Welcome to HMP! The place
to hear the rawest, off-the-cuff music available on MP3.com! We are NOT a heavy
metal band. Most of the songs are completely made up
while recording. Though they have no predetermined plan they are an adventure!
Rarely do we play any song more than once, certainly never the same way. In
fact, Mr. Marshall is the only song listed here that we rehearsed.
If you're looking for well-structured, warm music we
advise you look elsewhere. If you're looking for edgy, emotional music that
is humorous, has a point, is unique and at times harsh please have a listen. Many of the
songs listed are cassette recordings. We recently had a major recording equipment upgrade
so more digital recordings are added frequently!
Our motto is "Record Everything" and we've designed a house to do just that. It's called
Off-the-cuff Recording Studio and it is available as a multi-day recording retreat.
It's built in a large hill-top log home located on a 100-acre estate in
Upstate New York with porch views of the Adirondack mountains. Many songs listed
here were recorded there.
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| Paul on Vocals and Will on Guitar. All off-the-cuff! |
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| Jimmy P on drums and vocals, Paul on vocals and Will on guitar. Completely made it up and the recording quit just as we got going but this is the birth of it. |
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| All made up as we recorded on December 22, 2002. Paul singing and playing piano and Will on guitar. |
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| Will recorded the guitar the night before. This is the only time Paul heard the guitar track. He just made the whole story up as he listened with headphones in front of a mic. |
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| This is about the American corporate drug pushers. For some reason (money) these drugs are legal. And you wonder why America is going to hell! Eric Blair on drums... This is completely off-the-cuff! All the (legal) pill takers should be able to relate to this one. It's all about your life. |
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| Paul singing and Will on guitar recorded December 22nd, 2002. Just hanging out, rolling hard drive and making it up as we go. |
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| Paul on Vocals and Will on Guitar. Late night jam and completely made up during recording. Off-the-cuff man! |
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| Paul on vocals and Will on Guitar. Raw and rolling. |
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| Will and Paul both sing! Will on electric guitar. Recorded the same night as "road rage" in a large room with cathedral ceilings. It's rough people! Slow start but it does come together... All off the cuff! |
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| Sunday jam with hard drive rolling and just making it up as we go. Guest member Bob on vocals. Jimmy P on Drums and vocals. Will on Guitar. Recorded July 7th, 2002. |
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| This is one of my favorites... Paul's mouth and mind rolling and Will on guitar. Off-the-cuff during a late night or early morning jam. |
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| Will on two guitar tracks and a vocal. All tracks are completely off-the-cuff. Inspired by a hot, humid day on the under ground cattle wagons (subways). The stations are like ovens - perfect for the mornings commute in a suit. Everything in NYC is disposable, nothing gets recycled and in my opinion, an overall poor quality of life. |
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| Paul on vocals and Will on Guitar. All off the cuff! |
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| Try it... You'll like it! |
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| Paul on vocals and Will on guitar. Starts slow but goes. Good for getting to bed music. Oh and of coarse, all raw, rough and off-the-cuff. |
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| Paul singing, Eric Blair on harp and singing at the end. Will on electric guitar. All off-the-cuff... |
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| Paul Vocals and Will on Guitar. All off-the-cuff. |
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| Just making it up... Recorded December 22nd, 2002. Paul singing and Will on guitar. |
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| Tape rolling using an old recorder, a Gorilla Amp and a Mackie mixer. All off-the-cuff on a late night after a card game. |
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| Paul's idea of an OTB junkie... |
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| Paul on Vocals and Will on Guitar. Late night jam and completely made up during recording. It's rough but off-the-cuff! |
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| Will solo playing guitar and singing... All off-the-cuff in July 2002. After playing basketball... |
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| More than take 1... |
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| Paul's story and Will on electric guitar. Starts slow and grows. Off-the-cuff. |
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| Born from a NYC trip to see CSN & Y at The Garden last year. We have a special guest member Yumi on keyboard and sound effects. All the way from Tokyo, she is our first Japanese guest band member. And that's all I know, the rest is off-the-cuff... |
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| First song HMP ever practiced. This is the 7th take recorded in June 2002. Jimmy P on drums and Eric Blair on harp. Paul lead vocals and Will on guitar and backup vocals. All tracks are one-take live in the unfinished recording studio. Mr. Marshall is a tribute to Jim Marshall, the man who started Marshall amps. If you don't know what a Marshall amp is please go away cause you won't understand this song. This is the first week learning digital recording - VERY ROUGH AND LOUD. The drums are mixed through a Mackie analog board and main outputs into two digital tracks. Paul's voice track breaks in a couple of places. The lyrics are good... Listen while adjusting your marshall. |
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| Will on guitar and running his mouth. Last song of the night, Paul interjects at the end and contributes some keyboard. Enjoy! |
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| Paul and Will sing. Will on Electric guitar. Careful listening only! Loud and rough and off-the-cuff! |
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| Late night with Paul singing and Will on acoustic guitar. |
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| Will singing and guitar. Off-the-cuff... Trying to make the ladies a better man. That's the goal! |
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| I think it's humorous... Guest member Eric Blair on drums. Remember all off-the-cuff... Careful listening only... |
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| End of the night off-the-cuff. Paul singing and Will on acoustic guitar. |
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| Paul on Vocals and Will on Guitar. Off-the-cuff and having fun! |
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| Will guitar and singing. Moxy on bogo drums. Off-the-cuff on the night of 9/11/2001... |
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| It's a bit long but hey it's the development prcoess... Paul singing and keyboard. Will guitar. Off-the-cuff of coarse. Love sushi! |
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| Paul making it as he goes. Will on electric guitar and singing backup. A little weird and wondering maybe... Off-the-cuff. |
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| Paul on Vocals and Will on Guitar. Late night jam and completely made up during recording. Off-the-cuff! |
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| Will on guitar and singing. Moxy on bogo drums. All off-the-cuff in the Fall of 2001. |
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| Paul on Vocals and Will on Guitar. Late night jam and completely made up during recording. Off-the-cuff man! |
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| This is the loudest! It starts and stays hard... Will on guitars and vocals... First recording done with digital recording equipment. This is a late night or early morning test run with new system. Voice and first guitar are off-the-cuff. The second guitar added later. |
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| Paul on Vocals and Will on Guitar. Late night jam and completely made up during recording. Off-the-cuff man! |
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| Will on acoustic guitars and Vocals. Vocals and first guitar at the same time. Other guitars are recorded later but off-the-cuff. It's LONG and could use a trim... |
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| Paul singing Kim's song... Rough but that's us... Rough. |
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| Paul on Vocals and Will on Guitar. Late night jam and completely made up during recording. Off-the-cuff man! |
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