nick sharpe

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.. HEY! THE MUSIC PLAYER POPS OUT SO YOU CAN SURF, WORK OR WHATEVER AND STILL DIG THE TUNEAGE

NICK SHARPE

writes, plays, sings, produces, delivers and posts!

all songs words and music by Nick Sharpe ©2009 bop35 music/BMI
CLEARANCE INFO = CONTACT NICK SHARPE (writer/publisher)
nick@bop35.com 323-960-5655

just me and the music that flows out... stripped down, barebones, raw emotion tempered with metaphoric rationality, (y'know, a spoonful of sugar...). born and raised in miami back in the hippie daze, came out to hollywood to goof around for a few weeks... the rest is history- and your first lesson can be found at bop35.com if these tunes are cool for ya, let me know.

Liner Notes!

(just like old times) clik on "lyrics" button for a who's who, what's what and other trivia (when it works) or see below.
Otherwise Nick Sharpe - guitar, vocals, bass, drum thingys on all trax, and with Cynthia Caluya jammin a vocal track on "Doo Rag remix".

HYMN 215
For those who've under a rock for the past couple decades, California voters approved Prop 215, the Medicinal Marijuana Initiative, around the time Hymn 215 was written ('96).
"Call a truce Stop the war
Buy my weed at the corner store"
Prophetic. Now there's more than 500 "Dispenseries" and Co-ops in the city, most with store fronts (with neon signs and all!), full on lounges and more to come. The struggle aint over yet, but we are gaining ground! How do YOU spell Relief?


WHO LOVES YOU
from the archives with a fresh vocal, by request <3
featuring Nick Sharpe guit/vox, Rowan Robertson guit lead, Jimmy Paxson drums/percussion, Willie Basse bass - , the backing trax are a DAT backup (not a final mix) recorded '93 Can Am studios on a whim~ thanx Debbie L and Stacey :)
Vocals recorded 11-24-09 at Rick Torres studios Hollywood CA. Rick is the pro tools god!

All Is Good = Here's some new stuff to celebrate recent victories for good ol' American brains and freedom! Voting Day is a lick that came out while watching the election returns on HDTV early evening Tuesday the 4th. Too anxious to take time setting up a mike and a mix so i just recorded the box guitar with the laptop mic in Garageband, then added software bass and drums. Sounds fine to me. Very infectious, and according to V.E. Grenier, "inspired celebratory fun" (or something like that).
Makeup yer Mind- In the skool of white boy funky bass, John Paul Jones is a prerequisite.
"take me to the bridge! ha!"
If I Had 2 Explain features the distinctive roar of my 04 Harley Softail ridden by ace hot rod and bike builder Byrd Anderson while I wield a Sontronics STC 2 into the laptop via Compact4. Of course, that's me on everything else. Slide, bass, vox, the mix... everything. (I think they call us "producers" now. Back in the day, a "producer" was the guy who sat in the control room and got the $$ for us to record.) And what about that third verse? Y'know what they say, "if I had to explain..".
Do Rag remix - another "in the wind" influence. Me and my Cyn Friend are caught goofin 'round with the Powerbook 12" after "cruisin down the road like rockstars on a Sunday Harley ride". If you ride, then you know what the "do rag" is. If you don't, ask. As usual, I'm playin on all the bits and Cyn (Little Dragon Girl) came up with the groovy verses. Dedicated to my nieces, nephews and sis-in-law that figgered it out.
Oh, yeah... "All Is Good" is the new album (yes, virginia, some of us still make "albums") of 2008. And the way things are goin, maybe 9, too. Stay tooned.

Meanwhile, back to the old stuff...

Same Suit, Different Day= from back in the day (1996), a bunch o' tunes from when i was livin' behind the Whiskey on the Sunset Strip. "Country Life sorta happened after a phone call from a long lost GF who was "stuck" somewhere near Woodstock and she wanted me to "come". hmmm... thinkin' that was a way long ride for a piece o' tail, i wrote the song instead. Talk about fantasy.

Where fantasy becomes reality is in the City of Los Angeles. For those who've under a rock for the past couple decades, California voters approved Prop 215, the Medicinal Marijuana Initiative, around the time Hymn 215 was written ('96).
"Call a truce Stop the war
Buy my weed at the corner store"
Prophetic. Now there's more than 500 "Dispenseries" and Co-ops in the city, most with store fronts (with neon signs and all!), full on lounges and more to come. The struggle aint over yet, but we are gaining ground! How do YOU spell Relief?

more archive stuff at Nick's MySpaced Out, music with my old bands from the Sundowners and Rooster to early 80s. (the 70s are lost and gone, 'til someone digs em up) check it out, then "friend" me from there.

if you recognize the background, y'get major props for makin' it this far!

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March 09, 2005

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Influences:

vast and varied... early kid years? definitely beatles, stones, kinks, brittish invasion. didnt like west coast (beach boys, doors) except for the original jefferson airplane and zappa. came of age on cream (eric clapton), hendrix, zep, mahavishnu orchestra from metal to fusion and being in miami during the '70s, the inescapable disco (where do yo think "shake your booty" came from?). - came to LA '80 and have been in every bag since- folk, punk, electronica (TV dance trance), metal, new wave, new age, new whatever til it got old! had a working blues band in the mid '90s- 2002 where i got to work out my albert king (eric clapton, hendrix, SRV) chops. the tunage here is a boiled down essence of all that inspired mostly by connecting the past with future to become the CHURCH of WHAT'S HAPENNIN' NOW. - what a trip. (recognize the poster? heh, heh) -

Sounds Like:

you tell me

Record Label:

bop 35