headfirstonly

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headfirstonly

Joined:

8 years ago

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Location:

Bristol, UK

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BIO:

Chris Harris

2021 will be my ninth 50/90 and this time you can expect a few changes from me. I've completely reorganised my setup since last time and my gear is no longer crammed under a bunk bed. Instead, when last year's challenge finished I finally got round to installing the "proper" studio desk that I'd been promising myself for two decades. It's amazing how much better monitors sound when they're not sitting directly underneath a mattress. Best of all, I have finally put the days when I would cut my head open on the bed when I stood up without checking where I was behind me for good!

A number of health issues mean that I've more or less retired. I've been spending all that free time making music all year, and I've been releasing an album on Bandcamp more or less every month. I thought taking part in Fifty/Ninety and FAWM were good for polishing your chops, but working continuously on music seven days a week at a proper studio desk has taken things to a different level entirely. I've been amazed just what a difference it has made to my recordings.

But my aim is the same: I want to make the sort of music that teenaged me dreamt of making, all those decades ago. I think he'd be impressed by how far I've come.

Should you wish to do so, you can watch what I get up to: more than a year after I started live streaming on Twitch, I'm still doing shows on Sundays and Thursdays.
https://www.twitch.tv/headfirstonly

My gear list got much too complicated to describe 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: 95 ( = Songs posted by a different Songwriter that you Collaborated on.)

	Title	Collaborators	Comments	Post date
1	Kitchen Sink Overture		22	6 months 3 weeks
2	Layers		13	6 months 3 weeks
3	Hooray For Freedom		15	6 months 3 weeks
4	Steady On, Chaps		21	6 months 3 weeks
5	Obsessed		12	6 months 3 weeks
6	A Question for the Ages		12	6 months 3 weeks
7	Can't Leave It Be		13	6 months 3 weeks
8	Pattern Matching		8	6 months 2 weeks
9	Halting Problem		8	6 months 2 weeks
10	Bug Hunt (A Quality Engineer's Lament)		11	6 months 2 weeks
11	I Hurt, Therefore I Am		15	6 months 2 weeks
12	Breathing Space		10	6 months 2 weeks
13	Think Cool Thoughts		13	6 months 1 week
14	Personality Test		6	6 months 1 week
15	Nonviolence		7	6 months 1 week
16	Instability		6	6 months 1 week
17	Never Argue with Idiots on the Internet		11	6 months 1 week
18	The Udon Noodle Gambit		6	6 months 6 days
19	A Fondness for Familiar Things		6	6 months 5 days
20	Threat Detector		15	6 months 4 days
21	Velocity Curve		6	6 months 4 days
22	Confuzzled		8	6 months 2 days
23	Power Play	Candle	7	6 months 2 days
24	Unrelenting		8	6 months 14 hours
25	Numbers Game		9	5 months 4 weeks
26	The Hardest Hearts	headfirstonly ChariotBaldwin	5	5 months 4 weeks
27	My Better Nature		6	5 months 4 weeks
28	Happenstance		10	5 months 3 weeks
29	Running Repairs		5	5 months 3 weeks
30	Incoherence		9	5 months 3 weeks
31	Someone Needs a Whack with the Clue Stick		9	5 months 3 weeks
32	Too Much Distance		8	5 months 2 weeks
33	Not Enough Bliss		8	5 months 2 weeks
34	Chirality		14	5 months 2 weeks
35	Threshold		8	5 months 2 weeks
36	Some Put Their Trust In Sloths		8	5 months 1 week
37	Harry Harrison's "Toy Shop"		4	5 months 1 week
38	False Starts, Decisive Endings		9	5 months 1 week
39	Delusions of Competence		4	5 months 1 week
40	Rain to Stop		11	5 months 1 week
41	Maudlin		5	5 months 1 week
42	Still Raining	headfirstonly Fuzzy	11	5 months 4 days
43	The Wall		4	5 months 2 days
44	Noises Off		4	5 months 1 day
45	Retrograde		5	5 months 1 day
46	Sick and Tired		13	5 months 22 hours
47	Omega Block		6	4 months 4 weeks
48	Inconceivable		8	4 months 3 weeks
49	Forgotten		8	4 months 3 weeks
50	Waiting		5	4 months 3 weeks
51	Fripperies 1		4	4 months 3 weeks
52	Fripperies 2		4	4 months 3 weeks
53	Fripperies 3		4	4 months 3 weeks
54	Expeditionary Force		5	4 months 3 weeks
55	Fripperies 4		3	4 months 3 weeks
56	Fripperies 5		2	4 months 3 weeks
57	Fripperies 6		2	4 months 3 weeks
58	Interstitials		2	4 months 3 weeks
59	Thrown For A Loop		2	4 months 3 weeks
60	A Brief Demonstration		5	4 months 3 weeks
61	Things Fall Apart		5	4 months 2 weeks
62	Wrong Place		8	4 months 2 weeks
63	Cognitive Deficit		9	4 months 2 weeks
64	Triplanetary		3	4 months 2 weeks
65	Shoeless Joe		3	4 months 2 weeks
66	Travel By Piano		8	4 months 2 weeks
67	Transport Issues		12	4 months 2 weeks
68	Delayed Again		6	4 months 2 weeks
69	Magic Square		7	4 months 2 weeks
70	Gumption Shortage		10	4 months 1 week
71	Nadine's Feeble Grasp of Infosec		10	4 months 1 week
72	Just What Was I Thinking?		3	4 months 1 week
73	Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?		3	4 months 1 week
74	Under The Weather		4	4 months 1 week
75	X		6	4 months 1 week
76	Zip Ribbon		3	4 months 1 week
77	Your Password Has Expired		10	4 months 1 week
78	Make It Quick		3	4 months 6 days
79	Riding With Ghosts		10	4 months 5 days
80	Undertow		6	4 months 4 days
81	Don't Believe A Word He Says		6	4 months 3 days
82	Wear and Tear		5	4 months 1 day
83	Misdirection		2	4 months 1 day
84	Ritualistic Behaviour in the Modern Consumer		5	4 months 20 hours
85	A Reluctance to Abandon Old Habits		6	4 months 19 hours
86	It Seemed Like A Good Idea (At The Time)		3	4 months 14 hours
87	Castle Dragondreams Garden Party Blues	cblack, darcistrutt, ductapeguy, dzd, headfirstonly, metalfoot, nate.gerry, wobbie wobbit Dragondreams	14	4 months 1 hour
88	Unfamiliar Territory		7	3 months 4 weeks
89	Saturated		1	3 months 4 weeks
90	Polysaturated		1	3 months 4 weeks
91	Someone Else's Heyday		3	3 months 4 weeks
92	Not All Apostrophes Are Equal		6	3 months 4 weeks
93	Trickle Charge		3	3 months 4 weeks
94	Nearly		3	3 months 3 weeks
95	A Last One For The Road		8	3 months 3 weeks