Consult Your Dealer

An appropriate tune for a winter solstice mood. Written by Gene Clark, I DO hold recording rights to this composition. It was released as an unfinished demo for the White Light LP. 1971. I aquired rights in 2009, the year of this recording.

Winter In

A crusty surf tune addresses twisted issues of a teen surf bum. Written and recorded by Mik Gobel during a psychologically regressive state while composing, quelling the need to go back in time to kick some snobby ass.

Devil's Elbow Beach (demo)

Track from Mik Gobel's not yet released EP that explores the raw sounds of 60's garage and punk. Scores of bands in the 60s recorded on primal equipment and never got anywhere due to bad sounding records unable to impress record companies, managers and promoters due to poverty and the sheer numbers of bands trying to get a hit. Now, in 2016, most people have recording capabilities in their own home on computer programs that challenge even the best studios of the 1960s. Where would music be today if 50 years ago they had what we have and take for granted?

I Know Now

Dinkering around with a Pete Townshend / Ronnie Lane tune that sums up how I feel about my life these days. Mik Gobel on vocals and guitars, Boyd Small on drums and Chris Estes blowing harp.

Misunderstood

Final remix of Release That Man. Mik plays electric 12 string, bass and vocals. Boyd Small plays drums and adds delightful backing vocals.

Heat The Beat

Release That Man 2

The final track from 2016 album 'Heat The Beat', this mellow tune followed 11 tracks of wild and reckless surf-punk and and guitar-filled rock originals. A 4 song EP was released but the album was never published due to my wife's health issues and the life changes that followed. This track was never finished, though I nicked the guitar solo at the end at 'take 1'. It somehow is best left unfinished, as is. Any additions could spoil the mood.

Come On Home To Me (forgotten demo)

My second collaboration with Charles Winning, both times in an effort to create a soundtrack for the Pentedattilo Film Festival in Calabria, Italy. The tune was done with a minimum amount of production. I play all instruments and all vocals accompanied by Boyd Small on drums. This tune and recording is organic, to say the least.

Train Of Love

A politically motivated number focusing on the bat shit crazy, FOX News watching, uninformed, classless dimwits who think they have it all figured out. How do they do it?...live day to day in a fear induced coma.
Mik Gobel plays all instruments except drums which are sweetly performed by Boyd Small. This experimental style is a bit psych in nature but a mellow, almost reggae groove almost contradicts the subject matter. This appeared as an album track on Mik Gobel ft. Boyd Small album 'Heat The Beat'. The album remains unreleased, but a 5-track EP was released in the summer of 2015. 'The Witness' did not appear on that EP, making tis track a 'rare, unreleased track'. (for what it's worth)

The Witness

Uploading this track for a friend to hear. The name is intentionally misspelled. I will be taking it down after sampling Pay no mind to this post unless you are Alan Moore.