Posts Tagged ‘this is awesome’
Lead Sheet – Giant things by the side of the highway
Sunday, May 30th, 2010
I’ve (finally) started putting lead sheets for all my tunes into the same electronic place (I’ve got photocopies and handwritten charts everywhere) and I figure I’ll put them here as I progress.
Tim Shia calls Giant things by the side of the highway my indie jazz mega-hit.
Here’s a recording of Christine and I playing it at the Tranzac. We’ve been playing it slower and slower, to the point that now we just play it once through, no solos, otherwise it’s unbearably long. Here we play it twice:
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Giant things by the side of the highway (pdf)
Fine print, in which I presume somebody likes this: Feel free to use as you like, as long as you don’t run afoul of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License I’m using. Also, it’s okay to play this stuff on a gig, which is sort of commercial but understood to be cool. Otherwise, get in touch and we can work something out. If you want to use it on a record, please let me know. If you play it at a show and record it, I’d love to hear what you do with it.
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Hall & Oates are awesome
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Next week, Christine and I are augmenting our weekly “This is Awesome” residency at the Tranzac by having Bryden Baird, Chris Banks and Roger Travassos join us for a night of Hall & Oates tunes.
Normally we sound like this. Next week it’ll be like that, but a bit more Hall & Oatesy.
Our website is here. You can get our record from one of us, at a few record stores around Toronto like Soundscapes and Paradise Bound, or online at Zunior, Bandcamp and CDBaby.
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