The Ram: Saltwater & Music

Musicians | The Camp Store Carlsbad, CA | 9.8.2023 * Dan Greenbaum * Aaron Brownwood * Mike Hunt * Sarah Medley * Mark ODonnell * Mike Pritchard Lyrics I got an itch I got a feeling, wanna meet in the street  tomorrow Had ENOUGH, being  Locked up IN-SIDE  todayLet the golden sun shine down,  cast our shadows You want anything, babe, you can have your way And as we wade into the evening  city light...

Musicians | The Camp Store Carlsbad, CA | 9.8.2023 * Dan Greenbaum * Aaron Brownwood * Mike Hunt * Sarah Medley * Mark ODonnell * Mike Pritchard Lyrics No sight of the man on the interstate Spent a mess of time trucking on the road today I got a one-way ticket babe the diesel down And I’m blowing off some doors as I pass each townAs I pass each town, lord I pass each townAs I pass each town, layin...

Musicians | The Camp Store Carlsbad, CA | 9.8.2023 * Dan Greenbaum * Aaron Brownwood * Mike Hunt * Mark ODonnell * Mike Pritchard Lyrics Makes no difference where I’m going doesn’t really matter where I’ve been When I feel her eyes upon me I know, I’m exactly where I need to be Home is where you make it, Sweet home should come easily Could be on some distant beach I’m a lying Could be ‘ neath shad...

View on YouTube Lyrics: With the ocean in my eyes, feet in the sandOne last step and it’s goodbye to dry landFeel the cold water flow, when I’ve never felt more alone Everything transforms into something beautifulSay everything transforms into something beautifulSay everything transforms into something beautiful Full moon fades out in the west, it’s time to take a deep breathGet down beneath the w...

This week my new single is set to release, let’s talk about it. Everything transforms into something beautiful, so true especially when it comes to old home recordings. The initial recording came back to life from an old unearthed demo that I tracked before the pandemic lockdown. It was a project that I was calling “Spirit Animal Tattoo“ for a while, problem is, none of those songs were ever compl...

That’s it for this show’s set list, that was the last song of the night. The songs from our next vault show will begin next Wednesday, where we’ll be going back to a September 2023 show here at the Camp Store, trust me, it’s a doozy. I love this, and dig the fact that recording these shows worked out. It’s only fitting to have the last song of the night line up on the week of our next show at the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit theram.substack.com Musicians | The Camp Store Carlsbad, CA | 3.29.2024 * Dan Greenbaum * Aaron Brownwood * Dan Greenbaum * Mike Hunt * Mark ODonnell Lyrics Ain’t no right ain’t no wrong when you sit and watch a new day dawnAin’t no wrong ain’t no right been sittin’ since the dark of night Walked myself to the edge of townMade damn sure...

Another lifetime ago, before kids, before the rocket ship ride of a professional career in design, I put together a small band in San Diego dedicated to playing the songs of Waylon Jennings. Singing Waylon’s music was the first time I could loose myself in the song as a singer. On top of that, his guitar style is as fun to play as his songs are to sing. I hope I do old hoss justice. Musicians | Th...

Unbound is a song that just wrote itself, like so many others that came out fast and furious during the Covid lockdown. Today, it’s one of the band’s favorite songs to perform live. Once I recorded it on my phone, I forgot about it for years. During down times I’ll go back, but I don't do it that often. When I eventually revisited the iPhone recording, the chorus flattened me, it sounded like some...

The story behind this song takes us back to September 15-20 1987, not sure which night it was my guess it was either a Friday or a Saturday given that I was going to school. I was a freshman in college at SUNY New Paltz and went down to NYC to see the Grateful Dead, take a listen and hear what went down. Musicians | The Camp Store Carlsbad, CA | 3.29.2024 * Dan Greenbaum * Aaron Brownwood * Mike H...

Welcome back to a special Deadhead addition of the weekly Wednesday jam! Jack Straw is such a fun song to play, I’m not sure why it took us so long to add it to our setlist. It’s in there for good now, especially on Freaky Fridays. Which reminds me, I should change the name of my Weekly Wednesday Jam to ‘Ramsdays’, where every day is a Freaky Friday. Kidding, that would be a horrible name. After a...

Welcome back to my regular weekly Wednesday jam. This one goes out to all the Waylon fans there are out there, for there will never be another voice like his, nor a rhythm section like his legendary band. His bass and drums are the sound of a title fighter, and as far as I’m concerned, that voice is the incarnate voice of God himself. Being a 70s kid raised on the Dukes of Hazard, Waylon’s voice g...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit theram.substack.com Welcome to the second ever Weekly Wednesday jam. Ram here, doing what I do best, recording away here at the home studio. This week’s performance is a taste of a brand new original. A big part of the great gift of songwriting is being able to introduce a new song to the band, then shortly thereafter to live local musi...

Ram here, welcome to my weekly Wednesday jam. Starting today, I’m going to cherry pick from live shows we’ve been recording and create an archive of my home recordings (as of this morning, I have 30 already scheduled to be released through the summer of 2024). Kinda reminds me of the old taper sections at Grateful Dead shows back in the day, those guys were onto something, they were there trying t...

A Quick Note: Last year (2023), I began filming and multi-tracking our live performances. We’ve come a long way since then. This is the first low res experiment rendered from the first night we tracked and filmed at First Street Bar. Remixed and remastered 4K performances will be released weekly as individual songs on Substack. The first 1:30 minutes are free, subscribers, and paid subscribers get...