Music has been a hobby of mine for many years. I played clarinet as a
child, but didn't stick with it. Then in college, my roommate "Bear"
taught me how to play guitar, and I've been playing it ever since.
Blasts from the Past
January 2026: I have been rediscovering some homegrown cassette
tapes from the late 1970s, and digitizing them. The tapes have held
up surprisingly well for 45+ years. I am using a
Klim K7
cassette player, which copies tapes onto an SD card. It produced one
file per cassette side, which I then seperated into individual
tracks using
Reaper DAW.
Conflict - My First Rock Band
My UMass Amherst roommate "Bear" taught me to play guitar. We formed
a pretty decent rock band with some friends from the Sylvan
residence area and played at a spring festival in 1977.
Karl and Eliot's cover of this blues classic, first recorded by
Robert Johnson in 1936, and popularized in the 1980 comedy musical
film The Blues Brothers (2022)
The New Ham Band
Bones wrote this song about our old garage band of the same name.
Recorded "alone together" by Bones, Todd, and me. (2021)
Deerfield Blues
Written by Eliot and friends over a number of jam sessions at the
Hosstraders and NEAR-Fest ham radio festivals. Recorded alone
together with Bones and Todd. Video by Eliot. (2021)
What's Up
Becky, Bob, Phil and I did this cover of the 4 Non Blondes song
using the Acapella app on our respective iPads. (2021)
Walk of Life
Recorded by The Eliot Trio using the Acapella app on an iPad Mini.
(2021)
More COVID-Era Remote Recordings
Closer to Fine
This Indigo Girls cover by Becky, Bob, and me was our first using
the Acapella app on our iPads. (2021)
We Shall Overcome
Bones and I recorded this song remotely, and I turned it into a
slideshow using PowerPoint. We got this out shortly before the 2020
election, hoping that it would encourage people to vote. (2020)
This Scary Yet Wonderful World
Bob wrote and recorded this song early in the pandemic. When I saw
it, I decided to surprise Bob with this collaboration without
telling him. Very low tech - I just played and sang while streaming
his solo YouTube version. (2020)
The Chameleons
From 1997 to 2019, I played in a local musical group, The Chameleons
(not to be confused with
The Chameleons
or
the chameleons
). We played folk, rock, and children's music at various community
events.
The Chameleons' last show, Arlington Porchfest 2019
At Chelmsford Winterfest 1998
For more info, photos, audio, and video, see
The Chameleons Archive
Even More Music
Marty & Eliot, Harvard Square, September 11, 2005
All donations ($7.59) were donated to Hurricane Katrina Relief
