Not to be confused with Germany's HELLOWEEN (spelled with an E), allow me to shed some light on Detroit Michagan's Heavy Metal Horror show HALLOWEEN. Going strong for over twenty years now, HALLOWEEN have become both legendary and have quit a cult following. I had the pleasure to interview original/founding member Brian Thomas. Everything from their infamous stage show to their ever-growing discography has been covered. Read on about the HISTORY of HALLOWEEN...part II will focus on their more recent happenings and their latest works.
Interview by Anthony
1. In the early days, Halloween was known as Bitch. When did the band officially form? What were your influences? What was the metal scene like back in the early days? Were there a lot of local metal bands Halloween could play out with? What made you decide to change the band name to Halloween?
2. What ideas inspire your stage show? Did the band always have this type of show, or was it a progressive idea that took on its own form? For anyone who has never experienced the band live, please describe the stage show.
3. Speaking of your stage show, am I correct in saying that there were different “themes” to the show? An example that comes to mind was your “Haunted House” show. Please tell me a little about this…
4. Did the band always use the Halloween Pumpkin as part of its logo? Was there ever any friction between your band and Germany’s Helloween over the usage of the pumpkin? What happened? Do you see this pumpkin as your mascot, as a way for people to identify with the band?
The pumpkin was always in the logo. The guy that worked as a stagehand of us for a little while started to draw it up. Actually, the very first logo that we had didn’t have a pumpkin in it, but it never made it past our first show. Mark Scott, our original drummer, drew up a banner…a backdrop, and the lettering was long and slender. It looked creepy, but it looked more like a gothic fence or something. It was cool, but it was kind of weird; there was a face that came out from under the letters that looked like something from the Poltergeist movie…like the demon. We liked it and everything, but we wanted to incorporate the jack-o-lantern for the “O”. So, John Salterelli, who is also the singer for Lethal Aggression out of New York (he was a stagehand for us for a little while, and a friend of my brother), started to draw up this logo. He had the basic outline…..the shape of the letter H and the A. Then, he had a little bit of the face, and then this thing on the end where the N was. He didn’t have it all filled in; he just kind of started on it, but then crumpled it up and threw it away. I don’t know why I was garbage picking, but I saw the piece of paper in there…..I saw the H. I liked how the H was shaped, so I pulled it out of the trash and looked at it. It was basically like the ghost of this logo.
5. Tell us about “The Creepies”.
The Creepies were girls and girlfriends of band members and crewmembers that would basically come to all of our shows. One of the girls in particular was a big fan of Stevie Nicks, so she would dress like her in a lot of black lace. Then, the other girls would dress like her, so they would all look the same. They would come out and dance at our shows; most of the horny guys in the audience would spend more time watching The Creepies than they would us. Love went sour, as it always does, so no more Creepies. We’ve talked about trying to, on purpose, reinvent The Creepies and do that because it was a popular feature at our shows. The radio station people kind of liked it a lot…[laughs]
6. What is being played backwards at the beginning of “Don’t Metal With Evil”?
That’s backwards so that people can figure that out. It’s easy to understand if you know how to figure it out.
7. What do you feel is Halloween’s signature song? Do you close out your set with this song?
Some people think that “Trick or Treat” is our signature song, and I personally don’t dislike the song; I like all of the songs. I’m sure Kiss feels (the same way) about “Rock ‘N Roll All Night”…….even though that song catapulted them into the spotlight and put them on the map, they’re probably tired of playing it every night, and that’s how I feel about “Trick or Treat”. If the crowd is 100 percent into it and having a great time, and that song comes up at the end of the list & people get off on it. Then it’s awesome. But, if we’re playing to a small crowd, the show hasn’t been promoted very well, and we’re tired, then…….God, that song just feels like it goes forever. I guess that’s what people would think is our signature song, but we have many that we close a show with. We close a show with “No One Gets Out” sometimes, “Crawl to the Alter” because of its attitude & rawness; we don’t have a set song that we close a show with. That’s one of the things about our
8. What is A.B.F.S. (on the No One Gets Out album)?
About Forty Seconds…..Ass Backwards For Satan……Another Backwards Fucking Song…….All But Figuratively Speaking……Big Fucking Shit
9. How did the band manage to tour with Crimson Glory? Any special memories of this tour come to mind? The band also did some shows with Queensryche. Do you have any crazy stories from those shows?
