Back in 2010 I had messed around with a rock sample pack I downloaded and came up with this instrumental. It was released on Reverbnation back then. This time around, I tweaked the mastering.

Shadows

Hittin Low

Written in 1996, this song is about a girl I met in Columbus, Ohio after an OSU game in the parking lot of the stadium. We spent that night the next day together. When I got back to Cleveland, I wished I stayed in Columbus. With her...

Ballads and stuff

2021

24 hours later

Originally written as an acoustic song back in 1991, This is the recently re-imagined version. This song was about me trying to get as far away as possible from a toxic relationship

Break away now

Another re-imagined song from 1991. Kinda Talking Heads feel to it. Originally recorded as acoustic song.

Leanin' on the Gun

Leanin on the Gun

This is a rough mix. Needs a guitar solo in the style and tonality of the band, Candlebox, from the 2:40 mark (On the lyric, "truth") to just before last outro riff appx 3:43 mark
verse is 100bpm, chorus and outro 130bpm

My Situation (demo)

Back to the Basics

A Game we lose

One foot in (the door)

Melodies Dead

Man on a whim


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U.S. born Don Paul Jankas resides in Okinawa, Japan writing a ranged genre of DIY music.
A mix-bag of rock n roll tunages that range from folky americana acoustic singer songwriter stuff to post-modern rock, punk, bluesy country to alt rock. 

With 30 years of songwriting under my belt and over 200 original songs, I have released 16 albums (solo acoustic and full band) over the past 25 years, most of which were self written, performed, produced, recorded, mixed, mastered, printed, burned, sold, trashed or gave away. 

I am always writing new material, or grabbing old songs from my vault to re-imagine what their potential could be. 

I have no formal musical training and am mostly self-taught. I picked up the electric guitar in 1984, the acoustic guitar in 1988, which is also when my songwriting interest began. 

I joined my first band in 1993, The Cylinders, of Cleveland Ohio, which turned my folky acoustic player/songwriting into post-modern-rock-underground-alternative musical player/writing. The songwriting changed to full band score and expanded my range of styles and skills. 

I'm on SoundCloud, Reverbnation, for streaming music.
Songtradr, Amazon, iTunes, Deezer for purchase and licensing and YouTube where I have a dozen or so acoustic originals and some select covers of my favorite songs! 

Regarding original music I throw up,
"If you like it, Great!
If you don't, Great!
You gave me a moment of your time
and listened.
For that, I am grateful.
Cheers" 

List of musical associated acts outside of DIY solo stuff:
Don and Gus: 1989 - 1991
The Cylinders 1993 - 1997
Acoustic Static 1998 - 2000
The HideAway Band 1999
The Cylinders Okinawa 2000 - 2001
Wits End 2001
The Shima Gais 2005 - 2008
The O.G.s 2009 - 2010
Double D 2012 - present
Humble Joe & the Danglers 2015 - 2016
Wasabi Jones 2020 - present

Don Paul Jankas

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