Artist Bio
Influences: Captain Beefheart, Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, The Beatles, Neil Young, Groucho Marx, Buck Owens, King Crimson, The Fugs, J.S. Bach, The Residents, 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 weirdo Melodica.
There will be a fair amount of strange noise and experimental-type stuff.
A few strange spoken word stories, as well.
I am often open to collaborations, so hit me up if you're so inclined.
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 (15)
| #1 | Your First Date |
45 Feb 1 |
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| #2 | The Coffee Table Of Destiny |
32 Feb 2 |
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| #3 | Time Travel And The Olsen Twins @nuerdetjuligen |
33 Feb 3 |
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| #4 | The Rose Of Positivity |
24 Feb 5 |
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| #5 | Spam Deli Escort  |
28 Feb 6 |
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| #6 | Two Stroke Withdrawal |
30 Feb 8 |
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| #7 | I Wish Brian Eno Was My Boyfriend @candle |
39 Feb 10 |
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| #8 | Eno and Me @ttg105 |
15 Feb 12 |
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| #9 | Hank Williams Dead In Concert |
23 Feb 15 |
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| #10 | Zombie Hank Williams Sings "Jambalaya" |
35 Feb 15 |
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| #11 | Negotiating for Sunbeams @mosley |
21 Feb 18 |
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| #12 | I Will Make You Mine @samwheatley |
18 Feb 19 |
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| #13 | More Monkfish Than Monkish @headfirstonly |
22 8 weeks |
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| #14 | Duck Head @adnama17
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18 8 weeks |
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| #15 | WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!! @wobbiewobbit |
41 8 weeks |
Soundboard
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@dzdandcunfsd 11 hours
Yeah I might have to put that one on my short list of rotating band names 🤣
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@wolfkier 2 weeks
care to help a little? https://fawm.org/forums/topic/11940/
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@audrey 5 weeks
Thank you for listening and for leaving such a nice comment. I appreciate it.
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@pipewrench67 5 weeks
Sorry for the confusion I was incorrect on my time assumption.
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@gm7 5 weeks
thx for all your comments appreciate that!
Glad to see you reached 14...well done.
Thx for listening...stay safe.
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@candle 5 weeks
Hey, I saw this & thought you might enjoy it. It's another Winnipeg Psych Band. They're about to release a new album & the lead track is killer.
https://mahoganyfrog.bandcamp.com/album/mahogany-frog-in-the-electr...
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@amusia 5 weeks
Oh wow! I've never heard of the spring peeper frog! I thought it was a sound effect that you created in your lab. You made good use of that frog recording!
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@gnashattack 5 weeks
Yes! The world needs more old-school, classic country. Not Tim McGraw classic, but actual classic. Love it. Thanks for the love on "Death-Defying." That genre is our comfort zone and I love playing in it.
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@dzdandcunfsd 6 weeks
I think I'm going to call it Hutejo(Hootiehoe) part harp/part lute/part banjo all noisy fun. Trying to decide between an old hand drum or a tin can for the resonator though before I go much farther. I'm leaning towards can because it will of course be electrified.
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@dzdandcunfsd 6 weeks
Hahaha! no worries! I spent a few weeks either after or before 50/90 I don't remember now just recording a bunch of powertools all with different rhythms that I've still yet to do anything with or even listen to for that matter. I tend to do the same just sitting on some things. About to start making some weirdo harplike contraption with some spare parts I've been dreaming up the last few days. Idle hands make great playthings or something like that.......
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@dzdandcunfsd 6 weeks
Thanks again for all your comments/etc and all the great music! I'll still be around for a bit, but particularly wanted to thanks you for the taking a perfectly normal song and throwing it down some stairs one! Really made my day!
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@wolfkier 6 weeks
Thanks! I appreciate your time, kind comments and suggestions. Until our paths cross again for the Summer songhunt I wish you safe and happy trails.
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@wolfkier 6 weeks
Great sometime today when I can slice out a hunk of time, hopefully uninterupted, I'll treat myself to a good meal from your menu! 😀
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@ferry0123 6 weeks
😀 I was kind of thinking the same.. Glad you enjoyed!
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@mandolinda 6 weeks
Hi Fuzzy. I am with the Barrie group/Simcoe County. Thanks for looking at my songs. And I guess I am kind of positive attitude. After retiring, I needed some hobbies, started gardening, quilting, and then 5 years ago decided I should learn to play an instrument. My Barrie friends encouraged me to write songs last year to alleviate COVID self isolation. It's been a new fun hobby. I have a big to-do list of things to learn before next FAWM.
