a bit more HISTORY before we begin...

OKAY... so, like I said... I formed a band called DC KEY, primarily to make a record album with. And here's a pic from our little album photo shoot (I've got some better ones - maybe I'll post 'em later). From left to right here lies DC KEY:


PAT PAUTLER - an extraordinary drummer - he has what I can only call a finesse on those cans. He throws in so many nice accents when he plays and... he is the only drummer everyone tells to play louder. He just loves on those skins!
JIMMY LAHOOD - what I thought was a marriage made in heaven... my music and his guitar playing. He analyzed every song and gave every tune the different feel it needed. I loved hearing what magic he would bring to a session.
ME - in the middle... that cigarette is just a prop, kids! (cough...)
WES WATSON - what a cool musician name, huh? Wes is a fantastic Bass player. The funny thing was, he is in a band called Strangeland (heavy metal Christian) so this was much different for him. He developed a love for the fretless just before we recorded. We had to tune it up a little (fretless=difficult for recording) but he riffed it up right.


DC KEY started in my dinning room/living room. Me and Eric Keysor would sit around and sing the songs I wrote. "Taking too long" which is included in T.A.D. is true... we were sitting around fairly poor but that dad gum piano still played! And actually there' s a line in the song that says, "All that we need is just one stupid song"... it actually came from a quote from Eric, only he said, "One stupid ass song, that's all we need... BIG MONEY!" (I thought I'd better make it more listener friendly) Anyway, I said that I never would again sing "On the Line" after I heard Keysor (Eric) sing it. He made that song something even bigger than it is. But... alas... he wouldn't get off his ass and I had to move on ahead... Really, it's hard but you can only sit around dreaming about stuff for so long and then you gotta make a move. Keysor is a brother to me, but (at that time anyway) he didn't have the drive. And I always thought we could've done great things. That's what I find a lot in life. I've been dragging people along, trying to get them to do something with their talent, and you just can't. Even with my band. Jimmy just wanted to play out in a bar every once in a while and laughed at my huge dreams on occasion, Wes just wanted to jam with anybody and Pat... well, I'm not sure what he wants. BUT... the bottom line is this... I know what I want and I am moving. So, if you want to jump on the train... it's time!