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Horrible Fire​-​Breathing Evil Demos

by The Harp Seals

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    A bunch of horrible-sounding demos recorded between 2014 and 2019, slightly shined-up and assembled into a slippery sequence. I could have re-recorded my sloppy playing, and remixed things to sound nicer, but these things weren't intended for publication. A bit of EQ and compression made them sound slightly less monstrous. Badly sung, badly played, badly recorded, but possibly charming. Lots of mis-sung lyrics, or lyrics you can hear me thinking "ouch! I need to rewrite this!" as I was singing them.
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Horrible Fire-Breathing Evil Demon 02:05
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I Am a Version of You 05:23
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I am a version of you I am a verse and a view
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Rock Awhile (Come to Our Garage) 03:54
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We are not your favorite groop. Those fools flew the coop. (poetry it is not)
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We're Not Serious 01:42
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Come Back 03:13
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Fall 00:38
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I Can't Remember (Gin) 02:46
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Hello, Hello 04:10
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One Life to Live 02:37
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Poppies 02:25
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Running on Sunset 03:35
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She's Right (You're Wrong) [with helpful chord prompts] 03:36
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January 05:02
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Def Leppars 01:03
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Kiss You in the Morning 03:22
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The Model 03:24
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Unproduced and mis-engineered by John McGreivey

Recorded in a dimly lit room, except "January", recorded in a car under a tree in a parking lot in a park somewhere near Plainfield, NJ, trying not to look too much like a creep.

"One Life to Live" began life as a Fully Automatic Universe song around 2005. It was in a weird time signature that seemed like a good idea at the time. This is the more sensible, re-organized 2017 version. It is now (2022), in the repertoire of my rock combo SLAM!BANG!.

"I Am a Version of You" and "I Can't Remember (Gin)" are dedicated to my dad.

I want to play "Rock Awhile" with a band, but that hasn't happened.

"We're Not Serious" is an answer song to my friend Josh Cough's fine old band Serious's song "We Are Serious" (recordings still existed somewhere on the interweb). The Bug Jar is the best club in Rochester, NY. The Can of Worms is a local traffic hazard. This also is now also a SLAM!BANG! song.

"Def Leppars" started life around 1984 as Doug Yook's funny idea for a band name. His song and album titles are assembled in this sorry excuse for a song. This song is not his fault, though.

This cover of Kraftwerk's "The Model" will kill bugs.

credits

released April 21, 2020

vocals: John McGreivey
bass: John McGreivey
ukulele: John McGreivey
guitar: John McGreivey
drums: no one
weird sounds: John McGreivey

All songs written by John McGreivey, except:
"One Life to Live" by John McGreivey, John McGowan, Domenic Gagliano, Thomas Murray
"Def Leppars" by John McGreivey & Douglas Yook
"The Model" by Ralf Hütter, Karl Bartos, Emil Schult (Kraftwerk)

Cover art by the lovely and talented Michelle McGreivey

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The Harp Seals are John McGreivey. Sometimes he talks other people into playing.

He also plays bass with SLAM! BANG! and Dreamsville (AKA Aura).

He used to play with Billy Stark Stone's Boychiks (NYC), Fully Automatic Universe (NYC), The Lesser Evils (NYC), Dyscyples (Yonkers), Sculpture Brigade (NYC), & Def Leppars (Albany).

Rest in peace, Billy Stark Stone, The Blessed. ... more

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