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@ferry0123 6 weeks
Fuzzy, I think I have to share this one with you:
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@rayboneor 6 weeks
Thanks for bumping me up on Century list. It must be a pain managing that, with people always hassling you for their participation certificate 😀
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@srcoops 6 weeks
As a matter of fact, zecoop's grandmother (my mother) was also a teacher. The high school I went to was very economically stratified and if your parents weren't wealthy you did not fare well. Some of the teachers went along with this drivel. I hated it. Since then an engineering degree and an MBA.
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@zecoop 6 weeks
My dad never told us these things until we were much older, haha. And, my wife, son, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law are all teachers and so was my mom. (no principals in the family, though) 😉
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@wobbiewobbit 6 weeks
hmmmm....
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@zecoop 6 weeks
Yep - digging the SIANspheric first album. 😀
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@candle 7 weeks
Don't tell the COVID police, but @dzdandcunfsd & I might have had a 3am jam after a night of partying. That's about the only way that track could have happened. Mind you, maybe that was just a weird dream I had the other night… because, when have I ever been in Oklahoma? 😉
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@saxylizbeth 7 weeks
Thank you! I don't normally do 50/90 as it's a mad time of year workwise, but absolutely up for collabs in FAWM next year 😀
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@deselby 7 weeks
Enjoyed your work immensely, and many thanks for the encouraging comments on my stuff. 50/90 remains a possibility.
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@vivalarayna 7 weeks
...Anderson Cooper is a wha....???
I heard about the baby-eating, but the robot thing is new and it begs the question, if he's a robot, then why does he need to eat *anything*?? 🤔 -
@vivalarayna 7 weeks
Yes, iirc, they're called "The Blue Avians". Blue humanoid beings covered in blue feathers. I went down the Q-spiracy rabbit hole (*shudder*) when I was researching for "Tragic Anthem". There's... a lot to unpack there. You could easily get a full concept album!
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@wobbiewobbit 7 weeks
hey thank you! YOU TOO! cogratulations and great to collab with you!
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@saxylizbeth 7 weeks
Thank you for listening and commenting on Drunk Bunnies and writing a song called Duck Head. Definitely coming back here for MALM! 😀
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@ttg105 7 weeks
Thanks for all your comments and your inspiring lunacy!
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@ferry0123 7 weeks
Thanks a lot for your continuing support, Fuzzy!
I'll be here in March too, catching up with your stuff, among other things. Something's telling me you had a fine time. -
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@candle 7 weeks
Same to you, my friend. See you at 50/90?
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@barbara 7 weeks
Thanks for the listen on my Saxon song. For another far more vivid and a bit darker set of lyrics on the same topic essentially, you might like this one from the same skirmish: https://fawm.org/songs/123369/
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@tomslatter 7 weeks
Thanks for the comment on 'Hyperbole', much appreciated. Yeah, last song for me this month. Gotta concentrate on the 'proper' album I told the record label I was working on... 😀 See ya next year!
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@dzdandcunfsd 7 weeks
Thanks! that midnight one turned into the midnight train one. I spent wayyyy too long on that drum loop and my first take on the slidocaster turned out too nice to only use it once 🤣 It might eventually end up being the base track for 4 or 5 more
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@santadharma 7 weeks
Thank you!! XX Looking forward to catching up on listening to your tracks. Will you be popping in after February?
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@deli 7 weeks
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my songs! You got quite a few songs here and I like what I've heard so far. I gotta check out the rest!
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@iwilleatyou 7 weeks
You can get excited any way you like. Just don't touch the Italian suit 😉 I had it custom fit.
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@highmountain 7 weeks
Howdy! Thanks for your zong wrecking work! Sorry for the lonely ear. Will investigate that.
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@ttg105 7 weeks
😀
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@zecoop 7 weeks
I am so far behind, but needed to take a break to introduce you to a friend of my brother @guatecoop - @deli and you (I think) have very similar approaches and I think you would really dig his stuff. this is his first year and he only has two songs, but I thought I would mention it. 😀
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@dzdandcunfsd 7 weeks
I think taking a perfectly normal sounding song and throwing it down the stairs is probably the most apt description I've heard of what I usually attempt to try and do 🤣 Thanks!
