FAWM.ORG | mikeb

Artist Bio

Influences: Neil Young, Todd Rundgren, Beatles, CS&N, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, Carbon Leaf, Great Big Sea, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Grateful Dead

Got my first guitar at age 15, never looked back (but may have left it in the closet for a few years along the way).
5 self-released CDs of various styles of music. Now I just call it 'electric-acoustic folk-rock' when people ask what genre.

Play guitar, uke, keyboards, bass, Merlin (ask!), and whatever instruments I can fake things on (mandolin, harmonica, new -used- violin). I use Reaper for recording (willing to do collaborations).

Friend me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mike.birch.965
And 'like' my artist page: https://www.facebook.com/mikebirchmusic/
And 'like/follow' me on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2335h...

Along with my collaborator and dear friend @tamsnumber4 I run a monthly songwriter meeting, Songwriters of New Hampshire Group (SONG) where we discuss songwriting and bring songs for suggestions and critiques in a casual songwriter circle format.

Songs (9)

#1	3000 Miles newpointofview piano ballad acoustic	16 1 week
#2	Old Green Shirt acoustic fuc	15 1 week
#3	24 Hours To Midnight sm57 acoustic guy_with_a_guitar	14 1 week
#4	Box of Rain lyric only notacover guitar humor	9 1 week
#5	So Long Until Next Time closer sm57 rock full-band harmonica	6 1 week
#6	Bridges 2-chords guy-with-guitars folk	12 6 days
#7	Indifferent Rose musetools pop-rock	6 4 days
#8	INSPIRE @s7even collaboration guy-with-guitar folk	6 2 days
#9	We Used To Sing @hanke7 collaboration guy-with-guitar folk	4 1 day

Soundboard

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@heidiserwer 9 hours

Thanks for stopping by and commenting on my song. I appreciate the listen and look forward to checking out some of your music too!
@natalieedelson 10 hours

Thanks for your kind words on my tune (Angeline) looking forward to hearing yours 🌟
@wistah 12 hours

Thanks for listening to Sarah's song Mike! It was a fun one for sure!
@momentegalerie 1 day

Thanks for listening to my music and your comment on 'Der perfekte Tag'. I appreciate it because it's not easy to listen to music with foreign lyrics.
@majordanby 1 day

Thanks for commenting and listening. I’m really struggling with chords, find cool stuff that does work as a whole.
@hanke7 1 day

Would love to hear music
@s7even 1 day

Awesome! Thank you for the compliment of wanting to collaborate. I’m excited to hear what you come up with. Also, I’m flexible for you to massage the lyrics to fit your style.
@ceilidh 1 day

New music is up for Tiny Homes 😀
@oaksnprairie 2 days

Thanks for listening to Easy Living!
@franniezest 3 days

thanks so much for the comments on Make Believe! i may end up changing the swear in it but for now it feels good to get it out! i added a soundcloud link to the song but i couldn't get it to work in the right place so i put the link in the liner notes.?!?! i'm very new to all this so it's much appreciated! (EDIT: I got the link working YAY!)
@pamgrisham 3 days

Thank you so much for your kind words on Sweet as Molasses!
@ohwell123 4 days

Hey! Thank you very much for your comment on my Waltz. Greatly appreciate it!
@mikegtz 4 days

Hi Mike, nice to meet you here. I've known Tammy for awhile and It's good to see you and hear mor about SONG.
@zecoop 4 days

Hehe, thanks for (easy) listening!! 😉
@jaegerin 4 days

Hey, thanks for your comment on my "Moving On"! Yes you're right!! It makes me happy that someone guessed what it was about 😀
@the3queens 4 days

yeah we keep hoping it's over but it's been a tough year health-wise. I only got one flu in November and this last one just in time for FAWM but have been called on as extra hands. My daughter's family has been hard hit and it's tough with 3 sick little ones and both parents sick, too. Makes me happy I'm so close to lend a hand.
@lanasolyluna 5 days

Thanks Mike!
@nikke88 5 days

Thank You for commenting on Princess and Star.

About Star: Guitar used was my old Walden D560CE. Microphone was Rode M3 and for trimming it I used couple of plug-ins from iZotope. Microphone was around 2 feet from the sound hole.

About Princess: You're right about that bass line. First I thought that I use cello for it and I wrote it as a cello line. I played the line on bass so I would know, what to play/program (timing, phrasing, ...) for vst-cello but I didn't remember that I have vst-cellos, so I left the bass line on it.

