johnny high ground

Stuff: Happening

February 15th, 2011 // add a comment // filed under Music

Oh, hullo there. I just wanted to drop in and let you know that I’ve spent the afternoon doing something I haven’t done in awhile: recording.

It’s true! Alert the media. Tell your friends. Call the President. And I’m not just recording one song, oh no. Once I’ve completed a round of vocal tracks, I’ll have not one, not two, but three new songs for you. Two of them have never been heard outside of a very small circle of friends and family. One has never been heard by anyone. Anyone.

Look for these to appear in the next few days. Unless my voice is in a lot worse shape than I thought, it shouldn’t take me too long to put down the vocal tracks.

Meanwhile, I’ve just realized I never noted here that Early Output is live at Amazon! You can go grab it here, should the spirit move you to do so. And it’s only $5.99. What a bargain!

Talk to you soon.
-joe

iTunes Get!

September 14th, 2010 // add a comment // filed under Music

Well, that was surprisingly painless. The entirety of Early Output: 1999 – 2002 is now up on iTunes! The album includes all of Schroedinger’s Cat and all of Cheaper Than Skydiving, plus “Trigger-Happy Texan” and “Suburban Galileo,” the latter of which was not on the original Cafepress release of Early Output.

You can grab any of the songs from iTunes — or the whole 11-track album at a 90-cent discount! — by clicking here. And I’ve added an icon at the top of every page to take you to my artist page at iTunes, just for good measure. (There’s also one for Amazon, but at the moment that just takes you to a no-results search page. I’m future-proofing!)

I have to tell you, it’s weird as hell to see my stuff up on iTunes at the moment. It’s sort of similar to the first tape I made with my old band, back in the day; or the first CD we made. I guess it really is the future.

Hey look, I’m not dead.

September 11th, 2010 // add a comment // filed under Housekeeping

Oh, hello there. It’s been awhile. Like…years since I last updated the Johnny High Ground site. And it’s been getting to me, I have to tell you. I’ve had a handful of songs ready to record since, oh, somewhere around 2005 or 2006.

I know, right?

Last year I launched Plastic Axe, a site covering music games, and seeing the flood of new tunes — especially the often-iffy tracks on the otherwise amazing Rock Band Network — has had me jonesing to put out more stuff of my own. But one thing always led to another, and those songs just never got recorded. But lately I’ve found myself getting more and more eager to put some new music into the world. And the tools for doing so — and for spreading the word — have spread and evolved since the last time I put something up. So I’m back in, baby.

Well, almost back in. Here are my plans at the moment: First, I’ll probably put all my old stuff up on Amazon and/or iTunes, to make it freely available and easily downloadable. (And hey, a little income certainly wouldn’t hurt, you know?) Then I plan to record some new stuff, in whatever form I can. That may mean publishing rough demo versions of some tunes — just me and an acoustic — or it might be something more robust. Maybe both! It’s a crazy new world.

To find out what’s happening, you can check back here; subscribe to the RSS feed for this newsy, bloggy-type thing; or follow along via one of the many other methods listed on the Contact page.

I think this’ll be fun. Glad you’re coming along for the ride.