(.zip/17.8mb)

Five years ago I thought I would record electric guitar driven alternative rock at home and play acoustic versions of same songs at open mikes which ended up with me playing solo electric versions of the songs at the open mikes which sounded like crap and made me reconsider and go acoustic all the way. Read my blog for more if you want to know the whole tedious story. What we have here is three of the tightest rock songs I’ve been able to put together (with drum loops by Journey’s drummer to boot). It was my second or third try at mixing them, I’d been working on them for about three years on and off. I gave away a bunch of these as CD-Rs at the open mikes. Eventually, the songs ended up on my full length CD, Corinne.

1. Mr. Joyless
2. The Child Is Crying
3. In The Presence Of My Love

Lyrics and more useless details at Not Silent.

(.zip/26.3mb)

• Mr. Joyless
• That Was My Song
• The Child Is Crying
• Baby’s Eyes
• In The Presence Of My Love
• Not My Enemy

My 2004 expansion of the Astrid EP. Same four tracks as before plus two more. Still that electric guitar-driven pop rock with the touches of Caribbean and dance and jazz and grunge, even in the two new songs which start edging back towards punk. Read all about it at Not Silent.

(.zip/53 MB)

1. Don’t Wanna Be No Gumby
2. Mission To Mexico
3. Johnny’s In A Cult
4. Peabody Went To High School
5. Movies About Jesus
6. Last Of The Nubs
7. The Monastery

All the original wacky hijinks, ripped and noise-reduced from the original 1987 cassette master with digital booklet including all original artwork and actual photos of the two guilty parties.

Musical styles in order of appearance are punk, reggae with a touch of mariachi, old school hardcore when it wasn’t old school with a touch of eastern dissonance, 70s style funk, classic rock when it wasn’t classic drenched in Neil Young guitar strangulation, country with a touch of spoken word, and Gregorian chant with no detectable intelligible actual words.

Big download, worth every meg.