Cabbage and Baked Beans

Osiphyology

Live performances thru the years. Marcus Tyler's Rubber Band,1987. Mark Caruso, John Interval, Chip Ewing, Paul Scott. 

One Takes

Rockin' Robbin

Pass the Word, John Interval and Mark McVay. Mark just got our 1st good keyboard and he left it at my house. I promised not to record until the next day when we would get together. I couldn't help myself and did everything but the bass. Mark wasn't real pleased when but he put on the bass which I think really makes this recording of one of our heroes songs. we just got a 4 track Fostex cassette recorder which just came out. These were the days when we would spend the day in our studio and listen to our work at night with the volume at full blast.

Out Takes 2

Jeleous Guy

Perspectives and Promised Possibilities

Hell Freezes Over

Somebody Lied

Ambition

Don't Cry No More

Alone on a Desert

I'm Fine I'm Sky

Roses At Your Feet

Don't Be Lonely

Mark and I wrote this song in November of 1976. Tony added the lead guitar parts. 

The Agony Of Reality

This is from the last real recording session Mark and I did when I visited him in Bonita Springs, FLA in August of 1998. We were out in his shed in the backyard having so much fun and doing two  songs in one or two takes each. We played again and did one take recordings every time he came back to Pittsburgh but this was the last real session we had together and I really remember the feeling and energy as well as the sentiment of all the great times we had in the studio. No amount of money could ever replace the feeling of writing and recording a good song. But finding a partner to collaborate with has moments of magic that can exceed any expectation you may have had coming into the studio. We had many many moments. When we started in the winter of 1976, My brother Tony and Mark and I started Pass the Word. In those days we wrote some of our best songs. We fed off of each other and didn't give a damn about anything else. Those were the greatest days. We wrote songs and only played our songs for the first 3 years using two two track reel to reel recorders and one 🎤 with no mixer. What we heard back then was what we were able to do when we got better. Just a little nostalgia.

No Illusion

This is the second song Mark and I wrote in November of 1976.

Useless Information

Skin Sheets

Formed PASS THE WORD with Mark McVay and Tony Interval in November, 1976. Written and recorded over 100 songs.  Generated 7 Original LP's. Also was lead vocalist for Bands in the Pittsburgh Area. These are samples of PASS THE WORD recordings and Live Performances with local cover bands: The Katts, The Marcus Tyler Band, Smokin' and the Wise Guys.

John Interval

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