Category — My Songwriting Demos

Wishin’ For A Miracle.mp3

This is one of the first demos I recorded when I was putting together my studio in the mid-nineties.  My partner, Chris Raspante, did the guitars and sung the track – I did the rest.

Walk Away.mp3

I wrote this in 1992 or so – just me, a cheap keyboard, tape deck and mic.  This is another one that I will produce someday.  Pretty crappy recording, but passable.

Run Away.mp3

Another demo song that I recorded somewhere around 1995.  This was before I had my studio, so it was a sequenced track with a keyboard and tape deck and mic.

On The East Side.mp3

A songwriting demo I recorded with Jon Mellen – he also works at eBags.com with me. I wrote the song, he sung the vocals. Everything else I did with samples and virtual instruments. The lyrics for this were orginally written in the early nineties.

Around The Block.mp3

Someday I will finish this.  Recorded in 2003.   Just another demo.

Highway 84.mp3

The original songwriter’s demo of this song, which eventually made it onto J. Gilligan’s compilation in 1996, although in a more polished format.  The song is missing the guitar solo in the middle.  Almost everything here was sampled, other than the organ and vocals.  We eventually recorded the whole thing live.

Cigarette Away.mp3

Written in ‘93 or ‘94, before I started my music studio. A simple piano ballad. There’s a story here, ’cause I never smoke.  This is a live demo I recorded in 1996.

Fall Down Mary.mp3

This was the first song I did totally on the computer…except for my vocals, of course. Something like 1995…though I think I transferred it to MP3 in 1996 or so.

The Fall Of Nathan.mp3

I wrote this in the early nineties, I think. Obviously, before I knew my way around a studio. Someday I will record it again.  I transferred this from a cassette tape around ‘96.