Dan Luckman Theme Song (Remix)

Several, several, months ago, I took a commission from my sister to write a song for my dad. I make up a lot of music as I go along while playing the keyboard a lot, but I never really write anything down, or remember it when I come back to the keyboard later. It's always just for fun. I took this opportunity and wrote something fun and catchy with some things about my dad that my sister and I have experienced and love him for.

At the time I had just gotten a Powerbook with Garageband. I didn't really know how to use it and ended up just recording the song while playing over the lap top microphone. The quality was bad, and I wasn't so great and singing and playing together but the idea came across and my parents and my sister loved it. At least that's what they told me.

Well today after church, I was inspired to play my piano again and decided to try and understand Garageband a little better. Dad's song loaded when I opened the program, and I started thinking about ways I could improve on it. So here's what I did. I added drums and a bass line, then recorded piano and vocals on separate tracks so I could do one at a time. I also used an external mic as opposed to the on on the laptop. This all culminates in a remix of the Dan Luckman song which I am absolutely thrilled with. It was a lot of fun.

This one's for you dad. Love you.



Lyrics:
Hey look who's that over there?
Watching NASCAR in his La-z-boy chair
Drinking Henry Weinhard's Root Beer
Don't worry you have nothing to fear
From Dan Luckman

Works at Fred Meyer down the street
Selling produce to all that he meets
His sidekick Dax at home at his feet
Faithful forever, she really likes meat
From Dan Luckman

He's your best friend
He'll be with you
Until the end
He's Dan Luckman

Once in a while he'll come to you room
Say he's a terrodactyl and then he'll screech real loud
He'll make you proud

Then he'll play his air guitar
It's not that good but you'll still laugh
Cause it's so bad
And he's your dad

Yes, he's crazy, it's true
He'd wear Hawain shirts every day if he could
Goes out on his boat, to catch fish
Brings them home to make a tasty dish

He's Dan Luckman
He's your best friend
He'll be with you
Until the end

He's Dan Luckman
He's your best friend
He'll stay with you
Until the end

He's Dan Luckman

Our Smoky Mountains

This is a view of our new place from the street. That's the front door and the living room window. On the left are the master bedroom windows. There are two drive ways, one on either side, and that's our garage back there on the right, but it's mostly for storage and lawn equipment, not for a car. The staircase you see goes out to the street, so we don't really use it much, but it looks nice. One of these weekends I'm going to work on removing weeds and brush from that front yard. We're responsible for yard maintenance, so I figure I should take it seriously. Teresa just bought me a rake and shovel too! Isn't she thoughtful? Oh, and by the way, this picture was taken just after mowing with my fancy electric mower. If you look real close at the front door, you can see Hannah wondering what I'm doing.

Here is the back of the house. That door leads to the kitchen and the windows are to the 2nd and 3rd bedrooms. The larger bedroom will be a guest room and study. The third bedroom is slowly becoming a music room where I have my keyboard and stereo and various other items that don't fit anywhere else in the house. Again, I had just mowed the lawn, so it looks real nice. It had gone three weeks prior to this. It did take me two hours though. Even with a nice lawn mower, the lawn is just big. Speaking of the lawn.


Here is the back yard. It's fenced on the sides and at the back, which you see here, but not the front to either side of the house yet. I'm working on fixing that so we can let Hannah out without a leash. Supervised, but free to run. I'm pretty sure if we just left her on her own, she'd find a way out, but it would be nice to be able to play with her out there. The yard is sloped. High at the left, and low at the right, so it's really easy to mow going one direction, and lot harder going the other.


And this last picture is the view from the South side of the house taken from our front porch. If you're facing our front door, as in the first picture, and turn 90 degrees to your right, you'll see the mountains. It's really pretty. And in the mornings and some rainy days it's either completely obscured by fog and clouds, or you can see them lingering around the mountain tops. We're not sure, but we think that large gash in the mountain top might be preparation for a road leading to the new Tiger Woods golf course that they're building somewhere around there.

So that's our new place from the outside. Eventually when we get a couch and set things up how we want it and it's all clean, I'll take some inside pictures for you all to see. Speaking of a couch, we did some more shopping in Asheville and didn't really find anything. We did however revisit a store in Black Mountain and Teresa kept coming back to a couch she had tried out several weeks ago. It may end up being the one. I'll keep you posted since I know you're all riveted to the Luckman Couch Search 2009 adventure.