The Home Made Hit Show

HMHS 134 - Canadian Country Ryce

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:33:34 -0500

This week we have another great interview show. Some country music for the show from Singer/Songwriter/Home Recorder - James Ryce

Check out James' new website at www.jamesryce.com

Get the CD from Kunaki

If you have any questions or comments for James then visit the show thread at homemadehitshow.com/forum

HMHS 133 - The HMHS Shopping Network

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:54:11 -0500

Yes, it's true !!! You can now buy home made hit show t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and hats (and thongs and boxers) at homemadehitshow.com/gear

Listen to the show for info on how to win an item.

Don't forget the girls name song challenge.

This weeks show features songs from your hosts and a segment from Dave.

Songs:

Rewind - Dave Criddle
Turn The Light Off - The Tones Soundclick
Turner Time - Brian Plamondon

See the forum at www.homemadehitshow.com/forum for some pictures of Brian's studio.

HMHS 132 - The Shocking Four Song Extravaganza

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:47:23 -0500

Shocking developments in the Home Made Hit Show this week as we make the radical decision to play four, YES FOUR !!!!, songs.

We are also pleased to announce a new song challenge. Dave chose the theme to be girls names. The main idea is for a girls name to be in the title, but other creative uses are acceptable. Get them in by thanksgiving is the “target” though not the rule. Please try and record a short or long song analysis to go with it.

This weeks INCREDIBLE, FOUR !!!!!! Songs:

Laurier Tiernan - I Pray That You're OK MySpace
Shaker Hood - Seniorita Do You Like My Gun
Michael Lyzenga - Old Mud River
Les Cotton - Going With The Flow lescotton.co.uk

HMHS 131 - The HMHS Honors John "The Cracks" Tully

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:33:29 -0500

This weeks show is a special one, a "live" show honoring the home made music of John "The Cracks" Tully. This is a genuine tribute to one of the most genuine people in the home made hit show world.

The show features appearances from "celebrities" and special guests. I'm not going to reveal too much here to keep it as a surprise.

Check out John's stuff.

Music

Collaborations

The Videos

HMHS 130 - The HMHS Honors List

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:12:34 -0500

More home songwriting goodness from your home songwriting songwriters Dave and Tony.

This weeks book review was Song Man by Will Hodgkinson

Songs this week:

Summer Will Never List - John Tully Soundclick
Summer - Dave Criddle LeisureBand.com (for fun)
Fool For A Summer - Tim De Ferrars Soundclick

HMHS 129 - Rhyme Time

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:09:56 -0500

Back again for more songwriting jabber. Lots of discussion of rhyming and lyrics, Leonard Cohen, getting the drums right, and Pat Pattison's lyric writing and worksheet process.

Keep on exercising those songwriting muscles.

A good rhyming site www.rhymezone.com

A decent Thesaurus site ARTFL Project

Tony gives a thumbs up to Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming by Pat Pattison

And last but definitely not least - the songs

Rob Christiansen - All That Shines MySpace

Patrick Bonier – Sum Sum Summertime Soundclick

Dan Leuders - Summertime is Here danlueders.com

HMHS 128 - Maybe We'll Grow Out Of It

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:14:27 -0500

Back again to fuel our "tolerated" hobby. More songwriting discussion from Tony & Dave. Tony can't write happy songs, Dave messes with his songs too much. Visit with your online songwriting habit support group !!

Today we reviewed two books:

Songs:

It's a Sunny Day - Maceman Soundclick

Summer In Texas - Secretive Chris

Summertime - John Poulton Soundclick

HMHS 127 - The Goofballs of Summer

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:06:19 -0500

Another jam packed, songwriting, songwriter, home recording, babble fest (get those keywords out there google !!!!).

Lots of links for this week:

Simple Carnival Remix Contest:

Songs and performers this week:

Summer is - Dave Chick Hatched Productions
Summer In The City - Robbie Ryan MySpace
Life on a Beach - Albert Forssall Soundclick
Life on a Beach - Gary Davies Soundclick
Zone 104 - Fast Cakes Soundclick

Video version of Robbie's Song

Book 1: Sounds Like Teen Spirit
Book 2: Dave's Toilet Reading
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HMHS 126 - The Boys Are Back In Town

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:37:19 -0500

Welcome to another show that is once again filled with interesting/uninteresting (depends on your point of view) chatter about home songwriting.

