Catalogue TR-001

Hold My Beer

The Broken Spoke

Written, performed, arranged, mastered, sleeved and filmed on one desktop computer. No session players, no studio, no stock library, no subscription. The song did not exist this morning.

Hold My Beer — Take A

G major · 130 bpm · 2:00 · rendered in 40.2s

Hold My Beer — Take B

same lyrics, different seed · rendered in 40.3s

The song

Verse 1

Friday night at the Broken Spoke
Cheap neon and a jukebox groan
Me and Dale just came to drink
And not to think about a thing
Then a big hat with a bigger mouth
Started runnin' my buddy down
Dale just smiled and let it ride
That boy's got more patience than pride

Chorus

Hold my beer
Hold my beer
Some things a man don't have to hear
Twice in one night, not in here
Hold my beer

Verse 2

Took about a second and a half
Before that big hat hit the floor
Bartender never looked up once
Just said boys you know where the door is
Dale picked up my Miller High Life
Handed it back without a word
Ice still cold, not a drop spilled
Best assist I ever heard

Bridge

Dale said you didn't have to do that
I said brother yeah I did
The only thing thicker than this whiskey
Is who you ride with

The identity

The Broken Spoke band mark — Band mark. Arched slab over a wagon wheel with a snapped spoke — drawn in vector, so it is identical at every size and never regenerated.

TR-001 record centre label — Centre label. The spindle hole owns the middle: title above, artist below, nothing set through the hole.

Moving footage, same machine. 832×480, 24fps, 95s to render.

How it was made

Song: 40 secfor 2:00 of finished audio
Sleeve: 19 sec1024×1024
Hardware: One GPU12GB, one desk
Cost per song: $0.00electricity only
Licence: Apache-2.0yours to sell
Subscription: Noneno cap, no credits

On the craft. The model makes the picture; the type is set, never generated — which is why the label name is crisp instead of garbled. The singer is described by characteristics, never imitated from a named artist. The sleeve follows one rule borrowed from the records it is standing on: a cover has to be nameable in five words. This one is beer on a stool in a field.