Comanchemoon

Description:

Screen Name:

Comanchemoon

Sex:

M

Age:

56

Studio Musician:

No

Level Of Commitment:

Just for Fun

Years Playing Music:

1

Gigs Played:

Under 10

Tend to Practice:

1 time per week

Available to Gig:

1 time(s) per week

Most available:

Nights

Singer who's not serious about it.

Songwriter who IS serious about it. Lyrics and melody. Several
genres covered. Can write a lyric to nearly any tune.

See also http://www.myspace.com/hardtwistmusic

Willing to work with anyone who is looking for quality songs.

Willing to listen to criticism and improve my songs.

No ego. No fights over "creative control." If you can improve my song...I want that as much as you do.

SONG LIST - available songs.

1. Old Soldiers - Lyrics and melody by me. Haunting paean to old soldiers who are allowed to "Just fade away."

2. The Whippoorwill - Melody and Lyrics by me - Poetic observation on power, war, and the impact of humanity on all that we touch. Second song on SAMPLES1. Be patient there is a long silent gap.

3. Passive Aggressive Love Song - Melody and Lyric - Humourous, but pathetically sad comment on dysfunctional love and the desperate compromises that drive it. Third song on Samples1.

4. When the Highway Calls -Melody and lyric by me - Wanderlust and love song clash.

5. A relationship in Sum - Melody and lyric by me - bittersweet reaction to a failed relationship. Sad, functional, and emotionally real.

6. The Ballad of Geronimo Varushnakov - Lyric by me - Music by Paul Newett - Funny, but serious and realistic look at squandered potential, and a wasted life.

7. Encounter with the Ex in a Bar. - Lyric and Melody - A funny, satirical, sad inexplicably fearsome, and fearful encounter.

8. Torched by an Angel. - Melody and Lyric by me. - A man laments the power that beautiful women exert over him and his self-destructive tendency to pursue only those who are too "hot to handle." The song is pretty, funny, and sad. A song that every man can identify with. First song on SAMPLES1.

9. Sylvia - cover version - Lyric by me. Music from the 70's rock instrumental group "Focus" who were most famous for this song, "Moving Waves," and "Hocus Pocus."

10 Sylvia - Original version - Lyrics by me. Music by Paul Newett. - Uncertainty, Hope, Fear and triumph center on the 17th century return of a trading ship bearing "riches from the east" from a trip around the horn to the Orient.

11. Do You Feel What I'm Feeling - Lyrics by me - Music by Paul Newett. Accompaniment by Paul Newett. --- The central question every person in love must grapple with.

12. The Moment that I Fell - Lyrics by me. -- Music by myself and Paul Newett. -unexpected reciprocity to presumed unrequited love.

13. Good Bye Antonio (for female voice) Melody and Lyric by me. - A disappointed woman leaves and berates her dysfunctional boyfriend on her way out of the relationship. Scathing and real. Seethes with frustration and disappointment. THIRD SONG on SAMPLES3.

14. Into your eyes - Music and Lyric by me. - Musically and lyrically Pretty ballad of affirmation of love. One of the prettiest ballads I have written. No "bite" to it, so it's a little one-dimensional. Nice hook though.

15. This Little Ryhme - Lyric by me. - Music by Paul Newett. - Songwriter tries to finish a song in the quiet interlude before the world awakes on a Saturday Morning.

16. Song for PeteyPetes - Melody and Lyric by me. Personal favorite about my now deceased cat. Nice little song... probably has no meaning to anyone but me and my family.

17. High Desert Thundershowers - Melody and lyric by me. - A couple experiences the incredible cleansing and "recharging" effect of a lightning storm on the high desert.

18. Perfect Strangers - (best for a female voice) -Lyric by me. Melody by Paul Newett and myself. - A prediction of doom and pain for a relationship that should have never begun.

19. Light a Candle - Lyric by Paul Newett and myself. Music by Paul Newett. - Based on a comment by Tom Dooley who was a modern Day Albert Schweitzer - A haunting challenge to Christians to "light a candle in a very dark place" as Dr. Tom Dooley did in the Communist darkness of 1950s Vietnam.

