hi chris, thanks, yes that Hannah Fry short was the thing that made me say this needs a song!

Thank you for your kind comments and thoughts on 'Run Away', and many thanks for explaining the phrase 'Government by horoscope' that was very informative and interesting🙇‍♀️

Thank you for your kind comments and thoughts on 'Celebrate' 😀

Hey man! Congrats on the 14+ win. Just wanted to say thank you once again for your support and learning me a thing or two about production and arrangement and such! It happens although I may not always mention it. I'll be around during the summer. Hope you enjoy the holiday from 5090. Here's hoping we can put the cap on Insane Beauty, too! Thanks again for everything, friend!

Hi Chris - thanks sm for the feedback and commenting on my song 'End of the World'. and cheers for another great fawm ☺️

Hey there! Yeah, I like the Pocket Operator. It is definitely its own thing, but I don't find it to be fragile. I like how you can sample, tweak sounds, and the sampler is really easy to use. You can also use it to sync, which is nice. Overall, I like it a lot--which I wasn't even sure what I was getting when I opened it as a gift some years ago. Just a very different way of doing things and a refreshing way to create when I am in need--mostly because I can't be in the studio. But once I get going on it, I find it to be inspiring. I just hang mine on a capo that's clipped to my desk. Thanks!

Oh, things are MUCH worse. It sucks man. Pray for America. Thanks for stopping by with the comment on "Already Dead". Peace.

Thanks for listening to my song 777SOS777, the LFE was accidental, but really adds to the song so I keep it haha

Thank you for listening to my synth dabblings. Cminor 9 is the perfect spark for diving into mystery scenes :-)

I just wanted you to know that Tom Lehrer is a musical hero of mine, so your comment on Dried-Out Specialty Bread made my entire week, thank you so much 💕🎶

Cheers for the kind words on my Giles filk! Ethan as a reminder of his past is a fun thread in the show for sure ☺️

Thanks, maestro. Much appreciate your feedback.

Thanks for your comments on "Slush". Glad you liked it. I got that Jaguar new in '64. Played it in my high school surf band. It does have a tone all its own, especially through the Fender spring reverb and Dual Showman.

Hey Chris! Just wanted to drop by and say thank you for your support this FAWM and also during the off-season. I didn't do all that I had hoped to do, but all the same I've done some learning and applied that to a few tunes. But big props to you professor!

Hey Chris, thanks for your comment on "Song of Sky and Ground", my song about depression, and especially thanks for saying that "I won't go with you" has to be coupled with bringing that person along with you on your journey...as I listen back to my stuff from this month (always a fun exercise for me, because, because I'm always like, 'wait, what is this song? I wrote this 3 weeks ago and don't remember it at all!'), this is one i think I'm going to dive into and refine a bit more, and that thought of yours really gives me a good idea of a perspective to add or just to make more plain....so thanks for that!

love it ! thanks

Thanks so much for your comment!

Thanks for your comments on "Amsterdam". Your Pulp Fiction reference made me laugh. Actually, its much closer to the Martin Scorsese movie "After Hours". Glad you liked the hook.

Thanks, Chris, for your kind comments on "The 1980s". That was kind of a documentary song, and one which I will probably dial back a little, lyrically, in the off season. I think it's a little too direct in some areas, but it was great to have FAWM to get it out and start working on it.

Thanks also for all your hard work as a moderator. This is a fantastic event which has helped my songwriting immeasurably.

Chris, thanks for your comment on my song "Generational Gap"! To be fair, I didn't include slangs from our generation because it's written from the perspective of genx! Those are not slangs, just normal language! 😆

Thanks a lot for your very uplifting comment on my bow to Mr. Lynch! It‘s a honor to get this from a musician like you! 🙏

Thoroughly accurate assessment 😎

Cheers for the comment on "Degauss"! I'm glad if my vocals made the great track justice! :)

Thanks for your comment on 'True Life'!

The reverb was so washy that we had to mute it between takes

FYI: After investigating the H90 a little more I think I agree with you.

Don't leave me hanging, did Megalopolis change your life? 😜

I would have loved to have made video segments for the individual bits, but we took it to the wire. Maybe next year.

Thanks for your kind comment on 'Dyatlov Pass'. I'm so pleased you were familiar with the story! It's so wild. The more I read about it, the crazier it gets. It was a new sound/style I'm not used to writing so I hope I did the subject justice.

Thanks for the great comment about I Love You More Than My Guitar Pedals! That really made my day!

Hi Chris, many thanks for your comments on my sad "All Fine Not"! You really got the idea.