During today's show we talked about how common copying songs from older songs is and, totally by coincidence, while we were recording Steve "The King" Sungodv was posting in the 2090 forum about this book.

An interesting look at the phenomenon. Check out the site with some audio also at SoundsLikeTeenSpirit.com

Here's the link to Jimmy Crespo on eBay if you want to book him Crespo on eBay

Today's Songs

Summer Blues - Zoetrope Soundclick
Summer - Dave Watson Soundclick
Umbrella Full of Rain - Super Spud Four Albert at Soundclick
Hot Summer Day - David Cooper Songplanet

HMHS 125 - Dave Chick

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:15:27 -0500

Today Dave talks to Dave Chick. In addition to being a home recordist, Dave has developed a blossoming career doing movie soundtracks all out of his spare bedroom. It's a long one but well worth the listen !

Dave Chick's Website: hatchedproductions.net
Dave's SoundClick Page: Soundclick
Dave is also a regular co-host at the excellent Inside Home Recording

Songs:
Living The Dream
Embarrassment of Riches
Soundtrack Montage
Way Too Deep
Belly of the Beast - Collaboration as part of a CAPE project on mixerman.net

HMHS 124 - You've Been Warned

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:39:07 -0500

You've been warned so listen at your own risk. It's the return of the great Sun-Rah himself, Steve Nylander with his wild sound effects and crazy laughter.

thanks to Steve for a great show as always. You can hear his music at Soundclick

Today:

Inflatable Women by Bob Rivers
A Little Bit - Gary Davies / GeeJayDee - Soundclick
Girl in a Graveyard - Tony Butterworth / The Tones - Soundclick
Can You Blame Me? - Maceman - Soundclick
Ordinary Air - Tim DeFerrars - The Miskicks - Soundclick

HMHS 123 - Rob Christensen

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:22:19 -0500

Today we have a Dave produced show (with Tony stuck on some tiny island). This is a star-crossed interview with Rob Christensen, home musician and Tape Op contributor.

Rob is a singer songwriter from Washington DC who hosted a home recorded music column in Tape Op magazine for a number of years. He now hosts the Home Recording panel at the Tape Op convention (The Pot Luck Conference) every year. Dave and Rob discuss home recording and a few tid bits about Tape Op magazine. Enjoy!

Songs:

Simple Life
So She Said (Why)
Opera Alley

Lots of links for Rob

http://www.robchristensen.com/
www.myspace.com/robchristensen
http://www.tapeop.com/
http://www.potluckcon.com/

HMHS 122 - Top Rated Show

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:26:10 -0500

Welcome once again to another fun packed, high energy, exciting show with the two best qualified people in home songwriting. This show will be anything but boring, in fact it may be the best podcast about songwriting that Dave and I host all week.

Songs today:

Pirouette - Paul Janowski Soundclick

Margaret - Steve Nylander Soundclick

The PuNK - Ron West MySpace

HMHS TV 014 - The Tones The Zoetrope Way

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:48:47 -0500

Mr Zoetrope kindly used the PC game The Movies to make a video for my song - Pain Killer Jayne.

This is the Revver version, the youtube one can be retrieved from the channel below.

YouTube Channel

Windows Media Version

iTunes / Apple Version

Revver Channel (for the other videos)

HMHS 121 - Boring

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:13:17 -0500

The two most boring guys in podcasting take the opportunity to bore you on many boring subjects.

Songs this week.

Burning Light - The Morrisons MySpace

Golden Gate - The boring Tones Soundclick

Flyaway - Written by Chris Twigg MySpace

HMHS 120 - It's All A Matter Of Opinion

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:44:04 -0500

Another action packed show !!!!!

So, if you want to, get to work on the song challenge. Write and complete a song between now and August 10th, record a short or long intro or commentary, send it along and we'll play them all. The theme is "Summer"

Songs this week:

All In My Head - Oliver Southgate Soundclick

The Stars - David Watson Soundclick

What Can I Say or Do - Robert Hall Website

HMHS 119 - Nature or Nurture ?

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:19:51 -0500

Here we are once again. I'll start by saying thanks to Famous Patrick for his nice comments about us in his commentary. I listened earlier in the week and neglected to thank him during the show.

