a real cooker. don't get a ticket!

If they sold F22 Raptor fighter jets on TV this would be the music for that. (in my mind) VH club days was the intention here. Still in the park but I think we hit the outfield...

Originally another keyboard tune from Rich. I had a very hard time making this my own but I eventually did. Rich's main part has remained on the bass line and I rewrote all the guitar parts... I was going for a part that felt like the overdub part from Hear About It Later in the main section. I feel like I achieved that & it's obvious where those sections are. This is a flange happy tune with a cool outro as well...

Drop D anyone?

this track sounded so huge when we played it live in the studio I couldn't believe it and the parts are really fun to play. Cool chords with a nice dark Fair Warning feel... Also this was a very hard song to name. Both Rich & I tried for days to name this sucka. I ended up taking my friends old band name. I love it. & he's cool with it...

I always here Jamie's Cryin' from people about this. Yeah I know BUT it's the guitar overdub part ONLY that has that. Listen close, what your really hearing is Christine Sixteen... Where do you think Jamie's Cryin' came from???????

I love these parts. Rich wrote them on the keyboard & I translated them into guitar parts. It was a bitch but well worth it.

I love the intro ( fair warning ), I love the outro ( 1984 - maybe even OU812 cuz of the racket ball court verb on the lead out) I also dig the bridge parts (really cool chords, thanks Terry Kilgore) .

Rich came up with the main riff and idea for this one & I did the pre chorus's and the bridge section. Obviously a VH1 RWD rhythm pump with a VHII guitar vibe. ( I think )

first tune we wrote together. This was mostly Rich's idea. He wrote it on keys. I again wrote the chorus's and the outro primarily. This tune has always felt soft to us & I had a hard time trying to get a Ed feel with it. It just felt like Sammy era ( nothing wrong with that ) but I couldn't lock into a solid feel and find my parts in the verses. It has some cool parts but a rewrite is in order at some point...

well , here I am singing on this demo... That was your warning!

this word is what my little niece says when she tries to say Butterflies..

I wrote this for the last Dukes of Hazzard movie that went straight to dvd. They decided not to use it. I am only playing tambourine & singing the background gang vocals. I hired ringers to play everything else. They nailed this track in less than 20 minutes. I love working with Kings... And Queens... No not those kind. Not that there's anything wrong with those kind!

This was back up just in case so I wouldn't be stuck with a song about the Dukes of Hazzard. Smart thinking! Always have alternate lyrics when your writing and selling songs that are topic or scene specific. See! Now I'm also stuck with a song about Texas...

A Christmas song I wrote and demoed one day & had the great Dana Meller come lend her voice. I think she's awesome...

it's just a vamp but I dig the vibe...

I always imagine Crispin Glover dancing to this instead of Night Train at the school dance scene in Back To The Future...

I wrote this dreamy thing a while ago and had this unbelievably beautiful French girl ( that made Catherine Deneuve look like Chuck Norris ) translate some things I wrote. I find it quite peaceful.

My friend Liv asked for me to write her something that was like Faith Hill's song Red Umbrella. This is what I wrote for her.

Look out I'm singing again!!!! A mellow groovy pop demo where I still need to write the verses... WHY POST IT THEN IF IT AIN'T DONE DUMMY?!... Shut up!!!

the chord progression for this song came from a band I was sitting in with for a few months. They had it sitting around for years. It was part of a 7 minute jam tune & they never did anything with it. I tried to turn it into a usable song and arrangement. It was called "my guitar" and had several up and down solos and dynamics...So I basically rewrote it and tried to get a usable arrangement out of it. I sang certain lines to cue the singer to my arrangement as well as laying down some bv parts I made up. Anyway, I recorded everything & demoed it & a week later I split the project. Singer said " use it if you want ", they never did anything with it. So here it is in it's entirety..