In Case You Forgot…

…This is why we all listened to “grunge.”

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Satellite Radio Is Weird

Don’t get me wrong: I love XM. But every so often, their playlists come from I don’t know where. Take today, for example. I was driving from my house to the Indian place in Fairfield, a five-minute trip. I got into the car, cranked up Lucy (XM Channel 54), and heard [...]

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Help Me Choose a Cover Song!

As all of you rabid Ben Gott fans know, I’m working on a new album, “Bloom.”  The album will be half Beatles-esque pop and half New Jack funk.
Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to help me decide which song to cover.  Clicking on this link will download an MP3 file to your [...]

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New Promo Picture

For Bloom. A lot of desaturated headshots will follow.

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“Fall At Your Feet”

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“Oh Yeah” Available NOW!

The second track from Bloom is complete. To listen, click this link. To download to your hard drive, right-click and choose “Save As…” (Here’s a fun fact: all the guitar bits at the end of the song were played with a “Tenacious D: Pick of Destiny” guitar pick! Sellin’ my soul [...]

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“Oh Yeah” (Instrumental)

For your listening pleasure.  I haven’t even recorded the vocals yet.
“Oh Yeah” (Instrumental Version) | (3.5 MB, MP3)
From the forthcoming album Bloom.

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Socially Networking

I’m on Facebook. Yeah, I know. Shoot me with a virtual paintball gun.
Don’t worry, though: this website will still be the be-all and end-all. I won’t succumb to social networking…at least not yet…
If you’re visiting this site from Facebook, it’s easy to navigate.  Just go to the menu choices above the picture [...]

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I Teached Them Good

I just got this IM from one of my former students. The poem he refers to is Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” This poem is always interpreted incorrectly; the “road less traveled” is not, in fact, “less traveled.” Both roads are the same; it is the narrator of the poem who [...]

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“Oh Yeah”

In all my musical life, I’ve never worked this quickly.
The first track from my new album, Bloom, is already in the bag. It’s called “Gangsta Rap,” and you can click here to download it. I was going to record “See the Light” next, but I’m staying in the hip-hop/funk vein with “Oh Yeah.” [...]

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