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The Realside is a pop-rock solo studio project out of Albany with roots in Nashville and Memphis, TN. All music written, performed and recorded by Terry McClain, except where noted on live performances.

Some influences include Marvin Gaye, Guided By Voices, Radiohead, Beck, Frank Zappa, Danger Mouse, Frank Black, Jeff Buckley, The Neptunes, Dr. Dre, ELO, The Police, Genesis, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, The Beatles, Chris Cornell, Tchad Blake, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Andy Wallace, Rick Rubin, Todd Rundgren, XTC, Air, Stereolab, Squarepusher, Pinback, Jimi Hendrix, Rob Hubbard, Jesper Kyd, Lhasa De Sela

PRESS FOR WILLETT COMB, MARCH 2009

"Terry McClain (who also leads his own rock outfit, Guiltless Cult), just released what he calls a “philosophical electronic-rock album that studies the longing for peace in a world full of hypocrisy, delusions and deception.” But Willett Comb, recorded under pseudonym The Realside, is more than just a bunch of conspiracy-theory gobbledygook: It’s an engaging rock record, with politically pointed lyrics couched in poetry and brought to fruit by McClain’s elastic voice and instrumental talents. (Frank)Moscowitz, who’s been popping up everywhere lately despite having relocated to New York City last fall, also contributes to a few tracks." - John Brodeur, Metroland, 2009

"Terry McClain, who is celebrating his own new solo disc, "Willett Comb," which he's releasing under the name the Realside. "It's basically a political CD that isn't overtly political," says McClain, who also leads the band Guiltless Cult. "It's more of a dialogue on America's capitalism and socialism and the struggles between collectivism and individuality." It's a sprawling concept album that fuses together hip-hop, rock, pop, reggae and more over the course of 17 songs and 76 minutes." - Greg Haymes, Times Union, 2009.



A Night In Eden (Live) - Live version of Full 23 min 5 part crime story. Download for free.
(Jeff Layton:Drums / Nate Glass:Percussion / Terry McClain:Guitar, vocals / Chris Neuhaus: Bass)
Recorded at Riverfront Park: Troy, NY Oct-2009

Willett Comb

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A philosophical electronic-rock album that studies the longing for peace in a world full of hypocrisy, delusions and deception. This is an album with 17 songs and 76 minutes of music dedicated to the second American Revolution.

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Bad News - The Realside [4:20]  lyrics
(c)2008 Terry McClain; 2nd Verse Vocal: Khary WAE Frazier
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Taking A Minute - The Realside [4:03]  lyrics
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Time Doesn't Die - The Realside [3:31]  lyrics
(c)2008 Terry McClain; Co-mixed by Frank Moscowitz
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Outlaw [2:19]  lyrics
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The 5th [3:21]  lyrics
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All In My Head - The Realside [3:43]  lyrics
(c)2008 Terry McClain
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Tower Of Allegiance - The Realside [3:46]  lyrics
(c)2008 Terry McClain; Mixed by Frank Moscowitz & Terry McClain; Keys, extra guitar & extra background vocals: Frank Moscowitz
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One More Minute [4:15]  lyrics
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Silent War - The Realside [4:16]  lyrics
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Earth Dog [3:40]  lyrics
(c)2008 Terry McClain; Extra Crispy Guitar-Eric Halder
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Goodness Is Gone - The Realside [4:35]  lyrics
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Victims - The Realside [4:04]  lyrics
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Fill The Gap - The Realside [5:59]  lyrics
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Go The Way I Would Go [4:19]  lyrics
(c)2008 Terry McClain (with The Crayons)
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Rude Awakening - The Realside [5:31]  lyrics
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The Big Deal [10:45]  lyrics
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Republic of America (Live) - The Realside [3:54]  lyrics
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Intro To: Memphis Demos

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Intro To was made in Memphis in my residence the years of 1999-2000. Recorded entirely on a Roland VS-880 8 track (With the exception of "So Alone" recorded at University of Memphis by Bill Bailey), including guitar sounds in the modeling software. No digital editing was available, so what you hear is what you get.
Terry McClain: All instruments, vocals and songwriting
Bryan Powers: Lead Guitar & Piano on "So Alone (For So Long)"
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Terry McClain.

