This is an old tape of my mom accompanying trumpet when I was about 6 months old. Thanks to Wally Sound for restoring/digitizing the old 1/8 reel tape. 

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This set of songs spanned from about 1996-2002, with elements borne out of some songs from as early as 1994, I think. Recorded at home in 2002, after having spent a lot time taking some old bits and re-editing lyrics etc. Up until about 1996 I was pretty prolific in terms of the frequency of songs I wrote. I was a front man in the bands I'd been in since high school. After '96 the time I spent writing songs was pretty threadbare. I had every intention of turning this collection of songs into a proper record, but to date that hasn't happened. But I'll call it an album anyway.

02 Scrolls in Sadness

03 Losing It

05 Driving Cross Country

My first band in SF, and this is the first EP. We were a snappy little trio. Seth Walter on bass, Lee Farber on drums. Seth named the group after that famous sign on 17th and Mission, and we called it four wheel bra because the picture we took was next to the old 4 Wheel Brake shop across the street, and the last two letters were cut off, so Bra it was. One of the songs (Fender Bender) made it onto a compilation of local SF bands that year called "Quixotic." My XTC phase, which began a couple of years earlier in college, runs pretty deep through this one.

04 Sculptures And Puppets

05 No Braining It

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