Album Notes

UPDATE: If you buy a copy of this old EP, we'll throw in a download code for our brand spanking new 3P "The Grinder's Tale" for free! Buy it now :)


Wrong Side of Dawn's debut EP is a diverse, but yet a concise introduction to some of the many styles of rock that we have been and will be tearing up in a speaker near you. I'm very glad you've decided to take a closer look at us, and I'd like to give you my notes on some of our tunes:

1. When I sat down to write the song that became "Running Scared," I told myself I wanted a simple but catchy Rolling Stones riff. Something energetic, but nice and easy to play. Somehow, though, I wound up with a pretty technically challenging guitar song. Nelson made this song possible by getting me to STOP writing lyrics for it, and by pushing for this song to be fun. And most important of all, it is fun.

2. The nice thing about playing melody over one of Nelson's progressions is that it's almost impossible to screw up. The richness of the rhythm part will make any lead sound beautiful. Such is the case with "Flight II," which makes being a lead guitarist a pretty cushy job.

3. Nelson had a very catchy and complete song in "Break Free" before I even appeared on this track. Karen's vocal harmonies only made the song more beautiful, so I figured my job at this point was to balance things out and give it a little bit of a mean streak.

4. We're giving you everything we got in the last minute of "Out of Time." If you can't feel that when you listen, you might have to check your pulse.

5. On this one, we owe all the thanks to the public domain and to Alfred Lord Tennyson. It all started when I heard someone read "Crossing the Bar" aloud, then play a musical version of Tennyson's 1889 poem. Somehow, the song-version just didn't do justice. By smoothing out some of the variations in rhythm, it ruined the experience of hearing the poem read naturally. Taking things into my own hands, I stole a riff from Nelson and sang "Crossing the Bar" in a manner more faithful to Tennyson's original rhythms.

Enjoy.

-Brian