Lp4 (March 10th 2001 and December 30th 2001)

Roads had glazed ice, Minnesota is a winter magnet with the two seasons we have here: summer and winter! My band, Lp4 had a demo to record that day, and had to drive 45 minutes away to cut the EP. No time to lose cuz our guitarist had to move pretty quickly!

It was four songs, but it was pretty damn good with what the four of us can come up within 3 months, plus we were in a hurry cuz of the guitarist and my best friend had to move to illonois. We drove to the studio with our equipment, I drove my station wagon with Justin (singer), Scott and Charlie (drummer) drove in scott's van. We got there, and Pete the recording engineer greeted us, and had us started! Great guy, had to watch our swearing cuz it was a christian music recording studio, and heh, it was cheap! We cut 30 tracks out of 64 cuz we kept screwing up. We were so unprepared plus Scott's the biggest perfectionist I know!! We called the EP "Tail of four skins"...why in God's green earth was it named this? We had a couple blink 182 fans that were into that toilet humor stuff. We went along with it, but it was just weird....

One song we cut was "Taxi-man" killer guitar riff i came up with on my bass. sounded like your ballsy, Angus Young lick. Scott wrote the lyrics, was about naive kids getting hooked on drugs.

Other three songs I wrote. "Loner", Vision, and Unite. I wrote loner about myself. I always felt like the loner in high school. Never tagged along with big groups of people, just chilled with a couple buddies, even though I had a girlfriend then. I remember writing the lyrics at my job, actually. The song is slow, but the chorus was rockin! I worked at a compost dump. I sat in a pickup truck as people dumped their leaves and branches. Lol...boring as hell. I would bring a notebook and would just write a way. "Vision" I wrote out there as well. I think I ripped it off from Creed's "higher" well, the concept of it. How we were a band, we can kick ass, we are unique in high school cuz everyone else were stuck into their Motors and Sports. Song was fast paced, barely can understand the lyrics.

Unite I think it is cheesy. I wrote it about my friend's moving to Illonois. Slower song, same style as we did with "Loner." Had the verse soft, chorus heavy, and the bridge....how the bass comes in "boom" what a build up!

I will never forget that day. Even though we were fighting, rushing to get the EP done, it was a big part of history in my life. We recorded it succesfully, and released copies at high school. After Scott moved, everyone wanted an Lp4 reunion that following summer in concert, and they got one at the rec center ;)

Scott and I cut another demo at Champaign Illonois called the "New Years Eve 01'" Ep but only had three songs (I sang on this EP). We Did "With You" That I wrote about my gf at the time (i broke it off with her months before this). And did Unite and an acoustic song Scott Wrote "Taking My Heart Away" My favorite track is "Heart" cuz I sang it well, and was more in tune with the acoustic.

Things have been crappy. I joined another band after this, but I wasn't feeling it cuz I was not collaborating work with my best friend. I do not think I can get into any serious band unless Scott is in it cuz we understand we love the same music, We both know what we want, it's great. Not to sound like a homosexual or anything but it's the only way I can be in a band, and write how I write if Scott is there to work with me.

I still have copies of those demos..any of you who want to take a listen, give me a holla! (Also, we have behind the scene footage of the first EP :P)

Take Care

Peace Out

J2K