Mike Echlin

Category: Music

  • NFTs in 2022

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    Happy New Year! Hope this year finds you healthy and brings you many good things. I’ve been doing a lot of research on the blockchain and NFTs and getting very interested in the potential. As I always do, diving in the deep end and learn by doing. As such, I’ve launched my first NFT collection…

  • New Single, “Waterloo”

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    This song was inspired by several trips to Waterloo, IA. It’s really about any small town USA, where it’s great to place to grow up. Then maybe you stay – or go. ~Available everywhere on 9/10/21~Find on your fav service It’s a great lifeAlive and kickin’Motor runnin’Living every day by the hour, by the minuteWe…

  • New Single – “Let Me In”

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    I wrote this song about 10 years ago. I tend to write songs and then there’s something about it that isn’t fitting, so I put it on the shelf. I was about to re-shelve this one until I found a great acoustic drum beat that fit the song perfectly. ~Available everywhere on 7/2/21~ I’m on…

  • All About That Bass

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    I’m a huge fan of the bass guitar. I think it’s the most underrated instrument in modern music. If you took the bass out of 90% of the rock songs between 1972 – 2000, those songs would be completely different. Bass was my second instrument and started playing at 15 years old. My first bass…

  • Quarantine Sessions: Inthemiddle

    Quarantine Sessions: Inthemiddle

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    Here’s a song about growing older and stopping to take in the scenery. This is the second song in the quarantine sessions series where I just use my iPhone voice memo to record a single take. Here’s a link to Distrokid (my distributor) and they have links to all the digital services.

  • Quarantine Sessions: American Girl

    Quarantine Sessions: American Girl

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    After playing all these livestreams, it dawned on me that I could record these raw versions and release them. So I’m doing it. Here’s the deal.. Single take, no edits no studio magic. Just me+guitar+iPhone. First song to be released is a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song – “American Girl.” Here’s the link for…

  • Virtual Happy Hour

    Virtual Happy Hour

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    You know the line, “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere”! Well it absolutely applies when you are talking about a livestream at 5pm. Any timezone can watch. Check it out here on my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/memusic/live/ You can also watch past livestreams here.

  • Gigable Favs Playlist on Spotify

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    Since 2015, I’ve been building this playlist which can be generally categorized as Americana, but it contains much more. 42 hours and 52min more to be exact! Enjoy!

  • Time Stand Still

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    Absolutely epic. This was one of my favorite Rush songs of that era. This group has captured the essence of this song in such a beautiful rendition – without drums.

  • Celebrating Neil Peart (aka “The Professor”)

    Celebrating Neil Peart (aka “The Professor”)

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    My first concert was in 1984 and it was Rush at the Rosemont Horizon (now, Allstate Arena). I remember the day vividly. It was June 29th and cold. I stood outside my house waiting to be picked up and remember thinking, ‘this is too cold for June.’ My friend and bandmate, Paul picked me up…