I think this year marks my fourth crack at NaSoAlMo, National Solo Album Month. This song marks the first time in those four attempts that I've actually finished a song within the month of November.

This was written at the same time as Laughing. The plan was to try writing songs that I could sing while playing the guitar. I think I played my first bedroom recording of this (with me playing my brother's drums, gasp!) to Mike the bass player…

I don't remember a whole lot about this one. I wrote it along with two others in my bedroom at my parents' house, probably in 1993 or 94. I know the idea was to write stuff that I might be able to sing and play at the same time. This was played…

The year was 1989 and my high school rock band, Tempest Fero, was feelin' proggie! I can't remember who wrote what for this one. I do know we were quite stoked to have the little 4/4 to 3/4 to 6/8 thing at the end of the quiet parts. I also…

I was not happy with my first mix of this thing. I changed the drums on both songs and the bass on the first song and redid all the effects. It's a little better now. Maybe. Kind of. I wrote this when I uploaded the first mix: Two songs that…

At long last, the seventh of the seven unfinished songs from my failed 2007 RPM is now finished! It's Miller Time! It's only six years late, but it's done. So tell me, are the congas and the triangles and the strings with the tremolos over…

This makes four Tempest Fero songs re-recorded. It's like high school all over again. This one is from 1987, or 1988, or something like that. Today was the first time I ever sang lead on this song. I used to sing the harmony but there was…

One of, if not the, cheesiest songs I've ever attached my name to. This was the second song written by my first "real" band (as in a band that played gigs, rarely, as well as wrote its own songs, rarely). We joked around with lyric ideas a couple…

This is #6 out of the 7 leftovers from 2007's failed RPM. I wrote the lyrics and the melody on Tuesday May 28, 2013 at about 7:30am. Just minutes prior I heard a recording of a conversation between Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and…

When I started trying to finish my 2007 RPM leftovers I decided that I would not do any rewriting of what little I had already worked on. That was bad news for this song because it plays like an exercise in padding. I could easily have cut two…

The forth of seven leftovers from a failed 2007 RPM. This was started on my iPad two, the moved to my macMini (which has since been retired) and the rhythm guitars were through my Line6 Pod. It was then moved to my MacBook where the drums were…

Written for my failed 2009 RPM Challenge attempt and re-recorded because... well, because.

This song is often titled "Out of Control (Like a Tootsie Roll)" as it was sometimes sung by one of Prime Meridian's singers, Dave. I have no demo'd up four Prime Meridian songs this month and of them all this is the only one written by Prime…

As I was working on this I realized that all of the Prime Meridian songs I'd been messing with this month actually were written a few years prior to the band forming. This is no different. Written by me and Mike the Bass Player in1994, this…

In April of 1992 the not quite 21 year old me had a Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Calendar hanging on his wall. He had a total lack of confidence in himself and used Ms April as an exercise to try and write a song about a female. More than 20…

This song started out as an instrumental jam called Goldfish way back in 1988 when I was about 16 or 17 years old. It was Mike on bass, Jeff on drums, Jim on keys, and some fat red head on guitar. Later, probably around June of 1988 (I don't…

This was written in 1988 or 1989 or so, while I was still in high school. It was co-written with my friend and bandmate Mike the bass player. Jeff the drummer took my meager melody and improved on it. I don't think I ever sang this one before…

Another song that dates back to at least 1994 and has a 24 track studio recording around somewhere. This was co-written by me and Mike the bass player. The lyrics, in true early 90's fashion, are about being sick to death of seeing OJ Simpson…

I still have a lot of RPM energy left to burn off, so I'm recording old songs and finishing off unfinished ideas and all of that fun stuff. This song dates back to at least 1994. I have a 24 track studio recording of it somewhere. From 1997…

...and we finish the 2013 RPM/FAWM bonanza with yet another big, dumb rocker. I'm finished!