{"id":12056,"date":"2022-01-28T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/?p=12056"},"modified":"2022-10-28T13:35:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:35:46","slug":"punch-the-clock-demo-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/28\/punch-the-clock-demo-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Punch the Clock &#8211; demo track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R6AZ132C4Lo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Punch the Clock&#8221; had the working title of &#8220;Chicken On A Leash&#8221; and, had I not just released another song with the word &#8220;chicken&#8221; in its title, that&#8217;s what it would have stayed. Oh, well. This short, simple instrumental tune is just as easily the soundtrack for someone working as it is someone walking &#8230; a chicken on a leash.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chickens. Always funny and odd to me. Miniature dinosaurs. Flappy, bobbly, and squawky with skinny little stilt legs and serious expressions. Is it any wonder they&#8217;re my go-to funny\/odd\/out of place animal?<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, &#8220;Chicken On A Leash.&#8221; Can you even imagine that? I can, and here&#8217;s the soundtrack to it. Entitled, appropriately enough, &#8220;Punch the Clock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Punch the Clock<\/h2>\n<p>This is another very old concept (ten years? twenny?) that I&#8217;m just now getting around to. Another of those &#8220;almost finished&#8221; tracks I discovered while doing a survey of my many-many in-progress music projects. 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