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@candle 7 weeks
Congrats on the win, BTW 😁
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@candle 7 weeks
No, never heard of them, but I do like what I'm hearing. Thanks for pointing me in their direction 😁
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@highmountain 7 weeks
Thanks a lot, Fuzzy! This one you must have started commenting before the posting! Really enjoyed the flattery and your admiration of good old European techniques. It's not that remote from what Donovan had to go through before delivering the song. 😀
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@candle 7 weeks
Yeah, the psych scene was pretty active in the mid 90's to the early 2000's. A lot of those guys & girls are still around doing some great stuff. Some have moved across the country (there's a cartel of them in Montreal - in fact my buddy Jim is one of those in Montreal now) & they're mostly still making music. It was a cool scene that I was just starting to get involved in when I moved to Kenora in the fall of 2000. I was able to participate in one of the scene's infamous 20 Guitar Circular Walls Of Angelic Sounds (in Feb 2007, I remember because my wife was pregnant with my son & I had to keep driving into Winnipeg for rehearsals every week LOL - it was actually the only 20 Guitar Wall that had rehearsals & was probably a lot better performed then those previous & that came after). We did 2 nights in an art gallery. They were both recorded, but I never got a copy (I should probably bug Rob (the organizer) about that again LOL). Anyway, now I'm ranting. But yeah, you'd probably enjoy most of the music on the 2Ply Collective page. For me, it brings back a ton of memories.
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@farmyardorchestra 8 weeks
Hello again, Fuzzy! Thanks for your last comments! Sorry for once again stirring up that dead hen trauma! Yes you've told me. Weasel(s)... Massacre... Let their little feathered souls rest in peace... I see you're swiftly approaching the finish line. One more to go! Already over it, I have mostly switched over to another alter ego. If you get some time over, go take a peep! As Pat Highmountain I leave the farm. Shooting, killing, hiding, fearing for my life. On horseback.
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@dzdandcunfsd 8 weeks
Thanks! that can't stop crack song had no right to turn out as well as it did as much of a tangled mess as I was in trying to record that. It grew on me as well once I listened back to it. I just NSFW anything I'm not sure of the lyrics of as I know how foul mouthed I am in conversation, but I like your reasoning better 🤣 My co-workers(when working) are all scruff and burly that mental image gave me a great laugh.
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@heuristicsinc 8 weeks
Wow, I love that picture. Thanks for the review!
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@headfirstonly 8 weeks
Not a problem at all - I trust your musical sensibilities implicitly. It sounds fantastic and not even remotely like me, which is amazing.
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@bradbrubaker 8 weeks
Haha, thanks, bud. I loved your contribution. My girlfriend and I were laughing at all the breakfast stuff.
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@candle 8 weeks
I did a song called Rectal Anarchy a couple of FAWM's ago (the first time I introduced that wonderful Buzz Machine to the FAWM community LOL), so the tittle was already taken 😉 Glad you enjoyed the track. It was lots of fun to put together.
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@klaus 8 weeks
Hi Fuzzy. Thanks for the comments. Finnish girls do look pale after long cold winter. This might be true in Canada too, I'm guessing. 😀
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@sph Feb 19
Hey there, the anything goes corpse round 2 is ready: https://fawm.org/songs/119844/
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@samwheatley Feb 19
Absolutely! It kind of freaks me out that you've made it so powerful and gripping. I couldn't have wished for better. Thank you.
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@samwheatley Feb 19
Hey @fuzzy if you have an idea go for it friend, I look forward to hearing it.
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@ttg105 Feb 18
Song is up! Can you add Mosley as a collaborator?
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@candle Feb 18
"Uh, CJ, is that a uke?" 😉
That's great stuff. Thank you for the comment!
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@vuduluv Feb 18
thx for the kindl introduction! happy to be here for my first FAWM!
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@oldlostjohn Feb 17
Nice to hear that my weasel song brought back some good old memories. I suspect that weasels sometimes practice torture and decapitation just for the fun of it, leaving their victims traumatized for life. In other words, they are a litlle bit like cats. Sweet animals.
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@opossum Feb 17
Dear Fuzzy,
Yes, I have heard about climate change but I don't really understand it. All I know is the weather is changing and I am looking forward to moving up to Southern Ontario very soon. I am already packed!
Your pal,
Opossum
P.S. Exterminators are really expensive and they can seriously mess up your house! When opossums move in it is best to just "pet them and laugh and ask them to play awesome Bluegrass tunes"!
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@kirjis Feb 16
Moo! I mean, thanks!
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@cts Feb 16
Dude - that thing had me in tears! You gotta let me get an MP3 of that.
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@sw1n3flu Feb 16
YAY
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@sw1n3flu Feb 16
wow you commented on x-ray ted fast! Thanks 😀
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@dzdandcunfsd Feb 15
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They are mean little things, and I did catch one creeping around so you might be right.
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@farmyardorchestra Feb 15
Thanks again, Fuzzy! I won't rule out other interpretations, but I warmly embrace your film scenario for my green beans. If nothing else, it would drastically reduce costs for the epic film industry if it started looking down in their own gardens, instead of handling continents, planet systems and enormous swaths of time.
