rich rath

Episodes

1. 25

   watchem burn (old sketch)

   A live improvised guitarlooper sketch fwith faux neoclassical overtones of a new/old song I'm working on for the 16/61 project

   Nov 1, 2025

   2m
2. 24

   rubberfish - big wind

   From my 1988 one man band, rubberfish comes john-lennon-wannabe-with-a-cheap-casio-and-a-rhyming-dictionary cheery apocalypse, perfect for today, with tornadoes, floods, landslides, fires, and elections. Remember, the big wind's gonna come down and blow it all away, anyway. recorded on 4-track...

   Nov 4, 2024

   3m
3. 23

   Rico & Rich - mysterioso

   Hello friends! things are heating up at Way Music. Tonight I want to introduce a new podcast, "Rico's Place" Where I sit in with guitarist and storyteller Rico Woltz, who holds space most nights infront of the ABC store where Kuhio Avenue splits off from Kalakaua Avenue (the actual corner is…

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   Oct 31, 2024

   3m
4. 22

   Rico & Rich - interlude

   Hello friends! things are heating up at Way Music. Tonight I want to introduce a new podcast, "Rico's Place" Where I sit in with guitarist and storyteller Rico Woltz, who holds space most nights infront of the ABC store where Kuhio Avenue splits off from Kalakaua Avenue (the actual corner is…

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   Oct 31, 2024

   1m
5. 21

   Rico & Rich - messin' with the blues

   Hello friends! things are heating up at Way Music. Tonight I want to introduce a new podcast, "Rico's Place" Where I sit in with guitarist and storyteller Rico Woltz, who holds space most nights infront of the ABC store where Kuhio Avenue splits off from Kalakaua Avenue (the actual corner is…

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   Oct 31, 2024

   13m
6. 20

   Rico & Rich - go back and listen

   Hello friends! things are heating up at Way Music. Tonight I want to introduce a new podcast, "Rico's Place" Where I sit in with guitarist and storyteller Rico Woltz, who holds space most nights infront of the ABC store where Kuhio Avenue splits off from Kalakaua Avenue (the actual corner is…

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   Oct 31, 2024

   7m
7. 19

   Rico & Rich - what a lens

   Hello friends! things are heating up at Way Music. Tonight I want to introduce a new podcast, "Rico's Place" Where I sit in with guitarist and storyteller Rico Woltz, who holds space most nights infront of the ABC store where Kuhio Avenue splits off from Kalakaua Avenue (the actual corner is…

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   Oct 31, 2024

   11m
8. 18

   Irredeemable (fuck it)

   Fuck it. For when you've had enough already. The image is from the cover of the book *Bad Feelings* by Arts against Cuts (Book Jerkzzzzzz, n.d.)

   Nov 17, 2023

   4m
9. 17

   Bomb The Beach

   Written in 2006 after IDF bombed a beach where a Palestinian family was picnicking, killing them.

   Oct 22, 2023

   5m
10. 16

    Rock & Roll

    Serious parody/satire of famous VU song by Lou Reed written for Hawaiʻi water protectors. Rock & Roll (Red Hill Version) Original by Lou Reed, as performed by the Velvet Underground Music and Lyrics reworked by Rich Rath and played by same. Jamie said when she was just five years old There's...

    Mar 11, 2023

    4m
11. 15

    Gilded Splinters

    A little something from down in deep. This is a mostly instrumental with the Dr. John song I fell in love with as a kid listening to alternative radio. Thanks to the good Dr. as well as Mssrs #Stubblefield and #Petrucci, and the speaker, Leslie, too.

    Mar 10, 2023

    5m
12. 14

    All Empty

    Music and words written sometime around 1976 the day after taking a trip. Maybe after https://soundcloud.com/richrath/phonebook? Recorded 2022. All Empty music and lyrics, Rich Rath Well and my head it is all empty My consc(ious|ience) disappear My brain, it's been all ravaged Though my thoughts,...

    Mar 8, 2023

    2m
13. 13

    Phew, I Thought I Lost It

    I'm the only one playing. Recorded live in one take, never to be repeated. I thought I accidentally deleted but didn't. I almost lost it. Geek out: This is a run through of three of the four amp models on Neural DSP's archetype Nolly Amp sim (the three leftmost models)combined with some...

    Sep 4, 2021

    12m
14. 12

    WaterBrush

    Faux noir pseudo jazz to evoke cool and dark night near waterfront. Beyond that, you are on your own. For a lovely video to go with this song, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QawL95Icgc4 A few relevant details: Music made entirely on iPad, with the following apps: SoftDrummer, GeoShred, SWAM...

    Mar 17, 2021

    2m
15. 11

    S - Gear Slide Blues - Cleanish

    Demonstration of my new patch for slide guitar using the Scuffham Ampolification S-Gear VST amp. This is the cleanish one, but it still has plenty of bite.

    Oct 18, 2019

    4m
16. 10

    S - Gear Slide Blues - Meanish

    The gnarly half of my S-Gear preset for slide.

