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Have been playing music & singing since I was a kid; courtesy of my family. I write songs sometimes and perform them once in awhile.

Mostly I collaborate with other musicians on whatever they're doing.

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Tunes 13 media 4 subprojects

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**Underground : Scott Garriott | Live @ Oberon's**
Scott Garriott original music performed by Scott Garriott, Josh Stirm, Jesse Eels-Adams & Croweykid.

Band › Scott garriott People › Scott garriott People › Jesse People › Josh People › CroweyCompletion: 10/10Beauty: 10/10

**The Fragrance of Dreamers**
God help us all.

**The Ocean is a Death Machine**
Category › Music › Original songs Subject › MusicCompletion: 10/10Beauty: 8/10

**Pale Blue Dot (Triphop Remix)**
For when you want to chill out to Carl Sagan.

Completion: 10/10Beauty: 9/10

**Reduce Reuse Recycle Mix CD design**
(I know I need to clean up the text in this. It's not very readable. I was busting this out as a proof of concept a few years ago, and now I shudder at the lack of readability.)

Beauty: 7/10

**The Ballad of Frances Farmer**
Category › Music › Original songs Subject › MusicCompletion: 10/10Beauty: 7/10

**Grass Gas Cash Adult Shop**
Category › Music › Original songs Subject › MusicCompletion: 10/10Beauty: 6/10

**Rowanhood Theme**
Category › Music › Original songs Subject › MusicCompletion: 10/10Beauty: 7/10

**KSKQ 89.5 Neon Madman**
Subject › Music Events › Live performance People › Scott garriott Place › Oregon › Kskq Radio show Photography

**Late Nite radio @ KSKQ 89.5**
Sometimes I'd go on Scott's radio show Neon Madman as a guest, back when it was on KSKQ 89.5

Subject › Music Events › Live performance People › Scott garriott Place › Oregon › Kskq Radio show Photography

**Live @ Oberon's**
Great show with Scott Garriott and The Pretty Pennies.

Subject › Music Events › Live performance People › Scott garriott Photography › Events › Concerts

**Live @ Oberon's**
Subject › Music Events › Live performance People › Scott garriott Photography › Events › Concerts

**'To the Hilt' : Die Krupps x Tyrkjaranid remix**

**Vapourwave Hero / Wind Beneath My Wings**
Song by Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley, most well known as sung by Bette Midler.

**Court of the Crimson King (cover)**
Originally by King Crimson.

Subject › Music Category › Music › CoversBeauty: 6/10

**One More Cup of Coffee**
Quick recording of a Bob Dylan song.

Completion: 5/10Beauty: 6/10

What I learned

I generally prefer performing covers, because I think my strength is normally more in the interpretation/execution than original solo composition. It's not that I'm terrible at composition. I'm just not above-average at it. With practice, I can get a little above average, but it's not for lack of trying.

To try and codify the impulse of music into a replayable song is like trying to pin down a butterfly while its in flight. Just seems like a buzzhack, nobody's enjoying that, least of all the butterfly.

Madonna thinks cover artists suck. This bothered me for awhile, then I realized Madonna sucks, so who cares? Bluegrass musicians grow up playing covers. At very least, most original folk singers are performing at least a few old standards. Folkloric tradition is comprised almost entirely of "covers" - folksongs reinvented again and again in progressive evolution. It's ignorant to criticize the art of the cover song. It's like slapping anthropology in the face.

Moreover, the modern music industry is full of people who perform songs written by songwriters unheard of outside the music industry, so the public comes to associate a single song with the performer when the performer rarely was responsible for producing the song itself! There's no shame in being a performer more than a writer. They're two separate skill sets.

What went right

I think my songs are A-ok. Better than a lot of songs out there. Just not as good as the best songs ever.

Challenges

As far as group composition goes, it seems like one person always wants to do everything, and use you as a meat puppet (I'm okay with that if they're good at it), or they lose focus quickly and have a hard time improvising in a true group collaboration. The best jam sessions I've had were poorly recorded or fully unrecorded, so they lived and died as ephemera.

Idk. Live music is kind of where it's at. I love a jam. I'd love to get a really good recording of a really good jam and turn it into something cohesive, but have never been with a group in a sustained way that could write their own music that way and get linear enough to regularly pull it together into something shapely and lasting. It's always so in the moment. Then it's gone, and we all forget.
It's okay, it was kind a you-had-to-be-there moment.

That's more or less how I feel increasingly about photography. Why take the photo? Why hold on at all? Why not just let it slide away into collective oblivion? hahaha

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