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Tilden

About Me

I'm Tilden, I play (guitar, bass, mandolin, keyboards, percussion, recorder, sax), sing and create interesting noises.

Also I run sound for and play a little mandolin & guitar with CrossPoint , a fine bar band based in the Twin Cities.
I play bass with Bruce K to jazz it up in various Twin Cities drinking establishments ( coffee, anyone? ) using the name Who's Playing? . . .
The sounds on these songs all were created by me

. . . except Hey You Robot (distance lab) which my friend DJ Shadowkat sent me as an MP3 of drum & synth. I added bass, guitars & harmonica to turn it into the track heard here.

. . . and except Persia, which was improvised with my friends Paul (congas & warmongering) and Mike (guitar & cool head), then I sliced & diced the recording.
Finally, some words to live by -- as true for music as they are for life: In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. -- Yogi Berra

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/09/2005
Band Website: http://www.icompositions.com/artists/tilden
Band Members: Tilden's FaceBook Profile
Influences: Alabama 3, Chet Atkins, Beatles, David Bowie, Cake, Canned Heat, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Brian Eno, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Funkadelic, George Gershwin, Stephane Grappelli, Jimi Hendrix, Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, Incredible String Band, Charles Ives, Daniel Johnston, Spike Jones, Kinks, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Lemon Jelly, Louvin Brothers, Henry Mancini, Charles Mingus, Willie Nelson, Harry Nilsson, Ohio Players, Buck Owens, Les Paul, Propellerheads, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Quintron, Django Reinhardt, Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols, Sons of the Pioneers, Tower of Power, T.Rex, Ultravox, Uriah Heep, Edgard Varese, Ventures, Tom Waits, Bob Wills, X, XTC, Weird Al Yankovich, Yes, Frank Zappa, ZZ Top
Sounds Like: chicken
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Birthday Boogie

I decided I need a more upbeat tune topping my playlist, so I've added a demo I recorded back in August for CrossPoint. I wrote the Birthday Boogie for the band so they're not caught offguard when the...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:52:00 GMT

Katherine Barger

Katherine Echols Barger (my mother) died Thursday 11/13. She lived a long and full life that lasted 92 years. The tune "Mourning" was created the night she died.
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

DJ Shadowkat & Tilden

My old friend DJ Shadowkat (with whom I worked in radio in Arkansas long ago -- in the era of reel-to-reel tapes) sent me an MP3 he'd created with drums & synths named Hey You Robot and suggested ...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:06:00 GMT

Take a look at this


Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 20:35:00 GMT

Excellent Flickr slideshow

Excellent use of vinyl protectors
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:10:00 GMT

Update (finally)

It's been too long since my page was updated. I added a new piece (LiveLoops) recorded using my Dano doubleneck and my Digitech RP250 in 'frippertronics' mode (4 second delay w/drum machine). It was c...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:42:00 GMT