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Hans Gruber: Ultimate Villain

I (try to) routinely participate in Songfight, on online songwriting competition. They post song titles, you choose one, then write and record a song by the deadline. We usually have about a week to complete the songs.

It's all in good fun, with hale and hearty trash-talking and other jaunty banter on the discussion boards. I'm not terribly concerned with winning, I just enjoy the structure, process, and support.

My 'band' name is Hans Gruber: Ultimate Villain. Since I'm not really a band, I guess you could call it a 'pseudonym'.

The History Of My Broken Heart

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Submitted for Songfight Monday, September 3rd 2007.

Thank God For Memphis

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Submitted for Songfight Monday, August 20th 2007.

Suzanne and I stopped at Memphis, TN on the way home from New Orleans years ago one lazy summer afternoon. We didn't spend much time, but I was determined to pay respects to Sun Studios, so we took a walk down the dusty highway from the city center.

Saving Throw

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Original mix submitted for the Memorial Day Fight 2006.

Working some power-chord sliding on the guitar. Sounds like something from the 90's...Teenage Fanclub, perhaps? I came in second place! Not bad...but there's no prize for second ;)

Galaxies Floating on a Dark Matter Stream

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Missed the deadline January 28, 2006 Songfight

This was my best Songfight submission to date, but I missed the deadline like an idiot. It was done in time, but I thought it was due at 10PM...not 10AM...duh

What's In It For Me

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Submitted for Songfight due June 13, 2005

This was my fourth songfight, and the first with my guitar and new recording software. I had a blast recording it, even though I was cluelessly plucking around on the frets trying to make sense of such a strange instrument. I did some strong accompaniment in Reason to try to make up for other inadequacies (Like the god-awful singing). Sounds like the Dead on quaaludes. I tied for second place with two other songs...close fight!

Brand New Car

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Re-recording of original for Songfight May 2, 2005

I've decided to revisit some of my earlier songs to try to clean them up and build them out. This is a work in progress, and still has some samples from the original - which I'm trying to replace with my own playing.