By 1983 I had finally recorded enough material to put out another cassette called "Rough Cuts," which featured my first single as well as miscellaneous sessions done at Goldrush and Blue Wave Studios using the midnight hours that Tom Lavin graciously gifted me, as I had *no* budget for recording. (Thanks Tom!) Blue Wave engineer Brian Campbell used a single reel of Ampex 2" tape to record about 8 songs on different tracks. If we listened to them all at once it was crazy cacaphonous mush, but we did it and it worked!

Two songs were reworked from demos recorded at Bullfrog Studios with the gracious donation of time and effort from Fred Koch and engineer Bart Gurr. The level of support I received from the recording community at that time was really something special, and I will never forget the generosity of the musicians as well. Working for a newbie songwriter was not particularly lucrative, but I can only hope that everyone had as much fun as I did.

The stellar musicians who appeared on "Rough Cuts" were:

Ian Berry
(tenor sax and piano)
Ken Dalgleish (piano)
Adam Drake (bass)
Stephen Drake (drums)
Sherman Doucette
(harmonica)
Ralph Dyck
(fender rhodes)