My friend Ronwhistle was driving one day and saw a very hot (as in attractive) school bus driver. He wrote the chorus and the first line, and entrusted me with the rest.
Tag: Songwriting
A song about waste management; This is an experiment in empathy that began as an exercise in excoriation.
I’ve been mentioned by name in a pornographic pirate song.
Over at Songcrafters.org, we’re having a Punkfest this month, so I thought I’d dig up an old one that I’ve never recorded. I wrote this in 1998, and tweaked it a little last week.
This song takes four highlights from my long, embarrassing, history of carrying torches, and tells the true stories of how each torch went out. (Names have not been changed.)
In 1969, at Woodstock, Abbie Hoffman tried to commandeer The Who’s stage to make a political statement. Pete Townshend physically removed Hoffman from the stage.
I took part in a challenge to write a song using only the chords Em, F, Am, and C.
I’ve been working on this song intermittently for more than a year–a victim of neglect, life events, and many technical disasters in the recording process. The title is taken from Lucy Does a Commercial, “the second …
This is another song that has been languishing in my mind for more than 10 years. Last month I finally got around to fixing some clumsy verses and recording it.
The weightlifters at our high school had a peculiar way of walking, which we called “Dechromium Cob.”