hello foget friends, it is I moriason. i've been making music for many years now but was always too poor to afford to record any of it, but alas here is my first demo under my band name doctor hippopotamus:
 
The EP is called Work in Progress, these are the tracks:
 
My Number is Three:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpFIJy5BAkk
 
For Free:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK0hU5DafBs
 
Work in Progress:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dc4IGQynQI

let me know what you think old chaps and remember if you believe it you can achieve it - bart told me that when he opened sw in 2007 to help people affected by hurricane katrina to forget about their troubles with a website about saltines

Hello saltines and GWers past, after 4 years of working on this album I finally did a preliminary demo on it last week. The quality is pretty weak, so I'm not going to post the whole thing, but I figured I'd share a song off of it to show you guys what's comin':

http://avalanchehosting.com/moriason/02%20Sittin'%20Pretty.mp3

My band is called Doctor Hippopotamus, and the album is called Bitter River. The song is called Sittin' Pretty, and is the first real song on the album (after a 30-second intro acoustic piece). Here's the album tracklist:


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+ Doctor Hippopotamus - Bitter River +
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All music and lyrics by Chris Power (Me) & Caleb Burns (Friend of mine - Also co-wrote The Simians with DrunkenZombie and me).


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+ Tracklist: +
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01. I Forgot
02. Sittin' Pretty
03. My Number is Three
04. The Heresy!
   - Pt. I. Evening
   - Pt. II. The Destroyer
   - Pt. III. Twilight
   - Pt. IV. Who Bleeds
   - Pt. V. The Bitter River
   - Pt. VI. Midnight
05. The Happy Song
06. Herkimer
07. For Free
08. Stark & Raving
09. And I Know
10. Kingmaker
11. I Won't Forget


Here's the lyrics to the song itself:


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+ 02. Sittin' Pretty +
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Prey to misfortune,
Shit outta luuuck!
Why ya tryin' to go and take the blame now honey?
Nobody told you to stop the buck (was it the),
Dreadlock jockeys always comin' through your station,
Just like prehistoric postmen with aggressive information?

Now I don't mean to bitch about my slice of bread,
But I be feelin' just a bit deceived!
Tried to make a livin' livin',
But it wasn't such a given,
As the artists done had me believe.
Those metallic presbytarians,
Who wish someone was listenin' in,
Calypso and the Mexican!


Sailin' on the cosmic breeze,
Swimmin' through them solar seas,
The universe aint never ever gonna ask for please,
So come and catch a little taste of your reality!
When your walls a'start'a meltin' and your stars go blind,
Make peace with the impermanence and you might find,
If it's the end of our kind,
Well trust me we all don't mind,
To us it's just a million year vacation!

A billion year vacation friend,
'Til my space-flyin', dust-ridin' dust rides again!


Kickin' and a'fightin' through the market square,
Without a single reason to be found!
Pushin' through the counters like there's no one there,
They hit the pavement with an awful sound.
Used to feel the minutes so god damn long,
But now I can't find the time to even finish this --




Some general notes:

 - These recordings were done over a period of 6 days. 16 songs in 6 days meant I had no time to re-record them or fix many of the errors, I had to keep moving
 - The whole thing was done on a $10 mic, so the quality/mixing is pretty weak
 - I fucked up my laptop by accident at the end, so didn't have the original projects to re-mix to slightly better quality
 - I recorded this entirely myself, all instruments, all vocals - As a result of working alone, it wasn't you know, MASTERFULLY done
 - I've never done a recording or demo like this in my life, so I was no pro at it
 - I am very unlikely to be the actual vocalist - These are laid down to give a vocalist the idea of what I'm looking for. Bear that in mind whenever you're like 'Damn, this dude sucks!'


So yeah, due to the nature of the recordings I'm only going to post the first. But it'll give you an idea of what's to come anyways. I'll be doing a proper, real demo over the next 3-6 months. Hopefully even sooner. I just did these so I could hear the songs, more or less. But hey, why not get some thoughts?

So hit me with it GW, give me your thoughts! If you're looking to disparage, just read the notes first. I don't care about the quality/mixing/etc. because I can't do much to help them. More interested in thoughts on the material itself.

Thanks!

I was surprised to see there was no New Years celebration topic, unless they got locked or something, but if that didn't and this is the first then Happy new Years Saltines!

Any exciting plans for the year? Think this might be a formative year for you?

I personally am hoping on having a great year, so I hope you have the same, and before that have a fantastic New Years Eve!

Them Crooked Vultures, I don't know if any of you've really been following this amazing band but if not you should check it out.

A supergroup consisting of Josh Homme (QOTSA, Kyuss, Desert Sessions) doing vocals/guitar, Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) on drums, and John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), they've been touring to support an album that until today wasn't even released.

Since they're all rich I guess and just doing it 'cuz they love it now, they released the album for free on Youtube for the HELL of it I guess. Let me tell you it's fucking amazing, you need to check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/user/themcrookedvultures

As somebody who also saw them live (Sound Academy in Toronto) I can say most of these songs sound even better on the recording (Some a bit, not worse I'd say, just different). My personal favourite is Elephants.

So let's backtrack about a month, November 3rd.

I've moved into my new place, and it's the day the cable/internet/phone are getting hooked up. They say they'll be there 8-4. We've all heard that song and dance of course however, and without much surprise they show up at 5.

Fine, it happens.

Fast-forward 3 weeks or so to last Thursday. I come home to find all my services disconnected. According to Cogeco (My cable company), they had come that day to install my neighbour's cable, and while there accidently completely cut mine. They say they'll be there Tuesday to fix it.

Fine, that happens too. I wasn't crazy about it, but what can you do?

Fast-forward to Tuesday. They say they'll be here between 8-12, and that they will aim for 8-9 out of courtesy for cutting my service. You know where this story goes, 2pm rolls around so I call them up. They tell me they re-scheduled it to Thursday, 3-5.

How did they try to tell me this? You know it. They called my disconnected telephone.

Finally today it's all hooked up, but Cogeco isn't done laughing yet. I also got my bill today for my last month at my old place, and there's a $200 charge on it for unreturned equipment which I gave back to the guy who installed my cable the first fucking time.

A lot of angry phone calls and headaches later, I'm getting $20 off my bill for a year.


So I'm sure we've all got a horror story or two related to the phone companies. Discuss how much you hate cable companies.

psyche it isnt


This is more for IRC, because I haven't been on in forever and I just wanted to let you all know that I will be back breaking necks and cashing cheques in early November. My internet's been screwy for some time now and has kept me off IRC (At the behest of..well, everybody), but I'm moving soon and getting a new provider meaning new internet!!!!!

So yeah expect reefermoriason madness in november!

Well, I personally and I am sure many others will not be able to get to GW tomorrow, so while it's still a day early, I want to just say...

Merry Christmas GW!


Hope you all have a good one!

After the recent video escapades of our British cohorts, I got the feeling that a meet is going to be needed this fall.

I'm recommending a late September or mid October showing, what do you guys think?????