Tribute to Tribute - Cosmic Bos's tribute to Tribute by Tenacious D

 Hello my rockin' amigo's,

Welcome to the gates of Hell! Where musicians must fight demon's to save the very fabric of our existence. Andy and Nick Jackson (Cosmic Bos) stood before such a demon and used the powers of Tenacious D to save us all. Here is the video evidence of this mighty quest.

Tribute by Tenacious D is arguably the greatest tribute to the greatest song in the world that has even been made. Cosmic Bos have chosen to honour the greatest song in the world by doing a tribute to the tribute to the greatest song in the world.

Brothers Andy and Nick (Jackson) - Cosmic Bos, have been making music for a long time, one of the very first bonding experiences with music for the Jackson brothers was the self titled debut album by Tenacious D - Jack Black and Kyle Gass created a masterpiece with that album, and it was whist visiting America (Florida to be precise, for the theme parks) that the very British Jackson brothers did stumble upon Tenacious D. Purchased from a record store in an outlet mall along with the Spinal Tap Soundtrack, Nick and Andy proceeded to spend their two week holiday learning every lyric, skit and harmony that the album had to offer. Nick was 15 at the time, Andy was 21, and their vocal only rendition of 'F**k Her Gently' on the boat ride to Disneyland was both inappropriate and hilarious.

Tribute is the stand out song on the album, it is a true masterpiece on its own. The video is also a masterpiece in Cosmic Bos's opinion. Nick and Andy learnt to play and perform the song shortly after returning from America. Several years later it would be their party piece, once an acoustic guitar had been located at a party it wouldn't be long before the pre Cosmic Bos brothers would be flig-a-guinging their way through a ropey rendition of Tribute.

Now all these many moons later, Nick and Andy have been making music together as Cosmic Bos for over 5 years, embodying the spirit of the D, continuing their quest to find the greatest song in the world and share it with everyone. They found it only fitting to honour the song that inspired their lifelong quest, give praise to the musical gods that Jack Black and Kyle Gass are, and offer to help them in their quest to be the greatest band in the world, maybe take the septa for a while, maybe even take over as they are getting on a bit now.

Tribute to Tribute is Cosmic Bos's tribute to Tribute by Tenacious D, Andy and Nick attempted to lovingly recreate the original video as much as they could. Not having access to a suitable 'recording booth' as in the original video, the lads just decided to skip all that and cut straight to the song.

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Peace and infinite success

Cosmic Bos

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Album Writing Club 2023 - Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren - Sound Investments

 Hello prospective client,

Andy Jackson here, from Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren, I am one of the partners in this musical business that was set up for the #AlbumWritingClub 2023 and I am head of the vocal/lyrics and promotional department of HJJ&W

For your consideration, I present to you 'Playing Office' by Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren

Hartshorn Jackson Jackson Warren · Playing Office

This song is one of the 11 tracks on the album 'Sound Investments' that HJJ&W submitted to the albumwritingclub competition. 

This is the second year that Lights and Lines record label have run this wonderful competition, last year the partners of HJJ&W had taken part in the comp separately, as Andrew Hartshorn, Cosmic Bos (the Jackson brothers) and ASeaWarren (Al Warren), developing friendships through discussions around the competition, working together in different capacities before joining forces to tackle Album Writing Club Year 2.

Here is the full playlist of entrants to the singles competition part of the album competition.

You can vote for your 3 favourites here VOTING FORM (pick your top 3)

Lights And Lines · #AlbumWritingClub2023 - Best Single (Public Vote)

Anyway, back to the business at hand, the musical business of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren.

Headed up by the CEO of Monochrome Motif Records, Mr. Andrew Hartshorn is the first name in our musical business, we call him the Big Dog, mainly because he's the oldest not because he's particularly dog like in any sense of the word. Hartshorn runs a tight ship, having at the beginning of 2023 assembled his labels artists and affiliates to produce the epic Poseidon's Realm under the name the Monochrome Assembly. 

Purchase the album from this embedded link to band camp, and enjoy the video to the song 'It's Between Me and the Sea' from the very album. It features Andrew Hartshorn and the two Jacksons of HJJ&W.

This rather smoothly moves us on to the aforementioned Jackson brothers, Cosmic Bos.

The hosts of the Monthly Music Challenge (MMC), Cosmic Bos love to make music, lots of it, in loads of genres and styles, and then make videos for some of them, if not all of them. 

Cosmic Bos operate a DIY approach and have to date managed to rack up quite a discography of musical experimentation. Working directly with Andrew Hartshorn since last years competition, Cosmic Bos have developed a close working bond with Monochrome Motif. With Andrew Hartshorn taking part in the MMC and Bos being part of the Monochrome Assembly along with...

