The first four tracks here are some songs I recorded in 1996 at Gary Young’s Louder Than You Think studio east of Waterloo, which is a stop in the road east of Stockton, California and west of Linden. Gary played drums, Eric Westphal played bass, and both of those guys ran the board. Kelly Foley sang some background vocals. We probably would have recorded more, but we didn’t. I wrote all the songs, and that’s me singing lead and some backgrounds; that’s also me on the crummy guitar playing. If I recall, I played Eric’s Telecaster through a Twin Reverb amp I rented at Skip’s because it had this sweet tremolo effect I used on one of the songs, the one with "act like friends behave" in the chorus, which if I could redo it, it would be "act like friends again." Next time if I record anything heavy like "Tastee Freez," I’ll smarten up and play an SG through a Marshall stack or some rig with real oomph, because the Fender didn’t deliver the appropriate sludge.
As for why I don’t have a band, guess it’s because I never seem to be able to find people to play music with. Strike that; it’s more like I’m chronically unsure of myself, musically, because I tend to write music with kinda weird chord progressions, and it’s been my experience that blues-weaned players don’t like to mess with romantic pop with lots of minor and diminished chords. Pluse, I have a really hard time asking people if they want to play music with me; most of the musical situations I’ve been in have arisen because other people contacted me. Still, I do write new songs all the time. And someday, I hope to become slightly more "ept."
The fifth and sixth songs here are new; they’re demos I recorded for an album I hope to complete sometime before Jeb Bush is "elected" president. Hopefully, that won’t be too far off (the former, not the latter). There’s another song from this session, along with another tune I recorded in GarageBand, on another music site, which should be easy for those of you to find who know your Swedish cars, especially models that begin with "PV." Oh, and if you like my music, there are more songs at the "video" tab on this page.
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