9. How long is the tape?? …….Crimson Glory……god, how did that happened?!? I bought their first cassette, and side A played really good, and side B was erased. I took it back to the store, and the store couldn’t replace it for me…..I was pissed off. I said “What do you mean, you can’t replace it?”, and they said that they didn’t have any others & they had no way to get more because the band had only made a certain amount of cassettes and CDs. I was angry, so I looked through the booklet, and found a phone number for Warren Wyett Management, which was Crimson Glory’s manager. I called them up, and I complained about my cassette. He was curious about how I found out about them, where I bought the cassette, and who wouldn’t replace it. I told him that I was in Michigan, and he mentioned that he lived in Saganon. I told him why I liked the band, because they had an image with the masks and the theatrical aspects of it. I then told him I was in a band called Halloween, and we’re theatrical too. He said “Well, that’s funny as hell, because I lived in Saganon, and I managed a band called Flight, and Halloween played with them at The Street Dance in Hillsdale, Michigan”. I said “Yeah…that’s us”. He said “I loved you guys”. So, we started talking, and we developed a relationship. Because they were managed by this man, we ended up touring with them (Crimson Glory) and he became our manager as well. The two bands toured together. We had a great time and a really good experience. We went to Dallas, Minnesota, St. Louis, Kansas City, Buffalo New York, Milwaukee, Chicago….we did a lot of shows; we did a one-off show with King Diamond while we were on tour. We met a lot of really cool people: Andy Mier….their sound man has been with Seven Dust for the past eight years. It was an incredible experience and we had a good time. We still keep in touch with those guys when we can.
10. Why has it been so long since Halloween has released any new material? Was the band broken up at some point?
11. We’ve taken breaks for several reasons, some of which have been: line up changes, life had been hectic for guys in the band, custody issues, divorces, on-the-job problems, and financial problems. It’s been a lot of stupid things that happen in life, which everyone goes through. Being in a band is kind of like being married TO the guys in the band; whatever problem one guy is having affects the other guys in the band. There’s a bit of ego, I’m sure, involved in every band and things happen. From time to time, you just have to say “Fuck off”, and get away from everybody for a short amount of time. The reason there hasn’t been a recording in so long is more financial than anything else. We’ve had two
11. What led to Halloween’s resurrection from silence after all these years? Was it like picking up right where you left off, or have your views and ideas changed enough to create a different sounding band?
12. The band was working with Molten Metal USA for a while. Did they contact you? Do you still work with them?
We were contacted by a record distributor to release “Victims of the Night” and do an official release for “No One Gets Out”, because we did that one on our own & only made one thousand copies of it.
13. Are you happy with the re-releases of “Victims of the Night” and “No One Gets Out”? Is there anything you would have done differently?
14. What was the Devils Night 2004 “Fan Jam Rehearsals” all about?
Well like I just mentioned I had back surgery in September 2004 and we had a lot of shows that obviously we could have canceled….any show. But there
15. “The Fire Still Burns” is listed on your website as an unreleased album, yet there is information about it (track listing). What’s going on with this material? Is it scrapped, or will it be released? When was it recorded? Do you perform any of the songs on this unreleased album live? Please elaborate.
16. “Tricks, Treats, and Other Tales from the Crypt” seems to be one of your latest offering. This is a best of album? Are there any songs not included on this compilation you would added? Are there any B-Sides or additional demo recordings the fans have yet to hear?
17. “10-31 A Number of Things From Halloween” is listed at the end of your discography. Is this a Halloween album? Please tell me what is on this album and where it can be purchased.
TO BE CONTINUED.....
PART I
When we started out, and we were looking for a name, it was Rick Craig, myself, and Mark Scott (Mark was a friend of Rick’s from Baltimore). The three of us decided to start a band. Basically, the influences at the time: a lot of Alice Cooper; for Rick and Mark: Ozzy, who was coming out with his solo stuff at the time, so obviously Randy was a big influence on Rick. Obviously, Eddie Van Halen, and all the bands that were really starting to hit it big in the early 80’s. Halloween and Motley Crue had come neck-in-neck out the gate. They had funding and they kind of beat us to the punch. We really didn’t know about them. It was kind of unfortunate when we started out that I had blond hair…a lot of people thought we were trying to be like Motley Crue, when in fact we were just doing our thing and they happened to be emerging at the same time. It all stated out in the basement of a house in Detroit. It was Halloween time when we put it all together. The basement was decorated with a fifty-fifty mix of pornographic pictures of naked girls with various things on them, in them, and around them. The rest was all spider webs, skulls, pumpkins, bats, witches, and all kinds of Halloween decorations because Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. We rehearsed in my basement; the place was all done up, and people would come to watch us practice, and see all this stuff. Being the lazy, rock-n-roll, longhaired fuckers that we are, we left all the shit up after Halloween had passed. It still looked cool, so we left it up in the basement; when people
came to see us play, they thought it looked cool, so when we started playing out, we took it with us. Rick originally suggested calling the band Halloween right from the beginning. Chuck Burns, who is now the drummer for Seduce and also sings & plays guitar for Speedball, was our drummer at the time; he was our first drummer. He was friends with the guys from Seduce; they had just written a song called “Halloween”, so he refused to call the band Halloween, thinking that there would be a conflict of interest between the two. Ironically, we ended up covering that song on “No One Gets Out” to come full circle. So, that’s why we didn’t call the band Halloween right away. Our second choice was Bitch because of the fact that we were dressing up, even to go to the grocery store. We had our hair ratted out; we had our eye make-up; we were wearing stage-cloths. We didn’t have any way to get around town, so we walked and road bicycles for the most part. When we would walk, cars would always beep the horn or guys would always yell out the window, thinking we were girls. Our response was, “Yeah…..we’re girls and we’ll kick your ass if you stop to fuck with us”. We thought Bitch was a name that kind of made a statement that we look like tough chicks. We used that for a year, then Betsy Bitch from LA came out, so we knew we couldn’t keep the name. Plus, we had trouble getting the club owners around town to put it on a marquee. We played a show with two other bands one time…..the show was Bitch, Harlot, and Slut at Blondes in Detroit. I felt we were going to have every church in town come out to protest that. After Chuck had left the band, we decided to switch the name back to our original choice of Halloween on Halloween night, 1983. We were already the “Heavy Metal Horror Show” while we were Bitch; that name kind of carried over to the Halloween name.
