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	Messages from Slim: Holidays 2009 "Coversion!" our 2nd holiday gift, download it hyar! "Coversion" is a genuine surprise -- our cautious natures demand that we keep its contents a secret. But we'll hint that many of the songs on "Coversion" will be familiar to you, yet quite original in their own way. You'll enjoy this, we promise. Happy Holidays to all you wonderful, superlative people! Download Coversion 9) 192kbps MP3 files 2-sided CD insert art, iTunes art All in single Zip file -45 megabyte download total ----------------------------------------------------------------------- December 2009 "Quadrilogy" 4-song EP -- here for the downloading Download Quadrilogy Four 192kbps MP3 files 2-sided CD insert art, JPG Quadrilogy Lyrics, RTF text file ALL in single Zip file - 22.5 megabyte download total The first of TWO free holiday gifts from Slim Volume to you (stay tuned for the next giftee). The songs, in order, are Omega Males, Golden Age, Cold Light of Day and Shoulder to the Wheel. Four songs, loosely autobiographical, that recount the early life and band adventures of Mark King & Greg Bell, aka Slim Volume. Drums, bass, many vocals, and ONE guitar. Slim always liked the idea of songs that don't repeat lyrics, or sections, or verses, or choruses...just one ever-changing narrative. This is the only time he's actually done it! You see, one day Greg and Slim jammed for about 25 minutes on guitar and drums at Greg's Soundchasm Studio, recording the whole thing. Slim took the raw tracks home and realized there were SONGS in that jam. Short, little songs, but songs. So he sang them over the jam. And a story line emerged -- Mark and Greg meet, start playing music, help form a really successful Indianapolis band, which then proceeds to explode itself to itty bits. Mark moves to Atlanta, Greg goes wild, Mark moves back to Indiana, they start playing music together again. NONE of which is obvious in the lyrics -- so make up your own meanings. This result is more spontaneous and rather more relentlessly ROCKing than you may have expected from Slim Volume. Just turn Greg loose on guitar -- works like a charm. Download this music. Share it. We hope you enjoy, especially those of you who remember Monkey Island. "Dedicated to all the musicians we've worked with since the Golden Age. Especially the Muncie ones." --Slim --------------------------------------------------------------- May 2007 Record Fairy Leaves CDs Under Futon PRODUCER/ENGINEER GREG BELL SAYS: "We tacitly decided to not put any bad songs on these records, but save them for our next effort where massive marketing and Clearchannel will convince you they're great. Perhaps Slim and I want you to buy the disks, but that's really too much pressure for us. If you want to fondle the actual CDs, you'll need to buy them at CD Baby. Tracks will be available for individual download if you're short of time or funds or if, like us, you aren't sure out how to put a CD inside your iPod. For downloads see our DigiStation location since we keep all the money from a Digstation download." SLIM VOLUME SAYS: "Included on these CDs are 5 "new" songs -- new in that they weren't posted or shared with our friendbase before the CDs came out. But for many of you, all these tunes are new. And they're new to Greg and I, since they've been re-mixed, newly mastered and buffed to a high sheen. Even my lo-fi tracks sound plump. Greg -- the master guitarist and recordist who makes the entire Slim phenomenon possible -- toiled for months to finesse the fidelity and fatness of the tracks, and he coached my best singing and drumming performances, like, ever. Then he added metric tons of the most magnificent guitar-playing -- it just makes me weep. There's even a full string arrangement on our new tune "Nothin' Better To Do," a fantastic boon bestowed upon us by our Australian sensei Peter Chambers. Now Slim go nite-nite town." November 2005 Pictures Update: Abbey Road 2005 above: Greg in Abbey Road Studio 3, London 2005 If you, like me, spent your adolescent years goofily deifying the Beatles and believing Abbey Road was Mt. Olympus, then I know you've enjoyed the snapshots of buddy Greg's 1972 Abbey Road incursion. Well, he's done it again on a grander scale. Greg and wife Erin made a mad dash thru England and France this October (2005). While in London they got an insider's tour of Abbey Road Studios, something you can't get without the type of invitation secured for Greg by a kind friend. See photos of the tour in the Pictures section, underneath the 1972 photos. Joining Greg and Erin on their tour was our dear friend Larry, a former Hoosier classmate who has now lived and worked in the UK for many years. Larry was the bassist, bandleader and songwriter in our first group, the teenaged but prodigious Ultimatum. Seeing both Larry and Greg hanging out in Abbey Road makes the whole thing real to Slim, and thrilling as all get out. Abbey Road Studios, birthplace of Beatles recordings and many others (incl. Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon") remains one of the finest and largest recording facilities on earth, IOW Mt. Olympus. -- Love, Slim
FRIENDS' LINKS: Soundchasm Studio Make music with a friend! His name is Greg! LaRue Designs Beautifully crafted felted, stitched and beaded art Larold Rebhun "L" is for Larold -- and legend! Are you an X-Files fan? A Harry Nilsson fan? Ringo fan? LA studio gossip fan? Top Hollywood audio engineer Larold Rebhun's got some stories for you. Ron Sexsmith The best pop songwriter working today. No shit. Marty Wombacher NYC author and fellow f-bomb addict -- and he wrote the lyrics to "Anyway Girl"! Marty's off the Web for a spell, working on some new idears for a better 2010 for all! Tom Sullivan Indianapolis guitarist and our musical mentor. Greg & me help out on Tom's CD, recorded by Greg at Soundchasm. Great gospel w/ old-time instruments plus a little southern rock to shake it up. Meanwhile, he gigs as a jazz leader! Lynette K. Waters-Whitesell If I could make sounds like she uses color... Vinylhunt.com Find music on vinyl wherever you are -- very cool! Girl Howdy! Boston-area roots n' western band -- real women, real hot, real harmonious, real honk of the tonk. --------------------------------------------- Site design/build, CD design: Mark K. King Technical consulting: Nick Mcgrath All site content protected by US and international copyright laws. All songs (c) M.K.King 2007 --------------------------------------------- so many gods, so many creeds so many paths that wind and wind when just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs