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1B King (@bking) progress: 16 winner! joined: January 28 2009 location: Florida, USA influences: Beer lights, the blue bus, crayons, my evil twin's evil twin, an agoraphobic shark and milk. The white zone is for loading and unloading only. Life is short and I've got $#!+ to do.

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2012 Songs

1		Hollow Men	29 comments // 3 months ago
2		The Ballad Of Madison Edison (with  theotherb)	12 comments // 3 months ago
3		Your Eyes	13 comments // 2 months ago
4		Mea Culpa	7 comments // 2 months ago
5		For Julia	16 comments // 2 months ago
6		Whispers In The Dark (with  timfatchen)	8 comments // 2 months ago
7		Old John's Cabin	10 comments // 2 months ago
8		Little Witches In The Kitchen	8 comments // 2 months ago
9		Peppers Make My Head Sweat	4 comments // 2 months ago
10		Una Lágrima Por Isabella	4 comments // 2 months ago
11		[GOSPEL] Mari Had A Little Lamb (with  errol)	10 comments // 2 months ago
12		Eatin' Peppers (Remixed) (with  cts)	7 comments // 2 months ago
13		Eleventh Finger Blues (with  devin)	zong // 2 months ago
14		Billy Sea (with  billysea)	10 comments // 2 months ago
15		Pfft, There Goes FAWM	8 comments // 2 months ago
16		Lost For Words	5 comments // 2 months ago

Soundboard

• explodingmary 2 months ago

  I wondered that, myself, re: Budgeting. I dug it.

•  bradbrubaker 2 months ago

  Hi there! I know we're on the same thread, but still wanted to thank you for listening and leaving comments. You chose a diverse range of songs and that makes me happy.

•  devin 2 months ago

  Good FAWM Bob!
  
  I had a great time as well, except I never completed our track. I got sick, then my family got sick, and we're just coming out of it now I shall post what we have so far, just so the gods know we were thinking of them...my apologies for the delay!
  
  Truth is, for the life of me, I couldn't come up with anything cool enough to post on the bass guitar. I figured out some new styles this month, but even the original on "6 finger blues" is a very weak bassline. Maybe I need to enroll in summer school for that animal.
  
  You've got JYD...and I've got...ah...sick kitten?

•  dragondreams 2 months ago

  
  
  I have to use barbecue charcoal... no one round here will sell me the graphite

•  dragondreams 2 months ago

  Bob, once again, I'm humbled by the wonderful comments you've seen fit to leave.
  
  The tone? I build my own valve amps.

•  donna 2 months ago

  Bob, thanks for dropping by 'Abyss'. The vocals, though, are @dragondreams.
  
  So are you saying I sound like HIM or he sounds like ME?

•  iocanepower 2 months ago

  Thanks for keeping tabs on us this month, Bob! Happy to entertain you.

•  cts 2 months ago

  ...aaaaaaaaand we. Have. Jelly.

• barbara 2 months ago

  You will get your own personal poke, my good man! Thanks for dropping that line in there. I am knee-deep in interviews, and all I really wanna do is write my song!! Wah!!! So this is how the other half lives? I'd quite forgotten. ;0)

•  avidfanman 2 months ago

  hi, thanks for your kind words about "Jack the Ripper", glad you liked it

•  cts 2 months ago

  Sir..I should have Peppers unlocked by this evening. Sorry it took so long.

•  majormajormajormajor 2 months ago

  Ditto on "Three Wishes", nice to meet another fan - poor Waters didn't get nearly enough credit for what I think is far and away the best album of his career.

•  dustymason 2 months ago

  Please do. I don't know if you saw that Elaine DiMasi has lent her voice and writing skills to a duet version. I like both. The spacious original could use another element for sure....I can always edit it Love that guitar work on Lost For Words!

• dennisjernberg 2 months ago

  Happy reading! Me, I'll be editing. (As in NaNoEdMo. I'll get around to listening more this month, of course.)

•  cts 2 months ago

  I'm hoping to have this ready by Thursday evening. Yours required some extra mixing and tinkering plus I just got two that were slotted ahead. Jelly is coming!!