The Warren part of HJJ&W, Mr. Al Warren, ASeaWarren, musical guru and all round legend of the soundscapes, working with Hartshorn on his debut Orchestral Suite and becoming a New and Notable on Bandcamp with it (awesome work Al). Al was also a key member of the Monochrome Assembly. 

Al (as we are officially allowed to call Mr. Warren) is also a participant in the MMC, and once word had got out that Mike 5 was running Album Writing Club again in 2023, it didn't take long for the 4 partners to combine their unique musical skills and form Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren

Further details about HJJ&W will be made available to the public in due course.

Thank you for your time, please consider following us on Soundcloud whilst we build our profile and prepare to take this business venture public. https://soundcloud.com/hartshorn-jackson-jackson-warren profile

Kind Regards

Andy Jackson partner in HJJ&W

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - MMC 1.5 - Razzmajazz

 Hello cool cats,

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.5 - Razzmajazz

Come on a jazzy journey with Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we venture through the razz and the matazz of the musical world of jazz. This is one interesting ride you are in for, as Cosmic Bos guide us through the fascinating land of the razzmajazz.

With stunning songs by Andrew Hartshorn, Notehead, Tonal Drift, ASeaWarren, Scowsh Molosh, Hellwaddler, Man of Arun, Trench Gun, Peter Hawkey and of course your ever idiotic hosts Cosmic Bos, this is a trip your ears deserve to go on.

Razzmajazz marks our last collaboration hashtag with the wonderful musicians of Music Weeklies, a massive thank you to them for helping get the Monthly Music Challenge off the ground, and we will continue to play songs made for their hashtags until the end of this season of MMC.

The next hashtag (for MMC 1.6) is Artificial Intelligence #ArtificialIntelligence and you have until the 7th of July (2023) to get your AI songs to us for inclusion. You can alternatively submit on any of the previous tags we have had (1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning and now 5. Razzmajazz) to be considered for our coverted Late Subs section. Just send an mp3 with a little bit of info about yourself and your song to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

Here is the full tracklist for MMC 1.5 Razzmajazz

Razzmajazz songs

1. Razzmajazz - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
2. The Jazzman's Trumpet - Andrew Hartshorn
3. This is Fine - Notehead
4. Razmajazz - Tonal Drift
5. No.7 Quartet in Bb - ASeaWarren @aseawarren
6. razzmajazz - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
7. Just Make It Up - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler

What a trip! Some real Jazztastic fun sitting there being all quirky and interesting, also notice that all the members of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren are present (n.b Cosmic Bos are the two Jacksons) as is tradition at this point on the MMC.

For the other hashtags of music weeklies month of May we have:

#minime 

8. The Wasted Youth - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
9. Talkin' - Man of Arun @ManofArun
10. Warped - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
11. Kody - Trench Gun 
12. Minime - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler

HopeAndDespair

13. Remaining Forever Hopeful - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
14. Hope and Despair - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey

#Sandcastle

15. The Sand King - Notehead
16. Basic Sandcastle Destruction - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos

And there you have the full set list for the episode, #SpoilerAlert, there were no late subs this month so no subs for you!

Cosmic Bos always pop their tunes for the MMC onto a handy little EP which is available on bandcamp right here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-15-razzmajazz

And as mentioned several times during the episode, you can check out Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren's single (Playing Office) Playing Office - HJJW on Soundcloud

Hartshorn Jackson Jackson Warren · Playing Office

in the singles playlist over on soundcloud for the #albumwritingclub 2023 - full playlist here

and there is a handy voting page where you can pick your 3 favourites from the 34 singles (Congratulations to everyone who took part in AlbumWritingClub this year, you are all winners for getting to the finish line), playlist found on link just above.

You can vote here on this link right here

Please like, share and subscribe to the Monthly Music Challenge, tell your friends and musical rivals.

Our YouTube is here is you fancy some visual stimulation to go with your audio

Peace and infinite jazz

Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge (MMC) 1.4 - Winning podcast

 Winning!

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge Podcast with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.4 - Winning

Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) present for your listening pleasure the finest in underground musical talent building a musical empire, one hashtag at a time, for the fourth outing of the first year of the MMC, we took on the epic concept of #Winning, and invited the worlds musicians to also take part, and some of them did, and here it is, in podcast form for you.

This is the first hashtag that we have undertaken without being partnered up with the music weeklies peeps (check them out, they are awesome sauce), but rest assured, this episode still contains several of the challenges set by the weeklies, once all the Winning has been dealt with.

And, returning once again, we have the Late Subs section, with some tasty musical treats for your ears around the previous hashtags of the MMC.

