but you can also find this on itunes, amazon music, spotify, pandora, etc etc etc.
it was a wild ride doing most of this in the midst of a pandemic and showing up "to the studio" with mostly unfinished songs. this record was also the first time so much of the context was taken from what was happening around us in real time. so cathartic in so many ways, and at least i have something beautiful to show for this ugliest of years.
again, special thanks to plops and kingkiller -- everybody who hears SOS gets a special kick out of the gang vocals closing out.
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 4:53 pm
by BearBoy
Listening now. Good stuff Dots.
Nice it got released on your birthday too.
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 4:57 pm
by dots
cheers, brother! blowing out the candles now. =]
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:12 pm
by gusman2x
Nice.
I’m home office tomorrow, so will give it some listens between my 10am call, and my 11:15 wank.
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:28 pm
by dots
you can spin it 2.5 times during that window!
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:42 pm
by robroe
KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM AND KEEP YOUR THOUGHTS WHERE I CAN READ THEM
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:51 pm
by gusman2x
robroe wrote:KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM AND KEEP YOUR THOUGHTS WHERE I CAN READ THEM
That’s some intro!
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:55 pm
by dots
yeah, that tune was our obligatory Parental Advisory trigger.
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:56 am
by sunshiner
"Youtube music isn't available in your area". Youtube knows how to screw up a birthday. Do you have it uploaded anywhere else maybe, Dot?
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:58 am
by dots
ITunes, Spotify, pandora, amazon music, some shit called deezer...
If you can't get any of those to work, pm me. I got you.
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 7:29 am
by sunshiner
I don't know how to use any of that and half of the services don't work in our area which is known for pirating everything. We have our services for music which allow you to listen to almost everything for free as long as you're from our area
Is it youse? Some Hetfield vibes in the vocals, the intro is also sick
[youtube][/youtube]
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 3:27 pm
by dots
Thanks man, and yep, that's me.
Check you pm.
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 4:35 pm
by gusman2x
This was on my walk playlist today. Very much enjoyed it. In my mind it’s like Bon Jovi meets Jimmy Eat World.
It’s you and your brother yeah? Surely when you were playing Devastation, you looked at each other, and asked who was Michael Knight?
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 4:35 pm
by sunshiner
Love it! 3.33, Serve and Protest, SOS, My Life and Gone my favorites. SOS (love that boogey) and My Life are upbeat and match my mood this evening, and Gone is beautiful and gentle. Awesome job songwriting, playing and recording wise, Dot
I'm dumb enough only now to realize that the Okay gang is Plops and Kingkiller
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:38 pm
by dots
^very glad you liked it, and yeah, had to sprinkle in a little sunshine in what is otherwise a pretty dark set of themes. Darleen, a cosplay friend of hers, and some theater friends joined the Okay Gang, too. Was so fun orchestrating that.
gusman2x wrote:This was on my walk playlist today. Very much enjoyed it. In my mind it’s like Bon Jovi meets Jimmy Eat World.
It’s you and your brother yeah? Surely when you were playing Devastation, you looked at each other, and asked who was Michael Knight?
Haha! I didn't make the Knight Rider connection til James said something after I sent him the demo, but it totally fits! That was a just a riff I wrote in 2005 and became the last track to get started and completed for the project when James pulled back a tune (I was obsessed with the 9 song number for some rainman reason). Came together in like 2 weeks start to finish.
Thanks for the kind words, gus, it was wild ride getting this thing out the door!
