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Nails Music
The offerings
presented here cover
a the range of our recording career, but is certainly not complete. I didn't
bother to
present our "money shot," to wit, 88 Lines about 44 Women.
And, I have around 100 reels of 7" tape and that many cassettes including many,
many live performances, rehearsals, writing sessions and 8 track proof of
concepts.
Transcontinental Ska b/w Young and Wild - 1980. Our first record. Recorded by us for our own record company.
88 Lines about 44 Women b/w Hotel For Women - 1981.
Mood Swing - 1984 Our debut RCA Album.
Dangerous Dreams - 1986 follow-up RCA Album.
Corpus Christi - 1988 (released 1994 on Safe House Records). Recorded in my project studio. Hear the music and read about how I and my cohorts made a homemade record with primitive equipment (by today's standards) that is still on the market today. However the story is bittersweet because the owners/creators of the material receive no compensation. But that is only part of the story.
The Demo - 1978. I dug deep into vaults to find this material. And I mean really deep. These are the first 4 track "demos" featuring Marc, Dave, Tommy and myself. Recorded under the most primitive conditions.
That's The Kind of Life (Streams)
That's The Kind
of Life (Download)
(This file is 6.0 MB). 1985. Recorded in our studio on our 8 track
equipment, produced and mixed by Dave and me. I'm proud of the hard edge
we put on this tune. But I think we got too close to the truth and that
can make people uncomfortable. Perhaps that's why it never ended up on a
record. We did submit "Life" to RCA for consideration on the second album.
Marc wrote the lyrics in reaction to
the incredible crime wave that was occurring during that time (the middle 80s) and the cocaine/crack epidemic that
occurred simultaneously. (Sort of our "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash.)
The tune is based on one of my bass/drum patterns. Steve came up with a
guitar ostinato that can only be described as "depressing" like he only
knew one lick and was determined to play it until the day he died.
Douglas' horn cries in despair. Marc comes off downright angry. Dave
and I created the second half of the tune in post-pro "playing" the Memory Man
among other tricks, then edited it to the tail of the tune resulting in a 6 minute
version.