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6th Street

Annie Don't Know Streaming Download
Annie: I have no idea. Thanks to Jeff Pehrson and Jim Brunberg of Box Set for adding so much to this track. Also Gary Bruzeze on Drums, John Ebinger on Bass and Tommy Blue on Pedal Steel and Andy Kern for putting it all together!

Darkness Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Darkness: Write a James Taylor song! Well that is what I did here. It took me months! He is a great songwriter and this was no easy task.

Leaves Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Leaves: 1983 - Paul Bedford put this track together from a song I wrote in high school. This is all Paul except for the acoustic guitar and vocal.

Step up

Buried Alive Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Buried Alive: 2003 - I used a lot of drum samples to make this as industrial sounding as possible. The guitar is acoustic going through a distortion program. My friend Aaron Hondros of New York suggested I try to write something like Tom Petty. This is what came out.

Knowwhere I am Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Know Where I Am: 1988 - Wrote this in Berkeley while my girl friend was in Europe. I felt I was left emotionally NO WHERE. Which is why I kept singing NO Where I Am Know Where I Am.

Lonely for Me Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Lonely For Me : 2003 - Wrote this after watching the Beatles Anthology.

Born On The Brink Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Born On The Brink: 2003 - The hardest song I ever did by myself to get recorded. Mass extinction is not in the news but we are living though the second half of the fastest the planet has ever seen.

Party on 6th Street Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Party on 6th Street: 1984 - Written after Gary Warren - the man who started the Gorilla Grotto in SF and inspired me in many ways. I played my very 1st open mic at the Gorilla Grotto at 14. My dad took me and he was one of my Mom's boyfriends. Gary died very young in Florida while running. He wrote a lot but was never published that I know of.....sure would like to know more.

The Alter-nate Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
The Alter-nate: 2003 - A song? about the music industry.

The Boats Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
The Boats: 2003: - My attempt at being the Violent Femmes - and also a tribute to the boats Cat Stevens wrote about in Longer Boats. Those boats from space we are creating a wireless paradise for.

Home Alone

A Way Away Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
A Way Away: 1989 - Realizing that speed was in charge of my life.... I wanted o ut but couldn't stop. It took years to get any feeling back.

Ballad of the Voice Man Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Ballad of the Voice Man: - 1993 - Having stopped doing speed everyday for over two years I found the voices in my head were turned up sometimes l ouder than the voices from other people. But I think this happens to some people without having any drug history. It made me relate to mental health as a serious problem.

Be Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Be: 1994 - I was going to have to go to jail for 4 months at the expense of a tour and a band and my girl...this was my way of convincing myself it was going to be ok. It really wasn't in many ways. Mandatory minimums hurt a lot of families and judges and lawyers have almost no power to do anything. The song says where I stood on these issues.

Commercial Art Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Commercial Art : 1993 - Sometimes you just write about what is in front of your face.

Colors in My Mind Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Colors in My Mind : 1980 - I wrote this before I knew anything.

Junkman's Journey Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Junkman's Journey: 1994 - My son's favorite song. I did this using a voice I didn't know I had in me. I don't think I could do it again! Maybe someday.

One Room Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
One Room: 1986 - The room was at The Temple Of Cosmic Religion 274 Santa Fe in Oakland. I do not think it is still there but that is where I was healed. God did it - or whatever that power is that is based on faith. Higher Power? All of those things.

Road of Rain Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Road of Rain: 2002 - A dear friend went through this.

Station Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Station: 1994 - I don't like court rooms and legal matters where I am always defending myself - I think this is where this song comes from.

When Your Loved Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
When Your Loved - How I feel about love and fear success when it competes.

Early Years

20 Miles til 2am Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
20 Miles til 2am: 1981 - I tried to write a Jackson Browne song at 16.

As the Bands Play Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
As the Bands Play: 1982 - I always thought Skip Henderson would be this guy if he ever got old.

Broken Heart Harbour Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Broken Heart Harbor: 1982 - Still a virgin when I wrote this song about where the broken hearts all go.

Country Store Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Country Store: 1982? This song was inspired by a trip to Dobbins I took in 6th grade with one of my best friends I'll just call Mr. Miller to be safe.

Dream Machine Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Dream Machine: 1983 - Not the right song to send to a record company if you want get a record deal. I got a real nasty letter back about how if I don't like the system - get out and stay out!

Eagle Cries Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
As The Eagle Cries: Marrik Lipson played the violin and Mal Cusenbery played bass on this track I wrote in 1981 flying to Disneyland - on the plane!

Heart in the Wind Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Heart in the Wind 1983 - David Klotz played piano on this song produced by Neil Jay Young who sent it to Vallery Rogers when Stan Rogers Died.

Holland Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Holland: 1977 - Who knows? I was 10.

Johnny Chrome Engine Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Johnny Chrome Engine: 1983 - What a band. Marc Garay on drums, Mal Cusenbery on Electric Bass, David Klotz on Piano, and I played the electric guitars. I wrote this song for my auto shop class at Central High in AZ.

Looking Down Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Looking Down: 1982 - Written about trip up Twin Peaks in San Francisco with a friend in highschool.

Marionette Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Marionette: 1981 - I threw this on out and then played it at an open mic and so I remembered it and it stuck. Disturbing song though.

Nows the Past Now Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Nows the Past Now: 1981 - Recorded at a friend's house - either Rick Serna or Keith... This song was inspired by an argument I had with my S tep Mother....which probably happened twice as a kid...it was about preparing for the future or something and I felt like ...well, I just can't keep up because Now's the Past Now.

Passing Through Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Passing Through: 1982 - Nothing to say about this one. It is a poem.

Bartholomew Roberts Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Bartholomew Roberts: 1982 - Marconias and Gary Siler made this song famous.

Tropical Lake Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Tropical: I was 10 so who knows?

Video Games Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Video Games: Pong was out and I was vacuuming the den in our house in SF with my Dad and Step Mother watching TV. This song just came to me.

Zoo Blues Real Audio Streaming Download MP3
Zoo Blues: My friend Andrew was working at the zoo - at the carousel.