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So Alone (For So Long) [4:34]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Elenia [4:21]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Move Me - The Realside [4:26]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Entertaining the Masses [3:14]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Never Let You Go [3:35]  Free   Download MP3
I Never Lied [4:12]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Undulate [4:01]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Effect of Amnesia [3:43]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Spellbound [5:17]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Electric Blanket [2:46]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Sinkhole [4:45]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Nine [3:01]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Nucleus Orgy [4:22]  Free   Download MP3
Understood You [3:48]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Stop The Press [2:41]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Kinetic [2:59]  $0.50   Add To Cart
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Random Purges & Movements

The electronic pop/rock album written and recorded in the month of Feb 2010 for the RPM challenge.

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Best Kept Secret [4:08]  lyrics
(c)2010 Terry McClain All instruments, vocals and production by Terry McClain
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Cotton Candy [3:19]  lyrics
(c)2010 Terry McClain All instruments, vocals and production by Terry McClain
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Ordinary Day [6:09]  lyrics
(c)2010 Terry McClain All instruments, vocals and production by Terry McClain
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Just Like Old Times [3:30]  lyrics
(c)2010 Terry McClain All instruments, vocals and production by Terry McClain Co written with Roger Paul Mason
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King Victor the Blind [4:03]  Free   Download MP3
Out There [3:25]  lyrics
All by Terry McClain (c)2010
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Hero [4:37]  lyrics
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Novella [4:07]  lyrics
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17 Cents [2:25]  lyrics
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The Nines [4:11] 
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Nerdology-
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Album recorded/mixed/mastered with the following hardware/software:
Win XP Pro/Home 32 bit, 2.2Ghz S939 AMD X2, 2GB Ram
Cubase 4
Wavelab 6
NI Komplete 4
EZ Drummer
Guitar Rig 3
Kore 2
Massive
Voxengo Elephant 2
Voxengo Soniformer
Vocsteady (DiVerse)
Pusher (DiVerse)
Yamaha Vocal Rack
EMU 1616M CardBus
SIR Reverb (freeware)
MDSP Compressor (freeware)
Joe Meek ThreeQ
UA SOLO 610 PreAmp
AKG Perception 200 Condenser Mic
AT4033 Condenser Mic

Code of Ethics

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An album spanning songs from 2002-2005. Featuring Sensemaya's Tim Williams on Saxophone on "Once In A While." Terry McClain: All songwriting, vocals, acoustic & electric drums, guitar, bass, keys, percussion.

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Imaginative Ways [4:47]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Vox Dementia [2:38]  $0.50   Add To Cart
My Favorite Waltz [4:00]  $0.50   Add To Cart
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Never Again [5:11]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Last Time We Say Goodbye [5:24]  $0.50   Add To Cart
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Miracle [2:51]  $0.50   Add To Cart
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Every Now and Then [4:20]  $0.50   Add To Cart
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Once in a While [4:21]  $0.50   Add To Cart
All I Want From You [3:24]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Upside Down [3:40]  $0.50   Add To Cart
*No Place To Hide (Bonus Track) [3:58]  Free   Download MP3
*Coyote (Bonus Track) [3:20]  Free   Download MP3

Strange Melodies

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Made entirely of edited improvisations, this album explores the diversity of percussion loops as song structure foundations. With no song under 6 minutes, these are songs that were made entirely in Sonic Foundry's ACID 3.0 back in 2002. All by Terry McClain; Tim Williams: Sax on Reincarnation, Terry Plunkett: Extra Solo on Blue Monsoon

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Oddball [9:11]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Look Away [6:11]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Wander (Mr. John Roth) - The Realside [8:11] 
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Magic Vs Science [7:29]  $0.50   Add To Cart
Fate Of The World [6:09]  $0.50   Add To Cart
A Completely Infinite Direction [12:37]  $0.50   Add To Cart

Thump the Villain

A concept album of industrial/electronic music depicting a sociopathic scientist determined to make a controlled society of utopian slaves. Dr. Thad Villumpren has made a cybernetic suit that transforms his body into spaghetti-like tubes of electrical current, which invade and manifest fantasies in all who encounter him. Most die of starvation, but there is a small resistance of people who can resist the frequencies Thump operates at. Many are mentally challenged or schizophrenic, but reside in a world of anarchy, unpredictability with a rule of machines.

