My Toastmaster's concert at ConChord 2008 was really more of a Tres Gique concert. It came off remarkably well considering how little chance we had to rehearse. "Quiet Victories", in spite of a number of glaring flubs, was awesome.
In general my guitar is a little too far down in the mix, and Joyce probably needed more of her voice in the monitor.
| 1 | [ogg] | [mp3] | The World Inside the Crystal (Savitzky) |
| The only song in the concert from my CD. Everything else will be on the next CD. | |||
| 2 | [ogg] | [mp3] | The River (Savitzky) |
| One of the reasons the next CD is so late is that I kept writing new songs that simply had to be on it. This is one of them. | |||
| 3 | [ogg] | [mp3] | The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of (Savitzky) |
| I wrote this for my father a few months before he died; he went to grad school with Isaac Asimov, and introduced me to folk music, computers and science fiction. | |||
| 4 | [ogg] | [mp3] | Ferret Went A-Courtin' (Savitzky/Trad.) |
| I wrote this for my daughter Kat's wedding at Consonance. The TG arrangement is something that Joyce and I cooked up afterwards. | |||
| 5 | [ogg] | [mp3] | The Owl and the Pussycat (Lear/Trad.) |
| Oak, Ash, and Thorn's setting of a very old nonsense poem to the tune of an equally old song. Colleen's favorite. I find it amusing that Callie's nickname is ``Owl'', and that Uggla means ``owl'' in Swedish. Colleen is the FlowerCat. Fortunately ``bear'' doesn't fit in either position. | |||
| 6 | [ogg] | [mp3] | Paper Wings (Savitzky) |
| The general theme of the next album will be ``songs that people have told me they'll kill me if I don't record.'' This is one of them. My filk of this song, ``Paper Pings'', is on my CD. I had to filk it before Kanef did. | |||
| 7 | [ogg] | [mp3] | Wheelin' (Savitzky) |
| A few days after Consonance, Naomi Rivkis told me she'd come to ConChord if I promised to sing a song either by her or about her. This is the result. | |||
| 8 | [ogg] | [mp3] | The Toolmakers (Savitzky) |
| Another of the ``songs that people have told me they'll kill me if I don't record.'' This is Kat's contribution. | |||
| 9 | [ogg] | [mp3] | Millennium's Dawn (Savitzky) |
| If you consider a millennium as a day, I figure this song has a couple of centuries left to be applicable. After that I'm not going to worry about it. | |||
| 10 | [ogg] | [mp3] | Keep the Dream Alive (Savitzky) |
| Written in 1986 shortly after the Challenger blew up on takeoff. Revised, unfortunately, for Columbia in 2003. | |||
| 11 | [ogg] | [mp3] | Quiet Victories (Savitzky) |
| If you listen carefully you can hear Joyce playing a bass line, and Callie quietly backing my flagging voice. This performance includes the whole nine yards. I mean, verses. |