Artaud Gala (1989)
Guitar, Voice, various percussion
Duration: 2:59
Artaud Gala is one of my earliest analog multi-track recordings, most likely with four track cassette, sometime around 1988. The lyrics are a poem by Antonin Artaud which I have adapted to music. In 2002 I went back to the masters and did a bit of digital cleaning, I think replacing some of the drum hits and doing a bit of eq/noise reduction of the original 4 track recording. This was recorded with the Fender Jaguar.
The KKK Took My Baby Away (2005)
Guitar, Bass, Voice, Drums
Duration: 2:32
The KKK Took My Baby Away is performed and produced by Thomas W. Campbell. The song was written and originally performed by The Ramones on their 1981 album “Pleasant Dreams”. Joey Ramone said he wrote it about guitarist Johnny Ramone, who stole his girl and married her. The song was performed, recorded and mixed in the late summer/fall of 2005 – entirely on West 109th Street in New York City using my Fender Jaguar and an unknown bass guitar. This mix was made in 2013 and featured a higher volume of the bass guitar than in
The Covid 19 Blues (2020)
Guitar, Bass, Voice, Drums
Duration: 3:53
The Covid 19 Blues was recorded and mixed in March not long after things took the turn, but before they fell off the cliff. I don’t remember if it was a song or the words came first. The rhythm guitar is a 1967 Goya Rangemaster, there is also a bit of Fender Jaguar and two different bass guitars.
On a Country Road (2020)
Guitar, Bass, Drum
Duration: 6:35
On a Country Road (Somewhere in Vermont) was composed and recorded in Perkinsville, Vermont in October, 2020.
Magnatone Tornado Guitar and Hurricane Bass (California, 1965/66)
Live open Mic Recordings
Additional Editing and Mixing in NYC
Music, Lyrics and Performance by Thomas W. Campbell
Cash (1992)
Voice, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Duration: 4:20
I wrote and recorded Cash sometime in the early 1990’s, probably around 1992. It was consciously inspired by Lou Reed in style and Bertolt Brecht in content. It’s the first time I put electric and acoustic guitar together and also one of the earliest times I worked hard to keep the chords and leads in key (to a degree). I recorded the song on multiple track cassette and a few years later digitized the tracks into the first Digital Audio Workstation I used called Bias Deck. At some point in the last 15 years I imported the raw tracks into Pro Tools to clean them up a bit. This is a WAV export I made in 2020.
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