In 2005, I rocked. Download. Lyrics.

In 2006 I went acoustic. Download. Lyrics.

In 2007 I was still acoustic but I rocked a little with a little help from my friend. Download. Lyrics.

First finished product using GarageBand and I am not disappointed. Wrote the whole thing in the last couple of weeks. Soft vocal, acoustic guitar, bass played almost like a drum, rockabilly chugging guitar and some atmospheric GarageBand keyboards played on keypad. Straddles the line between folk and rockabilly with some drumless reggae backbeat at the bottom. Words are what’s left after the firecracker smell fades away on July 5th.

Download it at Area1234. Lyrics are here.

1. Scooby Doo (Theme)
2. Mr. Joyless
3. I’m Living My Lie
4. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
5. LBpunk4Xmas
6. The Child Is Crying
7. If You Could Read My Mind
8. Great
9. Michael Iceberg

2005 CD-R with nine live songs from my earlier open mic sets, in which I am still trying to get over my case of St. Vitus Dance. This was a not-for-sale promo item that I think I made one or two copies of back then before moving on to my next phase. Includes three bizarro cover tunes. Download here, background info here.

1. Sing It Out (lo-fi garage punk)
2. I Can Testify (lo-fi garage punk)
3. Le Miserable (lo-fi garage folk)
4. I’ll Never Know (lo-fi garage punk)

My first attempt at getting my songs out, from 1982. My first-ever post here was my retelling of the story of its making. I added a digital booklet to the four song files, although the scan quality of the front and back covers was abysmal. I’ll rescan them sometime. Meantime, go here.

I got my kids a new computer which means I can now sneak in and do some primitive editing and add tolerable amounts of some of my boring pre-song patter onto these vids. I’m really happy with this guitar sound for the harder-edged older punky stuff when I play it unaccompanied. It’s kind of a rootsy, clattering, chug-a-lugging Bo Diddley-ish bashing of the strings in drop-D tuning with some overdrive and delay and tremolo. The song itself is a vintage Lead moldy oldie based on a cliche that hadn’t been so overused back in ’85 when I wrote it. This is also the first of two musics that accompanied these lyrics. This version from Return Fire is garage punk. We rerecorded it a la speedcore punk-ay two years later. 21 years later, on July 19, 2009, this vid was filmed at the International Church of South Florida by Jon Doozan.

Actually the first time I tried out a Coldplay song at church. It’s a bit of a train wreck due to my not knowing the words to the tune as intimately as I do now and guitar crapped out in mid chorus for a few seconds. Tried to make up for it by yelling. Hey, I’d only been listening to the band for a couple of weeks at that time. Filmed by Juan Pablo Camargo on May 31, 2009.

The first song was first successful songwriting attempt to marry el rock punk with los lyrics Christian, back in the spring of 1980 as riots erupted in my homietown and we were preparing to get invaded by a bunch of Cubans in boats. The second song was written about a year later when I had a better idea of what to do. I heard the melody in my head Paul McCartney style as I was attempting to wake up to go wherever I was ‘spected ’round them times. That song made it into the live set of my first band the Visitors and both songs were recorded by Loogie Soup on their lone castanet release in those wild days of ’96. Recorded live at the International Church of South Florida by David Yuen on May 3, 2009.

Rockabillyish ditty written in 1984. Influenced by Sun Studios era Elvis. Filmed at church today. The wife and babe are next to me. Watch it.

Two quickies on the ‘lectric git at church. Both are punky songs from the early 1990s in a Buzzcocks/Husker Du vibe. Watch it.