rpm 2012 #7

from my 2009 album, 'Texoskeleton...' This song says as much as I dare to mention in a tune...

Messing around with a Korg. Part of my outer-space theme - the Apollo program ended with Apollo 17...imagine if they had 51 missions! Also, a subtle link to Area 51.

We were running out of time during the RPM Challenge 2012, so Tess applied a shedload of effects to Matt's piano motif from "Breaking Arrows".

This is an out take reversed. We liked it. (Savage & Mower 2012)

Michael and Theodore (C Maiorano) Remembering things we did, hell we were just kids The best was yet to come, thinking back makes me feel numb Why? Broken homes made us family, we shared our drink merrily Dealt with things our own way…

rpm 2012 #9 so short! if you're rushing a project, I recommend not choosing five part wind ensembles

Frankenstein Sound Lab pays homage to the Shangri-Las. After a fashion.

I wrote this to be sung by a dear, now-departed friend who sadly committed suicide while working on a new album of very exciting material. I have a whole mess of "dead Kevin" songs which are in the wrong key, which I've been avoiding like the…

A song about a rather unsavory character. Fathers, lock up your daughters!

Another strictly me-and-an-acoustic track. Mostly about a kind-of-unstable girl I knew way back before I knew better. Now I know better! Good closer.

rpm 2012 #12 hello finish line

Step away step away Don't you dare That's your pedestal Don't you care about falling from grace? When we first met You sent me straight to the top without caring I didn’t care either I was so proud I'd say with a shout I'll take you all on So…

You said you left me Years ago when My blind sight burned away Only silence cured this endless ringing To cue this passion play I could have loved you years ago now I left you in a haze I never knew that i Never really loved you anyways…

Walking through the fields Red peppers were stinging Climbing up the hill Webs were cast away Now etched in your history I begin to pray I pray For you to sing your song a final time it’s The only song that you ever knew I’m already forgetting…