•  kenficara 2 months ago

  Thanks! No glass harmonicas -- I'd end up spilling the water on my rig and ruining it. That's a regular chromatic running through the EHX POG, which is generating octaves one above and two below the original note, and detuning them a bit. Then it's going through a reverb/delay patch.

•  devin 2 months ago

  I'm on vacation with my family (who the heck scheduled this?!?), and I've got a cold to boot. I should be home in time to at least post your solo over my existing bed track...but looks like a snowstorm for the drive home, so I reserved our spot just in case my car...or the FAWM site...continues to break down

•  billysea 2 months ago

  Hey Bob, I see you are almost there too : ) BTW, I sent you an mp3....hope I didn't ruin it too badly

• barbara 2 months ago

  Hiya B! I've been on the Fawm-orexic plan for as long as I can stand it! Had to jump over here to tell you how much I enjoy "For Julia"! But I let myself dabble here yesterday, and ended up staying up til 2am, so I'm still on Fawm-obsession-watch!! Cheers! HB

•  jsini 2 months ago

  Thanks for commenting!

•  timfatchen 2 months ago

  ... (and all the instructions in the email were for the wrong one too!) Ab is the home key, sorry. Capo up one and use G I haven't cleaned the volumes up in this bed, either.

•  timfatchen 2 months ago

  is that your current email? oh well. If you don't get what I sent let me know...if you DO get it let me know, either way I'll edit this soundboard comment appropriately....download http://flyingtadpole.com/fawm2012/sweet_messes_1.mp3 ( I had the wrong one in the email sigh.)

•  timfatchen 2 months ago

  As a respite from teh RSI of shredding, would you like to try more relaxation music? I will shortly have a file that's...nice, mmm, sweet, mmmm, let's face it, lush but boring. Like a beautiful woman making cow eyes and all that enters the mind is thoughts of cheese, and whether there's still ice cream left in the freezer, or what's on TV tonight. You could make it lush and enticing. like a beautiful woman...

•  devin 2 months ago

  My man!!!! I have plans for your recent shred-tastic wave file.
  As I was mixing it in, I was saying stuff like "hmmm...let me get my flatulent solo out of the way...ya, that sounds better...now, reduce the vox a bit...a bit more...OK, mute it completely...yes...now louder drums...OK...and *stop*.
  
  Bass line too wimpy for this, mute that...
  
  Look for our tune in a few days. I have to finish two big songs for IocanePower, which involve alternate tunings on the bass guitar. Once I return it to standard tuning, I'm going to attack an instrumental version of that track. I can't keep up to you with six strings, but I'm going to kick some bottom with 4
  
  I love it!

•  iocanepower 2 months ago

  Who are these Sugar Bambies you speak of? Other fantastic duos of musical might?

•  valeriecox 3 months ago

  Super cool with album art. I say resoundingly, YES! Hire a sign maker to do it in neon. Would be awesome.

•  leslie 3 months ago

  It's not at all "a difficult blow." It's a step on the path to enlightenment. My brain processes much more than neurotypical brains do, and I've always wondered why others are so comparatively slow, or give up so easily when tackling a problem or subject. I am brilliant! And now I have an explanation as to why. That's hardly cause for mourning.

•  solarrainuk 3 months ago

  Thanks Bob! I think I probably will extend 'Candles' a little longer. After listening to it again recently, the ending sounded more like a drop/rest and felt like it wanted to get going again. Glad to hear you like it so much

•  looprication 3 months ago

  If you have to load.. or unload... go to the white zone. You'll love it. It's a way of life.

•  valeriecox 3 months ago

  Hey there. Thanks for the commenting on my song with Debs. That was a fun one.
  
  I like your album art. Is that your own creation. If so, I'd like to know what software you used to create it. I'm a bit of a photoshop buff and love making album art.

• kiwafruit 3 months ago

  Hey thanks for the lovely comment on "Lose Myself", really glad you enjoyed it! I'm definitely keeping it

•  iocanepower 3 months ago

  Bob, this one's for you *24603
  
  As much as I like the genre, I've never tried a blues before...but watching your stuff over the years, I was inspired to try. Thank you!

