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This song features just myself on all the instruments and vocals, while also doing the duties of engineer, including mixing and mastering. This song was recorded at my home studio with Audacity, a free open source software for recording and editing sounds on my 160GB, 3.2 GHZ Pentium IV HP computer made back in 2004. I upgraded the memory to 2GB. Only 512 MB of memory originally came with the computer. This song was performed on basic equipment, from a first act guitar for leads, a Fender Deluxe Stratocaster for rhythm (played through a Crate 120 Watt solid state amp), a small Peavey 50 watt bass amp, a Cameo bass guitar, a discovery first act drum set and a $10 computer microphone, all while capturing the sounds as I performed them live without any pre-amps, compressors or a mixer, making it quite the challenge to balance the entire sound.
This is another song about a girl I met when I was a teenager. She seemed so strange to me at the time. The words rang true way back when. I got the riff from the song, "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran. I changed the riff slightly by hammering my fingers on an off-beat. I really liked this one when I first wrote it since it was a little different from the songs I wrote back then, at least musically. So, it seemed a bit "strange" to me at the time. This song was more on the experimental side since I was beginning to tire of writing songs with similar beats. (I hadn't yet gotten into the ¾ time signature stuff.) But this, especially the drum beats, provided enough of a departure. With the added backwards guitar and vocals, I can say I pushed the Audacity program to its limits while having the most fun recording a song. Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles also helped inspire the "psychedelic" feel of this tune. Oh, and yes, the ending isn't an accident. It's supposed to be like that. This is the 6th song that I wrote.

Recorded at MINE music Studio in Auburn, WA.

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IT SEEMS SO STRANGE DEAR, WHO’S TO BLAME
WHEN THINGS ARE DIFFERENT AND NOTHING’S THE SAME?
WHEN YOU LEFT ME, I WAS FAR BEHIND,
RUNNING IN CIRCLES AND RUNNIN’ BLIND.

IT SEEMS SO STRANGE NOW, WHY DID YOU LIE?
YOU MADE ME MAD AND YOU MADE ME CRY.
IT SEEMS SO STRANGE DEAR, WHO’S TO BLAME?
YOU ARE TO BLAME FOR ALL MY PAIN.

NOW THAT YOU’VE GONE AWAY,
I’LL GET BY AND GO MY WAY.
NOW THAT I’M ALL ALONE.
YOU THEN CALL ME ON THE PHONE.
(SOLO)
IT SEEMS SO STRANGE GIRL, WHY DID WE FIGHT?
NOW THAT YOU’RE GONE, I FEEL ALL RIGHT.
IT SEEMS SO STRANGE DEAR. I’M GLAD YOU’RE GONE.
SO I CAN LIVE AGAIN AND GO ON.

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from IT SEEMS SO STRANGE [Digitally Remastered], released May 26, 2014
Wayde K. Brown

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I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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