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Pull All The Plugs
One instrument and one voice recorded live in the studio; an autumnal soundtrack for extraordinary people longing to be unbound.
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Pull All The Plugs | 3:59 | Play |
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I Always Win | 4:20 | Play |
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Georgia, Sweet Georgia | 3:18 | Play |
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Times Are Changin' | 4:22 | Play |
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Nothing For Your Trouble | 4:11 | Play |
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Ordinary People | 3:38 | Play |
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Mother Leeds | 3:48 | Play |
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Last Song | 4:08 | Play |
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Description
Im actually from New Jersey, but since I dont feel right in any place other than New York, I tend call the city my base. I started my record collection at the age of five with my first copy of "Destroyer" by Kiss. I never outgrew my infatuation with what I heard on the radio in the 70s when I listened non-stop. I love records, liner notes, and of all the instruments I play, the electric bass.
My background includes musical theatre pit orchestras, in which they hand you a book of sheet music to read under a little stand light so people on the stage can give you a quick nod at the bows. (Heres a secret: in most cases, if the actors dont get paid, the musicians still do!) Its a viable avenue for a vocation like the electric bass, about which my grandfather once asked, "What do you want to play THAT for?" My music draws on that of the theatre in that it can use the voice of a rock band without necessarily speaking its language.
If Im not performing or recording, my voice is still regularly bouncing around in space, as I do voiceover work for Sirius Satellite radio. Its a cool gig in which I speak alternately like Frank Zappa and your old roommate who could never hold a job, depending upon the copy Im reading.
Im finally making my original recordings available again after years in the shadows. "Mono Is King!" was my first solo effort and its coming up on its tenth anniversary in 2007. Back in 2000, after too many knocks and barking up too many wrong trees, I let my little record company slide, to save my health. Easy, Baby.
Lately, Im being asked about my music again, which is a great sign of things to come. Ive begun work on a new album, so think of the originals as an appetizer. Im very proud of the first records, not only because they still sound great to my ear, but because they were the ladder to an awareness I might have taken a lot longer to reach.
Pull All The Plugs
After performing to support "Mono Is King!" as a solo act, it became confusing to people who would hear me sing and play guitar by myself and then buy my record and hear a full band. After a single I released in 1999 called The Silver Record (a 7-inch vinyl project named for the silver label that would go on the records), I set out to record something that sounded exactly like what you heard in the coffeehouses I was playing at the time. Just guitar and voice (side one) and piano and voice (side two), continuing the concept of album sides as complete thoughts like I did with Mono Is King!
I pay homage to my home of New Jersey on this album with a song on side one, which tells a bitter story about a trip to the south, and with "Mother Leeds" on side two, which is my retelling of the legends of the Jersey Devil and the way they are visited upon a character with nothing left to lose.
"Pull All The Plugs" is exactly what the title says, an acoustic album. The songs are about extraordinary characters that could soar if not for a certain lack. I ran the gamut from hopeless to hopeful. The lyrics foreshadowed events of my life more than they reflected them, which still chills me when I listen to this record, since I know how the story ended.
This album features "Ordinary People," which Ive long thought to be my best song to date, nestled comfortably into side two. Some electric ensemble versions of these songs exist, but they dont capture the same passion or that absolutely perfect autumn day when we took the picture for the cover.