John Maxwell Hobbs

I started out to record something using my guitar, ebow and a delay, but the computer took over and recorded this. 2005-03-07

Playing around with some beats and washes courtesy of GarageBand. Might back a good backing track someday. 2005-03-06

Just an experiment in multiple delays. 2005-03-05

Another solo bass piece. Same technology as the first but very different results. Because of this one, I now have a blister on one of the fingers of my right hand. 2005-03-04

This one is quite pretty I think. Just a guitar and lots of echo. 2005-03-03

During the winter of 1989-90 I was on the road with They Might Be Giants, working as their monitor engineer (and lots of other jobs as well.) During a stop in Athens, Georgia, I spotted a used Ashbory bass guitar in a music store. I really liked it, but didn’t buy it. Then they stopped […]

This is number 31 – one full month completed. I am now 1/12 of the way through: 2005-03-01 By the way, this may be a good time to point out that a donation is always appreciated. The links are in the column to the right, you can use Pay Pal or Amazon. One dollar, one […]

Controlled feedback, using tools in ways that weren’t intended. I used both my G4 and my Powerbook, with the reverb running on the Powerbook and fed back into itself with a delay. I had to ride the faders the whole way through to keep thing from blowing up. I couldn’t have done this without Rayverb […]

Using a JI 12 tone pythagorean scale for this one, for those of you who know what that means. Anyway, it’s another Song for a Sunday. 2005-02-27

You can blame Dave Gamper for this one. He told me he played these two tunes at the same time and liked it. Here it is: 2005-02-26