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Scott O. Clamp (@autoclamp) progress: 12 joined: January 31 2007 location: Minnesota, USA website: www.autoclamp.com influences: Lately? You, The Kingston Trio, Kristin Hersh/Throwing Muses, ELO, Tune-Yards, Buke and Gass, Scott Walker (the musician, not the governor), and the Pixies.

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2012 Songs

1		Complex Relief	54 comments // 3 months ago
2		I Remain	19 comments // 3 months ago
3		Mastodon Parade	21 comments // 3 months ago
4		Shoe Box	20 comments // 3 months ago
5		Goodbye Hero	18 comments // 3 months ago
6		(My Heart Is) Closed to New Investors (with  johncrossman)	28 comments // 3 months ago
7		Life on a Flood Plain (with dapple)	1 comment // 2 months ago
8		Brooklyn in Bethlehem	7 comments // 2 months ago
9		Something Else Instead (with  ericdistad)	9 comments // 2 months ago
10		Angelica (with  jake)	7 comments // 2 months ago
11		A Going Concern (with  jake)	11 comments // 2 months ago
12		See Me Again	8 comments // 2 months ago

Soundboard

•  ericdistad 2 months ago

  Congrats on a great batch of songs Scott!

•  iocanepower 2 months ago

  Thanks for keeping an ear on us this month, Scott! Hope we kept you entertained.

•  sacraficialglam 2 months ago

  Amazing FAWM scott. I think this was the most transparent and vulnerable you have allowed yourself to go. Again great work on all levels. So happy to know you in music and friendship.

•  jake 2 months ago

  Congrats on a great fawm Scott! Special thanks for the excellent collab work. You made those songs great!

•  sacraficialglam 2 months ago

  sorry about the explosion...I'll get a rag...thanks man! I may not get 14, but have a set of songs that I really like. As usual I love your work man!

•  livinginthemusic 2 months ago

  So glad to hear your words on Is Ma Li Nu Tian Don. Glad you liked it I've uploaded some more at last! This time in regular english pretty much, but likely intruiging in other ways

•  sacraficialglam 2 months ago

  I demand a heavy dose of clamp..but with colds going around...I wonder if clamp needs a dose of robotussin. You still here bro?

•  johncrossman 2 months ago

  The song went great tonight and I think it was the most talked about song of my set! They chuckled at all the right places and agreed that the lyrics are awesome.

•  songsville 2 months ago

  I just floated away and bobbed on the ceiling when I read your comment -- thanks! It really buoyed me up on day when I was questioning my overall competency as a human being, having just flooded the downstairs bathroom while doing some plumbing ...

•  johncrossman 2 months ago

  I do believe I'm going to perform a certain financially sound jazz tune at a songwriter show this Wed. night as I have just tested it's viability in a sample market known as my living room. I ought to to send you my chord/cheat sheet since I just fixed it.

•  staticcaptain 3 months ago

  I read mikedebenham's quote below BEFORE I saw your new profile picture. And it still made perfect sense. How is that?

•  mikedebenham 3 months ago

  In just under two weeks, you've raided Tutankhamun's tomb and grown a robust beard. I feel like an underachiever.

•  johncrossman 3 months ago

  Hooray! It was fun, thanks for trusting me with your top-notch lyric.

•  devin 3 months ago

  . I *knew* I saw that man somewhere before! That's two movies where he goes to eleven

•  devin 3 months ago

  my money is on you being the first to get the joke at the very end
  
  *24603

•  dragondreams 3 months ago

  Many, many thanks!
  
  My head nearly burst into flames reading your comment!

•  johncrossman 3 months ago

  Success! I'm familiar with McB's song of inspiration and I find this new lyric to be incredibly tight. I'm bullish on it and will let you know when it reaps some dividends.

•  johncrossman 3 months ago

  Yes, please! Definitely. Hooray! Can you email me, and if you have some thoughts/restrictions, include those (like tempo or if you were thinking instrumental bridge or whatever). If you haven't any, that's cool too, but that way I won't accidentally trample on anything like a rampaging mastodon.

