Well, yeah, for some folks this is going to be pretty obvious,

Lands Unknown

When I'm feeling down I have a special playlist that I play bass along to, for some reason I have named this list Country Fawnk, and it has stuff like The Meters, Booker T and the MG's, Tower of Power, Heatwave, Roy Ayers, you get the idea, deep soul cuts at the height of the funk revolution that were inching their way towards the commercial acceptance of disco. So it's only natural that some of this would be seeping out of my pores. One way to describe me is Bootsy Collins playing in Black Sabbath, but in addition to Geezer, I mean we can't take Geezer out of the equation!

Miami Jonez

Everything was recorded at once in a single 40 minute session. A few rough transitions were edited out and I grabbed Jenna's vocals from some of the discarded stuff for the doubled vocal spots. I really love doing things this way. It's far from perfect, but happy mistakes are the stuff of life.

Journey At 84 BPM

There is not enough space here to describe my journey with the Roland TR-808 drum machine. My very first drum machine was a TR-606, but by the time I had heard 2 Live Crew I knew that was what I wanted. I never actually owned an 808, though I've used them, sampled them, and forced my poor Tempest to emulate them. So I was first in line to get Behringer's amazing clone, which is arguably more useful than the original. And of course it's not the only clone out there, but most of those slick German machines create the 808 kick that was usually dialed in through processing the individual out. 
Crap, There is no way this is interesting to anyone but drum machine freaks like me, but if that's you, well, let's hang out.

Thank you Jenna for getting me this technological dream.

808st8

Heavily pitch corrected vocals by Jenna LaMere

Adore Thee

I've driven across the USA probably a hundred times, most often getting onto Hwy 80 at some point. A real sense of calm sets in when I get to the high plains desert of Wyoming. No words or photos can describe the feeling of The Big Sky. I don't even know if that is what this song is about, but it's a nice thing to think about.

Patrick J Finn

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