20. A plan and a Goal - Meldody by Paul Newett. Lyrics added by myself. - A man has a novel plan and goal for coping with being dumped. - Funny, sad, and serious at the same time.

21. You do the Thinking. - Melody and Lyrics by me. - A drinking man suggests a unique division of labor to his domineering and dismissive wife. Funny with an undertone of sad truth.

22. Crossroads. Melody and Lyrics by me. - A man's car breaks down and strands him at a crossroads, where he ponders the pain he has caused his romantic partner and whether to return to her. Cute, but not cutesy. Serious, but humourous. Ultimately triumphant and hopeful without getting sappy.

23. The Virgianian (Lonesome tree) Cover Version - Percy Faith Wrote an instrumental that he called "Lonesome Tree." The 1960s television western "The Virgianian" used if for their theme. I wrote lyrics based on Owen Wister's famous novel "The Virginian." Haunting, fearful, and hopeful at the same time. FIRST song on Samples3.

24. The Virginian (Lonesome Tree) Original Version. My Lyric with Music by Paul Newett. Paul's music is even more haunting than the Percy Faith music. I LOVE Paul's version.

25. Modern Day Love - Melody and Lyric by me. - A man laments lost love and the failure of promises of "til death do us part." SECOND song on Samples3.

26. Think it Through - Melody and Lyric by me. - A biting, satirical, serious look at consequences of ignoring "inconvenient truths." The lyrics are dear to me. . . favorites. I worked so long and hard on the Melody that I can't judge it. I think and hope it's good.

27. OHMIGOD I'm in Love - Lyric by me. Music by Paul Newett. - A person (most likely male) discovers, to his shock and surprise that he has "fallen" in love. His Denial,fear and reluctant acceptance are the song.

28. Once on a Meadow - Lyric and Melody by me. - A person remembers (and is consumed by) a long ago dalliance that ends prematurely with a tragic, non-graphically alluded to death.

29. Whatever's left of His Heart (for a female voice) - Melody and Lyric by me. - A female friend stands up for her divorced, male, friend and asserts that he will survive and move past the betrayal by his ex wife. This song needs something to make it compelling. Not yet sure what it might be.

30. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Lyric by me. Music by myself with help from Paul Newett. - Hauntingly pretty, and sad examination of a tragic event built around a child's favorite nursery rhyme. Cynicism and Innocence clash and co-exist.

31. Frightened Heart - Melody and Lyric by me. - Fear and uncertainty in love. Probably a little overserious.

32. I Never Needed You Any Way - Lyrics and Melody by me - Sane, Reasonable response to threats of abandonment by a lover. - An emotionally HEALTHY love song. Worked too hard on the tune to know if it's good.

33. Mile Post 31. - Melody and Lyrics by myself and Paul Newett. - A wistful look back at youth, fame, lost love, and hope.

34. A Song for You (Us)... (Cover) - Peter Cetera had underwhelming success with a very nice little song called "A song for us." It is obscure enough that there is only one version of it available on youtube...and you've probably never heard it. I added lyrics for a female duet partner, and LOVE the song. It's a beautiful tune that I don't understand the initial failure of. The Duet is better. A guaranteed hit for a live cover band.

Ask me about any of these songs. I'll get some primitive audio version short samples up fairly soon.

Influences:

Elton John, Tommy James, Eric Clapton, Eric Carmen, Sons of the Pioneers, The Kinks, The Beatles, Early BeeGees, Rod Stewart, Badfinger, Night Ranger, Jim Croce, Joan Baez, Sawyer Brown, James Taylor, Jimmy Buffet, Steely Dan, Al Stewart, Peter Cetera, Pete Townesend and too many others to list.

Additionally, I have a very good memory for any song that makes an impression on me. I can suggest covers for songs your audience has never heard before. . . really nice, ballads by established artists of their day that somehow fell through the cracks.

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