Slow groove that builds, I envisioned this to be Santana meets Bowie with Queen on backing vocals.  

Andy Pering of These Certain People provided the lead vocals, melody, lyrics and keyboards.  

I played all the guitars, bass, harmony vocals and arrangement as well as the drum arrangement.  

Drums were played by Matt Chivers.

Track was engineered, mixed and mastered by my good friend Paul Umbach, who also provided harmony vocals.

Goddess (Let's Go Down to the Sea)

This is TCP's Christmas single.   It was already written before I joined the band.  My contributions on this were arranging the harmonies, singing harmony, rhythm guitar (the tremolo/twangy one), lead guitar and mandolin.

Christmas Song

Heartless Wager's first EP, reissued.  Hard rock with catchy choruses, shredding guitars and thunderous rhythms.  

Break From the Crowd

That Kinda Girl (unmixed)

We were aiming for a big arena-rock type song here.

Written by Joe, me and Dave - who supplied the main riff. Engineered by Paul Umbach

Joe Baker: Lead vocals
Mat Riain: Rhythm and lead guitars, backing vocals
Dave Harper: Rhythm and lead guitars, backing vocals
Kevin Rios: Bass, backing vocals
Jay J: Drums, backing vocals

That Kinda Girl

We were going for a downtuned vibe; we wanted something that was more raw and unpolished.  Sadly I forgot my crappy pedalboard and had to use an SPX90, which wasn't as rough and edgy as I'd hoped!

The first version of this song has some cheesy sound effects that the engineer suggested.

Written by Joe and myself, engineered by Bob Vander-something.
Joe Baker: Lead vocals
Mat Riain: Rhythm and lead guitars, harmony vocals
Dave Harper: Rhythm and lead guitars
Kevin Rios: Bass
Jay J: Drums

Sweat the Bullet

This song was quite popular at our shows, we decided to lighten things up as everyone needed that ballad that got the lighters (pre smartphone) in the air.

Written by Joe and myself, engineered by Paul Umbach.  That is me on the acoustic and Dave and I on leads; this time Dave first than me - and then me on the outro.

Joe Baker: Lead vocals
Mat Riain: Rhythm and lead guitars, acoustic guitar, harmony vocals
Dave Harper: Rhythm and lead guitars
Kevin Rios: Bass
Jay J: Drums

No More Goodbyes

Probably our favourite track off of our first EP.  This has had a life of its own; I found out from people that it had been on some compilations in different countries and we had no idea!

Engineered by Paul Umbach and written by Joe Baker and myself.  Me and Dave Harper are on leads (me first and then Dave, then harmony).  Recorded at some little studio in NY, I forget the name.

Joe Baker: Lead vocals
Mat Riain: Rhythm and lead guitars, harmony vocals
Dave Harper: Rhythm and lead guitars, backing vocals
Kevin Rios: Bass
Jay J: Drums

You Want Me

Lead off track from Wager's second EP, Outta Style.

Outta Style

Jungle Song

During the final days of Wager we took one of our conventional metal tunes and gave it the experimental industrial treatment.

Joe Baker is on lead vocals, I'm on rhythm guitar, Dave Harper is on lead guitar and Paul Umbach played bass, electronic drums, provided harmony vocals and did the engineering and mixing.