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DealMachine-virtual_band.xml -- THIS IS the new virtual rock band by Michael
W. Dean."DEAL MACHINE" is an anagram for my name, "Michael
Dean."
"Virtual bands: No driving, no lifting, no BITCHING!!"
"All of the band with none of the smell"......."Deal Machine: Outsourcing
guitar playing to the lowest bidder since October!"
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of Michael W. Dean by Debra Jean Dean
THE
SONGS:
(All vocals, insturments and mixing by Michael W. Dean, uuless
otherwise noted. Right click to download:
| FINAL MIXES |
| A satanic remix of the Hedgie Goth Song called "Eat your tub of butter!" |
| "Ode
To a Cat" WITH SAX!!! - Song by Michael W. Dean. Final mix. Guitar and
Drums: George Earth. Vocals, bass guitar and organ: Michael W. Dean. Cat: Charlie.
Backup vocals & cat wrangling: Debra Jean Dean. SAX: Bob
Bartosik. |
| "God Rest Ye Merry Bonzo, FINAL MIX" ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" over a John Bonham drum loop.) Vocals, bass guitar, and piano: Michael W. Dean. Guitar: George Earth. |
| "Ode
To a Cat" by Michael W. Dean. Final mix. Guitar and Drums: George Earth.
Vocals, bass guitar and organ: Michael W. Dean. Cat: Charlie. Backup vocals &
cat wrangling: Debra Jean Dean. NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED (they were just mildly annoyed.) |
| "Thursday" by Morphine. (FINAL MIX.) Drums, bass and guitar: Cliff Truesdell. Vocals: Michael W. Dean. Lead Guitar: John Abella. Female vocal: Debra Jean Dean. |
| "I Don't Need to Understand FINAL Mix" by Baby Opaque. Bass, drums and vocal: MWD. Guitar: George Earth and Skip Lunch. Mix: George Earth and MWD. (song written by Wilson/Dean/Bérubé) |
| "Goin' Out West" by Tom Waits. (FINAL MIX.) Drums, bass and guitar: Cliff Truesdell. Vocals and Bass: Michael W. Dean. Slide Guitar: John Abella. |
| "Hallelujah" By Leonard Cohen (This is a variation on the Jeff Buckley arrangement). (FINAL MIX.) Drums, guitar, bass and organ: Cliff Truesdell. Pedal steel guitar: Charlie Kramer. This is the song I sang in memory of my daughter Amelia. |
| "Ha Ha Ha" by Flipper. (FINAL MIX.) GUITAR: Skip Lunch. Bass and vocal: MWD BG vocal: Debra Jean Dean |
| "Hey Man Nice Shot" by Filter. (FINAL MIX.) GUITAR: Charlie Kramer |
60-second MP3 promo spot for Deal Machine. Feel free to post anywhere online, use in podcasts, e-mail to people, use on your MySpace site or broadcast on radio.
My current stable o' hos (guitarists I've known for ten to twenty years each,
who play in my virtual band):
Charlie
Kramer
Skip
Lunch
Cliff
Truesdell
John
Abella
George
Earth
"DEAL MACHINE" is my new virtual band.
I recently got married and moved out to the suburbs, after living in cities (Washington DC, San Francisco and then Los Angeles) for over 20 years. I built a little recording studio and started podcasting with my wife, Debra Jean Dean. We are having a blast.
But she has a 9-5 job and I work at home, and am currently between projects, but collecting royalties on previous projects. SO....since I have a LOT of time on my hands, I started playing music again. I haven't touched a bass or sang in three years. I've haven't played bass or sang regularly for THIRTEEN years, since my band, BOMB, broke up.
I decided to start by doing covers of music by other people. Great songs that I love, and bring my own touch to. I started with covers because it's easy…sort of "training wheels" for falling back on the bicycle. Playing bass was physically hard at first, and I wanted to get my hands back in shape. I also couldn't sing as strongly as I used to. And I was getting used to my new recording gear. I've been in a lot of studios before, but they never let me near the knobs, so I went out and bought my own knobs. And some great microphones, and a good mixer. And we dumpster dived carpet to cover the walls and ceiling, and I was in business.
So I was getting used to playing and singing again, and learning to record, and wanted to get that all solid before writing songs again….That will come in time.
On my computer, I can play drums, I am getting a keyboard, I have a bass (my wife's son's bass that was in a closet collecting dust with no strings on it) and can sing. But I don't have a guitar, and I'm not a great guitarist. But I know a lot of great guitarists. Most of them are like me: old punk rockers who still love music, have recording gear, but hate bands, hate dealing with bands, and just wanna rock. And collaborating over the Internet is the best way to do that. So I'm outsourcing the guitar playing to friends of mine, across the country and across the globe.
I was working on my first cover, "Hey Man Nice Shot" the day I found out my daughter Amelia Worth died of Leukemia (November 7, 2006 ). Instead of laying in bed and crying for a week, which was my first instinct, I got up, walked into the next room (my studio), and did the vocals at four in the morning. They were all one take, and are filled with a lot of spent emotion.
I e-mailed the rough song file to my dear friend of many years, Charlie Kramer (Mr. Anus from "The Happy Flowers.") He recorded tracks in his Washington DC home studio, sent them back, I mixed it, and DEAL MACHINE was born.
Over the next few days, I collaborated on a number of songs with several different friends, including Skip Lunch (another great guy I've known for 20 years, who now lives in China), and am loving it.
It's all the fun of playing music without any of the bullshit, ego, driving, begging for gigs, lifting gear, dealing with evil promoters and putting up with late/flaky/immature band members.
--Michael W. Dean
Michael's podcast, Clone The Homeless
Michael W. Dean's blog, StinkFight