Welcome inside, it’s here where I hide.
Shake off the cobwebs I have on my mind. 
Don’t mind the mess, it’s just my distress
I’ve been cleaning for years but I can’t make a dent 
Scribbles on the walls
A ghost in the hall
Staring outside as the world goes around
The room starts to shake
The world starts to break
We both look away  as the sky hits the ground. 

So tell me I’m wrong
It’s not real
I don’t feel so well

These songs are all cursed 
They make me feel worse
Instinctively spilling this blood on the tape
I wish I could be small
Barely visible at all
Transparency doesn’t mix well with heartbreak 

Head down in defeat 
I concede 
You know me so well

This is my hell
This is my hell
This is my hell

Lyrics: Shane Willard
Music: Shane Willard, Mike Lance

Shane Willard: guitar vocals, guitar
Mike Lance: guitar, keyboards, percussion, productions
YeTI: bass

The Sky Hits The Ground - Blood (drop 2)

From Dr. Gold’s Poontang Paradise released on local indie label Triple Six Records in 1996.

SWANK (1996-1997)
Tito Satana (Chad Newton) : Vocals, Guitar
Melvin Klein (Kris Lang): Drums
Jerkules (Shane Willard): Singing Guitar
The Great Hygenie (Kaarina Wilson) : Bass

Dr. Gold's Poontang Paradise

Swank - Electric Cheesecake

Reset The World Chapter 4: My Small World Shrinks

Words and Music by Shane Willard

Shane Willard - My Small World Shrinks

From Disappear Today recorded in 1995


Charlotte Loutit-Kijekijik: Vocals, Guitar
Shane Willard: Guitar, backing vocals 
Jasmine Barrette: Bass
Amanda Mongeon: Drums

Words and music: Charlotte Loutit-Kijekijik

Disappear Today

CRAgmatic Pope - Look

The Deefons - All In

The Deefons - Cherry Bomb (Tyler’s Version, 2024)

Demo recorded mostly live at JP's Studio
A selection of our old and new songs. 
Recorded and mixed by Jon Price http://otcfilms.com/
Thanks Jon xxx

Donkey

I wrote this song about The Mighty Morphin’ 
Power Rangers which was one of my favourite shows at the time. (Yes, I know how old I was at the time.) Near the end of the series they started making these long long multi-part story driven episodes rather than the “monster of the week” episodes they made earlier on in the series.  This continued into Power Rangers Zeo which I also liked. But then came Turbo.  I HATED the new show.  I stopped watching.  Years later I would cave and watch the Turbo movie which wasn’t as bad but I never could handle the TV show.  Like, the kid grows into the suit? The fucking monkey? Like get your shit together!  I hear the new ones are good but haven’t seen them.

Some time after I posted my old recordings online.  
Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar 
Tyler Tessier: Guitar 
YeTI: Bass
Marc Milot: Drums 

Words and Music by Shane Willard/Trevor Jones

The Deefons - My Heroes

Swank - Wednesday Night Warriors

I wrote this song when I was 15 years old.  If you look on this SoundCloud account you can hear the original version of the song which is more of a pop punk song.  The original version was on “Disappear Today” which was recorded by Cragmatic Pope in 1995.  

I recorded this for something to do when I was stuck indoors on a rainy day in 2013.  The recording isn’t fantastic but I did what I could with what I had at the time, which wasn’t much.    Every time I played this song on the guitar I was compelled to play this melancholy version of the song and found the mood of this version to fit the lyrics far better than the original.  I decided to spend the day capturing this side of the song.  Other than the arrangement I tried to change the song as little as possible as I still wanted it to sound like “Secret Weapon” despite the changes.

Shane Willard - Secret Weapon (acoustic version)

My real name is Shane Willard and I started playing guitar in 1992 when I was 13 years old.  I got a piece of shit guitar, learned a few chords and started a band.  

I grew up in Kirkland Lake Ontario Canada in the midst of a youth driven DIY punk scene in the mid-late 90s. Kids made bands, put on their own shows, recorded their own albums and put them out for other kids to hear.  A group of kids made a school club called the Imperial Order of Low Budget which was used to allow the local bands, who attended the school, to rent halls and use the school's equipment to put on shows.  The money made from the shows was used to buy recording time for local bands at a small local home studio.  I was never part of the club but my life was significantly affected by the butterfly effect it created.

We met kids from nearby towns who were putting on their own shows and the scene grew through melding with other local scenes.  Bands traveled to play shows in their towns and the other bands came to play in Kirkland Lake.  It was a great way to grow up.  

On this page you’ll find music that I’ve recorded with the bands I’ve been in during my youth up to my most recent home recordings.  You won’t find pro recordings, pitch perfect singing, or pop hits here.  I came from a DIY punk rock scene in the mid 90s so a good chunk this stuff is recorded using a 4 track cassette recorder.  What you will find is music made by my friends and I that was created purely for the passion of making music at a time when the music was all that mattered.  In adulthood I haven't played or recorded much but did record some music with a friend in university and have done a few acoustic songs and they're here too. 

I'm not claiming to have written everything here.  Basically, if I sing it I wrote it at least primarily. (except Social Oppression - that's a Subverts cover)  Some will have co-writers.  I'll try to have accurate credits in the song descriptions.   I'm working on it.  For other's songs, I will remove tracks if the songwriter requests (you all know me well enough to know how to contact me)

The rules are:  

1. If I've posted it up here I either wrote it, played on it in some form, or it's a cover of a song that I wrote

2. If I repost something it's either:
1)  a related artist (as in it follows the lineage of one of the bands on here) 
2) a song by a band I was in but didn't play on 
3) a cover of one of the bands I've posted 

The line ups listed below are representative of what they were when I was in the band.  Some of these bands have had other line-ups that I wasn't a part of.  The time frames are indicative of when I was in the band and not the band's entire existence.  

The bands on this account are made up of the following humans:

The Subverts (1994) 
John Vulgar (Chris Haine): Vocals, Guitar 
Ben Swindled (Jon Evans): Vocals, Guitar, Drums 
Shane Willard : Bass, Vocals on Born Too Late

CRAgmatic Pope (1995-1996) 
Charlotte Louttit-Kijekijik: Vocals, Guitar 
Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar 
Jasmine Barrette: Bass, Vocals 
Amanda Mongeon: Drums, Vocals 
Ryan Blais: Cornet, Tacet

SWANK (1996-1997)
Tito Satana (Chad Newton) : Vocals, Guitar
Melvin Klein (Kris Lang): Drums
Jerkules (Shane Willard): Singing Guitar
The Great Hygenie (Kaarina Wilson) : Bass

Steel Rider (1997):
Chad Newton: Vocals
Kris Lang: Drums
Charlotte Louttit-Kijekijik: Guitar
Shane Willard: Guitar

The Deefons (1997-1999, 2024-)
Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar, Bass, drums in 2024
Tyler Tessier:Guitar, Bass 
YeTI: Bass, Guitar 
Marc Milot: Drums (1997-1998)
Jennifer McLenaghan: Keys, Vocals (1998)
Ben Gardiner: Drums, Production (1999)
Hugh Dogg : Live Keys, songwriting (1999)


Shane Willard (2007-present)
Shane Willard: Everything

The Sky Hits The Ground (2008-) 
Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Bass 
Mike Lance: Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, percussion, production

The Deefons - All In

The Mighty Jerkules (Shane Willard)

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