I felt like a bit of a fool a couple of minutes after I posted that song. Only then I remembered, that I could have used some string-plug-in for cello parts. Well, can't always remember everything. 😀
@mmmmarcus 5 days

Thank you so much for the comment on Carry Me Home!
@ceilidh 5 days

Thanks for your comment on "Tiny Home" - as a parody, I posted the link to John Denver's performance of the original song so folks could compare and contrast the two. Given the two comments so far, I'll have to consider giving it its own tune...a FAWMer's work is never done!
@lain 6 days

Thanks for your comment on "A story" - yeah, I will try to slow it down a bit, probably you are right, thanks! 😀
@jwhanberry 6 days
@gemhughs 1 week

Thanks for you comments on “Catch My Breath“.
@kadmad202 1 week

Thanks for listening to Remembering Rosalind! Glad you enjoyed it!
@tamsnumber4 1 week

Thanks for commenting and listening to "Nothin' To Lose", appreciate it!
@tamsnumber4 1 week

Thanks for listening and commenting on my songs "You Are Fragile", "Tempting Time" and "Vagrant Sea", I really appreciate it!!
@pbtaylorjr 1 week

Thanks for listening. The Harry Potter wasn’t a tease so much as I recently re-read Deathly Hallows and read the first act of Cursed Child before I started writing this song. Then initially the first section just made me think about an ode to Harry Potter dying and I just kept it around after it made sense. Sorry to mislead you.
@dragondreams 1 week

You're really kind, Mike, thank you. But I'm cringing at the fluffed notes and lack of "movement" in the piece. I wouldn't normally stick to such safe chords and voicings when noodling. 😉
@larryw 1 week

Thanks for the comment Dark Side of Love, yes for sure female vocalist, I've re-read and I'm thinking the Cher kind of vibe from her duet with Meatloaf (Rock and Roll and Brew)
@zecoop 1 week

Thanks for checking out the creepy subway song! I added some freaky guitar and remixed, so now it is about 1000 times more creepy, in case you wanted to check that out, lol. 😀
@headfirstonly 1 week

Hi Mike! Ta for the comment - The setup is a blend of the piezo and the bridge humbucker into a Blackstar ID:15, feeding the line out as a stereo signal into the DAW. And I was simultaneously driving the GR-55 Guitar Synth, taking the stereo out from the synth (held back in the mix apart from the Crims-O-Tron mellotron section) and the mono out from its COSM section, so that meant two stereo pairs and a mono signal for each of the seven guitar tracks. I do tend to overengineer things...
@dragondreams 1 week

My pleasure, Mike. I really enjoyed my listens!
@majordanby 1 week

Thank you for listening and commenting. My guitar style is a little rough, so pleased how this turned out.
@dragondreams 1 week

Thank you once again, Mike. 😊
Fortunately, "mousing" is allowed. The main "damage" is the lowest joint of my left thumb, where it joins my palm. I mouse right-handed. 😉😎
Love your 3000 Miles song! Will be listening to the others later, but right now I have to go and show my face at my day job. 😉
@cindyrella 1 week

Thanks and no never guitars!
@factorytale 1 week

Thanks for the comment, I'll do that, put a link
@haim 1 week

Hi mike. Appreciate your comment on my first song. Thanks for the encouragement. I'll check your songs soon. Have a great fawm! By the way I see Neil Young is one of your favorite artists, I didn't know him so much, but last year I read his autobiography, and he seems like a very cool guy, any songs of him you think i'd like? he has many songs I don't know where to start.
@terriellen 1 week

Thanks for your kind comments on my song the wind of my soul!
@joyfulbliss22 1 week

Thank you so much. Please feel free to use the lyrics. Let me know if i can help. Not sure if you plan on making the song but i could try singing if you dont already have someone in mind.
@goldelion 1 week

Thank you for your lovely comments! 😀
@beesmusic 1 week

Thanks for your nice comment @mikeb ! I am loving FAWM so far this year. 2019 has been great so far, hope yours has been too!
@ablaze 1 week

im a fan!
@vgenfan 1 week

Thanks for commenting on my first Fawm song!!
@ferry0123 2 weeks

Hey...thanks for your nice comment on my first!
@zecoop 2 weeks

Yeah, the amp itself is a YBA-1, but the cabinet I got with it in 1983 is long dead. I have Peavey 4x10 and 1x15 for the bass, but my brother helped me find that inexpensive Marshall cabinet when I want to use it for guitar. It does sound wonderful, and I bet your Tele sounded great!! I always wanted a tele but never have gotten one, Still time, lol
@dragondreams 2 weeks

