1597364000970-EU9N8P1F6WXJZLHBC8PB/Barrett-Basement-06.jpg All Projects - Project 3: Late Summer Playlist Cover Challenge - Barrett’s Playlist Ceremony by New Order I’m Not in Love by 10cc So Goes Love by Carole King As We Go Up, We Go Down by Guided By Voices Pieces of What by MGMT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1597183445996-ZSIBENNNOJEUQVA1WSHU/IMG_4182.JPG All Projects - Project 3: Late Summer Playlist Cover Challenge - Eric “Czahr” Scott’s Summer Playlist Summertime by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Summer Wine by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood It’s Summertime by The Flaming Lips Summertime Rolls by Janes Addiction Summer’s End by John Prine Read about Czahr’s playlist! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1597364241340-J0ETRDVNR3NL0LSS1WEV/IMG_6805.jpg All Projects - Project 3: Late Summer Playlist Cover Challenge - Jeff Esterby’s Playlist I’ve Got A Secret (Didn’t We Shake Sugaree) by Fred Neil Crybaby by Ariel Pink Still I Dream of It by Brian Wilson Into the Night by Benny Mardones Love Ballad by L.T.D. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1597205059664-MPM60EF9YALNOPYJD6KE/39894103-9F2A-419C-A6FD-3F8FB52B61C1.jpeg All Projects - Project 3: Late Summer Playlist Cover Challenge - Neil’s Playlist Soul and Fire by Sebadoh Box Elder by Pavement Eid Ma Clack Shaw by Bill Callahan Pretty Good by John Prine Clay Pigeons by Blaze Foley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1597286749260-OQWQ4C9X9X9WV3IRRJM8/IMG_4189.jpeg All Projects - Project 3: Late Summer Playlist Cover Challenge - Tom Stromsodt’s Playlist Xanadu by Oliva Newton-John & ELO Mystify by INXS Wolves by Selena Gomez & Marshmello When the Morning Comes by Daryl Hall & John Oates 11th Street Kids by Hanoi Rocks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1597531554276-70WUSV5KJTEO4XCB4QGY/Brian.jpg All Projects - Project 3: Late Summer Playlist Cover Challenge - Brian’s Playlist I Saw the Light by Todd Rundgren Let ‘em In by Wings Some Kinda Love by Velvet Underground Holding Back the Years by Simply Red Iris by The Breeders https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/side-project-score-for-old-film monthly 0.5 2020-09-06 https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/celebrate-2023 monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/6a5851a8-6d0d-4e8d-9bb8-3217bb44ea1c/Jimi.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/dffff3e4-c217-468d-900a-e5e1bd6aa7d3/LeapFrog_MatchingToy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/4cd0cdfe-4374-48ad-95d8-99f223c2bde3/best-tv-on-the-radio-songs.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/c05d4520-6a33-4be8-b160-b6f0ff56c1a9/image_50374145.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/23485ffd-4599-4fbe-affe-bbdb54200768/IMG-7514.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/6e204f1a-b66a-43fa-b849-2512b21a9707/soundStoneDrone.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/8f59fa10-b1c9-46d4-bbdb-49757e618f54/Bride+in+the+forest.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/c7866239-ab27-4b5d-b2fd-5b37fce64245/Project27.jpg https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project2 monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://www.basementsketches.org/portfolio-1/project1 monthly 0.5 2020-07-03 https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers daily 0.75 2025-11-12 https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/grant-eull monthly 0.5 2021-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1623557300314-10FJ30VFNHMI8JRKHRRK/Grant+Eull.png music makers - Grant Eull - Grant Eull After a brief conversation in the backyard of Grumpy’s NE Grant Eull was invited to join in on the basement sketches project starting with Project 10 (1977). Grant is a local musician that has been playing a supporting role (ie. guitar player) in local bands since the early 90’s, most notably for the bands Manplanet and DETROIT. He is currently playing lead guitar with The Heavy Sixers and exploring electronic music under the name OMIEM. Grant just completed a small home studio set up and is new to audio production and engineering. He considers the basement sketches project a huge chance to learn new skills along side others on a similar journey and is looking forward to hearing what everyone is sharing. https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/mike-brady monthly 0.5 2023-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/0675b9c9-54b5-4743-a2f2-3fd1f2219a7b/ACDEA89A-8B88-467B-AFE5-CDEC42BC1385.jpeg music makers - Mike Brady - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/colby-heston monthly 0.5 2023-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/10def8e4-c694-41a4-ba07-03d93d857f8c/216297780_10225917918364445_6402884615184056865_n.jpg