My dark and sacred moments are acted out on a very cheap Stratocaster with a not-real-high-end PC based recording rig. It is hardly professional, but that doesn't seem to bother my guitar- which Leo Fender would be happy stays in tune better than any guitar I have ever touched.
Here are a few things I wrote. Mind you, they are in various stages of creation and most are not finished:
- Sarah asked me to write a song for her birthday. At the time we had just met and I didn't know a thing about her except for what happened on the night of her birthday, chronicled in this story. Lyrics The Karaoke Video has the lead vocal mixed out so you can sing it to my vocal harmonies. If you dare.
- Little Things I love this song. It was written for my friend, Gerri . One day at work she mentioned the importance of being faithful in little things and it turned into a song "all by itself."
- First Fruits was written in Spokane and just recently recorded in one take per stereo track. The premise of this song is important to me and I try to live it every day.
- Fire Sight & Sound (I wish she was mine) This song was written on a dare. It is pure fiction. The song takes three ideas and works them from smallest to biggest to arrive at the theme.
- Deeper I wrote this on my way out of Florida in the early 90s. It was short and lacked a 3rd verse. I stopped at my brother's house on Sunset Beach on the way out of Florida and played him a really rough version, which we taped on a cheesy boom box. From that, he added the 3rd verse. Thus, our first collaboration was born. Because of the difficulty in hearing the chord structures on the original cassette, our versions are a little different, but the jammability of the song remains the same. Here is the garage version recoderd with two boom mics at the rehearsal complex with Nightfall- the IBM band- on the first time through it. Dante, my brother, on keys. His version is more Marylin Manson sounding.
- Passions Free This was the first runthrough with Nightfall at a rehearsal with two boom mics. It is a horrible recording but it captures a moment. This is a really old one.
- IBM Accessibility Song Written for IBM with help from Dante and Shon. Recorded at the Sound Lab in Austin. We came up with this for a trade show held in Los Angeles called CSUN. IBM distributed it on some CDs and DVDs for other trade shows. Shon was supposed to put a sax solo in it but we filled it with Dante's keyboard instead because Shon got too busy.
