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Find Ourselves Today wma
This is why you shouldnt let Philosophy majors write songs. I think this was written around 1992 which was my senior year in college. Masao Abe, a big time Buddhist scholar and comparative religion professor was a visiting professor at Purdue and I took a couple of 500 level courses that he taught. So this song came from that. It was basically about living in the moment and once you try to analyze your life, job etc., you become removed from the subjective experience you are looking at. The ...
Find Ourselves Today mp3
Two for one on this Song of the Week. A live solo version from the Firkin Lounge upstairs at the Brew Pub (9-24-09). I was playing and singing with no amplification for this gig. I had played a monthly gig at the LBC using an amp that I could plug an acoustic guitar and mic into. The local chapter of Drinking Liberally met there on Thursdays, so it seemed that my music, which has a bit of a lefty slant to it, would fit right in. However a few of the group let Greg know I was a bit to loud ...
Only a Lifetime
Al Gerth Song of the Week #11 from Imperfections and a Couple of Love Songs album. This is for the romantics. I wrote this song on May 21st, 1994 and sang it as a proposal to my wife. She told me to get bent, just kidding she said yes. Kevin, John and Janie played it at our wedding, with Janie singing. It was the first song I recorded on my Roland CDX-1, 8-track digital recorder in 2000. I used 3 acoustic guitar tracks, lead vocal with a harmony vocal added on the chorus. The guitar solo was ...
