15 Pieces from a Faceless Beast

15 Pieces from a Faceless Beast... Now in commercial production

We spend an entire life staring into the eyes of an image in the mirror...we've never agreed usually walking out of every

meeting yanking the lights while slamming the bathroom door behind me. Until recently I didn't care what the image did

or thought during my absence only to realize without each other life seems...empty. We're not friends, probably never will

be, maybe that's why I agreed to let him create this project. The image in the mirror isn't the Piano Man, Captain Fantastic,

Gene Simmons or Springsteen "The Boss" just a poet with a pen displaying his art in the name of learning how to ignore criticism...

The Storyboard: raw recordings before going into sessions

Written about and dedicated to the kids at the Levines Children's Hospital

Theme from my new book of the same title

8. Faceless Beast

9. Here We Go Again/Music is My Place to Hide

Love theme from my book Halloween 78 The Blizzard White Canvas

13. World Peace/Dedicated to the continued

construction of the Ronald McDonald House of

Charlotte

I've been writing music since the birth of the first grade with barely enough support in the backbone to keep me straight.

What I do isn't perfect...it's not supposed to be. Music is a canvas, it's where I go to hide. The goal of an artist is to bring

life to a moment they can no longer keep inside.

Before figuring out recording paths that preserved each presentation I was the punk kid in the backyard of a barely built

house in Billings, Montana singing into the end of a garden hose with the opposite end pressed into my ear allowing the

time delay to serve as an echo strong enough to keep a child's melodic vision alive.

My collection of songs have had only one audience: barely folded ragged and torn T-shirts stuffed into a walk-in closet. The

pieces have survived nearly five decades on two track to sixteen track tapes to battered cassettes later dubbed onto CD's

and now hard drives. Over three hundred pieces of something that stretch between 1977 to the present and for some odd reason...today we

meet.

The early 1970's Aerosmith had just been introduced with Boston, Heart, Bad Company and KISS. Disco was hot but I wanted to

rock. My childhood ambition was to squeeze from the box originality. Finding a band in my middle teens that believed in the exact

horizon led me toward many garages blanketed with wanna-be's and could have been's. From Painted Face, to Paradise then

Rest In Peace, each stage was different but the ambition to be unique never changed. Sadly, the only recordings left are private

shows from the final collection that featured Tony Boehm, Neil Armfield, Bart Moore, Gary Robinson, Mark Curtis and myself.

We were Rest In Peace...a rock band from today.

My only reason for departure...radio. I located a new stage that required no managers constantly searching for new places to perform

and I could do it everyday.