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September and October releases 2025

I haven’t been updating this very well so I will do a quick rundown of my last two song releases. The September release of “Subtraction” was a good one. I had been wanting to release that song for some time but wanted it to sound right and I got it as close as I could with what I had available. It is one of my favorites and I hope you like it too. That song went through a lot of revisions before it got to where it is now.

For October I chose to release “I’m a Spy”, which I wrote in the mid 90’s and recorded around 2003 with my friend Wes Filhart on drums. I was playing my American Strat through a Marshall Valvestate 8080 combo and he was playing on my brothers cheap drum set I had set up at my place. Wes is an amazing drummer and has been an amazing friend since High School. I didn’t want to lose that session to time so I decided to put it out the way we recorded it with minimal modifications. I always enjoyed his playing on that track and hope the fun of that session comes out in the song. It was a song I wrote about a fictional Spy who was having second thoughts about his occupation. I envisioned that maybe he had been in it too long and just wanted to retire. It was all written in fun and in hopes to maybe write a movie about a similar character but never came into fruition. I remember playing a little different it faster that I normally would and loved the way it turned out. I hope you can enjoy it as well.

My November release will also be a song I wrote in the mid 90’s but it was all recorded in the last month. It is also one of my personal favorite songs of mine. I have played it live on multiple occasions, so this may be my most known song of mine, …if you know me…. I have some very old recordings of me playing this song from the 90’s. More to come on that next month when the song drops.

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Been There Done That…

I just call it BTDT. My latest release is dedicated to my best friend Jon Hardy who passed away in December of 2023. I didn’t write the song about him, it just became him after he passed. This was one of the last songs I had him listen to before he died, so I thought of this song a lot after his passing. BTDT was only going to be the working title of the song, but I figured since Jon had really lived his life in so many ways, He had truly “Been There and Done That”. It’s gone through quite a few different modifications of lyrics, no lyrics, to minimal lyrics. I think this song may still progress over time when playing live, but for now this is where it is, and this is its truest form. I’m glad I’m finally getting it out there.


The picture for the single was of Jon, while we were on a Birthday Vacation on April 14th of 2021. It was taken while he was looking out the window at the Hassayampa Inn (Room 319) in Prescott, Arizona. We were goofing around in the hotel room and thought we would take some silly pictures. For some reason this one struck a chord with me and thought it matched the mood of the song.


There were so many takes and different guitars I tried before just settling on a cheap Ibanez classical acoustic guitar for the lead guitar part. It was not my first choice by a long shot, but seemed to fit when I played it. I plugged it in as a joke, but I think it needed that nylon string sound for certain parts to sound right to my ears.


I always sent Jon my songs for feedback and suggestions before releasing them. I remember the conversations we had on this song. We played music as friends when we were younger and though he was not proficient at playing bass, he could really make it sound good. He had an awesome percussive sound to his playing when he had fun with it. We would write silly songs together or rewrite lyrics to existing songs. He did love to sing. Life has changed greatly since his passing, for better and worse, but life goes on… He will always be with me in some form.
As the song says,
“I don’t want you to go…”