Music
I’ve played guitar since 6th grade and always loved music. I still write songs and compose some electronic music and play with friends as often as I can. I can’t imagine my life without music. I’ve listed a few things here for your listening pleasure.
Solo Work
These songs are mostly experiments done in GarageBand. Some instruments I play, some from GB. It’s up to you to figure out which.
- Like This 7/12/06
- Sun Spot 7/3/06
- Friday 8/22/04
- The Voices In My Head 2003
- Tanner’s Son 2003
- Akimbo 2003
Strange Face
Strange Face is the band name we play under for rock tunes — mostly classic rock, though we do play a few contemporary songs. Like Insane Pony, it started out as a joke — you know, when everyone looks at the drummer for a cue to stop the song, the drummer makes a strange face. Anyways, here are some tunes. My particular favorites are “All Along the Watchtower” and “Good Times Bad Times”.
Mike plays lead guitar, Leo drums, Matt bass and I’m the singer for all the songs except “Running Down a Dream” which Matt sings and the chorus of “Smoke on the Water”.
Live at Woods Hole 2006
- Warming Up
- Honky Tonk Woman (Rolling Stones)
- Unknown Legend (Neil Young)
- The Weight (The Band)
- Manic Depression (Jimi Hendrix)
- Teacher (Jethro Tull)
- Goodbye (Jay Goldbach)
- Running Down a Dream (Tom Petty)
- All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan/Jimi Hendrix)
- Good Times, Bad Times (Led Zepplin)
- Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple)
Don’t know why “Sweet Child o’ Mine” got cut off. Forgive the sound quality, it was recorded on a camcorder microphone.
Insane Pony
Insane Pony is the band name we play under for folk and bluegrass music. It’s a tongue-in-cheek reference to Neil Young’s old band Crazy Horse. It started out as a joke and just sort of stuck.
Picture above (from left-right) Leo, Mike, Jay and Matt. We jam/practice in Leo’s barn as often as we can, and you’ll find us playing and signing bluegrass, folk, rock, and so on, at just about every occasion we attend. Check out some of our rough recordings and stuff.
Electric Set, Winter 2001 - 2002
- Black Sheep (MP3)
A reggae-like tune (original) - Big Ship (MP3)
Mike does lead vocals
Woods Hole 2001, 8/25/2001
- Ride On (MP3)
Insane Pony featuring Florent Renard-Payen on cello (original)
Alive in the Barn, 7/11/2001
- St. James Hospital (MP3)
Tony Rice - Why You Been Gone So Long (MP3)
Tony Rice - Fare Thee Well (MP3)
Tony Rice - Night Flyer (MP3)
Tony Rice - Nowhere to Run / I Know Your Rider (combo) (MP3)
Alison Krauss / Gordon Lightfoot
BONUS TRACKS
- Friend of the Devil (note major sound glitch at 3:30 — don’t say I didn’t warn you) (MP3)
Grateful Dead - So Long, So Wrong (MP3)
Alison Krauss
Barn Session: August of 2000
- Why You Been Gone So Long (MP3 5mb)
Tony Rice - A Horse With No Name (MP3 7.8mb)
America - Sonora’s Death Row (MP3 6.3mb)
Robert Earl Keen, Jr. - Shadows (MP3 6mb)
Gordon Lightfoot
