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Website – Overhaul

Dan — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:33:34 +0000

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 years ago or more.

Recently I asked Rich Soto if he could make a new logo or graphic for my my blog a try,(Rich is the Web Services/Network Specialist for the Palo Verde College in Blythe California).

He said sure, and I thought.. Well ok a lot of people say they will do something, but they don’t do it.

Next day Rich sent me the logo, and sunna beech I was blown away. He is a guy who when he says he will do something.. it gets done..

New Album Dropped! – Remnants of a well spent youth

Dan — Fri, 14 May 2010 01:45:14 +0000

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 during my youth in the Santa Susana Knolls.

It was quite a learning experience figuring out what equipment to use to record these songs. And I stumbled across some great online communities – filled with talented, yet very helpful musicians. This blog contains links and info about these sites and the friends I met there.I will be posting more content on being a non – signed, self publishing, self publicizing internet musician.

New song published on Riffworld

Dan — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:18:29 +0000

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 version of The Little Green Alien with no lyrics let me know and I can send it to you for a small fee. But all the derivatives you create will be yours – no further marketing fees will be due.

I have a couple more tunes in the works. Will post them when they are done. Oh, and check out my Youtube page, I have posted a few new videos there. Nothing to informative but cool if you know me or are related.

Rock on!

Download the Little Green Alien and the Telco Box here:

The Little Green Alien and the Telco Box..

Long time no pOSt

Dan — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:23:34 +0000

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 some of his tips are really quite insightful. Now Graham is out to make a buck so there are ebooks and programs for sell on his site, but there’s also a lot of really great freebies to be found on his site.. and I personally cant blame the guy for trying to make a buck.. Sheesh.. I need to find some way to make a buck on net! Ya, i did try to make money with ebay for awhile, but that turned into a lot of work for not so much money.. anyways I better get back to this post..

I found a few good podcast here:
Links to podcast you should be listening too

And, last but not least check out this site and their podcast:
http://www.artofthesong.org/

Been goofing around with Twitter lately, more on that in my next post…

New song release! Mustangs wild and free…

Dan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:09:25 +0000

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.. Take a listen.. It turned out quite well if I do say so myself.

“Mustangs are wild and free” Comment & more at RiffWorld.com

Hal, Josh, Jim and Ron helped make this song what it is, and are all excellent musicians.. Below are links to their Riffworld pages and a description of the work they did on this song.

http://www.riffworld.com/Members/Rotund
The excellent main vocals, lyric help where needed, backing guitars and some lead guitar(Co-Writer).

http://www.riffworld.com/Members/Joshua001
Bass, One of the best bass players I have ever heard..

http://www.riffworld.com/Members/pooterpatty
Intro lead guitar, and all the really hot solos, and some of the cool backing guitar fills

http://www.riffworld.com/Members/Stymie
Drummer extrodinaire.. yes those are real live drums on this song, not the electronic never ending drumloops most of my songs have. Ron has a really good ear and helped with the mixing too..

Rotund Mixes Tiresmoke and Gasoline…

Dan — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:14:24 +0000

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/

New song Released.. Thou Shall Not Kill

Dan — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:55:39 +0000

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 to kill each other, and hate and it pisses me off. Wake up and read your Torah, Koran or Bible.. God said “Thou Shall Not Kill!”

This current release is a work in progress, so please do feel free to leave comments using the comment feature below to let me know what you think is good or bad about it.

Click here to listen to the song and for all info regarding Thou Shall Not Kill click here.

Santa song is Ranked #52 on the Soundclick charts… W00t!

Dan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:27:12 +0000

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 from any unique internet address. So, if you play it 20 times, and someone else in your house plays it 10 times.. Only the first play counts.

You can see the current ratings here.

Published new song on soundclick… (TireSmoke and Gasoline)

Dan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:30:30 +0000

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.. Dang I loved that car…

Keep checking back. I started working on another song this afternoon and hope to have it posted sometime tomorrow.

You can hear my new song by clicking play on the song player to the left, or goto my soundclick profile and play it there. Heck, if you love me mucho you can even buy it there…

RiffRumble 14 – Holiday Themed Song Contest

Dan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:08:12 +0000

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 Diaz beat my entry with about 20 votes.

2nd place was decided by whoever received the most votes from users of the site, and 1st was picked from one the top 6 site user picks by a band named Rooney. More information on who won what can be found here.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to leave a shout for my song. I didnt win, but I did come in 15th out of 66 entries.