mangobananas music : The Andy Band : 2W (feat. Tommy)

2W (feat. Tommy)

1	tagged in a photo	2009.02.16	Andy - keyboards (programmed sampled drums and piano), electric guitar, acoustic fretless 5-string bass, vocals (2x) Tommy - slide acoustic guitar, vocals (2x) From a session in mangobananas studio, Ithaca, on Feb 16, 2009.	706	2W (feat. Tommy)	The Andy Band	https://mangobananas.com/img/icons/W2.jpg
2	get off my back	2009.02.16	Andy - keyboards (programmed sampled drums and piano), acoustic guitar, acoustic fretless 5-string bass, background vocals (4x) Tommy - acoustic guitar, vocals, harp, background vocals (4x) From a session in mangobananas studios Ithaca on February 16, 2009.	706	2W (feat. Tommy)	The Andy Band	https://mangobananas.com/img/icons/W2.jpg
3	the masterpiece	2009.02.16	Andy - acoustic guitar Tommy - acoustic guitar Tommy came over for Presidents Day 2009, 16 Feb. This was the first bit, just a jam on one of Tommy's ideas after getting levels set. My guitar is miked in the usual way with the Earthworks SR-77 pretty close through the Symetrix 628 out S/PDIF to the Firepod and the Rode NT1-A about 2 feet away into the Firepod. Tommy had my new mics, an AT2021 small-diaphragm condenser up close and an AT2020 large-diaphragm condenser avout 2 feet away.	706	2W (feat. Tommy)	The Andy Band	https://mangobananas.com/img/icons/W2.jpg
4	rock harp	2008.04.11	Tom - blues harp, vocals Andy - electric guitar, bass, vocals, programming drums From a session Tommy and I did in mangobananas studios Ithaca on July 11, 2008. We did two 8-bar sections individually just rockin out on them, then inserted a breakdown section in the middle. It was supposed to be a rockin metal harp song but ended up going in a total R&B feel.	706	2W (feat. Tommy)	The Andy Band	https://mangobananas.com/img/icons/W2.jpg
5	happen on a Monday	2008.04.11	Tom - acoustic guitar, blues harp, vocals (simultaneous) Andy - acoustic guitar, piano, backing vocals, programming drums in Logic Awesome 12-bar thing that Tom wrote, from a session Tommy and I did in mangobananas studios Ithaca on July 11, 2008.	706	2W (feat. Tommy)	The Andy Band	https://mangobananas.com/img/icons/W2.jpg
6	2W = 4Us	2008.04.11	Tom - acoustic guitar and blues harp (simultaneous) Andy - acoustic guitar, programming drums and bass in Logic This is a jam on a drum and bass loop I set up, from a session Tommy and I did in mangobananas studios Ithaca on July 11, 2008.	706	2W (feat. Tommy)	The Andy Band	https://mangobananas.com/img/icons/W2.jpg
7	mule	2009.06.12	Tommy: acoustic guitar, harp, and vocals Andy: acoustic guitar. From a session at mangobananas studios Ithaca on 12 June 2009.	706	2W (feat. Tommy)	The Andy Band	https://mangobananas.com/img/icons/TommyGitHarp.jpg
8	diamonds and dust	2009.06.12	Tommy: acoustic guitar, harp, and vocals Andy: acoustic guitar. From a session at mangobananas studios Ithaca on 12 June 2009.	706	2W (feat. Tommy)	The Andy Band	https://mangobananas.com/img/icons/TommyGitHarp.jpg

Info for song: tagged in a photo

Andy - keyboards (programmed sampled drums and piano), electric guitar, acoustic fretless 5-string bass, vocals (2x)
Tommy - slide acoustic guitar, vocals (2x)

From a session in mangobananas studio, Ithaca, on Feb 16, 2009.

Link: https://mangobananas.com/music.php?songID=554

Download: tagged in a photo mix 2.mp3

This song was the Pick of the Week on 2014.09.07. Here's the story:

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This is a song Tommy Whittle and I did on Presidents Day 2009 (Monday, February 16). I had the day off work, my wife didn't, so Tommy and I made an afternoon party in mangobananas studio, tracking three tunes. This was the third one. We'd been talking a lot about MySpace and Facebook and each of our attempts to promote our music on these exploding social sites. So we had this idea for the refrain of "got tagged in a photo on spacebook today", but for the verses I'd just read from my news feed.

I built up the backing tracks with an Apple drum loop, some piano-roll programmed drums on top of that, another layer of drum embellishments, plus a sampled piano part in the refrains. I added 5-string fretless acoustic bass guitar, and electric guitar (Strat). Tommy played some slide guitar on his acoustic. Then we did two passes of vocals, with a mic on each of us. This was mangobananas studio, Ithaca, NY.

