Thunder Cobra
Nearly 20 years ago I found a cheap Yamaha nylon string acoustic guitar in the living room closet of the first house my family lived in when we moved to North Carolina. Not sure if some of you know this, but I’ve played guitar longer than I’ve been painting with oils. I uh… just can’t make any dough with the guitar for whatever reason.
It’s almost two years to the day since I quit the band I was in for most of my 20’s. Since that last show in Boston I’ve played on stage once with my friend’s band. I jumped up for a couple cover songs the homecoming show of their June ‘08 tour that I was on. Other than that I haven’t been active in music. Definitely not live music. Charlotte’s just not the same as Boston when it comes to finding people to play with.
I’m glad to say that I do still bang around on the guitar though. Around this time last year I recorded a song just to make myself laugh when I was obsessed with Robert Tepper’s “No Easy Way Out” from the Rocky IV soundtrack. It was called “Fight To the Streets” and I recorded it very primitively on the Garageband program that came with my PowerBook. Months and months went by and then December ‘08 came and I was broke as a joke. I decided to sit at home and write more songs. Bits and pieces of things that cracked me up. Songlets. After a while I started to get more meticulous with the songlets and I started making album artwork. Started spending 8 hours hunched in front of my amp using the built in mic to pick up the sound without even knowing how long I’d been there.
I started really laughing at the stuff and any musician will tell you that laughing after completing something means that it’s stuff that came from the heart. My heart just happens to be stuck in 1985 and is from Germany/Japan/Los Angeles.
I’ve been recording more crap up until this very afternoon and I’d like to finally put the link up here for everyone to check out that had no idea I played.
Yes it’s me singing and playing bass and guitar and everything except the programmed drums. Yes I know I don’t have an awesome voice. Yes I will play bar mitzvahs for gas money and a kosher meal. ’tis what it is.
Soon I’m going to do a real deal Frank Frazetta-style album cover for my imaginary band’s imaginary debut album. My friend Adriane was awesome enough to come over this week and pose as my barbarian queen in my uh… photo studio (yet another corner of the garage right next to my “artist studio”). Check out a few of the shots…
I listen to this shit all the time.
Go spread the gospel. Pretend it’s the new Mastodon album for today.
I hope you got a picture of that Hot piece of ass crawling up your leg.
If you want to play some of this shit live we’ll learn a few songs. Just say’n.
that picture is amazing.
thanks for putting the pic up where I look pregnant. real cool dude.
LARP at 2 pm today? Kiss My Anthia needs us on the battlefield.
It’s like Conan and Kelly Bundy…amazing!
Awesome. Jealous.