In the spring of 1999 I graduated high school. My band broke up because three out of four of us were going to college. Due to the whacky schedule at my school I had a whole lot more summer to work with than everyone else I had graduated with. I spent my extra time that summer making music with a dear friend of mine named Josh, who had also been the drummer in my band. We wrote 10 new songs and recorded 12 over the course of July, August, and September. One of the extra two being a re-recording of one of our bands' old songs and the other one being a cover of Adam Sandler's 'I Wanna Grow Old With You', of all things. I was 18 and Josh was 15. Bands like Saves The Day, Bouncing Souls, and Lanemeyer were making New Jersey the pop-punk capital of the world (at least our little world - fuck everything that's ever come out of that hell-hole we call California) and we were loving every minute of it. At any rate... I get nostalgiac once in awhile when I have too much time on my hands and like to go back and listen to some of this stuff. Not many people have ever heard it and I figure at least a few of the songs deserve to be heard. Before you download this track (one of the ones Josh sang on), please remember... we were young. And stupid. We barely knew how to play our instruments nevermind work the second hand 4-track recorder I had purchased. However, we were having a fucking blast and I hope it shows.

If I Were James - Don't Belong
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Please leave some feedback to this post. Let me know if you'd like me to upload some more of this stuff or just keep it to myself. Thanks. --