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When You Go Away written by Jeff Adams © 2003-2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

Produced by Jeff Adams as a demo, really.  There’e material out there I’ve been involvrd with which hasn’t been released yet.  I mentioned about the songs on the back-burner before my accident.  I actually picked up th guitar this evening.  Of course, my 3 year-old son Jude wants to hear me play “Hey Jude”, that Beatles tune, right away.  With one amputated finger, one broken finger, and an overall mangled hand, well…I’ve had better nights! It hurt like hell too! I think this is the last of the ‘95 stuff I’m letting go of at present.

Just What It Is written by Jeff Adams © 1995-2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

 Again, from my ‘95 surreal period — the summer that Jerry Garcia died (RIP) — and I find my harmonica to be slightly Dylan-esque, quite by accident.  The melancholy sound can be attributed to the seahag for which it was written.  I used to have a thing for seahags. Perhaps I found them inspirational, writing-wise.  

The Invisible Lion written by Jeff Adams © 1995-2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

This is a song I am releasing as a filler, with the knowledge that I could certainly produce a bettter copy now. This was from a demo-tape of the same name in 1995.  I haven’t re-recorded it since because it was for some battle-axe I know longer know. 

Plus, I lost my left index finger in a table-saw accident this past August 6th.  At present, my hand is still something of a mess — but still a mess with which I shall play guitar again upon sufficient healing. No worries. Just stubbed my finger — just a scratch is all, a flesh wound…

I am still going to release material, current and old until I do heal-up though.  I have a couple of new recordings on the back burner (recorded pre-accident) that should be fairly cool when I can get together with Chris McDonough and finish them.  I’m not beat by a long-shot. The current batch of recordings I did what I could with – which wasn’t much considering the quality level I had to work with in 1995.

Still, I hope it pleases, along with the next mini-set of tunes I wrote during that era.

Hour Of Midnight music and lyrics by Jeff Adams

© 1992-2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

originally performed by Jeff Adams – For Real with Frozen Pop  ca. 1994 (Jeff Adams, Chris McDonough, Dennette Myers, George Kalman, and Carlyn Hutchins, née Hurwitz) as recorded on the DAT demo, Frozen Pop: Live At The Parlor. (click here for original remaster)

This tune was one of mine & Chris’ signature tunes we always especially liked jamming-out to.  I wrote it back in ‘92 — yes, the 20th century folks — but I’ve been able to vastly improve upon the original Frozen Pop paradigm just by overdubbing an actual bass guitar-sounding noise (which was non-existent in the original live recording even though we had a bass player!) as well as adding some background vocals — which the band also might have done were some of them not ‘fraidy-cats.

Remember written by Jeff Adams © 1987-2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved  

Produced by Jeff Adams

This song I wrote for my brother Scott many moons ago, when our parents were splitting up.  There was a lot of heartache about these things back then; there were times when Scott was the only one I could relate too…and maybe it’s still like that in a sense. “Remember where we came from…” 

 Like This  written by Jeff Adams © 1993-2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved  

Produced by Jeff Adams

This song I wrote back in ‘93, recorded in ‘06, and haven’t published until now.  The beginning descriptor, ”like this”, becomes a recurrent part of the hook-line in my more recent composition Cold Night from ‘03 as well – the two songs being entirely unrelated thematically.  In this song, Like This, the descriptor implies the theme – although both the theme and what is being described are not immediately recognizable or discernaable.  

 Forever  written by Jeff Adams © 2005-2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved  

Produced by Jeff Adams

There were so many people we knew who passed on between ‘03 and ‘06 – people very close to us.  This song sort of pays homage to them, our dearly departed, like Auld Lange Syne.  This copy is a distant copy and has mild distortion and sound degradation.  As ever, I’ll replace it with a better copy when I can find it.  So much stuff to look through in deciding which old stuff is even worth posting.  This song is worth the post, even with the diminished quality.

Retrospect written by Jeff Adams © 1996-2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

Produced by Jeff Adams

Hey now…This tune I came up with suddenly, long ago. I’m glad to have a chance to publish a decent version of it now. Hope everybody likes it!

Cold Night  written by Jeff Adams © 2003-2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

Produced by Jeff Adams

I had the link misconfigured when I posted initially…it’s fine now!  Sorry about that! 

Now it’s even remixed.  I think the one there now is going to be the final draft for a while, the song having been remixed something like 4 times plus the editing process…

I just get so amped to produce whenever I have time.  My studio time is full of welcome interruptions with all the youngins, but it does make it difficult to hear everything I need to for the best possible prodction.

