Lonesome Jake
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago by Graffi | | 157 views | Technorati
Wayback in the day, I was a musician. I played guitar & keyboards, bass when I had to, and was the singer for most bands I was in. I played with several different bands, both cover tunes and original music. It was a blast - !
I was also a recording engineer, and had the obligatory home studio where I wasted many an hour. I generally recorded all my demos first, then presented them to the rest of the guys. I liked to fully flesh out the tunes, most of the time, but sometimes I kept them pretty raw.
I found a bunch of old demos and test recordings the other week, and I’ve been having a great trip down memory lane listening to them again, so I figured some of them were OK enough to post - so here’s the first; just click the Play arrow:
This one is called Lonesome Jake, and was written by a friend of mine (we were in a high school band together, and had fallen out of touch for several years before I caught up with him one day years later.) Turns out we both had kept up with the music thing, and he invited me to play the organ parts for a gig his band had upcoming in Chapel Hill. I liked the song so much, I made my own version of it (believe me, his band’s version rocked a whole lot more than this, and it’s much easier to keep the excitement level high when you’re playing live than it is in the studio, doing take after take after overdub after overdub…).
So this was recorded circa 1990 in my little home demo studio. That’s me on guitars, bass & keyboards. I’m also doing all the vocal parts, and programmed the drums. I like it because it really has a scalding guitar solo towards the end, starting around the 2:10 mark….
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Graffi,
A new chapter of the Graffi’s life put out to the readers today. Lonesome Jake is really a very cool tune.
I hope you will put more on your site for to hear. Thanks for sharing.
John