Ankorage Sonic grouped into song pairs, sets & collections

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the King is dead, let the sun shine on...

VOA another way

Views expressed belong to an individual who has lived 99% of his life among the 99% grounded 2B flyover USA...  

all lyrics written and 99% of the vocals recorded to Relevant Still happened prior to 2018...

99% core players to this collection:

Colin McGowan - drums

Paul Cherba - bass

Andre Rodriguez - piano

John McLane - sax, keys & guitar

Drew Obar - guitar

Vince Maxey - lyrics & vocals

my own Rebel Soul has nothing to do with any antique civil uprising...  and doesn't need an emblem to rally anyone else 2 do anything 4 me...  check out a track or  2 and U will know why U want to listen 4 what Ankorage has 2 say & play 4 yourself...

once upon a time in America...

these lyrics are meant with all due respect 2 someone truly a self-made man...  or was it all 4 a bad dream?

I also wanted something that could showcase a bit of harmonica 

/*  Steven Tyler has no competition from me - he is THE MAN, THE MYTH & THE LEGEND when it comes to smokin' hot harp & so much more!  */

Based on Drew's request for a topic, written and tracked in the Spring of 2017; from its inception I have hoped there will be a future 4 the USA and these words someday R2B remembered, as a cautionary tale. 

Originally written  in the 1990s and recorded in Tucker GA as part of the session where Vincent & John 1st met.  This version was recorded in the TC Metro sometime 2015-16 as part of the Relevant Still initial stem track sessions.

Images in this song are factual references to the devastation resulting from widespread flooding that took place across Georgia during a 40 day stretch of daily rain mid 90s...  

For 10 years in a row, every Spring a different life long resident of the state would offer the observation in casual conversation, "This past Winter was not a normal one."

perhaps my time in residence never repeated itself....

The basic story was inspired by a plot from the "All My Children" soap opera I used to watch once in a while at Colorado State.   

However, it wouldn't be what it is if I'd never lived in the South long enough to have assimilated just a bit...

This is the first collaboration between Vincent and Drew.  I wrote the arrangement other than the solo section and passed it to Drew, who soon did declare he heard it as ska...

Colorado is where I was at when I began my sonic odyssey, such as it is.  From time to time I do return to behold the majestic mountains of rock which gave me initial bearings 2 the path I have taken and 4 those left behind...

This will be the first track to my efforts following Relevant Still.   The project will be about a young couple who meet in MN and subsequently make their way South.  Currently this song only exists as a piano/vox demo.  The Paisley Everglades needs to succeed B4 I would focus 2 the future

Not yet, but at some point... I do have memories of being a kid living in an ideal neighborhood to be a kid, outside Cleveland, in Chagrin Falls.

My ears were first awakened to rock and roll hearing a high school cover band playing two songs during a Kenston Middle School dance in 1976.  At the time I didn't know the original Artists, but the music stuck in my head and I recognized it immediately when I heard it again.  "Dream On" by Aerosmith and "Rock n Roll All Nite" by Kiss.

I have posted a cover of Message of Love that was recorded during the 2011 sessions.  Chrissie Hynde ROX!

3 Tracks were started on the same mid-March date 2013 

New Hope, MN

10/4 20:12

Clothes Horse Blues

What If Christmas

Pete Cappello played piano and electric piano

Brandon LaLiberte played drums 

Paul Cherba played bass

Josh Levi engineered this session

http://www.winterlandstudios.com/

Drew Obar played lead guitar for the extended solo, D.Morgan provided additional guitar parts, John McLane played keys on the chorus and at the end of the track

the whole being greater than the sum of the parts is what makes this piece quite superficially deep 2 me

This is one of several songs where I have played the piano to record initial bass and drums.  I played Winterland's baby grand to track Brandon and Paul; immediately after which Pete recorded electric piano to what they did make of  the groove

John McLane has provided all Ankorage sax tracks and his efforts here did inspire Drew Obar's electric outro guitar