Take a moment to read the nice review at Made By People Blog

This weeks song:

Living in Another Word - Dave 'Superstar' Criddle Soundclick

Half a Man - Famous Patrick Soundclick

Little Animals - Grandma Melonhead Website

HMHS TV - 013 File Them Frets

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:12:59 -0500

This time Steve - Sungodv - Nylander gives us a surprisingly entertaining video on how to clean up the frets on your guitar.

Here more Steve at Soundclick

YouTube this time since the file was a little too large for Revver

YouTube Channel

Windows Media Version

iTunes / Apple Version

Revver Channel (for the other videos)

HMHS 118 - The Flake

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:50:10 -0500

Click above to hear two mean people pretending to be nice while talking about songwriting & hear how FamousPatrick is now even more famous.

This weeks songs:

Joshua McCormack - The Funeral of the Siren MySpace

Robert Nix - Torture MySpace

Global Economic Meltdown - Jeff Yankaur Soundclick

Home Made Hit Show TV 012 - Dave King, He's a Cat

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:04:16 -0500

This time it's an amusing song from Dave King

Find more Dave at davekingmusic.com

Once again the show is on youtube but the embedded video below is from Revver with it's better stereophonic two channel audio :)

Watch with the following options

Revver Channel

YouTube Channel

Windows Media Version

iTunes / Apple Version

HMHS 117 - Song Man

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:25:50 -0500

Back to the regular show this week Mainly discussion of the Hodgkinson Song Man book songwriting tips (see below for the links)

Songs:

Andrew Spicer - Time humblefly.net

Dave Chick - Livin The Dream Hatchedproductions.net

Ornaith O'Dowd - Said and Unsaid MySpace

Home Made Hit Show TV 011 - Tomas De Camino Beck Says

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:37:51 -0500

This time we have two great short videos from Tomas De Camino Beck featuring the mid side recording technique and some home made drums.

Find some Tomas sounds at MySpace

As usual the show is on youtube but the mid side segment really depends on stereo so I've also uploaded it to www.revver.com. The embedded link below is the Revver link.

Note that the spoken sound quality is a little lacking in places.

REVVER Link

Watch with the following options

YouTube Channel

Windows Media Version

iTunes / Apple Version

HMHS 116 - Open Mic at the Black Horse Pub

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:15:58 -0500

Thanks so much to John Poulton for putting this one together.

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The Open Mic Night takes place every other Thursday at The Black Horse on Gregson Lane. The next few Thursdays are the 15th and 29th of May and the 12th and 26th of June. It starts at 9.15 and finishes at 11.30. Other than there are no rules as such. Anyone is invited to bring along an instrument and play, solo or in small groups. If they wish to borrow a guitar there are several they can use. We set up two microphones and have a contact mic for the use of a fiddle player if required.

The age range of performers stretches from 12 to 65 (I don't ask ages!). Music ranges from metal (played) ascoustic to traditional folk. Many do covers but quite a few do their own material.

The acts with web sites either have CDs available (Trouble at Mill) or are planning to put one out (Mark Claydon) or would like to if they weren't so lazy (me). Pat (bass with Loz) is a member of band called the Rambling Riversiders and they play in the States regularly; I think Pat is playing in Nashville as I type. Rob and Susie's is done and they are awaiting delivery (exciting). Colin is in a band but I don't know much about them. These lofty ambitions do not tarnish the evening which is strictly fun, and for most rather boozy!

Susie Jones and Rob Kentell; www.myspace.com/susiejones10

Mark Claydon; myspace.com/markclaydon1

Trouble at Mill; http://www.troubleatmill.com/

Caroline Lovett; myspace.com/carolinelovett

John Poulton; www.myspace.com/johnpoulton

Gregson Lane Folk Club; http://www.gregsonlane.co.uk/

HMHS TV 10 - Oliver Southgate

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:19:05 -0500

This week an excellent video from Oliver Southgate of his song Get Me Out Of Here.

Hear more Oliver at Soundclick

Watch with the following options

YouTube Channel

Windows Media Version

iTunes / Apple Version

Or trusty embedded video

HMHS 115 - If You Wanna Say It Then Just Say It

noreply@blogger.com (Tony Butterworth) — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:00:33 -0500

Another, hopefully, great show for you this week.

Here's the books I talked about.

Songs:

Heart Failure - Sling MySpace

6 my 9 - Rob White (Riffmaster) Soundclick

Remembrance Day – Colin Gillman Website