Southside was an early 90’s band that merged the talents of my old friends with my new friends. The band was formed during a very prolific time of writing, recording and performing.
We were a full contact rock n roll party machine. It was beautiful, battered, awesome and awful. The sheer combustibility of it all resulted in some crash and burn, but man we made some cool music and created lifelong memories.
If we had done a little shuffling and tweaking with our lineup, perhaps we could have accomplished more. Maybe a new project could have emerged. They’ll always be that question mark regarding the end of it all, but that’s just the way rock n roll goes sometimes.
Maybe our tale is just indicative of what the early 90s was all about: change. Music was changing. We were changing. There were six people in this band. All of us were experiencing our own change of seasons. Nevertheless, we will always be connected to each other through the Universal Song.
Gratitude
I am grateful that some of us have remained friends. Earl, Joel, and Kevin you guys are my blood brothers for life. I am absolutely thrilled that we still have an inner circle that stretches from the Deep South to the Great White North.
I will share more details about Southside in the future. I just wanted to jot down a quick summary to go with these lyric links. These weren’t the only songs we performed, nor were they the only original tunes. Earl was a songwriter as well. These are my contributions to the band. The lyrics and the core music were my babies, but everyone in the band added their own personal touches to the instrumentation, melodies, etc.
Thank you to everyone who follows my journey (past present and future) on Cranialcircus.com. And once again, thank you to my fellow bandmates who bled copious amounts of liquor laced inspiration, sweat, and madness. I hope each of you are still adding your own measures and stanzas the Universal Song.
these are my lyric sheets. currently I don’t have audio files that clean up well enough for computer downloads
Oh the many, many great memories! I’ll never forget “in love again” we did so many takes on that song to get it right!