    Oct 18, 2019

    3m
17. 9

    Biased Blues

    Giving my Fender Coronado a run though Bias FX 2 desktop version with my slide preset available on tonecloud, "rcr-slide 2"

    Oct 18, 2019

    3m
18. 8

    North Kolkata Evening Thunderstorm 14 Jun, 2019

    Kolkata Evening thunderstorm. Set it in the background on repeat if you are suffering from the heat. Guaranteed to lower the temperature in your head by 10℉! updated 10/26/19: I raised the volume so you don't get blasted by the next item in your playlist :) I also made it loop a lot more seamlessly.

    Jun 15, 2019

    11m
19. 7

    Thorn Breath

    Chill Ambient. For more about it, see http://way.net/waymusic/?p=97 and the Digital Guitarist at https://youtu.be/l7odPRhDoMA

    Feb 12, 2019

    3m
20. 6

    DFWM2DAY

    lol, learned something from this. Call your song "Don't F* w/ me today" and probably nobody gonna listen. Maybe cute kitten will help. Laulani Teale gets the photo credit!

    Sep 15, 2018

    3m
21. 5

    Hurricane Lane

    In flight entertainment. Recorded and mixed on my plane trip from Honolulu to Boston on my iPad. One of the instruments is a combination of me rolling a wheeled backpack over tiles by the UH library and sharpening a knife, both treated in the Soundscaper app. The other apps are Moog Model D,...

    Aug 24, 2018

    5m
22. 4

    The Revolution Will Not Be...

    http://alandunn67.co.uk/therevolutionwillnotbeedgehill.html For details and more

    Jun 8, 2018

    1m
23. 3

    FMelan

    FM synthetic pretending to be gamelan

    Jun 1, 2018

    2m
24. 2

    Keel Haul

    A quick (1:32) chill instrumental for you. Done with bidule, ATK plugins, my rhythmecho, mixed in live, mastered in ozone.

    Mar 28, 2018

    1m
25. 1

    roastguider

    just an experiment with a synth setting I liked on UHE's BazilleCM vst synth that I got by subscribing to computer music magazine. reminded me of the proto-synth-punk-actually-kind-of-beyond-genre duo Suicide's famous Ghost Rider, but not; hence the silly spoonerism for the title.

    Jul 9, 2017

    1m
26. Whippit Post

    An homage to the combined forces of Greg Allman and the Allman Bros and Jeremy Evers' Atlantis plugin.

    May 29, 2017

    2m
27. The Revolution will not be on the Internet

    Sampled Modems and Dialtones and Guitars under Words Inspired by Gil Scott Heron and Dub Poet Mutabaruka. Part of the Artists' Use of the Word Revolution Project from Alan Dunn. Words written for the first class I ever taught at Oberlin College in 1998, recorded in 2002.

    Feb 21, 2017

    5m
28. Danced 2

    Slightly better version of a reworked Mess song from the 1980s. will post a better version eventually, but this gives the tone workout for the Scuffham Amplification S-Gear patches discussed here: http://www.scuffhamamps.com/forum/9-presets/7857-non-vox-jangle

    Oct 12, 2016

    3m
29. Slide 160925

    Goin for that post-trip 13th-floor-elevators-turned-up-loud-but-played-all-quiet-and-soaked-in-spring-reverb sound, gotten from linux with open source wonder-amp Guitarix's Ampeg tonestack.

    Sep 26, 2016

    3m
30. djent kennedies

    Djent meets Dead Kennedies. Vocals vocoded with cappuccino machine. This one has a story at http://way.net/waymusic/?p=861

    May 10, 2016

    0m
31. rainish

    Play it on a sunny day if you're only happy when it rains. This is a chill thing, not much going on it seems on the surface. Nice background music that will make you reach for your raincoat when you leave. The track is a simple live guitar improv run through four different lanes with the use of...

    Mar 16, 2016

    4m
32. rich rath - funky keoniana

    Just a guitar track for an idea I had today. Variation of a song I wrote when I was in the Mess in the early eighties that we used when the other guitarist, Palmer, broke a string. The original, which I'll put up some time, was in E so that he could tune up in the middle of the song since we had…

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    Feb 22, 2016

    1m
33. Post trip nerves

    ok, this one is tricky. It is all treble, wobble, and echo and reverb. I have to play really really lightly, or as Monisha's parent used to say, It will shatter your nerves. THe idea is to get this really fragile delicate, raw nerve thing without doing the actual shattering. Should NOT be played...

    Feb 22, 2016

    2m
34. Dr Mr Scuffham

    Tone test od Scuffham amps s-gear guitar amp vst. Going for the sound of Traffic's Dear Mr Fantasy guitar with a little more edge. "A" setting is the rhythm throughout, single coil neck pickup at 3/4 vol. Crunchy low end with slight drive but clear articulation on the top, mids severely scooped....

    Oct 22, 2015

    2m
35. 99 percent blues (acoustic)

    The trials and travails of (de)Occupy Honolulu. A more rocking acoustic version of 99 percent blues, with several more verses that reflect what happened over the course of 100 + raids on the (de)Occupy encampment that was at Thomas Square for two years.

    Mar 6, 2012

    5m