2010 December 28 :
Since Wedding Bell Blues (2:08) has been in the Top 10 the past three months for some odd reason and am/ have been re-doing the whole album lately anyway, went ahead and re-edited the 5-part harmonies, made the piano stereo, used the alternate bass track, more tweaking an EQ etc... Also got another one added to Slidin' And Garfunkin' decided on the vocals clean-not-buried-in-reverb version of For Emily Wherever I May Find Her (1:50) a personal favorite (except the vocals are what the vocals are and not Art Ganfunkle's) sped-up and twanged-out instead of the sweet, slow ballad it used to be... Going to go ahead and just post both fast and slow versions of "Bleeker Street" for December get them outta the dang way...
2010 December 10 :
Interesting lyrics readings stats for November (had stopped coding this page because never really changed much and only averaged about 3,000 readings per month) but was 6,455 readings last month mostly due to all the Christmas... Same thing happens around the holidays with extra Christmas tunes being downloaded... Managed to set aside both the "Bleeker Streets" mash-ups and work up a version of (The) Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine (2:41) another obscure and silly one haha... (/have a good idea what a big bright green pleasure machine is whaddaya think?!?!?) Oh and updated the Top25Tunes page but is mostly xmas except for the same top 5 that people click over and over just because they are at the top of the list...
2010 December 05 :
Got two different versions of "Bleeker Street", one jangly fast and one slow rock, don't know which one to finish, might just do both. Did finish Sparrow (2:41) for November and since there was no drums on the original tried to do Paul's famous "I will alter the meter here and there for fun" business... (in addition to his often interesting adding measures of 2/4 quites a bit...) The Top25Tunes page is not updated yet because am trying to update some of the Artwork pages too. Put the little social site links up even though not updated very often, something should and will be trying to do more often.
2010 November 28 :
Painted a little bit... didn't like what was happening... stopped. Silly horoscope reads to keep doing these corny covers so took a break from frustration of "The Sound Of Silence" and "A Most Peculiar Man" and "Bleeker Street" and finished Blessed (2:37) anyway just to start getting them out of the way. Silly horoscope am interpreting to impel to keep working on inflammatory protest album too so next year hope there aren't any "Cease And Desist" letters from lawyer offices lol...
2010 October 15 :
Well dammit... ok had collected 2 new months worth of new quotes the same day had 4 different versions of roxio wideowave that had totally polluted the system and registry and so went to a complete backup (the day before the quotes collecting forgot about and could not do simple system restore because 2 videowaves would have still been on there) so... had to do complete system restore from ntbackup which apparently wiped out the new quotes files and even the firefox history... Decided not to go back and spend all the time again scouring the internets collecting quotes and have decided to just quit for now... no time... sorry to those of you who actually read them...
2010 October 10 :
Went ahead an slopped together Somewhere They Can't Find Me (2:54) just for fun - get that outta the way and another 5D tune Stoned Soul Picnic (2:37) (with original ending forgot was even there... version that was up there forever just faded 4 bars at the end...) Collected about a couple dozen or so new quotes... Have been working on all this negative and offensive protest music but always thinking don't want to get in trouble or give people the wrong (or right) idea... But trying to do light and happy just ain't workin out... Going to try the BruTube (tests) that was started a couple years ago, shelved until new software and figured out how to get decent "non-youtube audio" now am going to revisit since got new software...
2010 September 19 :
Have not had much time to do much of anything. Trying to get "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" and "The Sounds Of Silence" finished... have most of the tracks done... But do often fuss about with old things found on archive track files in folders usually during disk maintenence such as was surprised even forgot there was an organ and intro acapella tracks to Black Pearl (2:43) so uploaded that for kicks. Spent way too much time with 6 different version/folders found for "Oh And Remember" that just scrapped trying to work on it and put in on back burner... version there is what's there then... Did a couple more "Best Of" quotes for July and August of 2005 since they have so many but did find some time to collect new ones for next month...
2010 August 11 :
Have done lots of them now but now going back to re-level a bunch arggg... is taking about a whole week to do just one tune... on "The BG8 Project" got Everyday (3:07) and Here To Stay (2:49) and
2010 July 20 :
Haven't updated the site because opened big can of worms deciding to re-work everything from 2006... what a friggin chore... but if were to leave the old mixes up there for a comparison you would know (but do not want to have the extra files and links...) there was only two or three out of the 20 recordings that did not get re-mixed.
2010 June 29 :
Redid California Soul (3:07) and started doing stuff from "The BG8 Project" also 2006 and uploaded new Moon Queen (2:55) version. What a difference (but also what an amount of time spent redoing these things...) Also just doing a "Best Of" for the -Quotations- from June 2005 (there were 38 collected that month sheesh...) then might collect new ones for next month. Got to finish theses other two S & G tunes right quick... People wanted to hear more/louder vocals so here yas go...
