Rocks ans Minerals Complete Recordings - Karaoke Demo Disk

[MonkeyLover]

Hello again!

My second ever thread is all about...

ROCKS AND MINERALS - KAREOKE DEMO DISK

Firstly, yes the spelling is incorrect on Karaoke and I've lazily not changed it on the player...
Secondly, yes its a 'demo' disk, but it is a completed program
(in other words it works as a player with graphics to the level I wanted, but, as I've put in the readme file,
if anybody wants to email a music video for any of the tracks I will add them in, only my uploader won't take a much larger file size)

PROGRAM EXPLANATION
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This demo disk was conceived out of love...
An animated music video attempted to upload onto a CHANNEL 4 comedy site, but found woe along the way.
(Although it lives there happily these days, and has a second home on a popular video uploading site)
A Christmas Present for my friend Lee Beaumont struggled to find a way in the world also.
Yet when these two crossed paths sparks flew. Let's just say there was much late night activity.
Several months later 'ROCKS AND MINERALS, THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS - Kareoke Demo Disk' was born.
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ROCKS AND MINERALS are a now defunct musical band. In their prime, 1991-93,
they reached heady heights of playing in the school assembly, and on to school concerts.
Eventually, in 1992, tracks were laid down at the Seagull Theatre Studio, Pakefield.
Since the band went their separate ways the EP has been distributed band-wide,
tracks have been aired on US radio, and an official website is online as created by band member Barry Donovan.
Here is Barry's take on the bands success...

"Brit-kids sing weird sh*t"
1991 was the year of preteen psychedelic band Rocks & Minerals. Singer Barry recalls, "We only played a few gigs
(I say gigs, I mean school concerts in front of hundreds of bewildered parents),
but in that time I like to think we amassed something of a reputation.
That's the trouble when you have songs such as 'Photocopy a Light Switch' in your repertoire."

Believe it or not there exists a longer version in the readme file!

Anyway...

Here's some pics (which I had to crop slightly in order to stay under the 600pixel width limit)...

And here it is... the page to download the music player from...
(You'll need the Rocks&Minerals.zip and IMPORTANT Rocks&Minerals Download ReadMe)

Rocks ans Minerals Complete Recordings - Karaoke Demo Disk by Far Too Much Time On Your Hands productions

You'll notice the file is largish, but this is due to the three videos that play inside the program... which originally were bigger and of better quality but had to alter for uploading purposes, but I hope some kind person will still take a look.

Also there are covers on the download page... which you can just view there (too big for me to link them into this thread)

Anyway thanks for atleast taking a look.

And if you do download...
Do you think that my goose is cooked?!! 

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Erm... what is this about?

[MonkeyLover]

Erm... what is this about?

Think of it as an interactive database, music player and video player of "Rocks and Minerals" music...
Its as simple as that.

Thought people might want to take a look at it as it was created using AGS...
Plus the music and videos I hope are entertaining (some people think that the songs are oddly haunting, others think they are just odd, then there are those who call it something that should not be uttered in polite society!)

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Is it on purpose that clicking on the various music names plays music and says lyrics and videos are "unavailable"?

Also, this is a real band? o_O

[MonkeyLover]

Is it on purpose that clicking on the various music names plays music and says lyrics and videos are "unavailable"?

Also, this is a real band? o_O

Yes, it is intentional... only Lettuce Called Felicity has a music video and karaoke version (and there is an easter egg Biography video).

As a newby I posted it here as I did not know where-else to place it... as it is completed as far as it ever will be (It functions to the extent I wanted... although one day I may revisit it)... obviously if the administrators think this is a bit cheeky and want to move this into 'In Production' I totally understand and would edit my original post as appropriate.

And to your second question...
Yes... sort of atleast... My friends and I formed this group during the end of middle school beginning of high school, but in our teenage years are minds turned to curvy, lumpy things and the band split up... I am now in my late 20's, and we often reflect on what might have been (as I said in my previous post there is a website, and a few tracks got played on a yolkel US radio station)...
It's a bit of fun... not to be taken seriously... although some have said that Lee Beaumont (the song writer and composer) was a "child genius"... I on the other hand (a lowly singer and percussionist) was known as the "one with the breaking voice"!