This is what I was up to in 1995

Back in the day I was a big heavy metal fan, then 1991-1992 rolled around and 90’s Alternative was all the rage. That’s what we wound up playing. 

The band was around in some form since I was 13, but it was 1994-1995 that we really started writing our own material and playing in bars and clubs. 

Then, summer of 1995 we recorded our demo. Now I feel compelled to share a track with the group. 

The music was written by me, using parts of two songs that we had worked on for a long time through many different iterations. When we got our (what would be our final) singer, he wrote lyrics in a notebook that he carried with him. 

At a very early rehearsal, I played the music for him and he thumbed through his book and found something he thought would fit. 

We recorded the first full play through,  and I still have that recording. I was the only guitar on the band at the time so I improvised a simple solo part. 

When it came time to finalize it, I decided why not go back to the tape and learn the improvised solo I had recorded. We kept it that way forever. 

Were we good? Not really. Did we have fun, get girls, and play original music at paying gigs? We sure did. 

This one is called “Critics”, and our singer even acknowledged that he had no idea as to what it was about. 

‘78 Strat through a Mesa Boogie stack and a Tube Screamer.