A bit of 60's-ish acoustic guitar pop with an attempt at some harmony vocals. All guitar parts including bass played on my Maton ER90C acoustic. All done rather too quickly and with haste. Hopefully you can see your way through the many imperfections!  

Love-Lit (Demo)

Latest demo from John Myszka aka Leland Royski. Recorded whilst learning how to use Pro Tools!

Forces  (Demo)

Magic Carpet Ride (Original Demo)

Cold

Shining Light (original demo)

Greed/Abort Tony (Original Demo)

Gift (Original Demo)

What Is Left (Original demo)

Written after witnessing the massive amount of homeless around Melbourne - apparently one of the most liveable cities. 

Cracks (Original Demo)

A song written about the summer of 2014/15. Much of it spent sitting on the park bench with my partner and dog. A cold beer, some chocolate we watched the world go by from our rather lovely perch at Western Beach, Geelong.

John Myszka - Western Beach

A very rough mix (sans backing vox among other things) of a song to be featured on the next Moment Killer album. It's a true story about a teen with mental health issues.

All electric guitars were played through a custom patch via the Boss GT1000

Lyrics (copyright John (jan) Myszka

Every time you lie you cannot hide
we can see right through your thin disguise
Symbolic of your silent lonely cry
Its hard to swim against the king tide

I imagine your feeling rather scared
You gotta know how much we care
The pain from every cut we all share
Our emptiness when your here but your not there

No matter what it is you say or think
The walls are paper thin and devoid of all bricks
If you let us help to end the pain
Every life can start again

Start Again

The Moment Killer - "Start Again" (Rough Mix)

All professionally recorded material can be found on my bands page - The Moment Killer. Please check it out! 

I started off as a lead singer in my late teens (and after realising my many limitations) I started playing Bass and my love for the instrument grew. After mucking around in various bands, I joined The Wick Effect in around 1988. The "Wickers" (or Weak Effort as we called ourselves!) was by far the most successful and enjoyable band I have ever been involved with. The Wickers released a single and accompanying video and had recorded an EP for Phantom Records, which never saw the light of day (although it might soon!). For various reasons the band split and two of the members formed Rail, who went on to high rotation on commercial radio with its single immune deficiency and the accompanying album, "Bad Hair Life." 

I sold my beloved Rickenbacker Bass & rig and used the money for a house deposit and eventually got married and had a set of delightful twin boys. From the end of The Wick Effect in 1992 until my marriage ground to a halt in 2011 I had suppressed all things musical and gave away playing entirely. I had lost my way as a person and one of the things that defined me was music. I took residence in a seedy one bedroom flat in 2011 and picked up a Bass guitar and looked for a group to join. Not many opportunities presented themselves for a middle aged bassist,  
Not willing to admit defeat, I figured that the only avenue open to me was to go it alone. In mid 2012 I purchased a 12 string acoustic guitar and a six string soon after. I had never really played much else other than the Bass and I set about teaching myself more than the three chords I already knew (I know four now!)
Eventually I got confident enough to post my first demo on Soundcloud late 2012.

So I'm still learning my chops and loving every moment of this wonderful learning process. I guess you can teach old dogs new tricks! So life is pretty damn good right now and it hasn't been lost on me at all that I have been the most happiest throughout my life when playing/creating music. My 50th birthday coincided with a bucket list moment - the release of my very first album "Solid Citizens from the Bourgeois State." The album was recorded with my band The Moment Killer which also features my son Dan on bass guitar. I appreciate you reading my epically long-winded profile and hope you like my stuff!



All compositions are original and copyright to the author, Jan (John) Myszka.

John (Jan) Myszka ( AKA The Moment Killer)

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