Winter Light

A crude recording of a song idea that has floated in my folders for seven or eight years. The idea morphed into a couple other songs in the meantime, but this is actually very close to the original thought. 

Tanya (demo)

Concrete (Live Wire Dec 2014)

No Sympathy (live)

Fairly rough but strong performance from the end of 2014

Dragons (live, Live Wire Lounge December 2104)

Stargazers (live)

My oldest finished song, written in 2002. Recorded and mixed by John Abbey at Kingsize Studios, Chicago. 

Peter Manis--drums
Jimmy Tomasello--bass
Keyboards--Alton Smith
Backing vocal arrangement by Lindsay Weinberg. Backing vocals by Lindsay Weinberg and Andrea Bunch.
I did all the guitar tracks.

Lucinda (final mix, 2017)

Recorded and mixed by John Abbey at Kingsize Studios, Chicago, 2019.

Peter Manis--drums
Jimmy Tomasello--bass
John Mead--vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, Hammond B-3 organ

Get To Me (Mead)

Another demo done at Flashpoint studios with Peter Manis on drums and me on everything else. A homage to Ziggy Stardust, Glory Road, and Caroline Munro.

Stella Star

This is a pretty old song by now; Mystery Train played it a few times. Again, the demo is just me and Peter Manis. The fade should be much longer, but a computer glitch cut us off.

John L Mead