Artist Bio
Influences: Captain Beefheart, Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, The Beatles, Neil Young, Groucho Marx, Buck Owens, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Kraftwerk, Frank Zappa, Robert Wyatt, Van der Graaf Generator, CAN, plus whoever else I can rip off without anyone noticing.
I live out in the woods of Southern Ontario, Canada, near Peterborough.
Some of my songs will be written and played on the ukulele, either acoustic or electric.
And Melodica. Probably lots of Melodica.
Also some piano as well as whatever other instruments I have lying around.
There will be a fair amount of weirdo noise and experimental-type stuff.
This is my ninth FAWM, believe it or not!
And finally, two great quotations that express my attitude toward FAWM and 50/90;
“Musical structure? Frankly, I don't see what you need all those sandbags for, just to keep your river in place.” - Captain Beefheart
"Earlier eras of pop music were characterized not by the search for perfection but by bizarre enthusiasms, small budgets, erratic technique, crummy equipment and wild abandon." - Brian Eno
Songs (9)
| #1 | David Bowie Was A No-Talent Hack |
28 1 week |
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| #2 | Rock 'n' Roll Bathroom |
22 1 week |
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| #3 | A Joyless Exercise In Futility |
10 1 week |
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| #4 | The Cotard Delusion |
15 1 week |
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| #5 | Bad Sex In Six Words  |
13 1 week |
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| #6 | Cow Stuff |
15 1 week |
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| #7 | Requiem For Our Numinous Emperor |
13 6 days |
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| #8 | The Twenty Three |
9 3 days |
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| #9 |  Your Prostate Exam |
8 1 day |
Soundboard
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@candle 1 day
Thanks for the comments on Nimbostratus & Venusian Lust. I agree, that guitar at the end of the collab sounds like I was playing it on top of a mountain. I wish I was. 😀
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@candle 2 days
As for Shadowspawn, yes I guess there might me Vampires about. I guess I need to watch out for them! Thans for the great comment!
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@candle 2 days
Yeah, I loved those liner notes. Again, adding more mystery to what's going on in your distopian world. I loved the ambient song that went with the words as well. I always forget about 50/90, one of these years I might have to give it a try…
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@sync 2 days
Thanks for the shout out on the weird and wacky forum! That's quite a compliment after perusing your song list! You're setting the bar pretty high here. 😃
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@amusia 3 days
Thanks for your comments! Haha, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one with crazy pets. Your dog sounds awesome though.
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@wobbiewobbit 4 days
straight up!
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@marvsmooth 4 days
Thanks for the kind words about H2O 😀
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@ferry0123 4 days
Thanks again!
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@ttg105 5 days
😀
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@w1n 5 days
u got m@il sir
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@persaab 5 days
Thank you for your kind words on my song.
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@w1n 5 days
Hi Fuzzy
Would you be interested to some spoken word ish things on a tune of mine? It's weird, noisy and a bit abrasive, so should be right up your alley 😉 -
@jwhanberry 5 days
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@joetime 6 days
yo dude! thanks for your comment on The Taste - if you want to take a shot at the lyrics be my guest, it would be pretty cool to see what you make of them. rock on
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@hannibalhamster 1 week
Thanks for your comment! Lovely to hear from you. Noel was probably quite a fun guy back in the day (late 60s/70s, though a lot of the shows he hosted in the 90s were pretty funny tbh), though he's not so fondly remembered these days!
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@ustaknow 1 week
Wow, thank you for that feedback-comment; thank you. That means allot to me, and I am glad to know that it was heard that way.
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@jackketch 1 week
Thanks for your comment! Yes just finished reading Erebus too, good isn't it? If you have entered read The Terror it imaginatively fills in the blanks of what happened while the ships were missing. It's great!