•  johncrossman 3 months ago

  Hm, dare I insinuate myself into your life even more by asking for one of those uncomplicated collab spots you may have open...

•  jake 3 months ago

  Thanks for the song comments and support! I finally feel like I have a handle on the basics of Reaper, so the pressure is only on songwriting now. I'm looking forward to more Autoclamp!

•  whatsurdamage 3 months ago

  Hey, thanks so much for recommending "Soon As I Get You to Myself"! I'm so glad you enjoyed it

•  sacraficialglam 3 months ago

  You made me broke with fox in socks tongue twisters.

•  iocanepower 3 months ago

  *22853

•  songsville 3 months ago

  You made me LOL at the C#bish ... before I learnt myself some music theory a coupla years ago I used to call Dsus2/B 'You know, B ... -ish' so when I slid it up to C# and in a hurry I fell back into ugly old naming habits ... Apparently it's really C# minor 7th no5 (x4x450), anyway yeah glad you like it!

•  charliecheney 3 months ago

  Like iocane, my songs are also odorless.

•  mikedebenham 3 months ago

  "I was thinking bad thoughts about my boring sandwich"... I'd like to be sympathetic to your plight, but after our salty black yeast extract conversation you have no-one to blame but yourself.

•  billysea 3 months ago

  Thank you Scott.

•  michaelepic 3 months ago

  Glad to see you've returned this year can't wait for you to get some material up!!

•  donna 3 months ago

  Glad you got a kick out of 'Only Bastards', Scott. When you've got songs up, I'll be back to check them out.

•  wille 3 months ago

  Hello, you glorious, glorious bastard. I can't believe I haven't greeted you properly yet, but I can't wait to hear you yet again.
  
  Also, you're up in the auntie sin chain 2! *21598 Remember to tag your song with "auntiesin2" and post in the thread when you're done

•  toddchappelle 3 months ago

  Thank you for the comment, Scott ... happy FAWMing and I look forward to hearing your stuff.

•  ptr 3 months ago

  Thanks very much for checking out my Transgalactica track earlier, glad you enjoyed it

•  skullcrush 3 months ago

  Thanks! I'm a visual artist at heart, but I also enjoy telling stories and that reflects into my lyrics too :'D Happy FAWMing to you!

•  mattpierce 3 months ago

  Awesome pre-fawm song Scott!
  Why the H E double hockey sticks couldn't you wait

•  kingwoodkowboy 3 months ago

  Howdy Scott. Good to see you here again. I'll try to help you "get your Country on".

• chrishensongs 3 months ago

  Man, you know everything about me and Bill Murray. Happy FAWMing, brother dog.

•  djbride 3 months ago

  Thanks for the comment Scott,
  I double track my vocals most of the time, just to get them in tune (not really a singer),
  plus it gives a full sound.
  Looking forward to hearing your music this year.
  Good Luck at FAWN.
  
  Dave

•  iocanepower 3 months ago

  

•  valeriecox 3 months ago

  Warnalized? Are you allowed to make up words like that.

•  nancyrost 3 months ago

  I absolve you, my child. Go in peace.

•  toddnorem 3 months ago

  Can't wait to get this community thing going again and hear some new tunes from you. I like your goal of shooting for rougher recordings. You could totally pull it off.

•  toms 3 months ago

  Thanks, Scott! It's going to be a good one, I can feel it...

•  mattpierce 3 months ago

  I'll be popping in from time to time!
  Have a good fawm!

• gslab 3 months ago

  I'm going to leave my radio tuned to K(lamp)107 this year. You must be getting pretty good at this stuff by now.

•  flv 3 months ago

  looking forward to some scott o clampage myself .... ah man when they changed the system they robbed my "a" and im stuck in a vowel-less prision... the potato has been planted and may not sprout this spring, she is an autumn vegetable so i'm led to believe.....

