(from https://www.facebook.com/ohomusic)
OHO's instrumental version of "Scared Money (Don't Win)" from their all instrumental album, Where Words Do Not Reach, is a nominee for Best Instrumental Rock Song for this year's JPF Awards (Just Plain Folks). And this song, one of the finalists culled from 17,400 albums and 240,000 songs.Not the Grammies...but something. http://www.jpfolks.com/2017awards.php?
OHO Always great to be acknowledged. Piqued my memory of overhearing a gambler say, "Scared money don't win," then going home and writing a song about taking risks. Former OHO engineer and bassist, Steve Carr, made a stripped-down mix (sans vocals) for our audition for the Star Search TV show back in 1989. The singers had to sing live over this backing track while the band pretended to play instruments (for those of you who have the Bricolage CD/DVD set, you may view our performance of this song on that DVD. Thanks to Bennett Davis' creativity, he was able to match the master with the VHS soundtrack and improve the fidelity significantly.) Later, when assembling the program featured on 2015's "Where Words Do Not Reach" album, since there were no instrumentals by this version of the band (1985-1992), I retrieved the master of this very version from our archives and overdubbed an instrumental (guitar) version of the vocal melody line a la The Ventures, employing a sustainor-pickup-equipped Fernandes Elite model through the "Bloody Finger" distortion pedal. Voila! Who woulda thought this would be a contender? Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Orchids to the band.
Scared Money (Don't Win)
by OHO
from Where Words Do Not Reach
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