One of the first shows of my long tour with Redbear., we played a coffee shop in Fort Wayne, Indiana. That night, we stayed at our friends' Mary and Ben's house, with Ben Laatsch and Toby Foster, who also played the show. We were having a pretty fun, exciting time, and decided it would be fun to commemorate the party by recording some songs. Patrick (of Rebear.) didn't want to record his songs that night because he wanted to play them really well. My songs were written on the spot, while everyone was going to sleep. Our friend Anna did guest vocals on one of my tracks, and I'm pretty impressed that she was able to just jump in and sing over my parts. The lyrics were already in my notebook, but the singing was all in the moment.
Pat did the art for the cd, and while I love his art, I'm really not into the use of band/musician caricatures. He also made himself a way more handsome than Toby and I, whom I consider both really good looking guys! There were no song titles listed with this release. What good were song titles if we weren't trying to push our smash hits onto people? This was cvlt before I knew what (I hoped) cvlt was, and this was what I wanted to do with PJ Records. Give artists an excuse to make something extra weird (and often) extra cool, while giving listeners something more intimate and genuine than whatever us songwriters were trying to commercialize for the sake of our brands and egos.
That being said, I'm not sharing for download or stream, any work done by my partners in splitting. I don't want to put them on the spot about it, after all these years. And if you want their tracks, you're on your own.
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