The opener for the full-length we recorded at Kajem Studios. Still sounds big.

Surrender (Flesh Tuxedo)

This one sorta came to me fully formed. Had fun playing this live with ¡Raymundo!, a short-lived collaboration with some buds from Bunny Plasm. It was absolutely a reaction to the start of the war in Iraq.

Reality Check (so.low.dre)

Tis was a lowjack tune that we hijacked for the first Hijack release.

Fear Walks (Hijack)

After lowjack disbanded, we did what I'd now call a brain dump and recorded three albums at once: Planetary Missionary, so.low.dre, and TS3. They all ended up being something of a glorified demo, and this one never got played live, it was basically recorded and then we moved on to Illusions.

Planetary Missionary (Hijack)

This track epitomized, in many ways, the freedom we felt now that we weren't wrtiing to conform to a band with any real image or persona to maintain. There's a looseness to the arrangement, song structure, and performance that we related to.

The Void (Hijack)

Another lowjack tune that made its way into our Hijack repertoire. I remember tracking the vocals with harmonies when we were auditioning singers and having this song done as a trio before signing Kevin on. This is another that gets the nod as a fave from friends who listen to the Illusions album.

Stupid (Hijack)

Drew Raison, our good friend and mixing/producing/engineering/recording secret weapon, took to this song immediately. He kept telling us this one had something special about it. It's another off the Illusions album that benefited from our feeling free to write and record whatever came to us, and I think this track and this album marks a milestone in how Jack and I worked as writers. Even though we'd been writing together for more than 15 years, this was more of a collaboration than our previous efforts had been.

Wound Like A Spiral

Pretty moody and sparse, despite the layers of sound (including keys). This one is both a departure and a classic Jack & dre track.

Buried In The Shed (Hijack)

Jack referred to this as "the Townsend tune" (as in Pete) before the lyrics were completed. I didn't know how to put a vocal melody or lyrics over this one for a long time, and thought it was destined to be an instrumental. Ultimately, my kids were the inspiration for the lyrics, and somehow I figured out something I could sing that made sense. Turned out to be a fave of ours.

Mad Pretender (Hijack)

New tune done on two acoustics. Featuring Andre's guitar debut and jack's vocal debut. Plus, check out 6 dres comin atcha at the end.

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