"Itch" ended up with a couple of number one songs on MP3.com back in the day including the title track which reached the the number one slot in the "Freestyle" hip-hop category and the #1 song in the "Hard House" Category "Origins" . I was very encouraged and started dumping some money and energy into developing my sound and promoting the concept of Chainsaw Weasel...there were less than 30 copies of "Itch I Can't Scratch" sold before the first rendition of MP3.com went under. If you have one it is a Weasel Collectable.

The next Chainsaw Weasel album was more ambitious and saw the last project featuring me as the primary vocalist. "Straight Out of Calvary" was also the first of my projects to feature a mix of 4-Track Tape and DAW ACID/Sound Forge work. The title track reached #6 on the "Experimental" charts in 2002 and is a complete presentation of the Romans Road to Salvation. This album probably had less than 100 total copies produced and sold on MP3.com. This was a free to download album also and had thousands of copies downloaded.

The next project was titled "The Great Commission". As I got familiar with using loops and samples I was freed to try something ambitious, create a CD of musical styles from around the world. I started in New York and worked my way around the Globe..."spreading the Gospel". This CD has 3 top ten hits on MP3.com and still has my most downloaded tune "Amore de la Cuba" (the number one song on the Cuban charts November, 2002)

This is my favorite album for sentimental reasons. Soundtrack to a Dream featured some old vocals from my wife's mother who passed away in 1975, I did some of my best creative writing and poetry for this CD. Dream had 4 top tens on MP3.com: Man in the Mirror, Drive, She Cries Jerusalem, Spanish Nights. This was my last CD on MP3.com...all those after this I produced, mastered and had to press 100 copies at a time. A few books with original art and writing were produced to distribute with this CD. I will try to post it when I get a chance.

Utopia was my first post MP3.com project. I did some fun stuff like recorded a live jam with my drummer friend Phil DeEncio and then imported it to ACID and worked it over - Hard Cheese is the result! There are still a few copies of Utopia available out there...but CD Baby is sold out. This also was the start of promoting some of my artwork. I got the my best reviews for this CD, with reviewers saying that it looked like Chainsaw Weasel was growing up!

This was the 6th full length album from Chainsaw Weasel and the most emotionally charged to date! I had been traveling in Asia a lot, going to some clubs and making new friends. Many of the songs are about specific events or people. I also lost my dog, Sheeba, after 15 years...Dead to Rights is a tribute to her. I really like this album and it was one of my most danceable and listenable CDs to that point. Still a few left at CD Baby!

After my move to Colorado from California, I was very emotional and struggling with separation from my friends and church. For the first time in a few years I got out my guitars and just started playing. This album is filled with original guitar work from Creation and Fall, Rolling Thunder and Slip Drone to Blues to You. There was also some deeper poetry written for this album. Heart Storm is one of my most romantic compositions up to this point. Still like 3 copies left at CD Baby!

Orchestral Techno was how one reviewer labeled Flux. A dear friend lost his father and that vibe of loss permeates this album. There are songs about a life in flux. I was dealing with changing jobs, loss of friends, lust, being gone too much and missing my kids while on the road. One reviewed wrote, "Chainsaw Weasel is all grown up now and his latest release Flux has a complexity and depth unlike any of the previous albums." There is a lot of hope in this album. 100 original copies, that was it...don't know if any are still out there?

Factor 6 will be my 10th album. It is based on my general theology that aside from the essentials,(There is One God, Jesus came to Earth, Died in our place, was Buried and Rose again on the third day Conquering Death, No man comes to the Father but through Jesus) no one has it all right. This CD is a departure from my last two with a heavier emphasis on ambiance. My producer friend called is "Sci-fi Tribal" I hope you like it! Should be here in March 2006.

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