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@berni1954 1 week
Hi Fuzzy. Thanks for listening to my "Interpretation of Dreams"
But I am definitely not hiring you as my psychiatrist 😜
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@candle 1 week
Yeah, I'm shocked at how prolific I have been so far. I think being home sick for two days sort of pushed my creativity into high gear. This is the quickest I've ever posted eight songs. Usually by this time of FAWM, I might have three or four songs finished. I've doubled that so far. You're right, for someone who didn't have my head in music, it sure got there quick!
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@owl 1 week
Thank you for listening to "Chinese New Year"! I realized when I woke up to the flurry of comments about how abruptly the song ended that I accidentally cut off the outro (with time signature change!) when exporting. I have fixed it, along with the bass thing that was bothering me that nobody else noticed 😀 Just thought I'd let you know.
p.s. I hope you write another travelogue soundscape or two this year! Have you read "Cloud Atlas"? I was in the midst of it before getting steamrollered by FAWM and it struck me as something you would probably enjoy. -
@ttg105 1 week
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@candle 1 week
Thank you for your kind words on Forgiveness, Tapioca Pudding & Cosmic Osmosis. I have to agree with you about forgiveness. It is more about letting go of your own negativity then excusing another's behaviour or words. If you can't forgive yourself, you'll never truly forgive anyone.
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@bking 1 week
Hey Fuzzy. It's good to be back and I'm happy to see you here to share the madness.
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@candle 1 week
Thanks for the great comment on Ming Tiger. I knew you'd love the generative portion of the song. Glad you took the time to stop by for a listen!
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@apertome 1 week
Hey Fuzzzy, the "Converging Parallels" suite isn't really generative. Basically what happened is I started playing viola, but my viola part was going straight into Kurt's eurorack modular setup. He's got some modules that can sample / loop / chop up / mangle sound. So he was doing that all while I was playing viola. WHat's weird about the way it happened was that I actually did not hear some of the things I played on viola until 30 seconds to 1 min later. So it was very weird hearing things I'd played a whiel ago coming back at me in different forms.
I'm also playing a couple synth drones here that are sidechained to my viola. So you only hear the white noise and drones when I'm playing the viola. Not sure it that explanation makes sense. -
@owl 1 week
Hi fuzzy! Thanks for the kind words as always and happy FAWM!
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@candle 1 week
Thanks for the comment on my Flying Saucers. I figured it would be something you would enjoy.
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@rkeeling75 1 week
Thanks for the welcome! Have a great month.
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@pearlmanhattan 1 week
Thanks for the comment on my Junk song. That's my Oscar Schmidt autoharp, I lovingly call it Leviathan.
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@oaksnprairie 1 week
Thanks for listening and for the tidbit on sea otter sleep--maybe I need another verse.
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@jackketch 2 weeks
Hey thanks for the message! Us Fawing history teachers need to stick together. Ironically I live near Peterborough too, but the UK version!
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@elainedimasi 2 weeks
And now for today's weather: HEAT WAVE
Figuring stuff out right now just seems harder. Fighting sure does seem easier. (But not fighting the Fire vampires! Those are especially tough right now.)
You head towards Independence Square thinking about maybe getting an Italian Ice, but the vendors are gone. Hell, the *square* is gone. At least, you don't remember it being a hazy vista of sand and scree with strange towers in the distance.
Then you spot the witch. She is lovely and terrible all at once. A strange light shines in her eyes as she chants, "Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!" -
@robs 2 weeks
Hé Fuzzy! We certainly need more crummy equipment...
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@ttg105 2 weeks
Thanks for stopping by the funhouse ... talk to you tomorrow!
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@odilongreen 2 weeks
I'm finally here. And it looks like you've been here a while. So let's all have a wonderful FAWM together - I'm looking forward to hearing your new music!
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@fourzeroes 2 weeks
Yeah! I think I've written something like 65 complete songs in my FAWMing to date, which is like... slightly over half as many as I'd have if I completed every year, but there ya go. What's your total, do you know?
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@johnstaples 2 weeks
I'm hoping you issue it as a formal challenge! Donkeys and Beavers!
