By Pete Rubissow

Vocals: Victoria Raybourn 
Guitars, drums, programming, bass, and everything else: Pete Rubissow
Engineered, Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Pete Rubissow

Words & Music Copyright © 2023 Peter George Rubissow ASCAP
All Rights Reserved - LaRoRu Music ASCAP

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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT

I’ve been living in my head
Always worried
Clock is ticking
My body says hurry
We’ve been living on the edge
of maybe

If you want me baby
I can’t linger
Maybe think about a ring
on my finger
We’ve got everything we need
So why you keep resisting

Don’t wait till “someday”
Make it real today

Take it or leave it
I can’t wait anymore
If you want to be together
Baby close the door
And believe in

Believe our love
Is strong enough
To carry us through the years
Carry us through
Whatever you’re afraid of

Fuck the fear, I’m right here
It’s now or never
Time to clear out the doubt
Feel the pressure
We’ve checked every box
Now you’ve got to decide

We’re so good, really good
Really good together
And we both know
This could be, this could be forever
So I think you understand
I’m drawin’ a line in the sand now

Don’t wait till “someday”
Make it real today

Take it or leave it
I can’t wait anymore
If you want to be together
Baby close the door
And believe in

Believe our love
Is strong enough
To carry us through the years
Carry us through
Whatever you’re afraid of

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT - (feat. Victoria Raybourn)

A cover of the 1979 track by The Cars

Lead Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Backing Vocals: Jasper James
Drums: Don "Genghis" Kahn
Author, Composer: Ric Ocasek
 
Produced by the Jasper James Experiment at Back Alley Sound Recordings in Huntington, NY
Mixed and mastered by the Businesslike Anger

You're All I've Got Tonight (The Cars Cover)

I'm a NorCal based Songwriter, Record Producer, Composer and Guitarist.

This is the place to hear all the songs & music I write & produce.

I write music in the Pop/Rock/Electronic realm and sometimes crossover into other genres for fun. I also score movies from time to time. 

Besides writing and releasing my own songs, I produce and develop rising Pop and Indie Rock artists. 

My musical influences are broad. In no particular order I would say: My pianist father Georges Rubissow, Chopin, Butch Vig, The Beatles, Underworld, Miles Davis, Elliot Smith, Garbage, Caetano Veloso, Earth Wind & Fire, LTJ Bukem, Ennio Morricone, Santana, Radiohead, William Orbit, Brian Eno, Shania Twain, Prince, Gypsy Kings, The Pretenders, Mutt Lange, Pink Floyd, Hans Zimmer, Digital Underground, Sting, Beethoven, Neil Young, Herbie Hancock, Caravan Palace, Norah Jones, Michael Jackson, Elvis Costello, Keith Urban, Kayhan Kalhour, Allison Krauss, Pat Metheny Group, Foo Fighters, Pop, Rock & Electronic music in general and countless loud rock and dance shows.

Whatever the music is, I want it to be in my face. It doesn’t have to be loud. It has to be real. I want it to be full of emotional power and to bravely show it. I want to feel it.

An American/Canadian, I grew up in Berkeley, California and then in rural Devon England during the 70s. I played violin as a kid, but at age 13 I suddenly announced I was dropping violin to take up guitar instead. 

As a young guitarist I was amazed by the sheer power of Led Zeppelin, Boomtown Rats and BB King. I taught myself all their songs by ear from listening to cassette tapes over and over and over again late at night - driving my mom and sister absolutely mad.

My Dad was a physicist/pianist and through him I developed a keen appreciation of Liszt, Chopin and Beethoven’s piano works. I memorized the melodies of their famous etudes, preludes and sonatas as I fell asleep hearing my Dad play them downstairs at night.

My sister loves Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Commodores, Chicago, Marvin Gaye & Aretha Franklin. And through our home stereo system I discovered all kinds of amazing music in my sister's collection of LPs.

My mother enjoys straight-ahead Jazz and Be Bop, as well as show tunes. I must have heard My Fair Lady 20,000 times. Jesus Christ Superstar also. Musical Theater is where some of the best and most creative music is being made.

Mom took me to my first Jazz shows and to plays in London's West End and I got completely hooked on Jazz, particularly hard-bop and fusion.

After high school I attended Berklee College of Music and focused on Guitar, Arranging and Composition.

Later, while living in Los Angeles I began writing and performing my own intensely melodic pop and alternative songs at clubs all over town. I also scored several indie films and documentaries. In the 90s, KCRW FM was the first to add and play my music in eclectic rotation.

Then I took a big detour working a couple decades in the wine business which is also a love and family passion. Though I am no longer a Wine Producer, I still consult in the wine world while working as a Music Producer.

I’m always listening to what’s new and how artists and producers are crafting their sound and authenticity.

I write drafts of most of my music in my head or on guitar first, and then work it all out by recording rough tracks & beats in Logic and then gradually addiing, subtracting layers to find sounds and feelings that work.

All musicians are much more diverse than their recordings tell you. As musicians our influences help inspire who we are, but in the end, our own authentic voice is unique and may not sound anything like the music and artists we love most.

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