In memory of my best friend and incredible lyricist Ed Legal who passed away August 23, 2024, I’m honored to share “Not the Only One,” a song we wrote together back in 2017. In many ways, this song encapsulates the struggles we all face, reminding us that we’re never alone in our battles.
I’ll try and share more as I dig through the 20+ songs we wrote & 100’s of hours of videos we recorded. I miss him, his witt & amazing ability to string together words; lyrical ninja, dark poet & and veracious factotum (doer of all things)… RIP in my brother!
You know that good fuzzy feeling you get when you finish something worthwhile. Ya, I’m basking in that warm glow, all the while feeling the heaviness of the meth crisis & pain it is causing for so many.
Will share the final promo vid as soon as I can, hoping next week, but seriously can’t wait for you to see & hear the initial story featuring the “Bear Clan Patrol‘ for the ground breaking documentary Meth- Community Under Siege.
Sooooo….Love the movie Finding Nemo… ‘just keep swimming’, ‘just keep swimming’!!!! This popped into my head today, after a 2-hour long songwriting session, with the infamous lyricist/vocalist Ed Legal.
Here are three video highlights. Please only watch if you want to see raw creativity at inception! This is the raw beginning of the creative process …
Please don’t watch if you are expecting Top 40…
Pull The Pin happened last 10 minutes of session:
https://youtu.be/neOzb5WM6CI
Mason Jar (was a song I wrote called Slept In Days… Ed has come up with something I never could have imagined).
Here is an acoustic original, called Wish Upon a Shooting Star, I have been dabbling with for some time. Started writing this one a few years back, and is based upon the cliche of the wishing we all do; wishing wells, shooting stars, coin ponds, etc. I have the Lyrics posted below the video 🙂 Hope you enjoy!
Wish Upon a Shooting StarLyrics
Wished upon a shooting star. Hope to make my life better.
Realized it was a plane. 747 feel so lame.
Threw a coin in that pond, bounced right back like a billabong.
Cross my fingers, hope to die, poke a needle in my eye.
Dreams do come true. Just not for me & you.
Dreams do come true. Just not for me, not for me and you.
Threw a dollar in that wishing well, prayed to God there is no hell.
God damn, now I’m broke, little birdie whispered I’m the joke.
Held my breath & wished again for little birdie to be my friend.
Forgot to breathe, and I passed out, right down that wishing well.
Dreams do come true. Just not for me & you.
Dreams do come true. Just not for me, not for me and you.
Dreams do come true. Just not for me & you.
Dreams do come true. Just not for me, not for me and you.
Was able to get together last week for a 2nd writing session with Ed, from The Midnight Move. After a long hiatus, feels pretty amazing to get back to writing. I’ve always enjoyed just being the rhythm guitarist at times, and especially finding the right groove for a song. Having said that, I feel some wicked back up vocals coming up soon. (Save that for later 🙂
Ed has written some wicked lyrics here. Hope you enjoy & stay tuned…
It has been an interesting RIDE releasing ‘Rock The Water’! A highlight for sure has been hearing my songs on the radio for the first time. No doubt… even though it was 7:15 am in the morning on college radio a few weeks ago, I had an ear to ear freaking grin that hasn’t subsided since…
Thank you to KMo at CKUW, 95.9 University of Winnipeg College, radio for making this a reality, and letting me come in to sing ‘Mr Maker’ live. I have posted the full radio interview on SoundCloud here :
Here is the video of the song Mr Maker that I sang live on radio. It’s definitely rough, but again a big, big thanks to KMo for grabbing the video camera and catching the moment live in technicolor!
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