jOE dEVINE dot com » Ben Smith http://www.joedevine.com the media and musings of jOE dEVINE Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:03:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 It’s a bit politically insensitive…but…funny http://www.joedevine.com/music/my-music/my-songwriting-demos/its-a-bit-politically-insensitivebutfunny/ http://www.joedevine.com/music/my-music/my-songwriting-demos/its-a-bit-politically-insensitivebutfunny/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:52:26 +0000 joedevine http://www.joedevine.com/?p=180 So I wrote a little chord progression for a song, and my boys Ben Smith and Matt Parmenter decided to make it happen one night.  They just slapped some stuff on top of my riff and this is the result.

I laughed my ass off when I heard this.  No, it’s not PC.  So what?  It was pretty funny considering all they had was the piano track.  I am not sure, but that may be me playing the drums..

Enjoy “Shake for Me” ’cause I know I did.

Shake For Me.mp3

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Now – I am starting to work on music with these guys and I got to tell you it’s a blast.  Both are very talented musicians in their own right, and I’ve been lucky enough to get to remix some of their stuff.

Matt plays bass in a great Austin banned called Quiet Company – they also have a myspace page.

Matt and Ben both also play with James Kinney, a local Austin musician.  I am going to see them at Speakeasy on April 30th, time permitting.

This song is fully realized on Ben’s myspace page, but here’s the acoustic version I whipped up last week.  Just Ben and his guitar.  His vocals and songwriting talent really shine on  this one.

missed-connection-acoustic-vocal-2

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