Sept. 3, 1994
1 cassette
1. H.I.M
2. Motorcade (stop the glory)
3. Phony War
4. Choice
As I continued to write and record songs I just kept putting my own little tapes out. It was for archiving what I considered my progress and around now is probably when I started letting friends hear what I was doing. H.I.M was the first song I really started experimenting with my falsetto range. I was listening to Mother Love Bone and was just trying new things out. Motorcade was a breakthrough in my drumming. It was a pretty aggressive song. This is also where I first started to write words that were more meaningful and worldly. The song “Phony War,” for example, was loosely inspired by a Rolling Stone article I read about the war on drugs. (On a side note, I never did drugs and in my group I was definitely known as the NARC when everyone was paranoid and high.)
