Here are my current songs. Click the song title to download an MP3.

Big Infected Boat - Song about people who can’t stay away from floating casinos.

I’m OK – This song started out as a tune called “Four steps back” but after I sent it to my talented friend Jason Sheroan he suggested a few changes. Later I received the backing tracks from him and it had turned into a completely different song! So I wrote some new lyrics, sang a different melody, spilled some guitar solo stuff in the middle and it was born. Everything is Jason except the vocals and one guitar track. It’s a perfect example of a song that neither one of us could have written alone

Dude She Doesn’t Like You - Written from the perspective of a comical observer, this one is about a guy we all have known at one time and refuses to take no for an answer.

Everything She Wants – A re-make of a song I wrote a long time ago with a different feel. Deals with the fact that “she” (the obsessive musical passion we all have and can't shut off) will do whatever she wants and you are powerless to stop her. You do crazy things like buy more stuff than you need, spend money on stuff you don’t need, lose sleep because you’re thinking about getting some stuff you don’t need….you get the idea!

Take Me – Drop everything and just drive!

Time Out, Hold On – A song that pretty much wrote itself. Done in about 2 hours from first chord to final “mix”. It’s about finding out a secret and refusing to live with it!

Johnny Metal – He’s got his purple suede fringe jacket, black concert t-shirt with the sleeves cut off, ripped jeans and hair that defies physics. Horribly out of style, he keeps that “stage ready” look while refusing to give up the dream that was never ever going to happen because he has no talent. We have all seen this guy and chuckled as he walked by.

Like A Child – Written for my children. The original basic tracks were all first takes which consisted of guitar (me) and drums (played by Jason Sheroan) while he and I goofed off. Funny how something so unstructured (at the time) turned into a song!

Lottery Lady – We’ve all been in this situation! You’re in a hurry and all you want to do is run in and get a beverage from your local convenient store. As luck would have it you get in line behind the person who is holding everybody up while they try to decide what lottery tickets they should buy. She doesn’t care that she is slowing things down for everybody else while she asks the store clerk for advice, all you can do as you stand behind her and think about different ways you could kill her and get away with it!

Step In Line – A song I wrote and recorded in about 15 minutes (and it sounds like it!) I guess it’s about having to deal with a fresh unreceptive audience and the fact that some people just need to get in line and have a good time. Nice sloppy ending.

Forever And A Day – I have no idea what this song is about! But it’s a song I would love to re-record at some point should my hand puppet career take a nosedive!

Why Do You Do What You Do – Did this one in one evening. Just let the words hit the paper and the chords did the rest.

The Ballad Of Tom Bosley – This song started out as a first take jam with me on bass guitar and my longtime friend and drummer Jerry Rieskamp. I had one microphone on the bass and two on the drums with no effort or care where they were pointed at. We weren’t planning on playing a song, we were just riffing out (as we have magically done many times over the years). I took the tapes home from the loft downtown where we were jamming at and put guitars all over it. I spent very little time on the guitar tracks and just let it happen. In the end I ended up with something that sounds thought out and orchestrated but really couldn’t be more opposite! A great reason you should always have the record button on.

Living With The Enemy – About the struggle to contain the darker side of our personalities. We all have them, lurking under the surface waiting for the wrong moment to show themselves. Some people have better control on their alter egos than others but for everybody, it’s still a struggle to some extent.