The Key Forever

Music, Lyrics, and Arrangement - Doug Johnson
Doug Johnson - Drums & Vocals
Bruce Conaway - Bass
Greg Lanner - Guitars  www.myspace.com/greglanner
Lea Morales - Flute
Judy Valencerina - Keyboards
Produced by Doug Johnson & Jeff Cowan
Recorded October 2003 by Jeff Cowan at Goldmine Studios Ventura

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Medley: The King of Kings/Ataraxia

Slated soon to be rerecorded using musicians who actually know how to play those other instruments...Now that they actually have something to listen to in order to conceptually understand the song.  Doug's initial verbal explanations of the song and his fumbling through the song's parts on instruments he can't play proved to be woefully inadequate to the musicians he had hoped to recruit for this first recording, often leading to comments such as "This is really weird dude...That's not even a chord!"  That is why Doug ended up playing all of the instruments on this first recording and why he is looking forward to rerecording this song with a real guitarist and possibly bass player.

Music, Lyrics, and Arrangement - Doug Johnson 
Doug Johnson - All instruments
Produced by Doug Johnson & Mark Hashimoto
Recorded May 2000 by Mark Hashimoto at Hashimoto Productions Camarillo

For You

Music, Lyrics, and Arrangement - Doug Johnson
Doug Johnson - Vocals & Drums
Bruce Conaway - Bass
Greg Lanner - Guitars  www.myspace.com/greglanner
Judy Valencerina - Piano
Produced by Doug Johnson & Jeff Cowan
Recorded October 2003 by Jeff Cowan at Goldmine Studios Ventura

Purchase on itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/for-you-single/id442793413

A Work In Progress When the BR-1600 Bit the Dust

Here is a tune I was working on when my BR-1600 bit the dust. The drum track was recorded the spring of 2010 with six cheap microphones in a small bedroom with two beds, two dressers, a night stand, a drum set and a table with the BR-1600. (I now have a nice-sized, dedicated tracking room that only needs some acoustic treatment.) The tune isn't mixed - something basically impossible on the BR-1600 anyway.

This song was almost completely tracked and survived “the big crash”, although there is now some distortion in the 2^nd verse and the right channel of the drum mix is momentarily replaced in part of the bridge by a vocal artifact from somewhere or another. The trumpet needs to be rerecorded when I have my new  room acoustically treated.

Bacon On the Sand