Nope. I got a HOF2 where the predelay switch is broken for free and I can honestly say that I do not like the quality of ANY of those reverbs. (I'm hard to please ;) ) + I still have the RV-200 still which has good "standard" reverbs which are vastly better than a TC HOF2 + it has midi.

What I’m lacking is only a decent ambient reverb in pedal form. For a single ambient pedal I could do without midi. For a while I was considering a Cloudburst but I think it's overpriced for doing a single thing + I am not a big fan of shimmer. (FWIW: The only shimmer reverb I have ever tolerated is Valhalla's Shimmer plugin which IMO is really good and controllable. Then again you could "fabricate" all sorts of shimmer fx in your DAW using normal plugin reverbs and pitch shifting).

I realize that the only way to go forward pedal-wise might be to give up and get one of the big ones or maybe a cheapish Walrus Fundamental Ambient. ;)

Life is hard for those with GAS.

Pretty cool to have a pic of you in front of Peter Gabriel’s SSL! Almost as nice as mine! Hahaha! Blessings and following now! Want to be able to keep up with ya next FAWM!

If I wanted a do-it-all reverb I'd probably go for the BigSky (I love my Strymon OD pedals) but I recently downscaled my gigging board (don't care much for lugging around a huge piece of metal with a lot of pedals I rarely use) and both the BigSky and the H90 are too big. When recording I prefer plugin reverbs and delays over pedals and I have no live use for these big super spec'ed pedals. I'm just looking for a more or less one-trick-pony ambient-ish reverb pedal as a live complement for those rare moments OR a reverb pedal with great bread-and-butter reverb + a decent ambient in a smaller form factor than the BigSky and it's likes. I was foolish to buy a RV-200 just because it had decent room, hall and plates but for me all the 8 other reverbs were more or less utter crap. A Blue Sky lacks the ambient parts else it would probably be perfect for my needs/size.

Thanks for the comment on 'Lily'. Insightful perspective and very kind ... thanks again.

Thanks for that, very kind to comment this late in the game! I love the pic in your bio there, I know at least one person who'd bite your arm off for a chance to sit there. 😀

first prize for life-affirming comment! thank you, made my day!!

Thanks for your thoughtful comments on Starflight!

Thanks for the Randall Munroe reference… so lovely and apropos! Cheers to you and yours!

Thanks for the listen and comments on 'Lovely Day' - The Squire Active Jazz Bass is a new toy for me so I've used it on almost everything. Apparently it's part of the Squire 'Contemporary' range, they did an active Precision Bass too . Just stumbled upon it on e-Bay while looking for a standard Jazz Bass.

Bill here from Willie de Sacra. Really appreciate your comments re: I'm in With the Skin Crowd. And loved the Roxy Music comment. My other band also does Bryan Ferry's version of the tune you referenced, what a great song. And the original is no slouch, either. Take care and thanks.

Thanks so much for your kind comments on "You and Me". I will have to work on my Tom Petty voice or maybe I could just roll off the high freqs and opt for Lynne. It's hard to be your own supergroup - it's much easier to be your own super groupie although that tends to be a bit lonely and sometimes it's hard to sort out your different personalities. ;)

I wonder what to do after FAWM. Maybe it's time for some public music time one way or another now that I got too much time and no future. Is Bandcamp fun/useful?

(BTW, I thought you were more of a prog kind of person).

Thanks for the comment on "The Dogs". I think the answer to your question is that sometimes it's nice to push the tempo a touch -- chorus maybe, or to make it more relaxed. In this song, there wasn't a lot of variation, but I wanted to be familiar with the tool for times when it might matter more. (Glad it wasn't terribly obvious, actually! 😀 )

Thanks so much for your comment on "Broken Oscillations"! No vocoder on this one, just tuned the vocals a little bit and got lucky that everything lined up. The delay also does a lot to glue it all together.

Thanks, Chris, it's an ego boost to get a prog thumbs up from you!

I remember buying Wakeman's 'Six Wives...', playing the heck out of it, and calling up a radio station with my vote for it for Album of the Year. Of course, Dark Side of the Moon crushed in the poll, but I was proud of my youthful good taste.

Thanks for the comment on 'Unknown'!

"The Mind Parasites" is a really Lovecraftian novel. An interesting read.

Thanx for your comments!! You've spotted my (not so secret?) Hawkwind influence!

Thanks for your comment on my song "On Rene"! I would have to agree that you should get bank manager approval before getting too far into modular. :( But VCV rack is a totally legit substitute and something I use regularly along side the hardware modules.

I had fun with my ambient remixes. glad you got the vibe of 'terranogha'—after a few listens, I knew it needed a different keyboard.