This Fog (It's Gonna Lift) blues, rock, pop This always was one of my favorite Stiffies tunes. We recorded it days after Paul wrote the words so it's a fresh and straightforward take....
4:20 @ 7 Pools pop, reggae/ska One of the stonier instrumental dub bits we did in Stiff Richards. There's a creek up in a park in the Berkeley Hills where many...
Yolanda pop, urban/R&B, rock Growing up in Berkeley, California and going to public schools in the 1970's and 80's meant you had a very multi-cultural experience. I remember learning...
You Don't Know Anything rock, punk rock, punk rock, post modern angst rock Oh the anger. Oh the angst. Oh the big distorted guitars. Short and furious.
Abby pop, rock, emo, goth, post punk Glam-esque brat rock inna reverse goth heap of undressed inhibitions! Or something. I just love the line "Mommy's got a date with the shrink tonight,...
Hate Parade rock Another track from the session we did with Michael Urbano on drums, Michael Rosen and Matthew King Kaufman producing, live in the studio. Paul Jackson...
Julian's Jealous pop, rock, other My girlfriend at the time was being courted by a much more established older man right in front of my nose. It was my strongest...
Rude Boy rock, reggae/ska Here's an amped up cover we did of The Uptones party anthem. More punk than ska, this version is all adrenaline and bounce. Tracking it...
Baggagemaster rock, reggae/ska, other I read a passage once in a book by John Cage called "M" in which he quotes a friend whose luggage had been lost at...
Laws And Sausage rock, reggae/ska, pop, ska, dub, punky ska Legend has it that Winston Churchill once said "Those who like laws and sausage should never watch either being made." ..or words to that effect....
Fell In And Out Of Art rock I was experimenting with different possibilities of perception. I was hanging around this girl Artemis from Latvia; she was a total trip. Maybe it was...
Markie Mark pop, rock This is a cover of a song originally performed by a band from Arcata, CA called Durango 95. They opened for us somewhere up in...
Josh is a J.E.R.K. pop, rock Apologies to the Joshes of the world, but you know, you guys have a poor batting average, almost as bad as guys named Biff. Always...
Not From Here reggae/ska, rock, pop This is one of our all time greatest collaborations. The song really speaks to me; the lyrics are profound and yet very approachable, pertinent, a...
Halibut pop, rock, reggae/ska Does anybody remember "In Search of" with Leonard Nimoy as the host? I was kicking back in a local found paradise, chilling my head in...
Sound Pressure pop, reggae/ska This song was a long time set closer for the live show; the sing along chrous tends stick in for head, just nutty, nutty, nutty....
Bested By Pelicans pop, reggae/ska, pre-historic avian dub It was a dark and cloudy afternoon, the classic urban seaside moment: human, feeling sorry for himself, wanting, searching, finds the ultimate tragedy-comedy, the sweetness...
