During the times of Covid, musicians were collaborating using the connectivity of the internet to create. This is the result of a collaboration between myself and Dan Edwards ( Blind River, Sons of Merrick )

Pain Like A Party

Deepfake Echo

Ain't Ready to Pack it In

Deep Fake Echo

In the Middle of Heaven

A Different Pressure

Key of Real

This track is a cover --  all the music performed, arranged by Bob Pantella -- with myself on vocals. No one is making money off it and few people have heard it -- I don't even know why Bob wanted to do it save for the fact that he mentioned Dusty Springfield. This was a long time ago when we sorta knew each other, kinda. It lends a country feel to this Carole King ( via Dusty Springfield ) tune. If I didn't share it, I don't know who the hell might have heard this gem. No further comment, it's a fine recording and that is why I post it.

No Easy Way Down

Recorded by Phil Caivano -- prepared for a compilation on Main Man Records in 2010. Members of Riotgod plus a guest piano intro. I did all the vocals in one night. That was a quite a session.

Death on Two Legs - Riotgod

This tune was written about a true life experience...suburban post-high school summers of listlessness and stagnancy. The cool part for me writing this song was that the end chords sounded a bit like Sabbath to me -- which was a big band in these summers. So I directly appropriated a melody from a Sabbath song.

Here are the lyrics:

Slick navigation of those tree lined hidden streets
Sweating ‘way childhood oh in that humid heat
life it unfolded oh a crystalline display
good and bad choices oh were soon to come our way
music it would be there for the triumph and mistakes

And like the world we spun there going ’round and ’round
drenched in those melodies indoctrinating sound
space time energy and friendships loosely bound
on my vinyl soul — yeh grooves were deeply ground

Quarter pound on Broadway oh in that giant car
Tunnel it was so near but oh so very far
Traffic in midtown so slow during the day
Cop heading for our car — nothing we could say
but he’d only lean his head say “Boys put that weed away.”

And like the world we spun there going ’round and ’round
drenched in those melodies intoxicating sound
space time energy and friendships loosely bound
on my vinyl soul — yeh grooves were deeply ground

Grooves were deeply ground — on my vinyl soul

And when I hear those songs like echoes from the past
amazed at just what will
and over time just
will not last
**
copyright sunshine/armoredbaby music 2012

Loosely Bound - Riotgod

Once upon a time I was given a series of riffs to play around with, this was at the beginning of what was Riotgod (V2)the last hard rock band I fronted.

I took the raw elements, arranged them ( no solo or trimmings ) and wrote lyrics to what I thought was a catchy, driving riff. I recorded an example.

LSS: the riff was a scuttled, never to be revisited again by the band.

No Surrender In This Sound ( Riotgod Unreleased )

I originally wrote and arranged this entire tune using lo-fi computer software . The track is re-imagined here and contributed to (nameless band ) a group pre-dating Riotgod --  While Bob Pantella plays the rhythm guitar, the end part features Matt O'Ree on acoustic guitar and I am not sure if Alexis Lehman played bass ( high probability )

Let Me

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I'm Mark Sunshine. I'm a vocalist and composer. I have a variety of music I  in my head and upcoming. Outside of this activity I sing for two hard rock bands: Unida, the legendary So-Cal Desert Rock band and Patriarchs in Black, technically a duo ( think Steely Dan ) who have a variety of singers and bassists perform on their each of their songs.

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