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  Posted March 16, 2017

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• 96/98

  Posted August 5, 2013

  Between 1996 and 1998 I put down a few songs in a rather spur of the moment on my 4-track recorder.  Lyrics were made up basically on the spot while the tape was rolling.  The sounds are pretty lo-fi and the clanging of metal in some of the songs were spoons, pots and pans that made up our primitive percussion.  Jim Seagroves helped out on the racket kitchen percussion sounds as well as general chanting or making a nuisance out of everything. Back then Jim and I called ourselves "the Gidds".  Basically, it was our little gang name growing up.  We listened to NWA in high school and wanted to be white thugs.  We had our own language and mockerized the neighborhood.  Some of the songs we speak in German. I play the acoustic and electric guitar, sitar and sing the songs.  My brother Bob Guittard played bass and guitar on a few tracks as well as beat on a hand drum.  Warren Barry played the organ on Once Around the Moon as well as added to the weirdness. I used a Dr. Groove Drum machine.  I hope you like these weird songs.  At the time of the recording I was listening to a lot of Beck's Odelay. 

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• California Daze

  Posted August 5, 2013

  <div class="content richtxt"> <div class="description off"> <p>California Daze was recorded in Hollywood, California by Jim Guittard on his 4-track recorder and later mixed with Adobe Audition 2.0.  The songs pay tribute to the birth of the Neo-Psychedelic scene that emerged beginning in 2000 in Silverlake, California with groups such as the Beachwood Sparks, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Quarter After, smallstone, the Warlocks, the Tyde, and the Belle Isle.</p> <p>Jim Guittard played the shaker, drum machine, and sang all lead and background vocals and had the help of friend Vladimir Maskov for bass.  Brian McKay engineered the recording of the Beach the acoustic version.  Guittard also played all lead and rhythm guitars.  The song Beach is co-written by Jim Guittard and Dominic Campanella of the Quarter After.</p> <p>The "Swing Tune" and "Jazz Tune" are instrumentals written by Jim while attending the Musicians Institute from 1999 to 2000.  Jim plays the lead guitar with session bassist and drummer.  On the rhythm guitar is a guy from Brazil named Reginaldo.  He was a student with Jim at the school.  You can hear the teacher, "Mr. Lupo Groinig" giving a critique after the instrumentals end.</p> <p>Just previous to this time I was in a duo called the Ragas which was folk-rock-psychedelic with Henry McGuinn, son of the Byrds founder. <br /> </p> </div> </div>

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• Forward

  Posted August 5, 2013

  <p>These songs are for moving Forward out of the mess that is behind.  They were recorded in Pasadena, California and deals with various government/political issues and try to move forward against all diversity. </p>

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