•  tcelliott 3 months ago

  toilets seem to be my theme.. hrmrmr.... now THERE is an idea.

•  mikedebenham 3 months ago

  Do not fight the Vegemite. Do not impose your preconceptions on the Vegemite. Let the Vegemite come to you. Only then will you understand.
  
  (That you're eating Vegemite.)

•  tspoon 3 months ago

  hey Scott.. happy 2012.. I'm with you, simple, quick, dirty, lo fi, 1 take and move on this year. I'm thinking of doing it all on a manual typwriter and my old answering machine cassette recorder.

•  sacraficialglam 3 months ago

  nope...only on Friendster. Myspace is for chumps. I heard that facebook might have legs though.

•  oddbod 3 months ago

  just popping by to say howd'you do

• thevelvetdrone 3 months ago

  Howdy Scott O..... a lil birdy told me you have been cookin' up some tasty musical jams.

•  mikedebenham 3 months ago

  The implication that I'm keeping your search team locked in a shed to write me songs this February is preposterous, and I laugh it off. Ahaha. Ha. No, I'm afraid they fell victim to drop bears and a nasty case of Vegemite. (Yes, that's the ticket.)

•  billysea 3 months ago

  zackly.....what happens in the showers stays in the showers lol

•  billysea 3 months ago

  ohh, dirty recordings? I can't wait lol.

•  mikedebenham 3 months ago

  Your optimism was unfounded, sadly: the man from Melbourne's back. In less grim news, so are you.
  
  Looks like my February's going to be a bit shambolic, but I keenly anticipate the annual Airing of the Washcloths.

•  ianuarius 3 months ago

  Sixth FAWM? That's quite an accomplishment. You must be a pro by now!
  
  Looking forward to hearing your tunes this year!

•  nancyrost 3 months ago

  Verrrrry funny.
  
  Signed,
  Human Admin

•  mojo 3 months ago

  Mrrrr!! *purrrrrrrrrr*

•  johncrossman 3 months ago

  And there he sits, alone on the end of a park bench in some northern land, but smiling. Has he lost his mind? Does he know some dark or wonderful secret? Will he share it with us in song form this February? One can only hope!

• simonjcurd 3 months ago

  Thanks a lot, Scott! Just had a listen to some of your songs from last year - very nice stuff, hope to hear more soon...

•  gslade 3 months ago

  Re: Odyssey - excellent arrangement and vocal harmonies..almost sounded gospel

•  rich 3 months ago

  hey Scott how are you? did you get the new GBV album? its not bad at all....if they play your town in the states go and see them for me please :~)

• isaacq 3 months ago

  hey yourself, clampykins. i hereby formally request you bring back your "unrealized album" trope this february!

•  tcelliott 4 months ago

  Heyas... glad to see you 'round. Yeah, I'm a toilet kinda guy, I guess.

•  elainedimasi 4 months ago

  Practice saying "I prefer the term ~veteran~"

•  valeriecox 4 months ago

  Yes, the SM58. You can sing into and drive nails with it. It's a multi-purpose tool for multi-purpose world. Nice 2 c U.

•  scottmcb 4 months ago

  The O Clamp! Year #6. Can't wait for your tasty pop jams and jellies.

•  sapient 4 months ago

  The Death Folk crew return, yes?
  
  Good to see you again here, sir!

•  elainedimasi 4 months ago

  > simple, quick and dirty
  
  Emphasize dirty. Then post innocent, friendly messages in the teenager-y forum threads to trick them into checking out your songs.
  
  Or, compromise and write a song about somebody who does that!
  #geezer-teenager-duet

• benarol 4 months ago

  hey scott! you making much music this year?

•  ericdistad 4 months ago

  Oh Mighty Pince de Automatique - bring us more of your wonderous melodious rock!

•  nancyrost 4 months ago

  Hi!

•  jake 4 months ago

  Looking forward to starting 2012 right with some Autoclamp!

•  charliecheney 4 months ago

  I want to complicate your life with a collab.