Drugs & Gum » News http://drugsandgum.com Acoustic Sarcastic Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:34:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Free Demo No Pajamas At BandCamp http://drugsandgum.com/2011/03/05/free-demo-no-pajamas-at-bandcamp/ http://drugsandgum.com/2011/03/05/free-demo-no-pajamas-at-bandcamp/#comments Sat, 05 Mar 2011 07:12:48 +0000 Stetson http://drugsandgum.com/?p=493 I posted a free demo (while supplies last) at BandCamp. This was released tonight at a show I did at Blue State Coffee in Boston.

The tracklist:

  1. Mangosteen 4
  2. Last Man In Vegas
  3. The Hipster Serengeti
  4. Hook And Line
  5. Eyes And Hands (Orphaned Original)
  6. Hey Vibration!
  7. The Salmon
  8. Tight (Dangerously Demo)

Download Demo No Pajamas

]]> http://drugsandgum.com/2011/03/05/free-demo-no-pajamas-at-bandcamp/feed/ 0 New Song Available for Free Download: Hook and Line http://drugsandgum.com/2010/07/05/new-song-available-for-free-download-hook-and-line/ http://drugsandgum.com/2010/07/05/new-song-available-for-free-download-hook-and-line/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:41:36 +0000 Stetson http://drugsandgum.com/?p=490 Hook and Line, free at ReverbNation.com.

This may be the last solo song for a while as my drummer and I have started working on a full-length Drugs & Gum collection, hopefully available in the fall.

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]]> http://drugsandgum.com/2010/04/08/rejected-from-the-block-island-music-festival/feed/ 1 Abbie Barrett Joins in January 13th http://drugsandgum.com/2009/12/30/abbie-barrett-joins-in-january-13th/ http://drugsandgum.com/2009/12/30/abbie-barrett-joins-in-january-13th/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:20:45 +0000 Stetson http://stetson.outsideoutside.com/?p=120 abbie_barrettA note to those of you thinking of coming to my show at Bloc 11 on January 13: Abbie Barrett will be going on after me, and has enthusiastically agreed to sing harmony on a couple of my songs. It should make for a pretty solid performance, assuming I don’t screw up, which I totally will.

Do check her out. She’s written some excellent stuff.

Website
Samples on ReverbNation

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It is remarkable that I produced this entire album for almost nothing. The whole thing was recorded in my apartment on a BOSS digital 4-track recorder which I got off eBay for $90 two years ago. boss_BR-532_mainEvery track was mixed down and mastered (I’m being generous with that word here) into Audacity, a free sound editing package. Every sound you hear ran through cables my cat chewed on.

No wonder so few people can make money in the music business anymore. The same advance in technology that allows us to make quality recordings on the cheap allows people to gain access to recordings on the cheap, or even for free. As long as there are thousands and thousands of people willing to use their evenings and weekends to make their music, the market will be awash in just enough quality material that our social bookmarks can sort through it all. We almost don’t need full-time musicians anymore. We just need a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters, and the technology to sort their output.

I suck as a producer, by the way, but I’m learning.

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