Chasing Pepper

Just a kid conducting Pepper 
on my living room floor 
Drove dad crazy, Mom held the book
As I learned all the chords 

I’ve been chasing Pepper all of my life
They're both gone now and it stings like a knife
And I really don’t know how the time just flies
I’m still chasing Pepper …all of my life

Life got hard, So many things
Didn’t go my way
You know It just wasn’t in the cards
But I had something to say 

I’ve been chasing Pepper all of my life
They're both gone now and it stings like a knife
And I really don’t know how the time just flies
I’m still chasing Pepper…all of my life

Bridge:
Dad said I’d never make it
But I could never shake it
Chasing Pepper…all of my life

I’ve been chasing Pepper all of my life
I stuck it out through odd jobs and a wife
And I really don’t know how the time just flies
I keep chasing Pepper...All of my life

©2025 Marc Alan Platt


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From "Big City," which will be released in April, 2018

High Road

I’ll take the high road baby
Won’t take the low road maybe
See where we end up
See what we’re made of
Take the high road baby

Are you with me tonight?
Then we can make it alright
There’s no reason to fight
We can deal in the morning light

I’ll take the high road baby
Won’t take the low road maybe
See where we end up
See what we’re made of
Take the high road baby

What I said was uncool
Now I feel like a real fool
Then you took me to school
It was time to learn the “Golden Rule!”
 
I’ll take the high road baby
Won’t take the low road maybe
See where we end up
See what we’re made of
Take the high road baby
 
Some lessons are so hard to learn
They can lead us to the point of no return

(c) 2017 Marc Alan Platt

High Road

Just Breathe_02

A love song based on the physics of chaos theory.

Because what could be more romantic?

Patterns of Chaos #10

Darling, you’re searching for an easy life to learn...
You can have my share i don’t care if you take my turn.
but don’t hide your faults away inside that Sunday church
Now is the time for finding out if Love can work

Rolling that stone, rolling that stone rolling that stone a-way
Rolling that stone, rolling that stone rolling that stone....

It could be you who makes the difference in my happiness;
where each day and every kiss is our invention, yes…
While thoughts’ distortions spread their wings of chaos over the earth
God is in the little things that we keep giving birth...

Rolling that stone, rolling that stone rolling that stone a-way
(I wanna give you all i own  without condition
(i wanna be there when you give yourself permission)

down the other side you never tried
you’re gonna ride
and make a wish to find the keeper

Still, another hill, a little steeper than before
will you be digging’ down deeper to roll that stone?

Rolling that stone,Rolling that stone, Rolling that stone away…
Rolling that stone, rolling that stone rolling that stone a-way
(I wanna give you all i own without condition
i wanna be there when you give yourself permission)
Rolling that stone, rolling that stone….

Rolling That Stone

Installment number 11 in my “ release one song every month” campaign…

Remember the day you proposed, or the day you were proposed to - 
the feelings of joy and excitement?  This tune is about that….

If you follow my music, you know my tunes are not particularly  “happy-schmappy”…. 

I try to always come from the heart, and this happy tune comes from the same depths as my more serious works.  Sometimes, exactly what we hear in our head makes it to mix….

“Today will live forever in my mind
  The day you said you would be mine…
  For always…”

Players on this song:

Jeff Kossack - Piano, Rhythm Electric Guitar, Lead Vocal, 
Nick Kirgo - Electric Guitar
Daniel Rhine - Electric bass
Dave Salinas - Drums
Danny Kay -Trumpet
Chad Watson - Trombone (Welcome to The ‘Hand, Chad)
Severin Browne - Backing vocals
John Stowers - Backing Vocals

Mixed and mastered by Marc DeSisto, at Luke’s Room Studios in Sherman Oaks…
Social media management by Jeanette Lundgren
Radio promotion by Marc Platt

None of my music would be as good without these good people….  I owe them…. Thanks to all of you...

Today

"I Am The Walrus" by Lennon/McCartney

Produced and Performed by Children of Fab (Jef Scott/Marc Platt)

I Am The Walrus

I have written so many love songs to this woman...  This is my favorite....

Less Is The New Black

I Will Always Be Here 2.0

My Wallet and My Watch Are Gone...

A very short song about a very short relationship...

This month, I wanted to continue a newer phenomenon in my production - shared solos, two instruments talking to each other… It’s all about building space within my arrangement for the purpose of featuring these good friends in moments...  They pair up during solos, then go away then reunite... It just increases the overall energy...

Funny thing is, none of these players are ever in the same room with each other, so advanced thinking is the truly helping these moments take shape...

I so value my players. They are my friends, and they never just ‘phone it in.’  They constantly bring it, every month...

With me, on this track::

Dave Salinas -Drums
Daniel Rhine-bass
Tim Fleming- pedal steel
Nick Kirgo- lead electric guitar
Gary Stockdale- piano
Mark Romano -backing vocals

(And me on electric rhythm guitar, organ, percussion, and lead vocals)

Go ahead and listen; it’ll be over before you know it,  just like the relationship in the song...

My Wallet And My Watch Are Gone

Marc Platt has been a singer-songwriter playing in and around Los Angeles since 1980. He fronted Los Angeles Power-pop band The Real Impossibles in the 1980's and had chart success with that band and several other projects since. His new record 'Big City'

High Road

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