2010 June 10 :
More progress on making the titles link to the lyric files in the -Top20Lyrics- section. Collected new quotes and proverbs for April but since May 2005 has friggin 38 in it going to just do a dozen or so "Best Of" for May 2008. In fact, so many of those older ones have so many in them perhaps should do some more "Best Of" files sheesh... Also uploaded another modified S & G tune .Richard Cory. (3:00) repleat with folk-style closely sometimes dissonant harmonies, please be advised most of these selected way back when often have dark lyrics... Ooops horoscope read would have to make some kind of correction - didn't know what it was referring to until realize ad/blurbed "Puppetman" (new) link filename as "Puppetman-new" then renamed old "Puppetman" to "Puppetman-old" and new "Puppetman" to "Puppetman" rendering those links with a 404 error... so just uploaded a "Puppetman-new" so clicking those links in all those places the ad was blurbed will work... doh... Also rebombulated Loves, Lines, Angles And Rhymes) (3:56)
2010 June 07 :
Can not believe was too lazy to update site for month of May at all. Spent entirly too much time trying to use up all the paints on those 2 stupid old recycled canvases finally all that is left is black so am now putting black everywhere hahah... Doh... Couldn't really play due to that wrist injury anyway so messed around with remixing some stuff like from "My 5th Dementia" Puppetman (new) removed right channel synth altogether, edited 1st synth, re-EQ'd everything, raised nylon guitars and lowered electric guitars except made lead color guitar louder. Re-panned all the vocals and re-ran everything through filters and VSTs that was not on the system 4 years ago. Also started to re-visit stuff (on the very bottom of the) -Discography- from "Slidin And Garfunkin" like .I.Am.A.Rock. (2:10) and but of course; sped-up and rocked out per usual. 5-year-old cover projects started but never finished but still have a bunch of good bed tracks really don't want to waste so might do a few more, already started. Also started coding links in the Top20 Lyrics file, a chore that promise will finish soon. Still need to catch up on quotes or just do re-reruns again IDK.
2010 April 08 :
Been tyring to do a little painting while the weather is nice. Spending too much time on trying to fix these old tape tunes - most of 'em are just jamming instrumental over pre-programmed polysequencer arrangements. But did find and upload the original version of "Sha" vocal with Alberto Reyes on cocktail drum kit and .Automatically. (1:22) on "Amusement Park" (1985) and .Time Of Your Life. (1:00) on "Hotel Rooms" (1984) but putting this stuff on back burner. Funny how used to record 2 or 3 of these per day sometimes and now is taking 2 or 3 days (or more!) to try to re-master just one of em lol... Tired of this hard wrist-brace for the carpal-tunnel (neglected to mention recently...) but almost all better so can start playing a bit more soon. But am still able to fuss around in the garden.
2010 March 17 :
Here's 5 old tape tunes digitally remastered best as possible - maybe might learn new techniques sometime... .Slide Away. (1:26) on "Amusement Park" (1985) and .Rush It. (2:19) and .Waiting For Stars. (1:36) and .Bailys Bop. (2:28) on "Machines" (1985) and .Slow Swingin'. (1:46) on "Hotel Rooms" (1984) so far. Actually have worked on about a couple dozen already. Sure brings back memories. Damm /used to be a good guitar player... but those awful early synths and drum machines. Ack. Had totally stopped using that crap by 1990 and thought would become more of a purist - nothing artificial - for about 10 years until digital recording came into the picture (mixing/recording acoustic drums was a beyotch bizzle foshizzle...)
2010 March 07 :
No new recordings for 2 months sheesh... Finally finished getting all 19 reels done for a total of 449 recordings on disc. Done. Most of it is polysequencer drone jam crap with a lot of "experiments" and most are under 2 minutes (since they are just sequencer verse/bridge over and over...) so will just chop many of them up. Some very difficult to digitally re-master yipes... /what-did-get-self-into/ Trying to get about a half-dozen uploaded in the next few days then put the project away for a while... a few tapes unable to salvage... is only archival purposes anyway... Ready for some new recordings... Have some new ideas... Going to just wait to finish "Xmas Vol.2" until next season.
2010 March 04 :
6th Anniversary bgmatthews.com
2010 February 07 :
No new recordings in January... too burned-out from cramming stuff end of last year... downloaded a half-dozen more reels to disk so 11 -1/2 down, 5-1/2 to go (takes about 4-5 hours per side of one frigging reel... For kicks ran one old tune .Slide.Away. (1.24) through re-mixing / re-mastering. Actually collected a dozen new .Quotes. instead of picking those "Best Of Years Ago" cop-outs... Painted over some tagging in the alley and now have artwork for 2010 lol... Had to replace desk-reference-monitors (Numark 20watts ok) old ones' amp blew up pr something. Did normal-people stuff: trim bushes, tie up trees, take care of flowers through winter. No ad/blurbing... Staying offline more... Facebook once a month maybe, MySpace now and then, refuse to Twitter...
2010 January 06 :
Using a little math discovered that (think) during the server conversion/update accidentally somehow quadrupled the amount of (non-text/non-html) downloads (knew something was wacky...) and session time for September and October. Corrected and reflected in summary and top20tunes (which is now going to be the Top25Tunes...) Sorry only got half of the new xmas stuff done. Even webmaster needs holiday vacation... No time to collect new quotes again so another "Best Of" (and way back then was typically putting 20-30 items in monthly quotes file so might just be "Best Of mmm2005" for all this year, back burner, who knows...
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mp3/bg8p-ByeBye.mp3">Bye Bye (3:45) >no still working on it / yes but still have to tweak it one more time done and on "My 5th Dementia" Blowin' Away (2:36) oh and BTW am not doing any more Christmas music, sorry.
