Drunk Thoughts was a recurring bit I did for a radio show called The Binge on 103.7 Free Fm.  Drunk Thoughts is, in a nutshell, the depraved inner dialogue  you have with yourself when sitting at the bar, drunk.

Drunk Thoughts — March 2, 2007: I Like Breasts

Drunk Thoughts — April 6, 2007: Where’s My Beer

Drunk Thoughts — May 4, 2007: I Am a Good Drunk

Drunk Thoughts (LIVE AND SLOPPY)– June 1, 2007: My Blackout

Click here to listen.

(Thanks to Alicia Champion of Durga Sound for the audio)

Big Mike was formed in New York circa 1995 By the singer/songwriter duo John Tucker and John Fanelli (vocals) along with their friend and bandmate Mike Morel on lead guitar.

They weren’t really a formal band until they moved to San Diego and hooked up with a drummer and bass player (Seth Bennett and Gus Kendrick respectively) and started playing club and party gigs.

Sometime shortly after hooking up with Seth and Gus, Tucker asked if the band could turn some of my poems into songs. I happily said yes and soon became their manager/lyricist.

After I was on board, Mike Decker, my younger brother and guitarist, joined the band as well. The group of us spent many golden hours together, drinking beer and writing songs. We were together about 2 years and released one album called Heaven’s To Betsy, named for John Fanelli’s sister who financed it.

Directly below this are links to the songs I wrote lyrics for. Below those are more Big Mike tunes that I was not involved with. Feel free to rip any or all of them. Please note, Mike Decker played lead guitar only on songs marked with an asterisk.

CLICK HERE FOR LYRICS AND LINER NOTES

Decker lyrics:
Foreboding*
Cozy Life*
Carmen *
Tobecca*
Succession
Sonora*
Elephant Love – live at Winston’s*
Rhythm Boy – live at Winston’s *

Fanelli/Tucker lyrics:
Melancholy
Nature Boy
Blue Angel
Road
Looking Glass
Lucky Guy*

Classic Covers is a novelty series intended for rock radio stations to air periodically during the day as a sort of game for their listeners to play. The scripts were written by me and narrated Ray Manzarek of The Doors.

Program Directors interested in airing Classic Covers should contact me or Tom Versen of Blue Sky Productions.
Below is the pitch, followed by the Classic Covers spots.

Classic Covers
“Remember when you were a teenager and you saved enough money to buy the new Led Zeppelin album? Remember how you raced home and put the record on the turntable and sat on the floor in your smoke-filled bedroom gazing with wonder at the universe that was the album cover?

Some of those album covers were the coolest thing you ever saw. Maybe they even introduced you to art in general. After all, who could forget Warhol’s glowing yellow banana on the Stones’ Sticky Fingers record? Was there any caricature more stunning than the sprawling Vargas girl on the Cars Candy-O album?
Classic covers is a celebration of the days when album art was as much a part of the experience as the music itself, and an homage to the artists, as well as an interactive guessing game to be played by your listeners when they try to guess . . . What was that album cover?

Led Zeppelin

Pink Floyd

Meat Loaf

The Doors

The Beatles