i sing, play guitar & drums, write songs,
record songs, + occasionally release other albums
music
bands i’ve started
other music things
best f-tigers forever!!
ok so the last band i was in was super fun. like 2010 or 2011, and only for a few years.
so originally we had flo and i sharing lead vocals (where ARE YOU FLO, I MISS YOU SWEETHEART!!!) and it was rowdy and goofy and hilarious. she moved on to seattle, and heather aiken and dewain clarke and eventually britta folden (nee’ jackson) combined to make an upbeat indie rock band.
we recorded a handful of songs at a home studio in montensano and put it out ourselves. with young kids (mine), driving (dewain & heather’s), and businesses to run (britta) we were bound to fly apart. it was fun while it lasted <3
ampeater mag wrote a nice review (jun 2012)
01 – Apostrophes
02 – Oh, You Monster!
03 – (we run)3
04 – If You Go I Will Carve
05 – It Might Snow!
06 – I Am a Beat
the redbird fever
in 2007 i started working with a talented multi-instrumentalist from Olympia, and we formed a off-beat folk band, and started playing. gigs were not super great, but we had a ton of fun and got to record a helluva EP at egg studios in seattle with conrad uno. that’s the bloke what recorded the presidents of the united states of america, and it’s the studio they recorded their breakthrough album. that was pretty damn cool.
with jay’s vox & violin (and melodica, keys, & melody horn) and my looped guitar & erratic vocals, we grabbed a drummer named michael smith and played some shows.
one highlight for me was a bar in port townsend, i made the audience sing happy birthday to my mother – and recorded it and sent it to her.
it was not well received.
we haven’t spoken about it since, lol.
01 – Is That Alright?
02 – Modern Satellites
03 – It’s a Metaphor, Dear!
04 – Aspirin
05 – Sometimes Things Get Broken
06 – Sophie’s Plastic Elephant
nobstreater
in the mid-90’s, i formed a christian math-rock punk-infused rock band with long time friend Geoff Cotton. we grabbed bassist Tom McDaniels and played our hearts out for a few years.
up and down western washington, we opened for MxPx, the Juliana Theory, and Soulfood 76. we put out a cassette EP, then – on budding Oly record label Talking Donkey – in 1997 we released our full-length “where are the wise men where are the scholars”. our song “Big Fun” was on Endless Vertigo Music’s cd sampler “West To East for the Music Lovers” later that year.
the influential webzine Bandoppler gave us a favorable review, as well as a charitable one in HM magazine a few months later opened a few more doors. playing at portland’s TOM fest was a high point.
our last release was “Gun Club Rd” on 2000’s HM Hard Music Sampler for May/June. we broke up a year later.
01 – Backwards
02 – Gun Club Rd
03 – Big Fun
04 – Produce Fruit
05 – Screwtape
06 – Sick Desires
07 – I have everyone fooled
08 -Violent Corbitt
09 – Sensitivity II
10 -The Whole Wide World
11 – This is what happens when the sun goes down
12 – Go to sleep, NY
ukulele <3
periodically i cover some song and make a video of it. there is no plan, just uke.
christmas album
in 2010, i tapped some local musicians to record holiday & christmas themed songs for a free holiday album. i made 10 actual cds – burning each one with love, screen printing the cover and hand cutting & assembling the case.
it was super fun, and a ton of work, and i hope to do it again someday.
01 – This Little Light of Mine by Jeanne Ward
02 – It Might Snow by Ralph Hogaboom
03 – All I Need is Braaaaaaaaaaaains for Christmas by Hamster Boat
04 – Mama Got Trampled At Walmart by Grunge Tree
05 – Silver Bells by The Marrying Type
06 – We Three Kings by Paul Mauer
07 – I Kinda Get The Feeling I’ll Be Single By Christmas by Rahkout
08 – O Come O Come Emmanuel by Ira Merrill
09 – I’m Getting Nuttin’ For Christmas by Chad Hanson
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