A newer demo of an older original. Still a little rough and needs some work, but you get the idea. I wrote the music for the song and wrote the lyrics with my friend Pat who did the vocals on the original demo version of the song. This version was again recorded at our rehearsal spot with Steve doing the drums and me doing the vocals (sorry in advance lol) and other instruments. Sorry for the rough sound and the mistakes!!! lol

Missed My Shooting Star

I finally got around to adding some vocals to this song, which as I said when I posted the instrumental version, I wrote years ago but never recorded until recently. This song features my friend Charles on the clean guitar parts with me, Steve on the drums again, and me doing the rest of the guitar and bass parts. I know its rough, but I hope you like it!

Rising

This song came together pretty quick overall…had the body after a couple of jams through it, I came up with the solo section and end changes and we ran through it a couple of times and did a quick music demo then I added the words. Simple but fun and catchy just the way I like! Hope you all enjoy!

Manijuana

The main riff of the song was inspired by a riff that came out during a jam session with Pat (who also provided the vox on “Manijuana”…check it out if you haven’t already!) and I reworked it to the one you hear on this recording, came up with the chorus and added the lyrics. The original vocal idea I had envisioned was a little different and more along the lines of an Alice In Chains harmony vocal style - and maybe one day down the road I may redo it and change them to my original vision, but they got reworked over time and this is how they ended up…for now.

See You At My Funeral

I wrote the lyrics for this song in about five minutes and a few days later recorded the guitars, bass, vocals, and solo for the demo at the rehearsal spot in about five hours. I originally recorded the drums too but had Steve from my band The Dusk come in and redo them a couple of weeks later. Again please forgive the sound quality as I recorded this at the rehearsal spot.

Help Me Understand

This was the second demo of this song I did with The Dusk. The original demo featured Pat O'Connell on vocals who was responsible for naming the song and whom I also wrote the lyrics with. This demo was recorded by me again at the rehearsal spot and I did all the vocals and instruments in this version except the drums which were again done by Steve. Again, please excuse the sound quality as we recorded this ourselves at our rehearsal spot.

Eat My Broken Smile

Just a silly kinda pop song I wrote years ago I finally got around to demoing a few months ago. I played everything on this demo and tried to do the vocals so please be kind! lol I recorded this whole demo in about four or five hours at our rehearsal spot so again sorry for the sound quality.

(So Long And) Thank You For The Memories

Just a little song I wrote for a friend of mine. I wrote and recorded this in a little over an hour. I recoreded this at our rehearsal spot like I did all the other demos. This one is all acoustic and just me (sorry about that! lol).

Every Moment I Love You

This was a song I used to play instumentally all the time at home when I was bored and one day while we were setting up and getting ready to rehearse, I started playing it and the guys liked it so I decided yo put lyrics to it and finish it. Like most of the other songs that's me doing everythibg on the recoding (sorry in advance about that!! lol) and Steve playing the drums. I believe Steve has the original demo without the vocals on his page for this song as well.

The Reason I Breathe

A cover of one of my favorite Neil Young songs. Please excuse the awful vocals as I have a hard time singing this song on a good day and I was sick at the time which didn't help any! Lol. Steve did the drums on this song and I did everything else except the end guitar solo which was done by our friend and awesome shredder guitarist Charles McLaughlin.

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