Tracklist:

1    You Know (Spirits of Summer Edit) – Botany Bay
2    Der Flug des Schmetterlings – Schattenspiel
3    Billows – The.Princess.And.The.Pearl
4    The Creek – Orange Crush
5    Beach (Acoustic) – Jim Guittard
6    Five Guitar Song – I Said Yes
7    Joyrider – Danny Spacecat
8    Ich Segele Übers Meer (Instrumental) – Seelenlauf
9    Summer Dreams (In Clouds Above) – Deadstar
10    Things Weren’t Always This Way – Ben Woods

Skeksis Netlabel Project, out of Austria, included my song “Beach – Acoustic” as part of their summer-themed compilation for free download. The songs are quite nice and peaceful with optimism. Please take a listen or download it for free here:

Also, please look into Skeksis’ previous compilations. There are 11 others that are all themed differently, all for free download.
http://skeksisnetlabel.wordpress.com/

Recorded Beck’s song off his 1998 Mutations album back in 1999. I played the 12-string acoustic guitar, sitar, and did the lead and background vocals. This was one of the songs I sent as demo when I applied to go to the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California. I attended there for about nine months or so.

The song is lo-fi and made from a Tascam 4-track recorder. Pic was taken in around October 1999 when I first arrived to Hollywood.

Back in 1997, at the Battle of the Bands event at Highland Park High School in Dallas I performed in my brother Bob Guittard’s band as a sitar player. I betcha no one has ever played a sitar there before or after me there at HPHS!!

At the gig, I came out dressed in Indian gear with sandals and sat on a cushion.

Kids in the audience screamed, “What is that!?!”

My brother sang lead vocal and played acoustic guitar. I sang back up and the played the sitar. Another guy named Graham Cathey played the percussion. It was a trip.

My brother’s band didn’t win. Oh well….

What do you want to do?
Fly on up through the sky?
Nothing’s stopping you.
It’s all in your mind.

Put aside your past.
Burn it all down to the ground.
What you want, you can have.
Fly through the cloud.

Words and Music By Jim Guittard 2008
Mount Hood, Oregon filmed in the air by Katia Yankulova 2010.

Download song for free at:
http://www.archive.org/details/WhatDo…