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Bristol, UK

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BIO:

Chris Harris

2020 will be my eighth 50/90 and I'm really looking forward to hearing what everyone comes up with this year. We need to focus more on doing things that bring joy and pleasure to people right now, and for me that means making music.

I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to do this time around, but the fact that I've acquired a large number of virtual instrument and synthesizer VSTs in the last six months or so inevitably means that I'll be adding more keyboards to the mix this year. And after 35 years of making do with a wonky two-tier stand that's held together with gaffa tape, I've finally upgraded to an A-frame rack which has enough room for ALL my polysynths, so fat eighties analog sounds are back on the menu, folks. Rest assured, however, that all the usual guitars and keyboards will be making their traditional appearances along with my basses, guitar synth, theremin, stylophone, cowbell, melodica and Chapman Stick.

Update (July 14th): It has come as just as much of a surprise to me as it has to you (because you know that I much prefer being the guy *behind* the camera), but I've started doing a regular Sunday night live stream on Twitch TV that's intended for ANYONE taking part in Fifty Ninety this year:
https://www.twitch.tv/headfirstonly

It's all about getting better, musically speaking. I'll be waffling on about stuff like how to get the best out of your microphone, what should you look for when you're buying a new keyboard, and what on earth is a compressor for anyway? I've been archiving each show on YouTube and there's a playlist of all the episodes to date here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIFt2zuOrBSGoNTSObZJhBaBs4QpvKl05

Throw a question my way and I'll attempt to answer it on the show.

As always, a list of my musical influences can be found here:
http://headfirst.www.idnet.com/about_groups.htm

My gear list got much too large to put here, so it now lives on the page linked below, which also has more about my musical history.
http://headfirst.www.idnet.com/about_music.htm

"Leonard-Cohen-meets-prog." - PROG Magazine issue 98
"The Bob Ross of prog metal." - @ductapeguy, FAWMStock online

Songs: 69 ( = Songs posted by a different Songwriter that you Collaborated on.)

	Title	Collaborators	Comments	Post date
1	Let's Do This!		28	7 months 3 weeks
2	Frantic		10	7 months 3 weeks
3	Falling To Pieces		9	7 months 3 weeks
4	Next Step		10	7 months 3 weeks
5	What Now?		9	7 months 2 weeks
6	Harbinger		13	7 months 2 weeks
7	Signs and Portents		5	7 months 1 week
8	The Death of Kings		4	7 months 1 week
9	Swell		4	7 months 1 week
10	Shut-In		6	7 months 1 week
11	Intuition		5	7 months 1 week
12	Doubting Thomas		9	7 months 1 week
13	Go Put Your Thing Down		8	7 months 2 days
14	Keep It Simple, Stupid (a Progger's Lament)		11	7 months 1 day
15	Mole Catcher		6	6 months 4 weeks
16	Frog Juggler		13	6 months 3 weeks
17	Chicken Whisperer		10	6 months 3 weeks
18	Squirrel Matador		7	6 months 3 weeks
19	Back To Basics		5	6 months 3 weeks
20	The Discomfort Zone		15	6 months 2 weeks
21	Six Decades		10	6 months 2 weeks
22	Built On Sand		6	6 months 2 weeks
23	Naked Yoga		5	6 months 2 weeks
24	Push My Button		6	6 months 2 weeks
25	Wheels In Motion		8	6 months 1 week
26	Trollied		8	6 months 1 week
27	Embers Of War		6	6 months 1 week
28	Every Movie Trailer Soundtrack Ever		13	6 months 6 days
29	Old Blue Jeans		3	6 months 5 hours
30	More Than Meets The Eye		3	6 months 5 hours
31	Sight Unseen		3	6 months 5 hours
32	Stochastic Policy		3	6 months 5 hours
33	One-Handed		3	6 months 5 hours
34	Bleak		3	6 months 4 hours
35	Being Okay Is Enough		5	5 months 4 weeks
36	Being Better Is Better		3	5 months 3 weeks
37	Back in the Tank		5	5 months 3 weeks
38	Keepin' It Unreal		9	5 months 3 weeks
39	Just One String		4	5 months 3 weeks
40	Bjork and Kirk in Outer Space	ryako	17	5 months 3 weeks
41	Closing In		6	5 months 3 weeks
42	Your Privacy is my Limiting Press Freedom		5	5 months 3 weeks
43	Not Leaving The House		9	5 months 2 weeks
44	Cats Are Crazy		10	5 months 2 weeks
45	A Sorry State		18	5 months 2 weeks
46	Down The Rabbit Hole		9	5 months 2 weeks
47	Satsumas Sleeping		5	5 months 1 week
48	One By One		4	5 months 1 week
49	Too Many Rabbits, Not Enough Holes	headfirstonly Fuzzy	12	5 months 1 week
50	Someone's Eaten All The Cake (Exquisite...	ballyhoot, dzd, sph, headfirstonly, Exquisite Corpse Corps Fuzzy	6	5 months 1 week
51	A Great Wall		4	5 months 1 week
52	Progressive / Experimental Corpse Delta	dzd, sbs2018, AndyGetch, Exquisite Corpse Corps	7	5 months 1 week
53	Progressive / Experimental Corpse Delta	dzd, sbs2018, AndyGetch, Exquisite Corpse Corps	7	5 months 1 week
54	Progressive / Experimental Corpse Delta	dzd, sbs2018, AndyGetch, Exquisite Corpse Corps	7	5 months 1 week
55	Progressive / Experimental Corpse Delta	dzd, sbs2018, AndyGetch, Exquisite Corpse Corps	7	5 months 1 week
56	Merch!	headfirstonly wobbie wobbit	11	5 months 1 week
57	It's What Ludwig Would Have Wanted		4	5 months 6 days
58	This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things		8	5 months 5 days
59	I'm Stuck In The 80s		6	5 months 3 days
60	Mournful Celli		4	5 months 3 days
61	That Autumn Chill		4	5 months 2 days
62	Stressed		3	5 months 1 day
63	Whinge of Song		4	5 months 10 hours
64	It's All Gone Horribly Wrong		4	5 months 7 hours
65	Dodgy Geezer		3	4 months 4 weeks
66	Surface Detail, Hidden Depths		4	4 months 4 weeks
67	Closed Timelike Curves		4	4 months 4 weeks
68	That's Enough		4	4 months 4 weeks
69	Overnight Radio	headfirstonly wobbie wobbit	13	4 months 3 weeks