Cold Night is a song I composed in 2003, one of the first composed at that point since a few years prior.  I was in a brand new environment suddenly, with none of my former resources at my command.  I felt a chill in the air I had not felt in years, having lived in Arizona for a stretch. This I imagined to be metaphorical to my feelings of alienation at my foreign environment.  I then imagined love to have been that which helps lift the spirit rather than that which could capture or even destroy it.

As to my persistent fan base – thank you so very much!!!!!!!

And then there are the rest of you, the spam-would-be-advertisers trying to slip in any ol’ comment, regardless to its irrelevency just to plug or exploit a link. Tsk-tsk.  These little “articles” I write are accompaniments to the music I am releasing.  Use me, quote me – but give me credit and a fistful of dollars.  My Creative Commons material on www.jeffadams.info is free for the taking but I retain the rights; if anyone is interested in using my material for any commercial purposes, contact me and we’ll dialogue.

With my given technology, it ain’t the easiest bugger to edit.  Hopefully everyone will receive it well.

Paranoid Blues  (remix!) written by Jeff Adams © 2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved 

performed and produced by Jeff Adams

I thought it was rather summery.  Have I mentioned that I have a box of 1000 songs I’ve composed?  This one here I wrote just recently.  I have 1000 more where that came from too that have yet to be composed, were I fated so.  You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. 

Paradox written by Jeff Adams © 2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

Re-mixed since yesterday’s post.  New arrangements. 

This one I composed during a time in my life of duress and rebellion, wantonness as a scofflaw.  Now only the duress remains. 

Far Away From Home written by Jeff Adams  © 2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

This piece is just a song-fragment I wrote a while back that I was always partial to.   

Half Way Around The World written by Jeff Adams © 2003-2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

Produced by Jeff Adams – For Real

Tea In China written by Jeff Adams © 2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

Performed by Jeff Adams

This song turned out cooler than I’d thought it would.  I used a bass guitar and an effect (can’t recall its name at present) for the lead after the second verse.  Just a point of curiosity.

Perception is everything.  Seriously.  Why does capital have value?  Because people are willing to believe it to be the case.  But where does it all come from — really?  There’s no Gold or Silver Standard.  I have some explaining to do about the ending of this song.  I used currencies from around the world in constructing the final two choruses (is that a word, choruses?).  I’ll quote the choruses and put in parentheses what the country of origin is for the currency mentioned.  K.

“I think of the millions of dollars (US) and people and Pesos (Mexico) and Rupees (India) and Francs (Morocco among other places) and Lira (Turkey) and Krones (Sweden) and Pounds (UK); Euros (EU), Makuta (Zaire) and Ruples (Russia) and Ducats (Maldova), and Yen (Japan).”

…”I think of the millions of dollars (US) and people and Pesos and Rupees and Guilders (Suriname) and Shillings (Kenya), and Rands (S. Africa) and Wons (Korea); Escudos (Chile), Guarani (Paraguay), Xu (Viet Nam), Baht (Thailand), Fen (China) and Yen…”

Baby I Do  written by Jeff Adams © 2010 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

This was a little St. Valentine’s Day effort on my part for my sweet Shirlee.  Brand-spankin’-new. 

The Wonder Of You written by Jeff Adams © 2009 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

This was a tune I wrote for my sweet Shirlee.

Storm written by Jeff Adams © 2009 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

This is a re-posting of a remix.  The original recording was far too distorted.  This one is less distorted.

I wrote this song for my dearly departed Uncle Mark, who took his own life in ‘03.

Another Day In The Sun written by Jeff Adams © 2009 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

performed by Jeff Adams

I wrote this song when I was living in California in 1997.  The copy I had from back then is in poor shape, to say the least, so I re-recorded it recently.

In the lyrics, when I mention:

                                                        Another day in the sun

                                                       It feels like it’s burning this ancient structure down

                                                        And what of this thought that I found?

                                                         As I’m burning it all down… 

The “ancient structure” I’m burning down relates to doing away with my former ways of doing things in order to take advantage of pleasantries.

 Across The Wall written by Jeff Adams© 2009 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved 

This was a tune I wrote in 1996, in Colorado actually.  Between ‘96 and ‘97 I travelled quite a bit.  An old recording from ‘97, several generations removed from its MD4 original – well, the sound quality is a bit tinny.  New stuff is coming.

Upon Reflection written by Jeff Adams © 2009 Jeff Adams  All Rights Reserved

I wrote this one just this past summer.  The lyrics in the beginning remind me of Truth a little bit. 

Truth starts:

In the early morning

As I watch the sun arise

I see how it really is; I see what it really is

Point out to me what is reality

Do I think that you believe the line

That you’re alive?

Upon Reflection starts:

I walk along this path

That’s set before me in the moning darkness

And set before my eyes all that illuminates my mind

Have I become

Desensitized, unrecognizable to myself

Upon reflection?