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1I want my Mac back2010.03.05Andy - acoustic guitar, vocals Paul - acoustic guitar (Backpacker) Tim - bass guitar Improvised and recorded live in Tim's place in Kent, England, UK on March 5, 2010. ©2010 by The Tim & Andy Band778chimney cats (feat. Paul)The Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/chimney_cats_TnA.png
2cuban sandwich2007.07.12Tim: bass (2 tracks) Andy: guitar (Strat) (3 tracks), drum programming, acoustic guitar Jon: drum kit Recording started 8 Feb 2006 in mangobananas studio, Ithaca, NY, with Tim and Andy recording loops. Another quick jam with Tim (Feb 8, 2006) over a drum beat I programmed with the mouse using Ultrabeat synth. This has some cool effects and potential for layering -- I can hear a gravelly rap over this, some urban devolution and psychedelic descent. On July 2 (Jon jam 4) Jon overdubbed drums while I played strat doing some soloing. When mixing and arranging that I found an acoustic guitar part that I layed in for 8 or 10 measures as an alternate part. Recorded that on the Taylor with the usual 2 mic setup on July 5, 2007. Also, while I was walking though the song 2 bars at a time doing the drum comps, I heard goovy parts and I played around and recorded with clavinet (EVD6) and piano (EXS24). The piano part is becoming the vocal melody (or counter-melody) in my head. That got me to this final mix on July 12, 2007.701lefty looseyThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/sixfootmoles.jpg
3into the station2007.11.20Tim - drum programming, bass Andy - drum programming, guitars Tim visiting from the UK, an afternoon of fun in the studio....Nov 20, 2007. The awesome rhythm comes from the trains in England via Tim, the great syncopation and melding of the two parts was awesome. I played my Strat, Tim played Eric's bass. We both went DI thru the Firepod, jamming together to find the riffs while monitoring thru the studio monitors. We recorded bits for different loops separately. The guitar doing the rhythm crunch is tuned CADGBE (E dropped down to a C). Logic's bass amp and guitar amp plugins were used on all gits. 701lefty looseyThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/sixfootmoles.jpg
4A Tupperware Party1982.03.19Tim: bass; drums; tupperware Andy: guitar -Incredibly great! Recorded 19 Mar 1982 with two mics into a cassette deck. Recorded in Tim's basement on Mount Pleasant. Deck-to-deck overdub. ©1982 The Tim & Andy Band785Mount PleasantThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/TimTowelHV4H.jpg
5Ode to Mike1984.07.11Tim: drums; bass; bvox Andy: clean guitar; distorted guitar; lead vox -Geez. Recorded 11 July 1984 with two mics into a cassette deck. Deck-to-deck overdubs. ©1984 The Tim & Andy Band788AhemThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/ATJam1984IthFest.jpg
6New Place to Live1988.03.26Andy - vocals and electric guitar Tim - drum kit Ayman - 5-string fretless electric bass Recorded at Warren Road Studios with two mics into a cassette deck on 26 March 1988773insects (feat. Ayman)The Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/insects-and-monkeys.jpg
7Baby II1982.03.26Tim: drums, backup vocals Andy: vocals, guitar -Not the same as Baby I - Different! Recorded 26 Mar 1982 with two mics into a cassette deck. Recorded in Tim's basement on Mount Pleasant. ©1982 The Tim & Andy Band786FreewayThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/deep.jpg
8Posterus1983.02.18Tim: drums; bass Andy: guitar; 12-string -Excellent jazz piece - just so awesome Recorded 18 Feb 1983 with two mics into a cassette deck. Recorded in Tim's basement on Mount Pleasant. ©1983 The Tim & Andy Band787Rubber DuckThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/rubberduck.jpg
9zone of tone2006.05.20Andy - electric guitar (strat) Tim - bass Drum loops from GarageBand, arranged by Tim and Andy Tim came over May 20, 2006 for an afternoon. I'd just gotten my new Taylor 310 (acoustic guitar), but after we checked it out on the deck and talked a while I didn't record with it. This is partly because I'd previously busted the G string and replaced it with a non-Elixer Daddario string that sounded different to me. And this was a rockin' loop we got going on, with Tim riffin out and me jammin over it --and check the little grunty yeah yeah noises in the drum loop! We recorded a splurge of jammin' over the loops with me on electric guitar (Strat) and Tim on bass (Eric's Ibanez Roadstar). It was a fun jam, and the first 5 minutes or more weren't even recorded. I wanted to let Tim just rock with what he wanted to do as far as arrangement, wanted to give him a taste of producing what's in your head with a multi-track program like this. Those Apple Loops are pretty awesome. We jammed out, then played around with some cutting and pasting and tried to build an arrangement. It took longer and than TIm probably expected, but we got something pretty cool done in about 3 hours. Mix 1 is pretty much as we left the mix when Tim had to go that afternoon. I may or may not do anything else with this. Cool jam! Small World! 701lefty looseyThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/sixfootmoles.jpg
10WD-401981.11.20Tim: electric, voice Andy: acoustic, voice -Not as spontaneous as the cut off "A Folk Progression" Recorded 20 Nov 1981 with two mics into a cassette deck. Actually was on the Holiday Din tape, but was recorded the same day as the last 6 songs on this album. ©1981 The Tim & Andy Band782Spanish Bees Don't LaughThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/TimShades.jpg
