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2 Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars (a cover)

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I’m sure at least some of you are wondering what I’ve been doing to keep myself busy since I stopped blogging. A lot of that time has being re-invested into becoming better at my job, but what about after hours? Well, as I said in my perhaps-too-brief post when I left FTB, I’m focusing my efforts on my music career now. With that in mind, here’s an early version of a cover of a Snow Patrol song that sort of showcases the project I’ve been working on.

The trick is, of course, reproducing that sound live, which I am able to do thanks to some very fancy new hardware I’ve been playing with for the past few months. I just recently picked up something that allows me to record it to my computer, so hopefully there will be some more similar stuff coming your way soon.

If you like it, please check out my Facebook page, or my ReverbNation page if you’re not a Facebook person, and let me know what you think. There’s photos, links to YouTube videos, and a downloadable version of this song. If you subscribe, you’ll get notifications when I put new stuff up, or you can just periodically check back in here.

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2 Movie Friday: Don’t Dream It’s Over

May 31, 2013
by Crommunist
· Covers · Media · Music · music videos · Vanity

Part of the reason I haven’t been writing as much is because I have been playing more guitar. I recently bought a fancy new effects pedal from Line 6, and I have been learning to master it and incorporate it into my live performances. The options are virtually endless, and the going is slow. Here’s one of my favourite new things to do with it:

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5 Vanity Friday – This Love

April 12, 2013
by Crommunist
· Covers · Media · Music · music videos · Vanity

Haven’t done one of these in a while. I have a gig with the band tonight and a solo gig tomorrow at the King’s Head Pub, the place where I got my start in Vancouver. Should be interesting. I also bought a new effects pedal that I am slowly learning to use (so many options, so little knowledge).

I will try to get some electric stuff recorded soon, but until then, here’s a new acoustic cover I’ve been working on:

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10 Vanity post: Even Handed Odds

November 16, 2012
by Crommunist
· Covers · Media · movie · Music · Vanity

Some of you may know that I played in a band called Even Handed Odds for a while. The band has since broken up (meaning that we no longer play our own music), but we still play covers on occasion down at the Copper Tank, a bar in Kitsilano, on Friday nights.

Here’s a video of us doing a cover of “Home For a Rest” by Spirit of the West:

Right before we broke up, we recorded two songs at a local studio. I finally got around to uploading the audio of the finished product to Soundcloud, in case people were interested.

My personal favourite is this one, simply called “Space”:

There’s also the one that would have likely been our radio single, called “Gravity”:

If you’re in the city of Vancouver on a Friday night, you should come check us out!

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3 Movie Friday: Back for Good

November 2, 2012
by Crommunist
· blog · Covers · Media · movie · Music · Vanity

As part apology, part self-aggrandizing vanity, here is a bonus movie on this Friday, to reassure you that my Friday movie posts are back for good.

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7 Naked vanity Saturday: No One’s Gonna Love You

July 21, 2012
by Crommunist
· Covers · Media · Music · music videos · Vanity

We are playing two shows this weekend, so I’m going to be all messed up by Monday. If it shows in the writing then I do apologize.

Until then, here’s a video of me singing one of my favourite cover tunes:

Enjoy! Or don’t. Or… I dunno, something else.

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5 Movie Friday: Bonus self-promotion

So this week I “rediscovered” the joys of performing at open mic nights. Back in my grad school days, solo open mic performance was one of my favourite leisure activities. Since moving to Vancouver, it has been a much more rare occasion to see me perform without the aid of my band-mates (even before Even Handed Odds formed, Stu and I used to hold down open mics as a duo). In an effort to boost the band, however, I went to a open mic this past Monday and was once again bitten by the bug. While I definitely prefer to play music with other people, there really is something about being up on that stage by yourself.

Anyway, this Wednesday I picked up my guitar and tromped to a local spot that does open mic. I had a buddy there, who filmed this song for me:

I was a little rusty – I’ll probably take a run at this again sometime. Once again, apologies for the sound quality. Here’s the original if you’ve been trapped under a rock for the past 15 or so years and haven’t heard it. Also, one of the greatest music videos of all time:

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