Spent the night recording a song

It's an "adaptation" of Israel, Israel, God Is Calling. It's one of my favorite hymns but when I was ready to record the vocals I couldn't remember all the words so I just made up some of my own. This hymn always makes me think of what it must have been like for Appleton when he was in England on his mission in the 1850s. It also makes me think of how much there is in my life I need to work on.

Anyway, to listen to it click here.

finally

This is the front



This is the back


and this is the garage.


Sorry it took so unbelievably long to get photos of the house up. The inside is all torn up right now because we are having the wiring redone. It will be finished tomorrow. So you'll have to wait until then. Or next month at the rate we've been going lately.

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Some new music

Between the recording session in Colorado, and some personal stuff on my own, I've been recording a lot lately. It's been fun.

Here are a couple for you to check out. Just click the song titles.

The Tall J Stomp

The first is from the session with The Willkills. It's an instrumental I wrote a few years ago that we played when I was in the band. It was really cool of them to let me record it with them.

Down The Mountain.

For this one I got the help of some friends from the website MacIdol.com. I play all the instruments except one of the synthesizers, which is played by Dave who lives in Liverpool. The singers are from all over the world, which is pretty cool. The guy who starts the song off is named Mark and he lives in Iceland. Then a guy named Stuart from Ireland comes in. All told, people from Iceland, Ireland, England, Italy, Australia and various places around the US helped in the song. I love how the internet makes things like this possible.

Hang the DJ

Today my music blog is featured on the super cool Planet Mondo blog!

You can see it here.

A while ago I was invited to put together a mix for this blog. They often have "guest bloggers" for the weekly Funky Friday posts, and today I get to be the guest.

Sunday School -take 1

So today Amanda and I are teaching our first Sunday School class. We have the 15-18 year olds and this year, if you don't know, all the lessons are on the Book of Mormon. It should be a lot of fun and I hope our class doesn't think we're just a couple of boring old dorks like the way I thought all my teachers were boring old dorks.

I'm posting a zip file with some of the hymns I've recorded in it and also one arranged by my friend Micah. If you're in our class, you should download it. I think you'll like it. Also, if you're not in the class download it anyway. I've been showing these to some of the Mormon folks at work and they all say they like them.

Click here for a folder of five hymns.