Songs to make you smile. Satire/tribute songs, including ( but not limited to)
* Punk Rock
* Grateful Dead 60's Psychedelic
*Yacht rock
*80's big drum sound
* Doo-Wop
*Indie Rock
*60's Surf Garage Rock

Smilers

My ego run rampant! Starting my own cult of personality, living in abandoned empty big box stores with my family of followers. No takers so far...
Please play this Captain Beefheart inspired song LOUD!
From the EP "Smilers"
Lyrics:
Pulling off the highway
In some dusty, sunny suburban town
I'm going to start my own cult
I'm gonna call  it "TheTemple of the Stumpgrinder blues"
It will get you out of that catatonic state
Bloated bursting bellies
C'mon fill your plate
C'mon C'mon
I'm about as subtle as a car crash
You're all invited to my
All night
Day-glo
Ego bash
But, you're gonna have to bow down
Everybody in their life
Has to bow down
Stumpgrinder
Stumgrind

You know what you know
You do what you do
That's how you ended up here
Living in a burned out big box store
There's something missing out there
There's something missing in your life
(Something missing in your life?)
Your gonna bow down
Stumpgrinder
Stumpgrind

Living in a  burned out big box store
It's got everything you need
Fishing tackle and gear
Diamond encrusted wrinkle cream
Budweiser
Red beans and rice
Polyurethane sleeping bags
For 43% more warmth at night
Transistor radio
With a long antenna
Set to an oldie station
Bloated bursting bellies
Of fulfillment
All sales final!

Stumpgrinder

Ahhh, the 90's Grateful Dead revival years! I dedicate this to the women that I met during a Grateful Dead concert during the early 90's. Never to be seen again, gone like a ray of light. Having some fun with the band name in the title of this one. Thanks for listening!
From the EP "Smilers"
 
Lyrics:
I'm not looking at you , she said
I'm looking a those auras spinning around your head
At this music festival
A Ticketmaster time machine
It's not what's real
It's what you believe

(chorus)She has a way
Of getting into your mind
And she likes to stay
To the morning light
Until that sunshines just right
I feel so gratefully fed
Gratefully fed

All these trust fund kids
Dressed like hippies
She does her hippy dance
She spins and twirls with all her beads
She does her hippy dances
In service to capitalism
She works during the week
At Chase Manhattan
"The friendliest bank in town"
They're the friendliest folks around!
(chorus)
Gratefully fed

Gratefully Fed

From the EP "Smilers" June 2023
Hello Oxnard!!!
We're a rock & roll band
We'll rock & roll until we die
We've got rock & roll in our souls
And it's eating it's way out from the inside
Cover band superstars!

We look like we've been going about 20 years too long
5 fat geezers
All playing a different song
We're encumbered by music industry success
But, we are pure
We are holy
Cover band superstars!

We we're gonna put out our 1st album
It would be a masterpiece
Then we we're gonna fake our own deaths
Thereby securing our legacy
In the rock & roll mythology
Oh, but look at me now
Singing songs
"pour some sugar on me"
"anyone wanna hear bohemian rhapsody?"

It's enough to make you fall out of love with rock & roll
You know who we are
Meet me at the bar
Cover band superstars!

A man has to live his dreams
No matter what...

Cover Band Superstars!

A Fifties era rock & roll heartthrob has his heart broken for the first time...
From the EP "Smilers"
Lyrics:
I had to fall in love with the girl of my dreams
The girl that lets you understand
What the universe means
But then she up & broke my heart
She tore me apart at the seams
She just looked at me and said
"Do you think you have a monopoly on tears?"
Monopoly on tears

I was the last
Self actualized Man 
Walking on planet earth
I took her up to "promise" hill
Looking for a thrill
Monopoly on tears

Wolfman Jack he won't console me
And the songs on the radio
You know, they just start to bore me
You know I could be your hard luck sock hop puppet
(All the ways I could..)
I could be your Cadillac fins
I could be your suburban
Underground 
Bomb shelter 
Best friend
You don't have a monopoly on tears
Monopoly on tears

Monopoly On Tears

A song as an excuse to make noise.
From my EP "Smilers"

Lyrics:
oh yeah, don't call the police
All sales are final
Even with a receipt
You need the release
Don't you know that they're breaking the lease
You've got 90 days
Same as cash
The debt collector is on my ass
90 days same as cash
He's coming after me, everyday
Until I am ash
90 days same as cash
"This interest rate, it won't last, it can't be beat!"
I'm too poor for the undertaker
I think I have to work another week
I found my entryway into the middle class
I've got myself a trampoline
In the backyard, for the kids
That's how you know you've really made it
Into the middle class
And once you've been there
You never let your foot off the gas
Yeah!
Welcome to the middle class
90 days
Same as cash

90 Days Same As Cash

Check out my Album: "All This Useless Beauty". Americana songs reflecting on bad times and good. Thanks for listening!

I try to write with rich lyrical details and self-deprecating humor about the human condition. Plus, that unique Shade Structure sound!  It sounds best with headphones. Thanks for any comments, reposts or likes.

Discography: Available under Album tag on my Soundcloud main page. Free Downloads/ Always Free
* The Curse Of A Good Looking Ghost (2024)
* Low Profile (2024)
* Smilers (EP 2023)
•Short Songs For Tall Minds"  (2022)
•Friends, They're Gonna Get Your Story Wrong (2021)
•A Suburban Dadaist With Some Store Bought Beats (2021)
•All Feel and No Technique (2020)
•This Is How I Spend My Nights (2019)
•California Songs (2018-2019)
All sounds contained within are home-made/DIY recordings. Most songs are short stories, as I am influenced by Musicians & Writers like Raymond Carver, Warren Zevon, Mountain Goats, Tom Waits, Mark Eitzel,  Randy Newman, Destroyer, Steely Dan, Captain Beefheart, Loudon Wainwright III, Leonard Cohen & The National. Most songs have the lyrics on the song page. Thank you for listening!