For years, I've been staring at my huge wall of white boxes, filled with tapes of bands I've been in. Before the popularity of The Internet, I'd always planned to find the best selections and save them on CD.
However, I have this irrational fear that I'll die before I've gone through all of them. So here's my attempt to document and preserve this history.
For as long as it takes, I'll continue to weed through these tapes, and convert the recordings into formats that can reside on this website. Unfortunately, the quality of the recording varies widely. Some of them were mastered using only a cassette deck and two microphones, whereas others were recorded using more modern multi-track facilities.
Click on the band name to bring up a page with history, names, and, where available, photos and .MP3 song links.
Click here for a page with my solo recordings, which are mostly my original tunes and arrangements.
| Band Name | Dates | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Last Band on Earth | 01/04/2006 - today | I've joined the re-formed Last Band On Earth. Click on the link for details. |
| Steelin' From Dan | 10/07/2003 - 01/04/2006 | The Steely Dan tribute band was a dream come true for me, but we could not keep the lead singer slot filled. |
| Chain Lightning | 06/15/2003 - 10/07/2003 | Classic Rock & Pop with Paula Wulf on vocals. |
| The Channel Cats | 10/23/2002 - 06/15/2003 | Blues, R&B and Swing band. |
| The Ira James Band | 07/07/1999 - 04/27/2002 | Steve Daigle (drummer) & I played with The IJB. |
| The Heat | 08/28/1997 - 09/26/1999 | We played classic rock cover material. |
| Seebeck's Siren | 09/02/1997 - 11/07/1997 | The last (and I hope final!) one-gig band - 11/07/1997. |
| Pulp Culture | 09/20/1995 - 01/04/1997 | The first band that I formed - classic rock cover tunes. |
| Tron | 08/19/1994 - 08/04/1995 01/30/2004 - today |
Classic rock cover band, with lots of The Doors. Did some high-profile dual-bills with Cinderella, Robin Trower, and others. |
| The Wedgies | 02/24/1994 - 05/05/1994 | Never got out of the basement, but managed to make some recordings. |
| Borrowed Time | 02/11/1992 - 02/16/1992 | Recorded 2 tunes on Feb. 16, 1992 and never performed any gigs. Married the singer, however. |
| Colony | 11/01/1991 - 12/01/1991 | "Bone in Hair/Expensive Snare" - this was the classic one-gig band. The other guys got so high the night of our only show, I never spoke to any of them again. |
| The No No's | 10/25/1991 - 02/07/1992 | Should have been a One-gig band! |
| Trip To Bountiful | 07/30/1991 - 08/31/1991 | Original rock band in Los Angeles. |
| Now Now | 05/10/1990 - 07/01/1990 | One of the California "One-Gig" bands. Original rock. |
| The Loners | 05/18/1990 - 01/30/1991 | Original rock band. Features Linden Ashby, now an actor who has appeared in "Melrose Place" and elsewhere. |
| Nirvana Blues | 04/01/1989 - 11/01/1989 | Original Southern/Hard Rock style band. |
| Electric Blue | 06/04/1987 - 01/15/1988 | A group of excellent players that disbanded way too early. |
| Loose Lips | 03/06/1986 - 11/04/1988 | The first band I actually had to sing backup in. We were a trio, and worked frequently in and around Annapolis, MD. |
| Three-Piece Suit | 04/1987 - 12/1987 | A three-piece side project to "The Balls." |
| The Balls | 1985 - 1988 | The brainchild of Craig Leyh. We played a few parties, spread out over a few years. |
| Human Remain | 12/20/1982 - 1985 | First a 4-piece, then 3-piece Original Rock band, gigging around Baltimore, MD in the early eighties. |
| Country Junk | 1980 | Yes, a full-fledged country band! |
| Marshall Law | 1980 | Hard rock was on the AOR radio, so we tried to fit in with the harder stuff. |
| Redline | 1979-1985 | A reformation of Archer, with some new members. |
| Woodlawn Drive | 1979 | This was a short-lived attempt with some high school buddies. |
| Archer | 1979 | Reformation of the first band, with Jimmy Jones on drums. |
| Skywriter | 1978 | The first band! Everybody else in the band was in my immediate family except for the drummer. |