I've always screwed around with music, but the highlight for me was a band I founded named Nob Streater. Here's some of the music we made, along with other songs.

Where are the wise men where are the scholars
By Nob streater


Download Album (57 MB; 13 songs in mp3 format)

This is the full CD by my most successful rock band, Nob streater. Originally released in 1997? 1998? In our heyday we were 'signed' to an indie Christian record label in Olympia. It was great. Here's the music. Please feel free to share with others, but ask permission before using it in any other work (sampling, video, embedding in website, et al). I'd really like to hear feedback from anyone that downloads this; please email me at ralph AT hogaboom DOT org.

Great Men Deteriorate Slowly (2006)
By Other Famous People


Download Album (19 MB; all songs in mp3 format)


Geoff Cotton is an old friend. He has also been in probably fifty different bands with me. This music was made using GarageBand on his iMac.

Check the sampling of Go To Sleep NY against the original here. Excellent work.

Go To Sleep NY (3:37)
Mainstreaming (4:24)
sin over and over again (2:33)
There are so many GREAT programs fer watching! (1:59)
Transparent (3:46)


Everyday (1997)


Download now (running time 1:55; MP3; 1.8MB)


I wrote this song at 3 am around 1995. I was having a hard time getting to sleep, and I had this tune in my head.

How It Was Recorded

The drums are a Casio keyboard filler track. The cheesiness should be evident, and it's intentional. There's a few other sound effects from the keyboard in there as well. The guitar is a Peavey solid body electric, running directly into a Boss SuperOverdrive pedal. The Boss is then going direct into a Tascam Porta 07 four track tape recorder. Bass guitar is also from the Casio keyboard. Vocals are recorded with a cheap $10 Radio Shack microphone going into some flanger (can't remember what model, sorry), into the Tascam.

How It Was Converted To MP3

I played the tape and ran the output into the Mic In on a Dell Inspiron 5150 with a SigmaTel audio chipset. I recorded the incoming audio using Audacity, an open source audio editing program. Once in Audacity, I did two effects; noise reduction, and compression. Then exported to MP3 using liblame, the LAME MP3 library.

How You Can Use It

This song is licensed Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. That means you can do just about anything you want with it, including bundling it in commercial stuff. See the Creative Commons for more info.