On EVASION, I was going after keywords: pop rock, new wave, late 70’s or early 80’s or both. I think I succeeded.

The stuff I mentioned as keywords is really something I’ve started listening after succeesfully always avoiding it! Some great stuff to be found there.

Whether this is me expanding my musical worlds from the 60’s and 70’s towards the modern times, or me devolving into my childhood is up to you.

The pun was intended.

It’s really an Inexpensive Gimmick to achieve a high ranking in chess, while riding Trains.

Klara vappen everyone!

For those who doesn’t know what it means… well, all I can say, the famous Gögle Lanstrade doesn’t help you with this one.

The result is of course hilarious.

So, happy 1^st of May everyone! Let the GOOD TIMES A COMIN… to be coming & soon!

Tango For Terry. Rockabilly For Roxanne. Samba For Sam.

Blues For Alice.

Die For You. I Was Made For Lovin’ You. Burnin’ For You.

For Whom The Bell Tolls. For What It’s Worth. For Those About To Rock.

To Die For No One For The Glory Of Nothing For Everything I Do I Do It For You Blue.

All I Want For Chr… No!!! For f***s sake!

For Lady Belle. For Johnny Thunder. For The Good Times. For Werner. (anagr., no S, hopefully, Herzog)

WALTZ FOR BUSTER. (Diane)

31/9/1983

Dave M. exits the liquer store. He’s about to celebrate quitting his crummy job. After some serious setbacks in his life, things seem to be finally going in to the right direction. In his wallet is a newspaper ad for a cheap Hollywood apartment. Perfect headquarters to live and start a new band.

On his way back to the car, Dave M. slips in a banana peel. Only with great agility he avoids landing in a pool of very suspicious looking liquid. What poor Dave M. doesn’t realize, is that his wallet has somehow slipped from the back pocket of his very tight jeans. Financial loss: 3.50$.

9/3/1984

Dave E. grows increasingly frustrated practicing “Runnin’ with the Devil” by Van Halen. He has tamed the song alright, but playing just by himself feels so pointless. He puts his bass down, and looks sadly out the window of his cheap Hollywood apartment.

Suddenly a brainstorm hits: “Screw this”, he says to himself. “I’m stayin’ solo!”

12/7/1985

Crumpy Grampa Records Ltd. releases “The Spirit Of The New Age” by Dave E. The album goes highly unnoticed, but it’s opening track “DAVES HOLIDAY MOOD” receives heavy airplay in Akron, Ohio. The song eventually becomes a much loved holiday stable in the area.

I was trying to find out the number of published Lucky Luke-albums, and the exact number seems to be somewhere between 82 and 90.

Wow, that’s like a lot!

The Dalton brothers steal the money & the show in at least 14 of ‘em. The world’s greatest dog detective Rantanplan (or Rin-Tin-Can or Bushwack) is the main character of one LL-album, and has it’s own spin-off series with several solo albums.

Jolly Jumper, on the other hand, has no starring moments. (As far as I know)

Such disgrace!

So, I made a tune for everyone’s favourite merry hopper: JOLLY JUMPER.

That’s better.

Sea monsters are aplenty.

We got Cetus, Hydra and the Sirens of the Deep. Apkallu is Akkadian, Moby is a Dick and good ol’ Nessie lives in the Loch. Kraken terrorizes the seas of Norway & Greenland. Greeks got Scylla. Leviathan is biblical and everybody loves Cthulhu.

Finland’s got one too: Iku-Turso, the old bugger!

TURSON IKULLE (“For Iku-Turso”) is supposed to be Finnish folk music, as ancient as it comes. Well, not banging two rocks together ancient, but pretty old nevertheless.

Fun fact of the day: The cling-blingier string instrument parts features only five (5) notes – as if it was played by a 5-string kantele!

Jacksonville Marvelboyos
Miramar Topsoldiers
Orlando Multicats
West Palm Beach Goodfellas
Fort Lauderdale Itgirls
Clearwater Meanmen
TAMPA HYPERSPIES
Tallahassee Motherpeople
Cape Coral Cooldogs
Gainesville Rockincrew

So, what’s missing?

Last update contained some horribleness, therefore we change the course:

FAIRY SONG. It’s cute & fragile.

So, how about those mallets, huh? They are really my go-to instrument when producing this kind of stuff. Let glockenspiel do it’s trick and wham, you have entered the fairytale land, where everything’s colorful, fantastic and magical.

Addition to the New Musical Genres List:

– Magic is in the Air ‘n Sh…

This one starts off with some ear-hurting noises, and ends up in a particulary nasty chord. And what’s hanging there between those two points, isn’t very soft ‘n nice ‘n comfy either. But hey, when a tune is named TERRORTRON, you really shouldn’t expect marshmallows and sunshine.

There’s also some additional bumpy noises, that somehow reminded me of the walking sounds that the enemies do in the video game “Wizard of Wor”.

Or “walking sounds”, ‘cos I played the game on Commodore 64. (It was originally an arcade game)

Oh the memories: Fellows in spacesuits, trying not to shoot one another, those blue wolf guys – which we named as “guys”, the lightning fast spiderbro and of course the terrifying witch, who only appeared once in a blue screen.

Dear modern manufacturers of vintage computer things: Why no TAC-2 with an USB cable available in my location?!

Modern Musical Genres, the short list:

– Produced by Dan
– Toothpaste
– Encouraging Cooking, Subscribing & Liking
– Trashy Trailer Music
– Green & Inclusive
– Only Listenable At Gym
– Shill AI Boogie
– Too Artsy Anachronistic Vintage
– Low End EDM
– Grandpa Pantera
– For Lip Syncing

MARSUPILARI falls into the category “For Kids, You Know”.