all hail me

All Hail Me has been recording and performing since 1995. Initially a song-writing and recording project, we realized that rock and roll needs wheels: vans, trailers, merchandise, mailing lists, road managers, videographers, and candlelighters. It all made sense. Rock and roll, we figured, had to burn rubber and gas. It had to be a sweaty conversation among musicians, bands, fans, creepy club managers, a few engaging club managers (you know who you were), and weird agents. So in the late 90s, we traveled throughout the Great Lakes region banging out sets, selling CDs, working college radio, occasionally brushing into corporate radio, and writing songs along the way. We worked with a parade of fine humans—in the form of Overture Records and the big-thinking guys at The Loft in Saline, MI. We opened for a long list of fine acts (then referred to as “national”), had a number songs placed in movies and television shows, and rubbed shoulders with the machinery of big entertainment. Along the way, we met up and befriended a big flock of powerhouse musicians and performers. The list is too long to run here, but the important point is that live rock and roll was humming along in that era. It still is, no doubt. But back then, you almost had to fight getting pulled away by the current.Over the past few years, we each became mired in various pursuits beyond rockin’. There is no Behind the Music serious part—when one of us theatrically nose-dove into smack, hookers, or an underground political party. It’s more boring than that. Rock and roll retreated a bit and we each took some breaths. This past year, 2007 and 08, we re-entered the studio with one of our favorite humans, Gregg Leonard at Big Sky Recording in Ann Arbor, and put down a number of new songs. Our intention is to write more and give away the results. We hope you enjoy.Additional Musicians:· Don Beyer, who played bass in the original version of AHM, performed on Wherever Helen Goes, Villains, and My Own Sweet Time.· Chad Smith has put various keys on AHM songs through the years. On the latest collection, he performed Hammond, Wurlitzer, and piano on 100 Years of Solitude and Wherever Helen Goes.· Kurt Wolek, who’s performed with Bob Segar and who presently works as keyboard tech for Bruce Springsteen, played Hammond and piano on Poisonwood, My Own Sweet Time and Shipping News.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------