music makers - Colby Heston - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/jeff-mooridian monthly 0.5 2023-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614551741527-T18XPTOGT0FHVANV0WP9/C%27est+Moi.jpg music makers - Jeff Mooridian https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/mark-schumacher monthly 0.5 2023-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/a5fc5095-2b6e-41ca-93e0-369f0761b010/rocks.jpg music makers - Mark Schumacher https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/jacob-sharff monthly 0.5 2023-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/5dd5136e-3e87-425e-882a-d12f49c664a9/jacob.jpg music makers - Jacob Sharff https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/kelly-duclos monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/0344013f-b2ae-404a-885f-b8cf16280741/Screen+Shot+2023-08-08+at+12.45.41+PM.png music makers - Kelly Duclos https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/tal-tahir monthly 0.5 2023-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/a9307ed6-b39e-4e4f-830a-28b8fcd70e8c/291260714_10220522400626531_256262203753304660_n.jpg music makers - Tal Tahir https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/keith-bohnen monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/afcb4526-e1d3-44a8-aa83-618d55eadbc2/keith.png music makers - Keith Bohnen https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/seth-hogan monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1691539653023-FG0OU7AM43V6IOQ9SKIQ/seth_gold_soundz_image.jpg music makers - Seth Hogan https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/rebecca-fritz monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1691541247385-GBV43F9KW61VN9D35EZH/307848090_10158311346035666_9158010838825493822_n.jpg music makers - Rebecca Fritz https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/jon-hart monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/5510762d-c660-41d6-a1db-565879aed53b/IMG_5800.jpg music makers - Jon Hart https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/kc-mckee monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/0d999655-623f-44b2-80ca-f203fea4a6d0/1631519739357.jpg music makers - KC McKee https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/ian-royal monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/0e4a63fc-8eac-4334-9464-378da60aa728/269725785_10224586147553828_7004992473925649369_n.jpg music makers - Ian Royal https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/pete-fleming monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/63321284-af26-490f-89df-237e1cd82474/p.jpg music makers - Pete Fleming https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/mike-bettison monthly 0.5 2023-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1691811835822-RVMTFX22XNILDA4OBJZ1/mike-b.jpg music makers - Mike Bettison https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/todd-newman monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/c69797d3-a2f9-4368-befc-4c8a554c2323/294678741_10228160619025849_1494463155561331738_n.jpg music makers - Todd Newman https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/chad-haugejorden monthly 0.5 2023-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/d1786010-d6cf-4ac3-9b94-f74ec66bfdf4/bass.jpg music makers - Chad Haugejorden https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/daniel-joest monthly 0.5 2024-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/54f6e469-c3c4-48ed-96af-67d821d2aacc/BS_photo.jpg music makers - Daniel Joest https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/the-dirtpops monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1709002373577-QV7JVDT0EGXCP0FNEOFQ/tempImage3YiVDF.gif https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/new-portfolio-item monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614403316393-A60Y90MW50DPEAJOCGKI/20210225_214023_resized.jpg music makers - Bill Fricke https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/project-six-5hbzg monthly 0.5 2021-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1612669606811-XUUI11SGV3GXD9HMJ98S/Bozon.jpg music makers - Jeff Kearns - Jeff Kearns Jeff and dog friend https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/project-five-ed2fd monthly 0.5 2021-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1614226262517-0HGMXJF1WPV5BU422YJ0/Noah+and+Bruce.jpg music makers - Noah Warren - Noah Warren Old photo. Warren is almost 4 now. https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/project-four-hhd3c monthly 0.5 2021-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1612321718166-CE6A8SSDXKNVN664H5JJ/unnamed-2.jpg music makers - Eric "Czahr" Scott - Eric “Czahr” Scott Eric Scott, the man I refer to as Czahr, is my longest standing musical friend. We met in junior high, and I was instantly impressed by his massive collection of music. He also had the best electric guitar I’d seen at that time, a real American Fender Stratocaster, that he actually knew how to play. As we got to know one another, what I came to appreciate most about Eric was his playfully creative approach to making music. He was both unpretentious and adventurous. Nothing was too simple. Nothing was too weird. In high school, we played together in a band that performed at a small town teen center but possibly had the most fun spending late nights creating wild 4 track cassette recordings that ran the gamut from noisy chaos to our own version of naive lo fi pop. Though we went to college in different places, we often connected over holiday breaks and kept alive the tradition of recording strange 4 track sessions in condensed timeframes. This practice was rekindled again in our 30s with a project called Afternoon EP and a band called Ambition Recliner. I love hearing Czahr’s musical creations for basement sketches. It’s the sound of an old friend. https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/project-three-reabf monthly 0.5 2021-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1612320790362-2LHXB4Z6PQ797TA8JEYA/IMG_9768.jpg music makers - Randy Dever - Randy Dever Self portrait by Randy Dever https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/karl-qualey monthly 0.5 2021-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1612670557025-U50UQ0HSZRRXJ4QMMGZS/Karl.jpg music makers - Karl Qualey https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/jeff-esterby monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1612670163765-RDHY204A481WXK5V172O/Jeff.E.jpeg music makers - Jeff Esterby - Jeff Esterby I think of Jeff Esterby as a man of mystery and intregue. I believe I first met him somewhere around the turn of the century, but I can’t be sure. I had known about Jeff for some time prior to actually meeting him, so I’m not certain which parts of my Jeff memories are real experiences and which are my own invented Esterby fan fiction. I can say with absolute certainty is that Jeff is both hilarious and just a great fucking guy in general, and then you layer on top of that the fact that he’s wicked talented. It’s not surprising that Jeff would be the source of legends, as his abilities are undeniable. People would whisper about his amazing illustration skills and the cool projects he was quietly doing for high profile clients. There were the rumors about incredible dj gigs in exotic locations and his infamous Beck remix. And at the same time, there were also public examples of his musical prowess, as he performed in amazing bands including one of my favorites, the Deaths. He played a bunch of instruments incredibly well, but his vocals were the thing that always stood out the most to me. He’s got a great timbre and delivery. Jeff is also a master at crafting melodies. It’s a dangerous combination. Jeff continues to make excellent music as thousandisland. I would highly recommend you check it out. I’m seriously honored and stoked to have him as part of basement sketches. https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/andrew-charon monthly 0.5 2021-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/e2957d67-26f8-44e8-b2fb-4286fe1af01b/Screen+Shot+2023-07-06+at+10.59.44+PM.png music makers - Andrew Charon - Andrew Charon Andrew Charon has long history of being a man of many talents. He won a Rubik's cube contest up in Fargo at the age of 11. Andrew had only been tinkering with a Rubik’s cube for 5 months prior to the event. Years later, when I was studying painting and drawing at Moorhead State, Andrew was among the most revered of the upper classman in the art department, known for his original and provocative art. He was also an active musician. My first exposure to his music was hearing his band “Sausage Finger” on a local band compilation. It was unlike the other songs on the cassette. Andrew clearly wasn’t going to mimic the crowd. He had something unique to express. Andrew performed in other projects and bands, a band called “Bootlick” being the one I recall the most. I was so excited when Andrew reached out to join the Basement Sketches crew, knowing we’d all be in for a treat. Not one to disappoint, Andrew continues to surprise and delight every project with unexpected approaches and twists. I can’t wait to hear what he does next. https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/dale-flattum monthly 0.5 2023-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1612670812951-6D4AC8QUIA4LAE1EYVW9/IMG_4141.JPG music makers - Dale Flattum https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/barrett-haroldson