11The F-16s (I Want You To Know)1982.03.20Tim: drums and lead vocals Andy: guitar and backup vocals -Okayfine. Strange Recorded 20 Mar 1982 with two mics into a cassette deck. Recorded in Tim's basement on Mount Pleasant. ©1982 The Tim & Andy Band785Mount PleasantThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/TimTowelHV4H.jpg
12The Working Man's Blues1984.07.10Tim: drums; lead vocals Andy: distorted guitar; 12-string and b-vox Geoff: bass; b-vox -Scraps of the first two takes. The third was great, but we'd forgotten to take off the pause. Geez. No time to do it again. Geez. Recorded 10 July 1984 with two mics into a cassette deck. Deck-to-deck overdubs. ©1984 The Tim & Andy Band788AhemThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/ATJam1984IthFest.jpg
13Hey Dick1985.02.01Tim: vocals Andy: acoustic 6-string and vocals -Totally insane weird song Recorded 1 Feb 1985 with two mics into a cassette deck. ©1985 The Tim & Andy Band789The Jungle in the SnowstormThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/jungle.png
14Billy Bob's Big Ballad1984.07.09Tim: drums and backing vocals; bass and backing vocals Andy: guitar and (quiet) backing vocals; 12-string and backing vocals Geoff: (quiet) backing vocals; LEAD VOCALS -An excellent song - a country tune. The refrain was the only part of the song we had words to until we recorded --Geoff made up the verses as we went along. Really excellent and funny! Recorded 9 July 1984 with two mics into a cassette deck. Deck-to-deck overdub. ©1984 The Tim & Andy Band788AhemThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/ATJam1984IthFest.jpg
15Pizza!!!1982.03.20Tim: drums and lead vocals Andy: guitar and backup vocals -Has to be heard to be believed Recorded 20 Mar 1982 with two mics into a cassette deck. Recorded in Tim's basement on Mount Pleasant. ©1982 The Tim & Andy Band785Mount PleasantThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/TimTowelHV4H.jpg
16Ode to Rick1983.08.11Tim: drums; bass; backup vox Andy: heavy guitar; heavy guitar (doubled); vox; b-vox -Our compliments to Rick Springfield. We just knew we could do a pop song that sounded as good as some shit Top 40 and then we wrote some great lyrics... Craziness!!! I love it! Recorded 11 Aug 1983 with two mics into a cassette deck. Deck-to-deck overdub. Recorded in Tim's basement on Mount Pleasant. ©1983 The Tim & Andy Band787Rubber DuckThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/rubberduck.jpg
17Peg's Pony1981.11.10Tim: doubled drums (2 tracks); bass Andy: electric guitar flanged + chorused -Everything kicks and is chorused out! Fine! Recorded 10 Nov 1981 with two mics into a cassette deck. Deck-to-deck overdub. ©1981 The Tim & Andy Band781As They IsThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/TimCampBarton1980.jpg
18get on down out that chimney2010.03.06Andy - acoustic guitar, vocals Paul - acoustic guitar (Backpacker) Tim - bass guitar, vocals Improvised and recorded live in Tim's place in Kent, England, UK on March 6, 2010. ©2010 by The Tim & Andy Band778chimney cats (feat. Paul)The Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/chimney_cats_TnA.png
19Sire Draits1981.11.10Tim: drums mixed over Sire Draits from vol.I Andy: engineering his first deck-to-deck overdub Recorded 10 Nov 1981 with two mics into a cassette deck. ©1981 The Tim & Andy Band781As They IsThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/TimCampBarton1980.jpg
20poster boy1997.02.06Andy: bass and vocals Tim: guitar PeBo: congas and percussion Improvised and recorded live with two mics into a cassette deck on 6 February 1997 in Jon's the jamming room at Albrectsen Road Studio. ©1997 by The Tim & Andy Band744rug patrol (feat. PeBo)The Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/rug patrol TnA.png
21open door2009.06.18Tim - 5-string, fretless, acoustic-guitar-style bass Andy - piano (Logic EXS24 sampler) Drum loops programmed by T&A. Tim was back in town in June 2009, and we did the stupendous The Johnson Array session with Killer Voyage. This recording was an afternoon in mangobananas studio with Tim really getting into Andy's new Dragonfly bass and Andy really getting into playing along on the piano. 701lefty looseyThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/TimStudies.jpg
22Marguerite1996.02.02Andy - electric guitar Tim - bass Piece written by Tim. Recorded live with two mics into a cassette deck on 2 Feb 1996 at Albrectsen Road Studio, Ithaca, NY. ©1996 Tim Odell759flipping channelsThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/flipping channels.jpg
23Baby1982.03.20Tim: drums and backup vocals Andy: guitar and lead vocals -Pretty damn funny! Recorded 20 Mar 1982 with two mics into a cassette deck. Recorded in Tim's basement on Mount Pleasant. ©1982 The Tim & Andy Band785Mount PleasantThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/TimTowelHV4H.jpg
24If I Ever Loved You1984.07.11Tim: drums; bass Andy: lead vox & clean guitar; 12-string and harmony vox -A damn good Beatlesque tune! Recorded 11 July 1984 with two mics into a cassette deck. Deck-to-deck overdubs. ©1984 The Tim & Andy Band788AhemThe Tim & Andy Bandhttps://mangobananas.com/img/icons/ATJam1984IthFest.jpg
Info for song: I want my Mac back
Andy - acoustic guitar, vocals
Paul - acoustic guitar (Backpacker)
Tim - bass guitar

