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Someone on the Mandolin Cafe posed a question to the forum tribe that was worded like this:

"What was the weirdest MUSICAL thing you ever did?"

That got me thinking. A little digging through my archives produced these weird things I has forgotten about. (There are actually dozens of even stranger products of my imagination but these three topped the list.) Here they are with very little explanation:


When I recorded this I think I was just fooling around with some effects on my new BOSS BR8 (records on ZIP disk... remember those?). I will sue anyone who restores the pitch back to normal. It certainly ranks as one of my weirdest MUSICAL ideas.

Old Joe Clark (Click for MP3)


This was another test of the Boss BR8. I bought a cassette tape at a yard sale in S. Atlanta titled "Tracks Similar to Heavy D" and I wondered if I could play some mandolin or banjo with it. This is the goofy result. After lamely rapping the verses I was creatively stuck and I asked my wife to listen to it. She suggested the chorus with a new revised melody. I asked her sing it into a mic and surprisingly she agreed. Thanks, honey!

I played some acoustic mandolin rhythm, some electric mandolin and banjo. That electric mandolin is all played on my Carlson F5 Artist Flatiron. Pretty decent solo I think. I should be clubbed over the head with a heavy mining tool for doing that. There were certain interplay moments between the track, the banjo and the mandolin that I really liked. Maybe I'll hire me a band who can play this and we'll take it on the road. Nah...

Ten Freakin' Degrees (Click for MP3)


This is another strange one. My buddy JR (folks in Atlanta will know him as the host of a bluegrass radio show on WRFG 89.3 FM) came to a pickin' party at my house back a few years ago. Both before and after the party he left me about 15 messages on my answering machine. I love that boy but I was so tickled by those messages, especially the 7 he left about his black umbrella, that I went down to the dungeon and with a little GarageBand help put them together like this:

JR Rap (Click for MP3) - If the word "hell" bothers you do not play this.

There are more, but I will spare you. This stuff is not staying up on the site long. Enjoy them while they last.

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