http://danspec.com Sat, 15 May 2010 01:33:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, its been a long time coming.. But! DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!! This old blog of mine got an overhaul as you may have noticed... When I first set up this blog. I never spent much time on the theme. The header page image was chopped out of a picture I took probably 5 ... http://danspec.com/?p=136 Remnants of a well spent youth is a collections of songs I have written over the last 30 years. They were recorded at home and over the internet with Riffworks, Audacity and Cubase - Songs tagged with collaboration were done with the help of friends I made on Riffworld.com and ... http://danspec.com/?p=126 Yes its been a hella long time since I posted. But... I have been busy. I just posted a new song to riffworld its a little rough around the edges but its done. The song and the story behind it can be found on my Riffworld Page And if you want a ... http://danspec.com/?p=98 Howdy all.. yeah its been a long time since I posted. Been busy with work and my kids. I have been listening to some really good podcast on songwriting and have been working on some new stuff tho... There's Hit Songwriting Tips by Graham English this guy has good stuff to say and ... http://danspec.com/?p=96 Yep, thats right.. I released yet another song. Mustang is a collaboration I did with a great bunch of great guys at Riffworld, using Riffworks. I started this song over 20 years ago, riffcasted what I had to riffworld and invited the four musicians listed below to see what would happen.. ... http://danspec.com/?p=85 Yep, Rotund - One of the official Rifflink Junkies remixed my song Tiresmoke and Gasoline. The new version can be found on his profile here: http://www.riffworld.com/Members/Rotund/tiresmoke-gasoline/ and for comparison you can listen to the original here: http://www.riffworld.com/Members/DanSpec/tiresmoke-and-gasoline/ http://danspec.com/?p=83 This is a song I wrote, because it really angers me how so many people who say they believe in god, can kill each other, and think they are doing the right thing... The three faiths that believe god spoke to Moses when he was given the 10 commandments - continue ... http://danspec.com/?p=81 I stopped by SoundClick today and after noodling around a bit I found that SoundClick has charts where the list the top played songs. My song was #52 out of 9,162 in the Classic Rock genre and #551 out of 163,605 in Rock.. Songs are rated by the first play ... http://danspec.com/?p=76 Yep, I have a couple weeks off so I am going to spend a good chunk of this time recording some of my songs. This morning I finished up Tiresmoke and Gasoling, which is a song I wrote in remembrance of a GTO I had back when I was 17.. ... http://danspec.com/?p=61 There were First, Second and Third place prizes offered. Third place was what they called a popularity contest, which was decided by whoever could get the most shouts from users of the site, or anyone in the world who stopped by and left a shout. I came in second, Daniel ... http://danspec.com/?p=55