Improvised and recorded live in Tim's place in Kent, England, UK on March 5, 2010. ©2010 by The Tim & Andy Band

Link: https://mangobananas.com/music.php?songID=994

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Album: chimney cats (feat. Paul)

This song was the Pick of the Week on 2017.07.30. Here's the story:
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Back in March 2010, I had to make a business trip to Germany and Belgium for two weeks, and I managed to arrange my flights so that I flew through London, and spent a weekend visiting my lifelong musical buddy Tim in his place in Kent, England. I brought along an M-Audio FastTrack Pro USB interface and two Audio-Technica AT2020 microphones, which we plugged into Tim's Mac mini and recorded using GarageBand. (The same gear would be used with my work-provided Dell and Ableton Live to record Stuttgart.)

Tim invited our mutual friend Paul to visit, and at one point we were reminiscing about the 6 months when Paul and his partner Bridget came to live with us in Ithaca in my parents house while they were on a sabbatical in Thailand, back in 1987-1988. The recordings from that visit are all on the Warren Road Studios album. I'd mentioned in this 2010 visit how I had all the original lyric sheets and studio notes from those crazy days, and I'd made some mention of coming across some incomplete lyrics of Paul's that had never been recorded, called "I want my Mac back". So, of course, at some point during our reunion jam, we were improvising and I made up these lyrics.

We'd done a hearty two-chord jam prior to this, the aptly named "funky B&E", and so we'd joked we needed to progress to three chords. We ended up being really psyched with the insanely catchy three-bar, three-chord progression. Tim's playing bass, I'm playing Tim's acoustic guitar, and Paul's playing my Martin Backpacker --unfortunately mostly drowned out by my playing and we were basically sharing a mic.

Good times! This and the rest of this weekend session from March 2010 are on the Tim & Andy Band album chimney cats.

Thanks for listening!

-Andy

I want my Mac back

I want my Mac back
gimme it
I want my Mac back
what is this 
piece of crap
that you have made me
do my work on

I want my Mac back
give me my
give me my Mac back
give me my
give me my Mac back

it was so easy, it was
so powerful, it was 
so hard to screw it up
I want my Mac back
I want my Mac back
gimme gimme gimme

what is this DOS box?
I cannot stand
what am I supposed to see
when I 
see the C: 
blinking at me?
I want my Mac back
I want my Mac back
I want my Mac back
I want my Mac back!

Windows 95 ?!?
Windows 98 ?!?
I want my Mac back
Windows 2000 ?!?
Windows ME ?!?
I want my Mac back
Windows XP ?!?
I want my Mac back
Windows Vista ?!?
I want my Mac back

you can put lipstick on a pig
it's still fuckin' DOS under there!
I want my Mac back
gimme my Mac back


lyrics improvised by Andy Wyatt on 5 March 2010
music improvised by Andy Wyatt, Tim Odell, and Paul Tuckey on 5 March 2010
©2010 by The Andy Band

Info for artist: The Tim & Andy Band
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Members:
Tim Odell - bass, drums, guitars, keyboards, vocals.
Andy Wyatt - guitars, keyboards, bass, drums, vocals.

Years of Activity:
1981-present

These are recordings by Tim and Andy. It includes improvisation, jamming, and some crafted songs with studio multi-tracking. There are a few sessions with additional players such as Ayman Mobarak and Paul Tuckey. 
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