monthly 0.5 2021-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1612590323457-W24R2VK52X7GH6GOHM3V/Barrett-Drums.JPG music makers - Barrett Haroldson - Barrett Haroldson Barrett Haroldson is an enigmatic and all around awesome dude. To the world at large, he’s a hip and accomplished designer, but the Barrett that I know is also one of the most down to earth, goofy guys around. Barrett has his own very distinctive and discerning sense of style. He’s known for his keen eye for composition and mad design chops, and he’s always listening to some kind of great music, be it a perfect old gem that he’s unearthed or some amazing new band I’ve never heard of. It’s not surprising that something like basement sketches would be right up Barrett’s alley. We played music together in the early 2000s, and Barrett played this big Yamaha SK20 keyboard at all of our gigs. I liked the sound but also felt badly for the man having to haul around such a precarious and large keyboard. Clearly there was something deeper going on. I believe that Barrett had developed keyboard love. Now years later, we are reaping the benefits of that union through Barrett’s basement sketches songs. https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/christopher-danforth monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1612591181911-5SMW01QFIKGAF5JXX5UK/MOOG+and+Stethoscope+MIc.jpg music makers - Christopher Danforth - Christopher Danforth It’s hard for me to write about Chris Danforth and not make it all about my relationship with him as both a friend and collaborator, as he is one of my dearest friends and has also been one of my closest musical partners over the years. I’ve had the privilege of working with Chris on many awesome creative endeavors: bands, songs, recordings, performances, and projects, which have been among the most cherished experiences of my life. Making music with Chris is always joyful. I recall, in our earliest college bands, being shocked by how developing songs with Chris was so effortless. His musical knowledge, openness, and unbridled creativity allowed any idea to flourish and become something 100 times better. Probably the most inspiring aspect of Chris as an artist is his truly unconstrained approach to creating. Convention isn’t really in Chris’ vocabulary. He’s not wired to operate by the laws of earth or humankind. It’s hard to even list or categorize all of the things Chris has done and continues to do creatively: musician, song-writer, performer, composer, artist, producer. In his world, there is no line between any of these things. Why would anyone ever suggest otherwise? Danforth brings out this spirit of boundless possibility in his basement sketches contributions and helps all of us consider the world in new ways with every song. https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/michael-grey monthly 0.5 2023-08-08 https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/project-one-l94jx monthly 0.5 2023-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1612123799901-S5MJI8EVWL7NNSNMNMII/DF262C89-D524-4C7D-9030-101C263591C6.jpeg music makers - Neil Fasen - Neil Fasen Corporate stooge by day and creative hobbyist by night, Neil Fasen is the everyman of mediocracy, balancing idealistic dreams with sellout realities. After many years of making music with friends for friends, Neil continues to seek out new ways to leverage his jack-of-many trades/master-of-none approach to bringing new sonic ideas into the world, even if only to be consumed by a handful of close associates. https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/project-two-pmzcl monthly 0.5 2023-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/1612150508051-91E8HKGAH1DRO007PC0X/6A76C773-6C26-4DF7-A8CA-9C7E25225135.jpeg music makers - Tom Stromsodt - Tom Stromsodt Tom Stromsodt had been exchanging Spotify playlists with Neil and Brian. Then one night, possibly over beers while sitting around a fire, he suggested they pick tunes to cover from each other’s playlists. It seemed like a fun and simple enough way to make music during the pandemic, so the guys kicked off project 1 and the rest is history. Though possibly best known as a drummer, Tom is a multi-instrumentalist who plays everything from guitar to bass to keys, synths, ukulele, and likely more. Over the course of the pandemic, Tom has become an absolute recording machine, so he’s a perfect fit for basement sketches. Needless to say, Tom’s probably our most prolific contributor. It’s great! https://www.basementsketches.org/music-makers/brian-eveslage monthly 0.5 2023-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef415824eac7666b86b32ef/ec0dab0d-05ad-4461-b78e-1a2f6efd0f2d/Screen+Shot+2023-07-28+at+12.25.58+AM.png music makers - Brian Eveslage