Hi, AC Watchers,
Mr. Sean Schemmel
http://www.myspace.com/seanschemmel has produced one of my skits. It's a parody of a voice-over rehearsal. Please give a shout out to the kind and deeply talented Mr. S for bringing this skit to life.
To hear the short (and deeply amusing) skit, go to
www.adamcole.net/music.html and look for Bully's Burger Barn.
Leave a comment for myself or Sean and let us know what you thought of this insanity.
Love,
Adam
This is one of about nine songs that I wrote for my wife in the course of our marriage (so far). In this particular song I was lamenting the distance that sometimes separates people who get married or remain in long relationships. After an initial "honeymoon," we begin to realize we're living with a real person and not an idealized lover. That can be scary, and we may retreat to protect ourselves. This was a plea against that kind of thing.
www.adamcole.net/music.html
NOTE: This song contains adult themes.
I was in a Prince phase when I wrote this. I've always admired a song like "Darling Nikki" for being both arousing and well-written at the same time. I tried to write a song about one of my turn-ons, but I'm not particularly comfortable expressing myself in this way in songs. A little embarrassing, maybe interesting, but not a keeper.
Click the music tab and find "Cruel Mouth" under Lost Songs.
This is a hard song to share for several reasons. It's about as unprotected and raw as I could make myself in a song. It's also so vulnerable that it verges on the silly. It walks the line between "truly sad" and "pitiful." It's the balancing act that I find interesting. In my mind it teeters again and again, but there's something true in the song that keeps it from toppling.
The title is a case in point. Most people don't associate Bruce Springsteen with tears. The association is extremely personal and might not even translate out. What I meant to indicate was that there was something vulnerable in the way he presented himself that was okay somehow, powerful and yet safe and acceptable. It was superior to the way I had been presenting myself as vulnerable, which left me very exposed and was unattractive. I was saying that I learned "how" to cry by watching and listening to him, that I found a safe way to cry by emulating him, but that it didn't answer the deeper question of [...]
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Hi, AC Watchers, One of the great privileges remaining to us in this modern world is to watch unrepeatable events as they are happening. You can watch replays of amazing events all day long on YouTube, but to say you were there...
Last night I attended a unique event: A live CD recording by Joe Gransden's Big Band, a 16-piece jazz orchestra. It'll be called "It's a Beautiful Thing at Cafe 290." It'll be available at
www.joegransden.com. You're going to want to buy this one.
For the last year Joe's been holding sway at Cafe 290 on the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month. He's been getting his group tight enough to pull this stunt off. Hard, you say? To record an album in a month is hard. To record an album in a night is suicide! You'd need the best recording engineer, the best sound guy, the best audience...oh, and you might need the best musicians in town. Well, let's see:
Among the saxophone players was Grammy Award Winning Mace Hibbard and Atlanta Legend Sam Skelton. Trombonists [...]