keepin' biz-ee

Alan's song today is called "Woo-ee," and he also penned the above title in reference to our constant grinding. He played both guitar tracks on this little gypsy jazz sounding number. Mike wrote "Crazy" and played both guitars, bass, programmed drums and sang on it. We unfortunately found out that it's technically illegal to upload cover songs to the internet - copyright infringement or something. Anyhow, keep enjoying our originals and when we start playing gigs we'll play some covers.

everything is interesting...

Alan wrote a blues song tonight and played acoustic slide guitar on it as well as bass. He had Mike play electric guitar on it. It's called "Fire the Light-Bombs". Mike's song tonight is called "Either Side" and he's been meaning to get around to recording it for a while now. It's got a country feel again. Mike played electric and acoustic guitar, sang and programmed the drum track. Alan played electric bass on it. Tomorrow we'll be throwing our first cover song at you, for which the last clue is "something magnetic and something you mail". Anyhow, enjoy tonight's songs. Adios.

Addendum for good measure here...We were on our way(s) out the door earlier and wanted to get something up here before midnight or thereabouts...so anyhow... It appears that it's technically not legal to upload previously copyrighted music to MySpace/Facebook/iLike, thus we will be uploading the song to our archive page only, because there's no law against recording yourself playing a cover song for personal use, and subsequently there's no law against saving said song on a backup storage site. It just so happens that you'll all have access to it as well. In other news, we're working on digital drum tracks in the not-having-a-drummer-meantime, so that we can gig. If it goes well, perhaps we'll go ahead and keep the format.

Mishibizhiw

So we each again took divergent routes from the outset, the only thing in common being odd noise
Alan's song, "Three Baloo", he wrote, programmed, and performed improv on the spot on slide guitar and upright bass. And we're talkin' about practice? Practice? Not the game. Mike's song has about 3 minutes and two tracks of guitar noise to begin and end it. He sang, played guitar and programmed the "Tears for Fears"-wannabe drum track, with Alan contributing the upright bass again. Oh and the tiny bit of keyboard at the start is Mike. Anyhow, we hope you're enjoying everything so far. Feel free to contact us or give feedback on any of the sites listed on the right, or via e-mail underwaterpanther@gmail.com. We'd love to hear what you like most so far and what's working/not.

slacking...

Hey all sorry for the delay. It's midnight and we've each been working on our songs all evening. Anyhow, Mike tried his hand at as "country" a song as he could fathom. It's called "We were flies" and has Mike playing guitar, singing and doing the drum programming. Alan played upright on it. It's got a silly "Don-Henley"-break (Alan's words) at the 2:02 mark. Alan's song today is "Ghosts" and has Alan singing, playing acoustic guitar and electric bass as well as programming some perc in the background. He says he feels like Erick Dampier about the song. Enjoy! We'll try to be more punctual tomorrow evening...in other news, first clue for the cover song on Saturday is: River Phoenix.


...Post-Script: Just figured out (4:00 AM) how to embed a music player on this
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Now you don't necessarily HAVE to skip-to-your-Alston-lou all over the internet to HEAR the music, however, the fan/friend requests on Facebook and MySpace are ego-inflating and will actually go a long way towards making a case to venues regarding booking...more on that to come later.

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UnderwaterPanther Day 1: Divide and Conquer. "Pleistocene", which he wrote this morning, is Alan on bass and guitar; "Leaving", is an old one but re-recorded, and has Mike on guitar and vocals. We've decided on a cover song for Saturday, but you'll have to wait for a clue later in the week. Suffice it to say it'll be unexpected. We are going to try our best to get up 2 songs, whether individual or collaborative, each day for the first week, and then probably slow down to one a day as originally planned. They'll always be up by midnight central time on MySpace, Facebook, and, beginning in a few days, Esnips (only for archiving). Lastly, our jazz band will be performing on a Podcast sometime in the next few weeks, but we haven't received final details yet.

Here are links to all pertinent info:

Follow UnderwaterPanther on:
Blogspot (you are here.)
Twitter (real-time updates beginning no earlier than noon)

Friend/Fan/Listen UnderwaterPanther on:
MySpace (music/friendship available)
Facebook (music/fandom available)
Esnips (music archived at end of week)

day Zero

Over the course of the next few months, UnderwaterPanther will be recording one song in its entirety every day and posting it to our MySpace page @ www.myspace.com/underwaterpanther. The tentative goal is to tackle a different genre of music each day from hip-hop to pop to acoustic to rock to country to jazz. We will only do one cover song per week, and it will be posted on Saturdays. We welcome and appreciate your comments and attention. Pertinent song info (instrumentation, credits and lyrics) as well as any other project updates (upcoming UnderwaterPanther and/or affiliate project gig info) will be available here as will a link to the archived music (MySpace allows only 10 songs at a time to be posted on their site.).