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06
Apr
09

Unbeknownst No More

Observant visitors will note that I have taken the ‘wordpress’ out of the URL and magicked it into another dimension. This post is for the rest of you.

The domain change means I’ll be uploading music files straight to my very own (pretend) website. It also means that unbeknownst recordings, former host to my jazz recording project ‘unbeknownst’, is closed for business. I have had a chat with my singer and recording partner, Lee, and there’s no possibility of turning that particular project into a gigging concern. So, after a final recording session in July, I’ll be drawing it to a close – and posting the full results here. In due course I’ll also be transferring all the bio details over here as a record of the whole thing from 2005 to 2009.

I have a live gig coming up on May 20 at a local den of iniquity, more gigs coming up in July and the possibility of forming a country outfit by the end of the year, so I am of firm resolve and generally undeterred, although honestly, it could have been a kicking band.

C’est la vie…

Steve

24
Jan
09

Antenna for your Love

Mp3 – SSB and the Stobie Pole Band – Antenna for your Love

Soursob Bob has told me he likes his recordings clean and simple, no frills, just raw country, folk and rock and roll.

Let’s see if I can’t dissuade him from that path of purity with this heavily reverbed, messy, overdubbed country punk version of one of his new songs, Antenna. It’s still just a test mix but this is, roughly, what I would have done with this tune.

  • SSB – Guitar, vox
  • Emma Luker -violin
  • ‘Southern’ Steve McKenzie, bass, midi drums, backing vox, midi SOS signals, production

By the way, a Stobie Pole is a South Australian specialty – a telegraph pole made of metal and cement.

The Wiki page claims they were necessary because of the arid treeless nature of South Australia but the truth it there were trees aplenty until they cut them all down to make way for sheep. Then they started asking themselves what they were going to do about the pole situation. Pure Aussie genius.




Southern Steve is…

...the online alter ego of S.J. (Steve) McKenzie.

I am an Australian guy who likes and plays lots of different styles of music, mostly for kicks.

There's samples of my own stuff here as well as lots of mp3 goodies from other bands I love; folk, punk, jazz and just whatever sounds like it has its own thing going on.

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