Just a short (one minute) video of the squall-du-jour, looking out onto our back yard. Music is my cover of the Tubular Bells riff by Mike Oldfield.

YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra62wB4bpmc

I’m a PC guy these days. That’s entirely a result of work-related compatibility issues and, since my retirement, budget and… well inertia I suppose.

But recent events got me reminiscing about my own introduction to personal computing. I was not a hugely early adapter to home computing, other than a brief foray into the world of [...]

Last of these ones I think. There’s a few more, but they’re not ones that I really want out in the world….

Mental Midget (1976)

YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TqSs_d9Cf0

Time For All (1976)

YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBk7fgUu8fY

Voyage / Arrival (1976)

YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKiE996oKoo

R.G. Daniel: percussion, recorders
Monte Horton: keyboard
Steve Vickery: guitar

Recorded in 1976, Videos added June 22, 2011
(based on a Steve Hillage riff)

YouTube video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcgws1cY-BM

Untitled Suite in Four Parts – Early exercises in sound-on-sound recording

Robert George Daniel: percussion, various analog synths

Recorded in 1976
Video added June 22, 2011

YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6L9SXCyKPI

Space Blues (1976)

R.G.Daniel: drums, Roland RE-201 Space Echo
Monte Horton: guitar
Steve Vickery: bass

recorded in 1976
video added June 22, 2011

YouTube video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyE0CXJxLoU

Earth Blues
R.G.Daniel: recorder
Monte Horton: guitar
Recorded in 1976
Video added June 22, 2011

YouTube video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcRf3m0Ld5A

Drone #1

- R.G.Daniel: drone, percussion
- Monte Horton: guitar

Recorded in 1976
Video track created June 21, 2011

YouTube video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9mHnwpeFKM

Here’s a novel little ditty that draws heavily from clips taken from the Fawlty Towers TV show, starring (both the show and this song) John Cleese. I did not include it on the CD so as to avoid running afoul of the copyright police. So mum’s the word. Or tell the world. Either way. [...]

When I first put this album out there in the world, I decided it might be fun to set up a Google alert for it, to see if there was anything going on I should know about… I’d never alerted myself to anything in this way, so I didn’t really know what to expect. [...]