A song about two kids heading down to Ratt City for an adrenaline rush.
© 2001 JBB

Unknown album (5/3/2020 10:53:08 AM)

Ratt City

This song is about my next door neighbor, Mustard Girl. She was a trip!

I recorded this on a Roland VS880 and all I had left is to do a good solo... I had a rough mix with a solo place holder. Well the recorder locked up and ate the song.  I tried to re-record it but couldn't capture the same vibe, so this is the song but with the crappy place holder solo. :(

Unknown album (1/20/2020 3:08:32 PM)

Mustard Girl

Ok, well Mustard Girl resurfaced a few years after we broke up and was supposed to send me a letter (before any of us had email).  She was pretty dang slow about it, I can tell you that!   I wish I could have redone the lyrics on this one... oh well!

A Postal Thing

Some maniac out there is layin lots of rubber down where ever he goes.... probably you!

Horsepower Love Affair

Song about some nut who can't do anything but dream about cars and frying the tires off the rims.   Pretty rough and raw but never took song writing too seriously at this stage.   The Nova is my high school buddy's car.

Unknown album (6/9/2021 6:37:15 AM)

It's in my Blood

This is a late 90s song about some wacko garbage truck driver who was in love with a medical doctor.  Who knows, it could work.  I sort of like this song, just wish I made a better recording of it.

By my Side

In the north you have to sit through winter each year which takes forever but when the weather breaks, it's time get the muscle car out of storage and fire her up again!

Baby, Let's Roll!

Rough track of a song idea that I never got to work out just right.

Unknown album (4/20/2021 10:13:04 AM)

Long Summers Day ... unfinished song

This is a song of experience.  I have a scrap book of traffic tickets and the feeling is the same each time I'm getting pulled over.

Oh NOoo!

This is an 80s Fostex 4 track song about a real life experience

Unknown album (1/19/2020 9:20:43 PM)

Refrigerator

The was a fun little Roland JP8080 thing, I sort of made up something to go with it.

Unknown album (8/14/2021 5:58:08 PM)

The Apache Trail

In the early 80s in Dallas there was a place called Bills Records and Tapes.  It was the weirdest place you'd ever want to be.  I thought I better write a song about it... this is an update from the original 1984 4 track version adding drums and bass guitar.  I used the same effects on this version as I used on the 1984 version ... mainly an EH Flanger and an EV mic ... I no longer had my Peavy BackStage Plus amp.  The photo is an actual photo of the place!

The Record Store

A song about a Vette that I got for free and yeah, we'll be soupin it up.
Here is the video version of the song if you want to check it out >

https://youtu.be/srVgAhltzFw

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Got a Vette (and I'm soupin it up in the springtime) Music video !!

After driving a Pinto for 3 years I finally bought a Celica GT with a sunroof and holy CRAP did that ever change my life!   This song was one of my first made on a sound on sound  dual cassette deck.

I like to Cruise

True story, my ex always complained that I wasn't listening to her because I was plinking on my guitar.  I did hear most of what she was talking about but noooOo I had to put the guitar down to make her happy.

Six String Fix

This is probably my first recorded song... on a Panasonic cassette player.  I hear Sammy David Jr's 'Candy Man' on the radio and decided I really didn't like this song ... it's just wayy too commercial.  I know Sammy could rock out if he wanted to.

I'm Glad I'm not Sammy Davis Jr.

I have a friend who is on his 4th marriage and I asked how they met.  He said the Kenmore Penny Saver classifieds.  I thought Oh! and then combined that with the Kraigslist personals and there ya go !!

Unknown album (8/28/2021 7:52:33 PM)

Just Another Kraigzlist Ad

Grandma never told us about how the world is going to come unhinged someday ... I don't think she knew it would go crazy like it is... This song is too bassy ... need to remix it.

Grandma Knows Best

An unknown dept. store, Giant Tiger!  When I was a kid, that was the place to shop!  It was like a Kmart but different.   This is an really early song ... early 80s.  My brother played all the solos stuff.

Whatever Happened to Giant Tiger

This track was played on an a friends Kurtzweil keyboard...  it is a spin off from a song my brother and I made up on the fly called 'My lawnmower's busted'

There are crazy people in this world and the guy in the song is one of em.

Midnight Ridin Mower

This track actually is cool because it was done on a Roland Jupiter 6 synth and recorded on an Alesis HD24 hard disc recorder.   It's something we all dread, Tax time!! :(

A Day in May

This song is about some kid stuck in his mom's basement surfing on the computer all day and night.  I just wants to get out and rock and dance and find his true calling.   Gibson Hummingbird, Roland drums, live cymbals, Roland DD3 delay.  I kind of liked this one.

Maniac Basement Surfer Blues

I had this song idea going through my head on a day that I was going house shopping with my cousin Ed and his wife Sally.  They were supposed to call me and when they didn't I called them.  Ed seemed in a panic because Sally was in the ER with a Gallbladder that was about to explode.... so the song in my head just took on a theme and I slapped the whole thing together in Sally's honor.  She seemed to like the song, which was a plus.

Gall Bladder Sin

Living in Dallas and family in Ohio meant a long trip about once a year. I drove through Memphis and they had some killer rock stations!! I thought whoa! why doesn't Dallas rock that good?  I have a great system in my car, Alpine head unit, amps and a big sub in the back.  It was music heaven and Memphis always sounded the best.

Crawling Through Memphis

The Guitar Page ... really it's about the Gear Page guitar forum which I spent way too much time on.   Crazy place, whacky people, good information on gear.

The Guitar Page

Just an idea about mis communication between two people who get too wrapped up in their own lives

I was Jamming with a Mesa Roadster and had this heavy riff going… turned on the tape recorder to save it and worked the rest of the song out in about 10 minutes.  I was then in the shower and the words started coming to me, so dripping wet in a towel, I ran out to write them down before I forgot them!!  This song was actually the last of this whole set to be written and recorded.

Words

No Way Home is a result of watching a Twilight Zone episode about 3 astronauts that came back to earth and they are all sitting around and smoking cigarettes which I thought was odd. The other half is the movie Apollo 13 which I recently watched, so I married the two.  The original version of this song had a commentary during the Ebow interlude about how everything was cool until one of the astronauts went back to take his smoke break and stir the 02 tanks... a bit of tragic humor there.  The original song also had a second lower vocal to give sort of an Alice in Chains vibe ... I should bring that version back as it was a cooler sound.

No Way Home

I drove an Acura RSX-S for about 14 years and finally upgraded to a VW GTI. Just as soon as I brought the GTI home the Acura started squeaking on the way to work.  I couldn't tell where it was coming from and then thought Hey! this is a good song idea!!!  This is the only song in this set with real acoustic drums.

Got a Squeak in my Car

This is an early 2000s song...  I lived it and averaged 2 tickets per year in Dallas.... I rode motorcycles a lot.  I dubbed in a different chorus... the original said "I can't handle another ticket again" ... which isn't exactly good grammar, I reckon!

Unknown album (1/20/2020 9:06:13 PM)

Just a Game

This song is sort of out of character with the others but it's about how I got screwed over in a few transactions and rather than be hateful and angry inside, forgiveness is an amazing thing .... freed from all that anguish!  It's up to you.   I like the solo on this one.

Unknown album (1/20/2020 2:57:57 PM)

Leave it all Behind

This is a mid 90s song done on a Yamaha DX7-S that I found at a yard sale for $150.  It was a pretty cool digital board with unique sounds... and so I wrote a song about my every day 30 mile drive to work and all the crazy maniac drivers out there, and believe me, they are all over the place!

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