Ted Giffin

a Song and Rhetorical Questions

March 13, 2016

You’ve Got Her in Your Pocket (white stripes cover). To Ask: Where does the Music want to go? How should I direct the Music of humanity? What is it that humans use Music for? Pleasure? Why? Over the centuries, epochs.. did humans derive pleasure from sound? When did it start? Yeah sure, our ancestors did cave paintings at Lascaux of killing animals, hunting, gathering, images of sex and death, 8,000 years ago. But Music? When? Now it is a commodity. People love […]

Fell in Love With A Girl (cover)

March 12, 2016

Fell in Love With a Girl. I love this Jack White composition. Strangely enough it has always sounded like a really jolted out Kinks tune. A musician friend of mine once commented that he does not use the word ‘girl’ in his music because it sounds strange. ‘Why would grown men sing about girls,’ he asks. I see his point. The song is still cool. Shouts out to PKQueen at the website: https://queentunnel.wordpress.com/ For suggesting that I eliminate reverb and echoe from […]

the Big Take Over! (bad brains cover)

March 10, 2016

the Big Take Over! This was a song that John Frusciante also covered on his solo album. It was written by an old school punk band called Bad Brains. I cannot play that fast, so I did a spin off of Frusciante’s version. (by the way, I am still working on a new drawing that I will get back to right now.) 🙂

Been Insane (john frusciante cover)

March 10, 2016

Been Insane. This was written by the still living guitar player for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He quit the group for a brief time in the mid 1990’s. During the hiatus, he penned the tune. Also on a brief note, I am changing the way I create. I will (hopefully) lay tracks, take a break and draw images, then after a few hours, mix the recording and post. I have another new image on the way. This seems to work well […]

Welcome to the Occupation (cover)

March 6, 2016

Welcome to the Occupation. “Welcome to the Occupation. Here We Stand and Here We Fight All Your Fallen Heroes Held and Dyed and Skinned Alive Listen to the Congress Fire Offering the Educated Primitive and Loyal Welcome to the Occupation.” (this sums up the behavior of the United States)

Less of Me (cover of an old country standard)

March 5, 2016

Less of Me. “Let Me Be when I am Weary, just a Little bit more Cheery, Let Me Be Serve Little Better Those I am Striving For, Let Me Be a Little Meeker with the Brother who is Weaker, Let Me Think a Little More of Others and a Little Less of Me.”