Album Notes

Searching for a fun gift that will get a laugh and embarrass your friends? Check out the Spyce CD...a full hour of non-stop music for making out.

At first glance you might think that the photo on the CD cover is a part of the male anatomy. Look for the necklace and see it for what it really is... a picture of a woman. Find out how your friends feel about sex when you observe their reaction to the Spyce CD photograph.

Order now and receive a Spyce "Do Not Disturb" Door Hanger Greeting Card with your order. Quanities are limited. To view the card visit SPYCE.COM

About the music: Barb plays lead/rhythm guitar, piano and drums. She composed all the music and used her computer to layer all the tracks. She started playing guitar when she was eight and got into bowling when she was nine. Barb was a pro bowler in the late 70’s, early 80’s and at the same time she played lead guitar and sang back up with Karrie Wallace, daughter of country singer, Jerry Wallace (Primrose Lane).

In 1983 Barb quit bowling and music to go back to school. To pay her way through college she taught herself how to bartend, was hired at a high volume dance bar and had a blast. In 1990 she graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in Psychology from S.D.S.U.

In 1991 Barb decided she would never be happy if she didn’t compose music so she spent the next couple years honing her skills. In 1992 she bought a dance bar in San Diego with a friend in San Diego, CA.

She moved to L.A., CA in 1995 and continued to bartend while she worked on her music. When the non-smoking legislation kicked in her income dropped in half overnight so she began to seek other ways to make a living to support her passion.

1994-2000, she wrote and produced the Spyce CD and product line of gift items. Since she's a one-woman-operation, she figured she had better come up with a catchy cover so she put her psychology degree to use (subliminal advertising). The photograph is of a woman, but at first glance most people see something else (-:

Her friends said her music sounded like sex music so she decided to produce an hour of non-stop music for sex (music for making out, music for seduction, music for cybersex, working out, etc.). In 1995 Barb taught herself HTML so that she could market her products on the internet and bought the spyce.com domain.

For a couple years, the CD sold really well on a small scale in physical stores and on the Internet so in 1997 she decided to develop a product line of gift items with the CD cover. For example, the Do Not Disturb Greeting Card, lighters, kitchen refrigerator magnets, Spyce stickers ("Get Spyced" etc.) She filed to get trade mark rights to her name Spyce and was told that the Spice Girls applied for the rights only a few weeks earlier. The trade mark office said there was a problem because Spyce sounded like “Spice” and it didn’t matter that they used the word “girls.” Barb sold her CD first using the name Spyce in stores and world-wide on the Internet so she had what are called “first usage rights.” In 2000 they signed an agreement to peacefully co-exist.

In 2001 her mother was diagnosed with Cancer so she put her music on hold for seven years to help her mom and dad. Both of Barb’s parents bowled three times a week so after twenty years she got serious about bowling again. About a year later at the age of 46, Barb won $5,000.00 at the 2002 PWBA RPC at the Gold Coast in Las Vegas and bowled in some national events against the top women bowlers in the world.

In 2003, she was planning to bowl some tournaments in the National Tour, but the PWBA was cancelled in 2003 so she was inspired to create new and innovative ways to get spectators more involved in the game to improve bowler prize funds. In 2004 she created the B.O.B. Tour (www.betonbowlers.com), recruited nineteen sponsors in the bowling industry to contribute lots of product and held a tournament at Sam’s Town in Las Vegas, Nevada in the Summer of 2006. She is currently seeking an agent and/or producer for an interactive game show that she wrote.

Barb took care of both parents for about six years and now that they both passed she is getting back into her music again. She composes many styles of music: Trance, dance, electronica, jazz, solo piano, new age, etc. She plans to release more music in 2009.

You can hear samples of her music at: freewebsitemusic.net

Thanks for stopping by,
Barb aka Spyce aka BMC Promotions
Music & Photograph Copyright 1994-2009