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08/23/2025

I realized I've got a lot of clutter on my hard drive taking up space that consists of song ideas that I'll never finish for one reason or another. Maybe I didn't like the direction things were heading in, or maybe I just got bored. Either way, I'll probably never pick up these ideas again - and if I do, I'll start over. So I figured, what the hell. Let me throw them up for a laugh. So here's "Table Scrap" number one - Braindead and the Angry Inch...

I had forgotten about this one.

Imagine me, an overweight man in his late fifties, as a trans female leading a punk rock band. The idea is hilarious, but I know I'll probably never do anything with it. The original song "Angry Inch" from the Broadway show Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a total jam. It's a great song and I'd really love to do a full blown Braindead cover of it one day, but it's unlikely that I ever will.

These were just some very very preliminary things I threw together. I had envisioned the heavy-handed Braindead synth bass layers bouncing around, but it didn't turn out that way. The bass sounded more like a focal point than a driving force. That, in combination with a ridiculously busy drum track - a pitched-up loop from Devo's "Disco Dancer" - started moving the song away from what I hoped it would evolve to. I wanted punk guitars with heavy techno synth bass, almost industrial. But what came out that day was an eighties gay-clubbing disco-dancefloor drag show. The song deserved better, so I put this one out of its misery.

08/21/2025

Yes, the music is AI generated. But damn, it's so good. Yeah, I wrote the lyrics and told the software how to sing it, but the rest is all ones and zeroes. Once I got parts I liked and arranged how I wanted it, I pulled the stems from the AI, manually comped the vocals, Melodyned them to hell and back (yes, the AI was so authentic, it had pitch problems), mixed, and mastered it.

I can't wait to begin working on the conclusion to the saga. It still blows me away that no musicians (except me, which is a reach) were involved with this song. The vocals, guitars, drums, bass, everything - are completely AI. They don't exist. And with the way AI works, I'll never be able to re-create it exactly the same way. The singer is truly a one-off, never heard before and never to be heard again. It's so cool. I took the music from multiple AI created versions and hand-picked instrument tracks from the various choices it generated. In the end, I had it generate about 60 variations of the song and I picked the pieces I wanted to use. God this was so much fun.

08/04/2025

It has finally happened. I didn't think it ever would. A new Braindead track debuts today. Words and Music by "the greatest band no one knows", The Giraffes.

This is my love letter to the greatest band no one knows, https://www.youtube.com/, Damien, Aaron and Hannah are four of the hardest rocking ...

12/21/2024

It has been forever since I entered the studio, but this morning, I'm rekindling some inspiration thanks to the just released Best of 2024 Monstercat compilation that dropped yesterday. This one is blowing my mind this morning. New Braindead will release before year's end, I promise.

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10/19/2024

Hey, Braindead, where you been?

09/06/2024

The first save of Braindead's most recent song - which still isn't finished - occurred on April 18, 2022. Two and a half years is too damned long. The fact is, the music was finished this summer in June but I haven't been able to bring myself to stand in front of the microphone, because I know - I just know - doing so is going to ruin what I consider to be the best track Braindead has ever recorded. Plus, since I quit drinking, I'm not nearly as uninhibited as I once was. 🙄 Hopefully I'll have the courage to finish it off soon.

04/06/2024

"So, Braindead... How's that music thing going for you?"

12/24/2023

Thanks to the fine work of John at Nashville Tape Transfer Service who baked and brought life back to the the 1/4" 8-track tapes that my band recorded in 1987, original masters of The Meese Commission's songs "Occupy" and "Enough is Enough" are now in the digital realm. We're having an insane amount of fun going back to those ancient, raw masters and remixing them 2023 style. The world may never hear them. Then again, who knows? 🤔

12/22/2023

Merry effin’ Christmas! May your snare drums sound excellent in 2024.

12/16/2023

When I record solo material, I call myself "Braindead". When I record with my band, my sole bandmate used to call himself "Dave Cee", and I used to call myself "Cleotis".

12/15/2023

Braindead wants to cover this, one of his all time favorite songs. But after hearing these solos, he thinks twice realizing he can't top these licks.

12/08/2023

This was a fun exercise. I only wish I had more free time to devote to wasting time on s**t like this. There are SO many songs that need to be bastardized by my rudimentary skills!

I've only begun to scratch the surface of what Izotope's Ozone can do, but so far I'm really enjoying learning how the different tools interact with one anot...