1985
living alone
Bob Schott took this into a 24 track studio in Boston. This was the flip side of “Alone Last Night“. I started writing both sides of a theme. Here, being alone is a good thing.
1981
loser in my life
So the lyric came from a B rated movie. I don’t remember the name of the film. But at the end the guy says “I understand the basic weaknesses that make you do the things you do”. The verse practically wrote itself. Another dark lyric. I remember in New York Read more…
1982
in the corner in the darkness
So after hearing the tape from the other side bleed through, I decided to make it into a song. I took Alone Last Night and reversed it. So everything in this song is backwards. I even tried to get the backwards vibrato in the chorus. This is a very dark song Read more…
1980
am i you
I’m in Boston and Max and I goof on a punk band in 1980. We end the race in under two minuets. A record. I think there are just two dissonant notes, half steps. A few chords. And sarcasm. Lots of sarcasm and screaming. The chorus is just shouting HA Read more…
1984
Sound Track
In 1984 I was using a program called Texture on the IBM PC. it was the first time I was recording with MIDI. I put together a theme and built it using the software.