Before #SpoilerAlert ending the show with a track from the Poseidon's Realm album by the Monochrome Assembly

Check out the Monochrome Assembly bandcamp here https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album

The next hashtag for Monthly Music Challengers is #Razzmajazz 

in conjunction with the Music Weeklies again, we challenge you to explore your expressive Jazz, be wild, be bold, and see what happens, it's all that kinda jazz baby! You have until the 2nd of June to get your Rasmajazz songs to us, send mp3's and a bio or song info to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

We begin proceedings this time with (surprise, surprise) Cosmic Bos and our song We Are All in This Together (which we made a lyric video for)

Here is the full tracklist for MMC 1.4 Winning

Winning songs

1. We Are All in this Together - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
2. Slow and Steady Wins the Race - Andrew Hartshorn
3. You Can't Be A Winner (If You're A Sinner) - ASeaWarren @aseawarren
4. D - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler
5. Let's Go Bro! - TexMex Shaman
6. Winning isn't Everything - Man of Arun @ManOfArun
7. Smell Defeat - Notehead
8. Winning (Deep Friend Mix) - Mobidextrous  @mobidextrous9777

What a collection of Winning songs right there, all returning players to the MMC, with an eclectic take on the theme, bangers one and all, go check out all these wonders on the socials.

On to the weekly hashtag songs provided by the @musicweeklies 

TuneWithAView

9. TuneWithAView - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
10.  Tune With A View - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey

MyCulture

11. Kick in the Cultures - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
12. Scrying Mirror - Notehead

Accelerate

13. Accelerate - Tonal Drift
14. Accelerate - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
15. Sprint - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos

That leaves us with the LATE SUBS, Whoop Whoop!

16. in the beginning (#NewBeginnings) - Tonal Drift
17. Ignorance (#Ignorance) - TexMex Shaman

And finally, to cap the episode off nicely, we present to you another track from the Poseidon's Realm album by the Monochrome Assembly

18. The Seagull - The Monochrome Assembly 

Thanks for listening and supporting, please consider subscribing and leaving comments and share with all your friends

Here is Cosmic Bos EP MMC 1.4 Winning on bandcamp, where you can purchase it should you be so inclined.

Here is the podcast playlist courtesy of YouTube

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos MMC 1.4 Winning EP - for the Monthly Music Challenge 1.4 Winning

Hello lovely you,

It's band camp Friday, and a new EP by Cosmic Bos is here for you

And a video to go with the single We Are All in This Together

Full episode of the Monthly Music Challenge coming Sunday 7th May, with some wonderful exclusive music around the subject of Winning

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Cover done by AI

Monochrome Motif Records presents - Poseidon's Realm by the Monochrome Assembly (Preview Podcast out now)

Happy day music lover,

Welcome to this special presentation podcast all about Monochrome Motif records new album coming out 22nd April 2023 - Poseidon's realm by the monochrome assembly

https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album

Order your copy right now from the above link.

To celebrate Monochrome Motif Records first birthday, Andrew Hartshorn (Label manager) put together a super musical team of ultra talented musicians to take on the mammoth task of concurring Poseidon's realm, and Spoiler Alert, the assembled musical masters took it to the depths.

Here's a quick word from the boss himself - Andrew Hartshorn

Re: Poseidon launch

Really pleased with how the launch has gone with lots of listens across the board for the preview tracks that are part of the preorder. 

A big thank you to everyone who has already placed a pre order for the download and the limited edition CD.

As we already have the stock, all pre ordered CD's will be posted immediately so it means you get to hear the tracks prior to the official launch date of 22nd April.

By purchasing the album (https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album) it will support our ambitious plans for the forthcoming year with a further 7 albums currently scheduled.

And finally a massive thank you to all the artists, for their time, skill and enthusiasm for the project

- Andrew Hartshorn (Monochrome Motif Label Manager)

Thank you Andrew for the update, now on with the preview show

There are 6 preview songs from Poseidon's realm here for your listening pleasure: and the running order is as such

1. The Lighthouse (Andrew Hartshorn, Natalie Williams Calhoun and A Sea Warren)

2. it's Between me and the sea (Andrew Hartshorn and Cosmic Bos)

3. Drowned (A Sea Warren)

4. Painted Ship on a Painted Ocean (Alexa Thanos & Sean Ettlin)

5. The Siren's Lament (Dan Johnson - Age of Infernal)

6. The Last Glacier (Hipster Pug)

Here is the embed from bandcamp of these 6 awesome songs

The full album has 7 other songs that complete this unique and wonderful celebration record, which, let's face it, you really should get a copy for your collection, maybe buy two so you have a backup if one gets broken by squirrels (trust me, it's a serious problem in some parts of the world)

Full bio's of all the members of the Monochrome Assembly can be heard in this preview podcast. The full members roster for the monochrome assembly is Andrew Hartshorn, Natalie Williams Calhoun, A Sea Warren, Cosmic Bos, Dan Johnson (Age of Infernal), Hipster Pug and Alexa Thanos & Sean Ettlin. 

