I'm Lee Jones, this blog is about me :D . It's my diary. I talk about my hatred for injustice and unfairness. I talk about my experiences in this nasty music business. I talk about egos. I talk about pathetic little men who seem to be everywhere. I talk about my basketball days, and even my little league baseball days. I don't talk about family, being that I have no family to speak of. It's just me, and I'm more than ok with that.
In case you look back at some of my earlier posts, you'll see me posting at times when I was not having a good time in life. I was using this platform as a diary of sorts. So, there are some less than pleasant posts there, but well, life does what it does. Truth is, I've never been so good at handling things like rude people, gross unfairness, lying, cheating, stealing, manipulating, bullying, and such. It stays right up there forever.
This is the little segment of Lilo And Stitch, where my song, "Kahala Beach" is playing.
I wrote and recorded these instrumentals about 15 years ago. This one has also been in the CW Channel's "Legends Of Tomorrow". I'll put up the video of that another time.
All real instruments, and all production by me - the Wretched Outcast.
The ukulele is my old Sonny D. Tenor. Sonny built it for me back in the early 90s, after the first one I bought from him got stolen.
Being originally from Hawaii, I do some traditional Hawaiian music. This is one that Gabby Pahinui did a long time ago. It's "Wai O Keaniani". I guess this would be my all time favorite Hawaiian song. Note: I don't do any of the Reggae stuff. Anything I do is going to be the traditional Hawaiian. I've never been one to be "Progressive", or contemporary, I generally don't like fusions. I try to keep the identity in place, of each kind of music that I play.
I hate that I have to say this in every video, but I don't want anyone to think I'm doing karaoke, or using AI, computer generated "Content", or anything of the kind. So, it's me, playing all real instruments, doing all real vocals. And I do all the production, by way of multi track recording.
Thanks more than I can say, for being here, and for supporting independent musicians and artists.
This is my favorite Hank Williams Jr. song. It's "Country State Of Mind". It's from back in the 80s.
As always, it's all me playing real instruments, by way of Multi Track Recording. No karaoke tracks, no AI, no computer generated "Content", nothing of the kind - ever. I would never insult you people like that.
This is me having fun with the old surf classic, Wipeout.
I wanted to put up something where I could feature this beautiful set of drums of mine. This is, of course, Wipeout. I'm pretty sure it was originally done by a band called The Surfaris.
There is rust - on me, not the drum set . I never did do a lot of solo type stuff on the drums, and when I did, it was 40 years ago. BUT, in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, we had those old wooden desks. They were set up for two - masonite top, and a space underneath where you could put your books. Some of us boys would get scolded every day for playing Wipeout on those desks. So, I guess I'll credit those old wooden desks for my being able to play Wipeout .
As always, all real instruments, and all production by me, the Wretched Outcast.
This is "Other Side Of The Hill". Some know this as a Chris LeDoux song, but it's not, it was originally done by the Nitty Gritty Dirt band sometime in the 70s. My version is closer to theirs than the Chris LeDoux version.
As always, I'm playing all the instruments - all real instruments - one at a time, of course, thanks to multi track recording.
Having been shadow banned at Google, YouTube, and Facebook all these years, we'll see what happens by posting videos and commentary here at Blogger.
Thanks for being here, and thanks for supporting little nobodies like me.
I don't know what good this will do, but I guess I'll start putting my music videos up here. I have been shadow banned at Google, YouTube, and Facebook for years. I have around 150 videos at YouTube, and I've had this account up for something like 12 years. If you do a standard keyword search for me, you won't find me. You might, on some occasions, find one of the piddly articles on me, you might find my website, which is ancient and has maybe 10 videos, and you might find my Facebook music page, that I pretty much haven't used in years. The only way you'll find me at these platforms is if you type in the name of one of my videos, proper spelling, and my name, proper spelling - you might find me that way, but keyword search - I pretty much don't exist.
Add to that, I've been gangstalked, gaslighted, and otherwise screwed with for most of my adult life. Yes, believe me, I know what that sounds like, but well, it's not nuts if it's really happening.
So, on my music videos, I play all the instruments - all real instruments, of course, I sing all the vocals, do all the production. On most of my more recent ones, you can see right there in the video where I'm playing everything. For those who are not in the business, there is Multi Track Recording. It's been around since the 50s. I'm pretty sure Les Paul is the one who started it, who put it into play. I have a multi track system on my computer, it's called "Adobe Audition". I has 123 individual tracks, which I would never use that many. Normally I use between 10 and 15 tracks. Each track having one instrument on it. I have quality microphones, and quality preamps. I understand signal flow, I understand EQ. I've been in and out of recording studios for 40+ years, being a pain in the rear end to most of the engineers, I asked, I prodded, I tried different stuff. And my own - since the mid 80s, having done hundreds of recordings. The early ones - not so great, I was learning, screwing up, once in awhile doing something good :D .
So, this is the first one I'm putting up. I say this quite often, because of the platform - it's different listening to Spotify, or to the radio, you hear what's being played, where when you're on the computer or your phone, most people will listen to 5 seconds, then on to the next. You're never going to know if something is any good or not if you listen to 5 seconds, and if you listen only once. Also, you'll never hear the actual recording quality if you listen through the microscopic speakers on your phone, tablet, or computer. It's so much better if you use a decent pair of headphones, some decent speakers, or even some decent earbuds.
