Beatnik Turtle's Song of the Day

Ted Blegen showed up at the studio one session with a shiny new mandolin and only three chords. Of course, we had to write a song about it.

A little more than three years ago, we posted the latest studio album by our friend George Hrab (musician, podcaster, author, and skeptic), Trebuchet. Once again, this week, we hijack the feed to present 60 minutes of audio from George's latest LIVE CONCERT DVD, "21812 A Gneiss Night Out"! The audio and the DVD contains a great rendition of George's own version of his song 'When I Was Your Age,' the song that we collaborated on and recorded with him in 2009 for our album of the same name.

George's DVD 21812 A Gneiss Night Out is available at CD Baby.

George Hrab and The Geologic Orchestra

21812: A Gneiss Night Out

[first half of the concert]

1. The Coelacanth Sighs

2. When I Was Your Age

3. Everything Alive Will Die Someday

4. Simple Simian

5. God is Not Great

6.The Assumption

7. Ms. Information

8. 50 Stories

9. Speak to You

10. Think for Yourself

11. Subdivisions

12. Geo+AJI-s Mom Reads Jay-Z Lyrics

13. Convenient

The Geologic Orchestra

George Hrab: guitar, piano, drums, vocals, purple suit

Eric Kenlin: drums, vocals

Vinnie Puccio: bass

Ross Brown: percussion, vocals

Andy Kowal: trumpet, arrangement

Dave Painchaud: trumpet

Steve Bridges: tenor sax, alto sax, flute, arrangement

Neil Wetzel: baritone sax, tenor sax, flute

Dale Gerheart: trombone

Special Guests

Geo+AJI-s Mom: Myra Hrab

Vocal on Think For Yourself: Alisa B. Anderson and Jillian Rhys McCoy

Intro and vocal on Death from the Skies: Phil Plait

Producer: George Hrab

Executive Producer: BJ Kramer

DVD includes:

+AJU- Full two hour concert

+AJU- 5.1 Surround Mix

+AJU- Audio Only MP3 version of the show

+AJU- Geo's Commentary Track

+AJU- Mortimer's Commentary Track

+AJU- Documentary: Making a Gneiss Night Out

+AJU- LIVE Ask George

+AJU- plus more...

When Tom was in college, the knob on his distortion pedal was stuck all the way on. This song was the result...

This is a paired song, as we have a Mrs. Right Now that will be played on another day!

Here's another fresh track hot off the virtual mixing desk from our 2009 RPM Challenge effort to create an album in a single month. The album, to be released later in the year, is called "When I Was Your Age" and features songs that take a look back at when we were kids.

Monsters under the bed or in the closet - they sure seemed real enough once upon a time.

Here's a nice motivational song for a Tuesday - a return to work after a long weekend for those of us in the U.S.

This one is based on a real trip to Mardi Gras...allegedly.

Yet another of those songs that has it's genesis in something said rather off-handedly only to be followed by the phrase, "Hey, that would make a great song!" After picking up Tom Roper and Tom Beeyachski to head to the studio to record, Jason asked Tom B. if his wife Kim was meeting up with them later. Tom replied, "No, Kim bailed." And later that day the three of them wrote this song.

Featuring the great Qadree Holmes on vocals, this song goes out to all Notary Publics everywhere.

This song came about when Jason was asked to notarize a few immigration documents for two recently married friends of his - one of whom was applying for U.S. citizenship. When they asked Jason whether he could notarize their signatures "to prove it wasn't a sham marriage," he informed them they were in luck - he wasn't only a Notary, he was the "Love Notary."

They laughed a bit at his comment until they realized Jason was serious about the concept making "a great song for The Song Of The Day" and found themselves stranded in his office with unnotarized papers in hand.

"Can I interest you in a sandwich?" Jason's grandmother once answered this question by saying "I'm sick of sandwiches." When asked about her answer, she said "when you get to be 80 years old, you'll be sick of sandwiches, too."

This song is the lunch break song from our forthcoming album, ALL IN A DAY'S WORK. (The pre-release of the album is already available at the iTunes, but the CD's not due until October...probably because the CD duplicators are arguing over what to have for lunch).