Most people spend their entire life in some state of emotional reaction! They don't even know what the word equanimity means. They certainly are not aware of how to acheive that state for long periods of time. These emotions resonate from the sub-concious mind, or what is otherwise called the Shadow or Pain-Body. Here resides all childhood wounds, trauma, birth experience, etc. The emotions are so intense that most people eat, drink, or drug themselves into a state of numbness and denial. Anything but deal with the pain. Acceptance, differentiation, integration and wholeness gets thrown to the oblivion of denial,repression,splitting, and fracture. This is the Human Condition. We look to someone else or something else to distract us from how we really feel. Going from relationship to relationship;job to job;place to place;anything to not sit still and listen to the voices in our heads, and learn how to quiet them. This is the great schism! It's inside you and so is the remedy!
The powers that be are very aware of this condition and how to exploit it for their own nefarious purpose. Wake up people! We may not have much time!
This is the hero..heroine's journey.
I firmly believe that it's in this process that we meet our true maker!
Peace, Andrew.........
Influences
Hmmm, for sheer prolifics, I'd have to say Zappa. For mood, Pink Floyd. Hannah Montana for being so darn avant-garde. I loved the way Chris Whitley played. Santana, Supertramp, Dylan, The Band, Young, the Chili's, Cobain, Temple of the Dog, Pearl Jam, Oasis, Matthew Good, Stabilo, 54-40, Smashing Pumpkins, anything from The O.C. lol, um who else? If u love music and are not playing it for some retarded reason then I'd probably like you too! Oh, yeah-mo-town too, when they're not obsessing with bling bling.......oh, yeah, I shouldn't forget to mention that I love it when the women are rockin'!
A Lullaby was recorded on my Mac. the first week of Dec. 2008. It and Little Black Heart is the first time i've been able to go thru the whole process of song writing and recording with no help from anyone. i'm quite sure this process shows off the strengths and weakness's of my musicianship.
http://www.youtube.com/user/andrewmarkmusic
Anyway, I don't play guitar, I don't play bass, I don't play drums(thanks dj thistle,thx. bob), I don't sing(really), I don't write songs, I don't write lyrics, I don't engineer(thanks dj thistle) and I don't produce(really,no, really), BUT, if I did do those things it would probably sound like the songs on here!
Seriously, I've been playing guitar most of my life. Most of the time I suck, but I do have my moments. I've been in and out of bands most of my life too;although, 5 yrs. ago i made the decision to do my own thing. These songs are the result of that endeavor.
So, basically this computer doubles as a recording studio and I'll post the songs up here(warts and all)as I kinda, sorta finish them. I hope u like them, but, if you don't I really couldn't give a !@..$. Have a good one! Andrew.
Tanks to Bob Gablehouse for engineering Last Good-Bye (U Rawk Man)! Thanks to my !2 and !4 year old gurlz for playing violin and piano on Roadkill. Thanks to Lawrence for engineering too.
In general-"He harms himself who does harm to another,and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner"-Hesiod,700 B.C."We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us" Aristotle 350 B.C. "What you do not want done to yourself ,do not do to others, Confucious, 500B.C. Buddhism, "Hurt not others in a way you yourself would find hurtful." Hinduism, "Do nothing to others that would cause you pain if done to you." Taoism,"Regard your neighbours gain as your own gain and your neighbours loss as your own loss." Islam," No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself."Judaism," What is hateful to you do not do to your fellow man."Christianity,"Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them."
Andrew!!! So awesome to hear from you. And hey, my T.O. summer is the coolest... lol! I don't want it to be ever over..... The Green Show!!! Glad to hear it rocked!!! But OMG. OMG. I have to get back on Gaia and soon ... Anyway, hope your summer is rocking too :-))
Andrew!!! So awesome to hear from you. And hey, my T.O. summer is the coolest... lol! I don't want it to be ever over..... The Green Show!!! Glad to hear it rocked!!! But OMG. OMG. I have to get back on Gaia and soon ... Anyway, hope your summer is rocking too :-))
Andrew!!! So awesome to hear from you. And hey, my T.O. summer is the coolest... lol! I don't want it to be ever over..... The Green Show!!! Glad to hear it rocked!!! But OMG. OMG. I have to get back on Gaia and soon ... Anyway, hope your summer is rocking too :-))
91 eh? It's a catchy tune, timeless and universal too...and if you don't agree, "please don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart..." lol...but seriously, all your creation rocks...hope you believe it too....................... PS: "Warm and cozy by the fire" sounds heavenly...but sigh...a flu bug from the chilly big smoke already bit me ;-)
lol...yes...that dang b.a.g. (bloody, addicting gaia.)keeps me occupied too...so thanks for the shout-out over here...and hey...truth be told, the my space jet gets my head in a spin....so no wonder I'm constantly taking extra time to cope with da jetlag ;-)
Hey Andrew, Just wanted to stop by and say Hi! Come check out the rough track of the song titled"Hurt" on my profile...when it's done it will be on my upcoming E.P.
Dropin' by to wish everyone a rockn' successful New Year. Look for the next "Rock 'N' Roll Roadshow" and come on out and catch us live in 2008. Thanx for rollin' with us.
How is it going family? Just to let you know that we are doing music videos starting from only £1000 and mastering from only £20 per track get involved and get at us!!! all the best with your endevours many blessages nuvibes studios
Hey there, WED. DEC 6 we are live on the air (internet radio) with an acoustic set, (we're gonna strip 'em down), and interview with C.C. spinning some of our tunes on HotShotBands.Com 8-9pm pst
then we open the phone lines to you. We will also have CD or concert ticket giveaways, but you can only win if you tune in and call.
just go to:
3 brand spankin' new rockin' demos up on our site, please give 'em a listen and comment us back. Rock 'N' Roll lives in the hearts of the good people of the world, thanx for rollin' with us.
-Jade from Freewill
"Sweet Soul Rock 'N' Roll"
