MANNY AIGNER'S STARS ALIGN WITH 'MOONCHILD'.

Manny has been a great contributor to PBGBisms for nigh on six years now. He brings a level of musicianship that enables us to get songs together faster than we otherwise might. He 'guides' us as to what is musically appropriate, and can knock out strong rhythms and leads lickety split.

Moonchild is a classic example. Last week, most of the regular Shedders were absent due to travel and injuries. Graham was sporting a chronically sore shoulder and Mick and Louise were away skiing in Japan....... (they did submit a note).

 

So 'twas just Manny, Neil, Pete and a wounded Graham in situ.  What to do?

Well we knew Manny had a song in his kit-bag that he called Moonchild. "OK let's do it!"

 

Straight on with the recorder. Manny played rhythm guitar, Neil played bass and Pete hit the drums.

 

Well that all sounded pretty good, so Manny overdubbed some lead guitar parts. That sounded good too, so Manny put on the 'phones and sang his lyrics.

 

And that was about that. Neil took the tracks home and did his thang............added some percussive parts, balanced this with that, sprinkled some fairy dust around with a bit of gris gris thrown in, and VOILA..................Moonchild is with us.

 

Have a listen by clicking HERE

 

Cool aye?

 

Or as Graham Brown quipped.........."Manny from Heaven"

 

Now you may have thought this was a song about illicit drug consumption. Hmmmm. In fact the story behind the song comes from a music clinic Manny put on for a school for children with intellectual disabilities. Manny was touched by the warmth of the kids who dug what he was doing albeit seeing the world from a very different perspective.

 

Manny Aigner wrote the song, sang it and played guitar

Neil Porter played the bass, added extra percussion parts, and did all the recording and production work

Pete played the drums

MANNY AIGNER, GRAHAM BROWN, AND THE GANG PIECE TOGETHER 'NOTHING'S WHAT IT SEEMS'

The usual PBGB Shed story..........somebody has a riff, a melody or a snatch. Somebody else has a set of lyrics waiting for music. Or vice versa. Bits and pieces. 

"Nothing's What It Seems"  started with Manny bringing in a fully formed  guitar piece that we really liked.  We fooled about with it for a while, and settled on a drum and bass feel that we figured  worked pretty well.  Graham had a set of lyrics that he thought would work well with the tune. Mick fired up his vocal chords and gave them a crack. Voila !

 

Sounded good to us.

 

Neil turned on the recorder, and before long we had the basic tracks  of the whole song down.

 

Manny added a rhythm guitar track. Neil tightened up the bass track.

 

Done.

 

The story line is one of lost love. "We had it good, mutual desire, someone came along and put out the fire". After the fire goes out there is drinking, black dog depression, shattered dreams, and nothing's what it seems. A story too many of us can relate to.

 

Anyway, have a listen by clicking HERE

 

Hope yasall dig it !

 

Manny Aigner wrote the music and played the guitar parts

Graham Brown wrote the lyrics

Mick Nadin sang the song and played harp

Neil Porter played the bass and did all the recording and production work

Pete played the drums (and, as usual, wrote this text)