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@candle Feb 15
LOL, yeah it would be. They make a great chorus for the song tho.
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@farmyardorchestra Feb 15
Hello, Fuzzy! Thank you for your comments! I can't swear to the strict scientific truth of the Offal. It's intermingled with a lots of grampa's ideas, and he still won't accept atoms, but UV is theoretically up-to-date.
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@dzdandcunfsd Feb 15
🤣🤣 I don't remember what day it was, but it was towards the end of December, if the moon wasn't full it was close.
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@ttg105 Feb 15
😀
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@candle Feb 14
Thank you (as always) for your insightful & thoughtful comments. I know my liner notes are often geeky-greek (or maybe Sumerian?), but I'm glad you look past my technobabble & enjoy the experiænce all the same.
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@adnama17 Feb 14
I haven't had a chance to listen to your latest 3 songs yet, but I love how you're now a tag. Fuzzy is a genre. 😀
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@candle Feb 12
That seems to be par for the course with that song idea. You sorta did the same thing to me (not that I mind, of course 😉 )
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@candle Feb 12
That Eno track is awesome!
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@ttg105 Feb 12
Hope ya don't mind, but I took your Eno song words and made a new one out of 'em. Will post today ...
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@jessespillane Feb 12
Thanks for the kind words on my track. I liked the Brian Eno comparison. I only have one album of his, "Small Craft On A Milk Sea", but I enjoy it a lot. He is very creative.
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@brauer Feb 11
Appreciate the comments, one of the synth sounds was called Twin Peak 😀
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@headfirstonly Feb 11
Cool - I'll take it off Dropbox if you've got, as I only have the free version, lol
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@zecoop Feb 11
Yep, it was an absolute classic. Lots of talented people working on that show.
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@headfirstonly Feb 11
Of course, sir. Here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3aggynpkaosg74/So_Much_Winning.zip?dl=0
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@zecoop Feb 11
What is the number of times people ask about my music? It is zero. The number is zero, haha
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@farmyardorchestra Feb 11
So many British snobs visiting my farm, you would be surprised! One of them looked a lot like Brian Eno. The one saying: "Just jump her and kill her." There might be an opening for you!
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@persaab Feb 11
Thank you for your comment. This time tried to keep it in siple and not to mess with anything else. Hahaha. Thanks.
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@candle Feb 11
That was a very nice surprise after my first day back at work. Thank you!
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@safred Feb 10
Thanks so much for listening and commenting, much appreciated 😀
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@headfirstonly Feb 10
Good man. It really is a quite lovely book (although there are one or two typos, which had me tutting sternly.)
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@bradbrubaker Feb 10
What up, Fuzz? Here's the last 10 seconds of my Anything Goes Exquisite Corpse entry. (It says it's 22 seconds, but most of it is silence that wouldn't cut out for some reason.)
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@atam94 Feb 9
Thanks for the kinds words on "Through the Years"!! It's definitely a good tip to relax more while singing. Haha I tense up so easily when I sing, and for this sketch, I was just recording in my living room trying to record my parts when the dogs weren't moving around or scratching their ears. That being said, I'm glad you enjoyed listening and it's most definitely one that I already plan on revisiting by summer 😀
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@farmyardorchestra Feb 9
Thanks a lot, Fuzzy! I've gone looking all day for comments, and eventually you came along and saved me. I was afraid I was loosing my touch - such as it was! I would love to be able to reciprocate, but alas, I'm a poor simple farmyard orchestra... (And luckily I see lots of city folks are stepping in giving you feedback!) I will just go back to my musical endeavors, yoke my trusted oxes and at harvest time hope for your benevolent return.
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@farmyardorchestra Feb 9
Thank you for your generous comments! That drunken driving warning was well grounded, even though all recollection is lost. My condolences for your chickens!
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@persaab Feb 9
Im also big misunderstander. Thanks for correcting me.
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@persaab Feb 9
Thank you for your comment. Sorry if didnt fit in genre. Hopefully next song is closer to goal.
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@dzdandcunfsd Feb 7
Thanks! I did enjoy that. I listened to a couple, will go back for more later. I bet they're even better live.
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@mandolinda Feb 7
Hi Fuzzy. I deal with snow everyday, it is my out of house experience.
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@roysmith Feb 7
Nice one, thanks
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@candle Feb 7
As always, I can't wait to hear what you end up doing with all of that.
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@candle Feb 7
Sent you an email.
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@candle Feb 7
I just might have to write a song called "Artic Vortex".
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