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@captainvulpine 2 weeks
You know when you put melodica in a song and people are like "Wow, rad accordion!" But really it's just a goofy ass keyboard for kids that you blow into?
That's why we fight.
I'm looking forward to your output this year, fuzzyface.
P.S. My melodica is called Blowhol Bjorgenson. He is a sickly shade of green and probably my bestest friend on this planet. -
@fourzeroes 2 weeks
Good to see a fellow 2011er out there!
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@dragondreams 2 weeks
*waves* 😊
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@nuj4x 3 weeks
Fuzzy wuzzy wuz a....legendary fawmer...? 😁
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@crisp1 3 weeks
Hope you're having fun already. Thanks for the comment on the fake band name!
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@spikedirection 3 weeks
Welcome back fuzzy! Have a great FAWM
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@nerdy202 3 weeks
Thank you!
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@pipewrench67 3 weeks
When I saw your fake name they came to mind right away.
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@max 3 weeks
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@frenchcricket 3 weeks
Hi Fuzzy! Always a pleasure x
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@amusia 3 weeks
I'm so glad to hear you like my music! I'm looking forward to hearing your experimental melodica sounds!
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@bradbrubaker 3 weeks
Thanks for restarting the A is for ABBA fake band edition. I was really happy with how it turned out last year.
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@paulhenry 3 weeks
I did the random collab challenge a couple of years back. I got paired with @orbh who at the time was a heavy metal drummer from Finland. We had, on paper, very little in common. But I had a blast working with him, and we came up with a cool collab. I did words and some melody. He did the music.
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@paulhenry 3 weeks
Just saw your post on my soundboard after I saw the forum thread and emailed you. If you can clear it up, swell.
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@pearlmanhattan 4 weeks
Thank you!! I am glad you enjoyed it.
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@pearlmanhattan 4 weeks
Didja catch my louie louie cover? https://youtu.be/Nrq1T135ukk
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@candle 4 weeks
Hey Fuzzy! Thanks for the welcome. I look forward to hearing your stuff this year.
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@paulh1237 4 weeks
Fawm is so near.. and yet so far away! Looking forward to some more melodica!
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@headfirstonly 4 weeks
Hoorah for bizarre enthusiasms. Let's do this!
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@zecoop 4 weeks
More insanity... Bring it!
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@standup 4 weeks
Hey, I look forward to hearing the weirdness flow.
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@silvermachine 4 weeks
Wotcha Fuzzy. Can a hero have his own hero?
Think I'd have given up without your support.
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@andygetch 4 weeks
oooops! and so it begins LOL
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@ferry0123 4 weeks
Hey Fuzzy, I'm already ready for this thing. Can't wait to hear your weirdo stuff!
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@adnama17 4 weeks
Fuzzy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let's do this thing!
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@chipwithrow 4 weeks
Hi back at you! Here we go again!
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@klaus 4 weeks
Hi Fuzzy. This year I'm going to be more Klaus and less anti. Hope you have a wonderful and weirdful Fawm 2019!
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@andygetch 4 weeks
Hey Gordon. I sense an avant garde electric collab this year.
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@chandra83 4 weeks
<3
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@toms 4 weeks
Well. OK. I'll try. I feel like there's a ton of good stuff waiting to be born. 😀 Can we collab?
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@cts 4 weeks
Fuzzy...it’s gonna be colossal fun! Stay by the Batphone.
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@metalfoot 4 weeks
Have a great FAWM yourself! 😀
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@barbara 4 weeks
Hi Fuzzy!! Throw the censor to the curb and have at it!
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@mosley 4 weeks
Fuzzy!!!!!
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@wobbiewobbit 4 weeks
thanks fuzzy you too!!
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@w1n 4 weeks
Thanks Fuzzy, looking forward to hearing what you come up with. We have to try to make another collaboration this year.
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@klaus 5 weeks
Thanks, Fuzzy. So nice of you to play Placeholder and Zonging Game. The SCTV clip was hilarious and the similarities were funny.
