I released an album.

[Jefe]

My pandemic project launched a few weeks ago. Never played a live show, but here I am.

All listening options at www.southbank.band . A video for the first single, too. Watch for my cameo.

If anybody cares to hear it I'll share the story, but either way I hope you enjoy.

jefe

[revo]

Whoa! Awesome!

[Bene Futuis]

Sick.

[rhd]

Congratulations and good luck. Let's hear the story.

[Moonlight J]

Nice!

[madducks]

Cool!

[Teenwolf]

Great work! Reminds me of The Replacements in the best of ways.

[Jefe]

Great work! Reminds me of The Replacements in the best of ways.

That's a huge compliment, thank you.

[Jefe]

Congratulations and good luck. Let's hear the story.

Well, let's see... for those of you who remember me from dropping in here over the years, I'm a 51-yr-old Design Exec at IBM. Been playing guitar since I was 30. Written a handful of songs over the years. During the pandemic I started taking lessons again and wanted to learn to play and write my own lead parts, so I started playing around in garageband recording songs to play along with.

I discovered that I really enjoyed the editing/arranging/writing thing. I bought a bass and started writing bass lines. I got a keyboard and started playing around with that. I started hiring musicians on Fiverr to play things I can't play (harmonica, fiddle, backup vocals). And I programmed all the drums in Garageband.

I shared a few demos with a friend who's an accomplished musician (frontman of the Deathray Davies, a band I love) who also works as a sound engineer. He offered to re-do all of my drums and work on the mix, and that was that. We collaborated on the rest of the songs, and had a blast doing it. I also got the lead guitarist of the Old 97's to play on two songs (we're old friends).

So for most of the songs, it's me on vocals, acoustic, electric, bass, and keys. John has a few parts here and there too. But that's it. It's been a lot of fun.

Now I'm trying to put together a full band to play live. Fingers crossed.

[heyelander]

very cool stuff!

[The Feral Slasher]

Well, let's see... for those of you who remember me from dropping in here over the years, I'm a 51-yr-old Design Exec at IBM. Been playing guitar since I was 30. Written a handful of songs over the years. During the pandemic I started taking lessons again and wanted to learn to play and write my own lead parts, so I started playing around in garageband recording songs to play along with.

I discovered that I really enjoyed the editing/arranging/writing thing. I bought a bass and started writing bass lines. I got a keyboard and started playing around with that. I started hiring musicians on Fiverr to play things I can't play (harmonica, fiddle, backup vocals). And I programmed all the drums in Garageband.

I shared a few demos with a friend who's an accomplished musician (frontman of the Deathray Davies, a band I love) who also works as a sound engineer. He offered to re-do all of my drums and work on the mix, and that was that. We collaborated on the rest of the songs, and had a blast doing it. I also got the lead guitarist of the Old 97's to play on two songs (we're old friends).

So for most of the songs, it's me on vocals, acoustic, electric, bass, and keys. John has a few parts here and there too. But that's it. It's been a lot of fun.

Now I'm trying to put together a full band to play live. Fingers crossed.

Enjoyed the video and song. Best of luck to you moving forward ! Keep us up to date

[Sour Masher]

Well, let's see... for those of you who remember me from dropping in here over the years, I'm a 51-yr-old Design Exec at IBM. Been playing guitar since I was 30. Written a handful of songs over the years. During the pandemic I started taking lessons again and wanted to learn to play and write my own lead parts, so I started playing around in garageband recording songs to play along with.

I discovered that I really enjoyed the editing/arranging/writing thing. I bought a bass and started writing bass lines. I got a keyboard and started playing around with that. I started hiring musicians on Fiverr to play things I can't play (harmonica, fiddle, backup vocals). And I programmed all the drums in Garageband.

I shared a few demos with a friend who's an accomplished musician (frontman of the Deathray Davies, a band I love) who also works as a sound engineer. He offered to re-do all of my drums and work on the mix, and that was that. We collaborated on the rest of the songs, and had a blast doing it. I also got the lead guitarist of the Old 97's to play on two songs (we're old friends).

So for most of the songs, it's me on vocals, acoustic, electric, bass, and keys. John has a few parts here and there too. But that's it. It's been a lot of fun.

Now I'm trying to put together a full band to play live. Fingers crossed.

Inspiring stuff. So many of us consume content but don't put the work into creating, but you did. It is impressive how much you learned and put together on your own. BTW, who are you in the video--what part are you in?

P.S. Always a good plan to have attractive women stand in for you in a music video .

[Steve 2.0]

Been playing guitar since I was 30. .

You must be tired.

(Now off to watch the video)

[Steve 2.0]

My pandemic project launched a few weeks ago. Never played a live show, but here I am.

All listening options at www.southbank.band . A video for the first single, too. Watch for my cameo.

If anybody cares to hear it I'll share the story, but either way I hope you enjoy.

jefe

Awesome! Color me impressed!

[Ken]

Awesome! Color me impressed!

What color is that?