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Is It [3:22]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
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Hacienda [4:26]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
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Spam Mail Hypnotist [4:23]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Lost Dreams In AI [2:11]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Talisman [3:43]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Doomopolis [3:14]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
Public Fix - The Realside [3:32]  Free   Download MP3
Termite Rogue [1:42]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
City Under Siege [3:03]  Choose a price   Add To Cart
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Cutting the Rough

FREE ALBUM OF 66 RARE DEMOS including demo versions of All In My Head, You Got It Right, I Never Warned You & Heave Ho. Download "Cutting The Rough" and peek into obscurity.

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Far From Home [2:45]  Free   Download MP3
Lovestrong - The Realside [4:26]  Free   Download MP3
Raining In Iceland [3:01]  Free   Download MP3
The Ambiguous Flowchart [4:01]  Free   Download MP3
Cloud Diver/Run With Me [5:04]  Free   Download MP3
Out the Window [2:58]  Free   Download MP3
Uncle Sam [3:55]  Free   Download MP3
Just A Guy [3:07]  Free   Download MP3
Grey [3:28]  Free   Download MP3
Princess [4:43]  Free   Download MP3
Say No More [4:35]  Free   Download MP3
Balance [5:34]  Free   Download MP3
Middle Of My Mind [2:53]  Free   Download MP3
Feels [4:00]  Free   Download MP3
Come Alive [3:40]  Free   Download MP3
Darkroom [4:07]  Free   Download MP3
A Night & 2 Days [4:46]  Free   Download MP3
I Can't See You Behind [4:45]  Free   Download MP3
Afterwards [3:15]  Free   Download MP3
All In My Head (Demo) [3:22]  Free   Download MP3
And Now We Are Paralyzed [2:40]  Free   Download MP3
Cast [3:39]  Free   Download MP3
The Noble Knight [3:46]  Free   Download MP3
Condensation [1:08]  Free   Download MP3
Conway [5:17]  Free   Download MP3
Days Gone By [2:10]  Free   Download MP3
Desired [4:01]  Free   Download MP3
Doin' Time [4:32]  Free   Download MP3
Don't Say It [3:30]  Free   Download MP3
Drink With The Fishes [4:48]  Free   Download MP3
Flavaphat [3:49]  Free   Download MP3
Follow My Heart [4:34]  Free   Download MP3
Headphones Only [1:28]  Free   Download MP3
Heave Ho (Demo) [3:41]  Free   Download MP3
I Never Warned You (Demo) [3:46]  Free   Download MP3
I'm Still Mad About You (Are You Still Mad At Me?) [4:56]  Free   Download MP3
Infinite Like Water [4:07]  Free   Download MP3
Change of Mind [4:14]  Free   Download MP3
Innocent Memories [3:56]  Free   Download MP3
Javelin [3:33]  Free   Download MP3
Jungle Blues [1:47]  Free   Download MP3
Juno's Revenge [3:46]  Free   Download MP3
Know Me [3:14]  Free   Download MP3
Let It Collide [4:16]  Free   Download MP3
Lie [3:20]  Free   Download MP3
Life Of A Lover [4:03]  Free   Download MP3
Like This (Live at Cafe Lena) [3:24]  Free   Download MP3
Many Happy Returns [0:46]  Free   Download MP3
Master of the Design [3:07]  Free   Download MP3
No One Is Safe [4:11]  Free   Download MP3
Paper Scissors [2:55]  Free   Download MP3
Real One [3:30]  Free   Download MP3
Set Me Free [3:10]  Free   Download MP3
Shooting Star [4:12]  Free   Download MP3
Six Degrees [3:00]  Free   Download MP3
Snob [3:22]  Free   Download MP3
Talking In Circles (Live at Cafe Lena) [9:45]  Free   Download MP3
Temptation [2:58]  Free   Download MP3
The Ballad Of New Orleans [4:56]  Free   Download MP3
This [4:55]  Free   Download MP3
To Find You Here [3:37]  Free   Download MP3
Vapors [2:40]  Free   Download MP3
Windowseat [4:27]  Free   Download MP3
You Got It Right (Demo) [4:24]  Free   Download MP3
You're So Good [4:39]  Free   Download MP3