This session, plus two others with Tommy from 2008 and 2009, are on The Andy Band album 2W. Tommy plays in the all-improv groups Killer Whirlpool and Killer Voyage with me.

Thanks for listening!

-Andy

tagged in a photo

got tagged in a photo on spacebook today
got tagged in a photo on spacebook today
not long ago he was old and gray
got tagged in a photo on spacebook today

Peter Downes is making jambalaya
Scott Brim is done with home improvement until tomorrow
Andrea Cain is not cool enough for Guitar Center
David J Metevier is leaving for dinner with Mom shortly
Josie Cundy is thinking about visiting Vicki
thinking about going for a walk
thinking about going to pick up some more bullets

got tagged in a photo on spacebook today
everybody talking like anybody gives a shit today
my spacebook today
my spacebook today
what about MySpace 
got eighteen thousand hits

John Duncan is sick
Bil Bitz says the Wings will gobble up the Avalunch from Colorado
Jason Cain says someday everything's gonna be different 
when I paint my masterpiece, when I paint my masterpiece

got tagged in a photo on spacebook today
18 thousands hits on MySpace today
got 15 hundred hits on myspace today
only got eleven friends
who's been looking at me?

Bil Bitz is making crab legs
John Saylor is listening to Jeff Beck "Blow by Blow" before cooking dinner
Roy Wollen is drinking Miller High Life listening to Bruce's "Devils and Dust"
Bil Bitz is smiling and working

on my Facebook today
everybody's posting stuff about what they're doing today
everybody's on Facebook today
Tommy Whittle is mangobananas with Andy today

Anne Downes spent way too much time on Facebook yesterday
Russ Sternglass is a fishbowl man
Anne Downes is awaiting the arrival of her friend Sassy Cassie
Josie Cundy is eating lunch like chicken but flighty
is getting to know Pine Siskens
trying to work 

trying to work on MySpace
trying to get more hits
a thousand people in my space today
78 friends in Facebook today

I gotta check out the news feed
gotta know the twitting twitters of every friend's thought today
gotta get the live feed
gotta check out the camera uploaded photos of people cooking
look at their dinner
oh my oh good golly miss Molly
happy birthday!

John C Beck is pausing for claws
Rene Garrett is skim coating plaster walls
oh, check out somebody's bucket list
twenty CDs you wouldn't 
you wouldn't want to be without 
on a desert island

oh there's so much going on
on Facebook today
so much going on with all my friends
oh I gotta check it out again
gotta check it out

tag you Tommy
on Facebook today
tag you Tommy
on Facebook today
got tagged on Facebook today
good thing I can remove the tag
make it go away

catapulted to MySpace today
isn't it a funny world
that we twitter so much
and we care
that we think we care what anybody's doing today

got tagged in a photo on spacebook today
got tagged in a photo on space book today

©2009 by Andy Wyatt and Tommy Whittle (and Andy's Facebook friends)

Info for album: 2W (feat. Tommy)

This album is all collaborations with Andy's friend Tommy Whittle, who plays in Killer Whirlpool and Killer Voyage with Andy.

Tommy and Andy had a great 3-song session Friday 11 April 2008, another great 3-song session on Monday 16 February 2009, and a super 2-song session on Friday 12 June 2009. All recorded in mangobananas studio, Ithaca, NY.

Link: https://mangobananas.com/music.php?albumID=706

Album recording info:

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song recording info favorite / pick of the week
tagged in a photo Andy - keyboards (programmed sampled drums and piano), electric guitar, acoustic fretless 5-string bass, vocals (2x)
Tommy - slide acoustic guitar, vocals (2x)

From a session in mangobananas studio, Ithaca, on Feb 16, 2009. ♥︎ 2014.09.07
get off my back Andy - keyboards (programmed sampled drums and piano), acoustic guitar, acoustic fretless 5-string bass, background vocals (4x)
Tommy - acoustic guitar, vocals, harp, background vocals (4x)

From a session in mangobananas studios Ithaca on February 16, 2009. ♥︎
the masterpiece Andy - acoustic guitar
Tommy - acoustic guitar

Tommy came over for Presidents Day 2009, 16 Feb. This was the first bit, just a jam on one of Tommy's ideas after getting levels set. My guitar is miked in the usual way with the Earthworks SR-77 pretty close through the Symetrix 628 out S/PDIF to the Firepod and the Rode NT1-A about 2 feet away into the Firepod. Tommy had my new mics, an AT2021 small-diaphragm condenser up close and an AT2020 large-diaphragm condenser avout 2 feet away.
rock harp Tom - blues harp, vocals
Andy - electric guitar, bass, vocals, programming drums