• meadows 3 months ago

  Thank you very much for your encrypted comment on "Public To All" - awesome idea!
  I think you're right, "Code-Metal" seems to be my genre, and I plan to do more of it, maybe in parallel threads. Will you join me debugging it?
  
  Thanks Jens.

•  toms 3 months ago

  awesomsauce is the word of the year. I probably spelled it wrong.

•  errol 3 months ago

  Wait, why are you being stalked? Allooo 1B King!

• seantwright 3 months ago

  I'm back, good to see you off the mark.

•  cts 3 months ago

  Hey, my man...I've kinda made a promise to myself that there will be no jelly made until I've initiated the rock fingers. Payday is tomorrow so I'll be doing the thang shortly.

•  donna 3 months ago

  Mornin', Bob.

•  debs 3 months ago

  Hi Bob No beating you up

• mikeskliar 3 months ago

  hey, welcome back to you as well!

•  valeriecox 3 months ago

  FAWM happiness on you as well good sir.

•  iocanepower 3 months ago

  Song #4 will be for you.
  
  

•  corinnecurcio 3 months ago

  Hi Bob - Happy Fawming! No, my picture was taken at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, one of my favorite spots ever!

• barbara 3 months ago

  * squeak *
  Just peeking in... I may not be a smart girl, but I know where the fun is!

• explodingmary 3 months ago

  the blue bus is calling us.

•  solarrainuk 3 months ago

  Hi Bob! Great to see you back, have fun!

• barbara 3 months ago

  Hiya B! You sure make a (quiet) girl feel welcome!
  Not sure if I can withstand the hurricane forces of FAWM this time around. Jury's out. If I put my toes in I'm liable to get swept away, so I'm taking a few more days of soul-searching about it. You can be sure you'll hear from me no matter what, but maybe not producing much noise. Quiet just might be the theme I go with...

•  chasingandromeda 3 months ago

  Uni-B! Good to see you back, my friend!

• explodingmary 3 months ago

  It's not my fault, i swear-- oh wait-- it could be.

• ankari 3 months ago

  Agreed! Let's try to collab if I don't drop out early Just let me see how things work out for me once February starts!

•  devin 3 months ago

  You sir, are going to be pestered this time
  
  I'm going to do my first ever blues song, and I dedicate it to you, because
  you are the reason I'm trying!!
  
  *that means, when the authorities begin the investigation, it's your fault*

•  oddbod 3 months ago

  Hi there...d'you think there's anyone here this year who doesn't have a ukelele?

•  johncrossman 3 months ago

  Uh-oh, uke, eh? I suspect you know more than you are telling us, but it will out in the music. Looking forward to it.

•  billysea 3 months ago

  Hey Bob, always up for something. JLMK what you have kooking

•  sapient 3 months ago

  Hey there fella, how you doing this fine morning?

•  cts 3 months ago

  It's coming to that slowly...

•  timfatchen 3 months ago

  I sent some emails earlier this year which died. Bob, we need to do a relaxation/meditation album together, at the standard of Warm Stone and Dojo. I'll tag things I think ought to work and wave them at you. Stilld ebating what I'm mainly intending to try for FAWM. It's going to be a bit disjointed, liek last year.

• dennisjernberg 3 months ago

  Glad to be back. I've even got a ukulele of my own.

• ankari 3 months ago

  I was wondering if you'd be around this year! yaaay

•  errol 3 months ago

  I'm getting less and less, sadly

•  errol 3 months ago

  Ooooh! Vocals! I like doing that! Alllllooo 1B!

•  daddyschu 3 months ago

  1B! We need to get something done here this Feb....

• explodingmary 3 months ago

  Yay! Let's make it a uke joint!

•  phylo 3 months ago

  Hey Bob! Up for a collaboration again this year?

•  dustymason 4 months ago

  1B, Have a rockin' FAWM.

•  cts 4 months ago

  1BK...always a pleasure. Looking forward to what Muze does with you this season.

•  leslie 4 months ago

  Once more unto the breach? I'll raise you a harp to that uke.

•  timfatchen 4 months ago

  I've got an old ukulele and I'm not afraid to lose it.