Hi Mike. 😀
Many thanks for the listens and the kind words. I didn't know about the Todd Rungdren track, but I'm going to hit Google now and look for it!
@larryw 2 weeks

Thanks @mikeb manful strikes, so I'm struggling to talk! We will see though
@zecoop 2 weeks

Thanks a ton for listening! I really appreciate it. So, a Traynor bass amp of about the sample vintage, you say? Possibly like the first bass I bought for cheap in 1983 (it's a 1973 YBA-1)... I still have it and currently have it hooked up to a slant face Marshall cab. You'll be hearing that one for sure!
@khowie 2 weeks

Happy FAWMing! Thank you for your kind words and listening to my song Trouble Is. 😀
@onewholovesrock 2 weeks

Hey Mike. Good luck! Hope you enjoy FAWM. I will participate when I can but I’ll be on vacation from the 17th into March.
@jonmeta 2 weeks

Welcome to the FAWM party. It's great to have you here.
@donna 3 weeks

Hi, Mike. 😀 Welcome to your very first - and probably not your last - FAWM. Be prepared for the unexpected - even in what you write yourself. 😉
@nuj4x 3 weeks
@honeybadgerfolk 3 weeks

Welcome to FAWM! Hope you have a great month.
@dragondreams 3 weeks

Hi Mike. 😊
Welcome to the club! You do realise, of course, that you are now hooked for life? 😉
@andygetch 3 weeks

Hi Mike and welcome to FAWM!
@unpronounceable 3 weeks

In person workshops 😀
@metalfoot 4 weeks

Happy FAWMing!
@guatecoop 4 weeks

Welcome to you! We are glad that you have joined us.
@zecoop 4 weeks

FAWM really changed my life in 2011... I look forward to this every single year. I hope you have fun! 😀
@johnstaples 4 weeks

Hiya Mike! And welcome to FAWM! Hope you have a great time and write some sweet new songs!
@cindyrella 4 weeks

Welcome! We are glad you joined!
@tamsnumber4 4 weeks

WELCOME my friend and songwriting collaborator!! I am very, very happy to see you here!!!

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Artist Bio

Songs (9)

Soundboard

@heidiserwer 9 hours

@natalieedelson 10 hours

@wistah 12 hours

@momentegalerie 1 day

@majordanby 1 day

@hanke7 1 day

@s7even 1 day

@ceilidh 1 day

@oaksnprairie 2 days

@franniezest 3 days

@pamgrisham 3 days

@ohwell123 4 days

@mikegtz 4 days

@zecoop 4 days

@jaegerin 4 days

@the3queens 4 days

@lanasolyluna 5 days

@nikke88 5 days

@mmmmarcus 5 days

@ceilidh 5 days

@lain 6 days

@jwhanberry 6 days

@gemhughs 1 week

@kadmad202 1 week

@tamsnumber4 1 week

@tamsnumber4 1 week

@pbtaylorjr 1 week

@dragondreams 1 week

@larryw 1 week

@zecoop 1 week

@headfirstonly 1 week

@dragondreams 1 week

@majordanby 1 week

@dragondreams 1 week

@cindyrella 1 week

@factorytale 1 week

@haim 1 week

@terriellen 1 week

@joyfulbliss22 1 week

@goldelion 1 week

@beesmusic 1 week

@ablaze 1 week

@vgenfan 1 week

@ferry0123 2 weeks

@zecoop 2 weeks

@dragondreams 2 weeks

@larryw 2 weeks

@zecoop 2 weeks

@khowie 2 weeks

@onewholovesrock 2 weeks

@jonmeta 2 weeks

@donna 3 weeks

@nuj4x 3 weeks

@honeybadgerfolk 3 weeks

@dragondreams 3 weeks

@andygetch 3 weeks

@unpronounceable 3 weeks

@metalfoot 4 weeks

@guatecoop 4 weeks

@zecoop 4 weeks

@johnstaples 4 weeks

@cindyrella 4 weeks

@tamsnumber4 4 weeks