From a session Tommy and I did in mangobananas studios Ithaca on July 11, 2008. We did two 8-bar sections individually just rockin out on them, then inserted a breakdown section in the middle. It was supposed to be a rockin metal harp song but ended up going in a total R&B feel.
happen on a Monday Tom - acoustic guitar, blues harp, vocals (simultaneous)
Andy - acoustic guitar, piano, backing vocals, programming drums in Logic

Awesome 12-bar thing that Tom wrote, from a session Tommy and I did in mangobananas studios Ithaca on July 11, 2008. ♥︎
2W = 4Us Tom - acoustic guitar and blues harp (simultaneous)
Andy - acoustic guitar, programming drums and bass in Logic

This is a jam on a drum and bass loop I set up, from a session Tommy and I did in mangobananas studios Ithaca on July 11, 2008.
mule Tommy: acoustic guitar, harp, and vocals
Andy: acoustic guitar.

From a session at mangobananas studios Ithaca on 12 June 2009.
diamonds and dust Tommy: acoustic guitar, harp, and vocals
Andy: acoustic guitar.

From a session at mangobananas studios Ithaca on 12 June 2009.

song	recording info	favorite / pick of the week
tagged in a photo	Andy - keyboards (programmed sampled drums and piano), electric guitar, acoustic fretless 5-string bass, vocals (2x) Tommy - slide acoustic guitar, vocals (2x) From a session in mangobananas studio, Ithaca, on Feb 16, 2009.	♥︎ 2014.09.07
get off my back	Andy - keyboards (programmed sampled drums and piano), acoustic guitar, acoustic fretless 5-string bass, background vocals (4x) Tommy - acoustic guitar, vocals, harp, background vocals (4x) From a session in mangobananas studios Ithaca on February 16, 2009.	♥︎
the masterpiece	Andy - acoustic guitar Tommy - acoustic guitar Tommy came over for Presidents Day 2009, 16 Feb. This was the first bit, just a jam on one of Tommy's ideas after getting levels set. My guitar is miked in the usual way with the Earthworks SR-77 pretty close through the Symetrix 628 out S/PDIF to the Firepod and the Rode NT1-A about 2 feet away into the Firepod. Tommy had my new mics, an AT2021 small-diaphragm condenser up close and an AT2020 large-diaphragm condenser avout 2 feet away.
rock harp	Tom - blues harp, vocals Andy - electric guitar, bass, vocals, programming drums From a session Tommy and I did in mangobananas studios Ithaca on July 11, 2008. We did two 8-bar sections individually just rockin out on them, then inserted a breakdown section in the middle. It was supposed to be a rockin metal harp song but ended up going in a total R&B feel.
happen on a Monday	Tom - acoustic guitar, blues harp, vocals (simultaneous) Andy - acoustic guitar, piano, backing vocals, programming drums in Logic Awesome 12-bar thing that Tom wrote, from a session Tommy and I did in mangobananas studios Ithaca on July 11, 2008.	♥︎
2W = 4Us	Tom - acoustic guitar and blues harp (simultaneous) Andy - acoustic guitar, programming drums and bass in Logic This is a jam on a drum and bass loop I set up, from a session Tommy and I did in mangobananas studios Ithaca on July 11, 2008.
mule	Tommy: acoustic guitar, harp, and vocals Andy: acoustic guitar. From a session at mangobananas studios Ithaca on 12 June 2009.
diamonds and dust	Tommy: acoustic guitar, harp, and vocals Andy: acoustic guitar. From a session at mangobananas studios Ithaca on 12 June 2009.

Info for artist: The Andy Band

eclectic acoustics

Members: 
Andy Wyatt - vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, mandolin, ukulele, studio.
Guest musicians have included co-conspirators from other projects/bands including: Jon Morse, Tim Odell, Pete Downes, Ayman Mobarak, Paul Tuckey, Tommy Whittle, Pete Bosanko, and Eric Krivitzky

Years of Activity:
1978-present

Overview:
There are cassette tapes by "The Andy Band" dating back to 1979, when Andy was 14 years old, and he is still an avid recording musician. Sometimes The Andy Band is all about "hit record and go" improvisation, other times it's all about one-man-band multi-tracking in the studio. Since 2010, Andy has been playing some of these songs live near his new home in Vermont at open mics. He relishes the thrill of improvising with an audience, as well as singing three-part harmonies and playing bass with players there. But he also loves building up a song with layers and layers of Andys, singing and playing everything.

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