Don't forget to visit the bandcamp page and get your copy today https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album 

And like, share and subscribe to Cosmic Bos's podcast, https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com 

And comment please, comments help spread the word.

Thank you for your time, hope you enjoy all this amaze-ball music, and pick up a copy of the full album. Have a great lunch

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

MMC 1.3 - Ignorance (Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos podcast) 27 songs for you, no soup though I'm afraid

 Hello lovely you,

Welcome to the blog for the new episode of Monthly Music Challenge podcast

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.3 - Ignorance

 Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) are the idiots here to take you through the 27 songs of the third month of the challenge. The main monthly theme was #Ignorance and 13 of the songs you will hear today were written around that idea. 

 Thanks to the amazing people of Music Weeklies we managed to secure some other wonderful songs through the other hashtags of March 2023, and we also introduce a new section at the end of the podcast called Late Subs, so if you want to get in on the Monthly Music Challenge action you can send us songs based on the previous Monthly hashtags (1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, and now 3. Ignorance) for a chance to be played in the Late Subs.

 Before we delve into the full tracklist, it's our pleasure to announce the next hashtag for the MMC, so MMC 1.4 will be #Winning. We are not paired with the Music Weeklies peeps on this one, so there is no pressure to get your monthly song finished in a week.

 Get your #Winning songs in to us by 5th May 2023 please, if you are new to the MMC then send an MP3 with a bio about yourself to cosmicbos@gmail.com , without further adoing let's get on with the show.

 Ignorance Songs

  1. Idiots - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos  

  2. Ignorance - Mobidextrous @mobidextrous9777  

  3. Ignorance - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey  

  4. Artificial Ignorance - Graham Casey 

  5. Ignorance - Dario Erico @Deadarius  

  6. Wilful Ignorance - Trench Gun @trenchgunM1897  

  7. MuWee Ignorance - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh  

  8. Ignorance - The Shiver One @theshiverone1977  

  9. The Size of the Stars - Notehead 

 10. I is for Ignorance - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler   

 11. Eden - Andrew Hartshorn @andrewhartshornmusic  

 12. Without Your Love - ASeaWarren @aseawarren  

 13. Ignorance (Boris Johnson) - Reuben Cooper  

Now that's a lot of great ignorance songs right there, some returning players and a couple of new faces, go check out all these amazing artists on their socials

 UpsideDown Songs

  14. Down for the Upside - Cosmic Bos  

  15. Free Flow - Notehead 

  16. Downside Up - Esky013 

GodsOfOlympus Songs

  17. Gods and Goddesses of Olympus - Cosmic Bos 

  18. Ares God of War - Michel Debois  @micheldebois  

MW200thTheme Songs

  19. Reflections of our Inescapable Humanity (No Soup for You) - Cosmic Bos 

  20. Because it was - Man of Arun @ManOfArun  

  21. Post Apocalyptic - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler    

PainoSolo Songs

  22. Reflections in the Ethereal Water - Ashen Music  @ashenmusicofficial  

  23. Ivory and Ebony - Cosmic Bos  

Late Subs (Brand new section we added on for all the late submissions)

  24. Escape This! - TexMex Shaman 

  25. Pretend to Escape - Colin Pimlott @colinpimlott9029  

  26. Love Restored -  The Word Alchemist and Cosmic Bos   

  27. Let the Shaman Show You Round -  @TexMexShaman  and Cosmic Bos  

That's ya lot, and it sure is a lot, a lot of great music.

 We (Cosmic Bos) put all of our tracks out in a handy EP, which coincidently has the same name as this episode of the podcast, MMC 1.3 - Ignorance, you can get it on bandcamp here

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-13-ignorance

 And you can find video versions of all of our entries on youtube on our channel here

And here is the youtube playlist of the Monthly Music Challenge

Please check out all the amazing musicians of the MMC, their socials will be pleased, help us build this community of true grass roots musicians, tell your musical friends to come get involved, it's still really early days with this, and together we can make it a force to reckon with, an alternative music industry of creative expression. Also, don't forget the next theme is #Winning, so get making your winning songs.

 Thanks for being awesome

We love you

Please like, share and subscribe 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Direct podcast page - https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com 

MMC Playlist on youtube again just in case you missed it above