Album Notes

STRÜB's third release, in Micheal's words, is the most personal to date. "I said things.. hell.. admited things about myself this time around that led to me ending up in a psych ward just weeks before leaving for the 'Reflect' tour of 2003!" says Michael.

STRÜB intended 'Ethos Pathos Logos' to be, as he referred to it, his "swan song". "It felt so good to finally come clean with the rest of my inner termoil. Where my previous records I wore my heart on my sleave, with Ethos I just tossed what was left of it into the street. Still beating. Just being away from my Kids for so long and all the nightmares and hardships of the last tour gave me the rest of what I needed to break emotionally and just let it all out."

Most of Ethos was penned and some recorded during the two and a half month stint in Toronto. "Canada almost seemed like a working vacation to me", says STRÜB. "I remember tracking out 'Happy' in our downtown flat. It was the first time I'd ever laid vocals in front of anyone. I think that's what finally put me into let it all out mode.
I'd walk around downtown in the middle of the night and just feel ...come to terms and understand myself."

'Ethos Pathos Logos', like 'Reflect' was finished up in Phoenix, Arizona. After the Ethos tour, Michael intended on moving to Washington to finally be with his Kids full time for the first time since 2001.

Exactly two months after the sold out CD Release concert for 'Ethos Pathos Logos' in Phoenix, Arizona, STRÜB's touring trailer (containing the entire touring rig) was broken into and the van vandalized behind a hotel.

"I often thought that all I had left in the world that I could control, was my equipment and the ability to make records and express myself. My Kids were far away, I'd lost my fortune and was using my music to make a new start and relocate and start an new life up north with my Children. I lost everything I had left in one night behind a hotel that offered nothing more than a half-assed apology. I don't know if I'm just bitter now, or completely broken and devoid of all feeling."

Michael is now working on a fourth record, aptly entitled 'Finger' on borrowed instruments.

"I just want to finish this f*cking record and make enough money to move to Aberdeen. Be a full time Father again. That's all I care about. My Children."


You can see more of STRÜB on:
www.myspace.com/strubmusic or www.youtube.com/strub

Listen to and view the first two single off 'Finger', 'Monkey' and 'Hindsight'.