The stage show, like I said, grew out of simple Halloween decorations: paper, decorations on the wall, spider webs, and candles. After it was decided that we were going to have a stage show, we continued to buy things from costume shops, get things out of people’s attics, and anything that looked creepy was incorporated, and we figured out a way to put it into the stage show. The band currently has five different main stage setups. One that we use more often than any other would be the cemetery setup: there’s pillars and gates, a drum riser with a cemetery fence around it (which is the center piece), cob-webs, gargoyles, skeletons hanging, trees with cob-webs in them, a lot of lights and smoke. Up until the Great White accident we used pyro at all of our shows, but we’re not able to do much of that anymore; hopefully that will change in the future with a record deal. We’ve had live characters on the stage: zombies that walk around the stage during certain parts of certain songs, strippers on stage with us doing lap-dance routines…pulling people out of the audience during the song “She’s a Teaser”; we have a Torture-Chamber setup. We have a setup that’s typical of a Scorpions or Judas Priest show where it just Marshall amps wall to wall; double stacks side to side for just the Basic setup. We have a Haunted House setup that’s two stories high; a Castle setup that we’ve used a couple times. Then, of course, there’s variations of all that. A couple of times, we go out with just backdrops & banners and stuff like that. It depends on the occasion.
So I sat down, and I’m not much of an artist, and I took a pencil and filled in the places that he didn’t finish and made little changes to it. I wasn’t really sure what the thing on the N was….if it was supposed to be a vine, or a moon, or whatever it was. It connected to the vines that came off the vine of the pumpkin. It was never defined what that really was on the original logo, and it was just kind of there; it was something that he put there, and so we kept that version of the logo. We’ve kind of improved on it as the years have gone by. Yes….when Helloween came out, someone came to us and said “There’s a band in Germany called Helloween…with an E.” They asked if we knew about them, and of course, we didn’t. We had already been around for a year and half/two years when we found out about them…..it think it was in ’84. It was late ‘83/early ’84 when we found out that they existed. We saw an interview with them where they acknowledged that they knew about us ahead of time, and that was part of the reason they called their band Helloween. We had friends in the business contact lawyers at RCS, which was their label at the time, and we had contracts drawn up that both bands acknowledged the existence of the other. They offered to and refrained
from using the pumpkin in their logo on their US releases. They did that for one or two albums, and then I think that they thought we broke up or that the agreement was no longer valid…I don’t know what the reason was, but they stated using the pumpkin again. We never really had a conflict; we never really contacted them….we figured they’ve got their thing going, and we’ve got ours, so there’s room in the sea for both of us. To be truthful, their existence has been a bit of a thorn in our side because they got signed relatively quickly. Being from Europe, it’s a lot easier to get signed and tour here in the USA. A lot of people were confused, thinking that we were them even though we were out before they were. A lot of the smart rock fans know that there are two bands and they’re not confused about it. It seems that more Americans are confused about the two bands more so than the Europeans. The Europeans are pretty up on bands. We’re not the only band in history to have a similar name to somebody else.
band: just like a name and the image, we try to change the set list around a lot. One of the reasons we do that, and I can use this as an example: we just recently saw Judas Priest and Queensryche. Queensryche did a lot of old songs, which for any old-school Queensryche fan was great. But all the new people that know “Jet City Woman”, “Another Rainy Night”, “Silent Lucidity”, and all the songs that get played over and over again on the radio, didn’t know what the hell Queensryche was playing. They were confused, and I heard great reviews from the long-time fans that thought it was awesome, and then people said “Oh…what the hell is wrong with Queensryche? They sucked….they played a bunch of songs no one knew…”. The reason something like that happens is because mainly corporate America, I don’t know how it is in Europe….I’m sure bands vary their set list when they go to other parts of the world, but when you’re playing in America, if it’s not on the radio, people don’t know it. People kind of take to what’s forced down their throat. Not to say anything bad about radio, but it’s like people have free will and open minds, and if you give them more than two songs…..THEY”LL GET IT! But radio doesn’t….radio says “This is your hit, and that’s what you’re going to like and listen to”. So, half the people at the show get tired of hearing the same hits over and over again, and they want to hear something fresh. But, if you throw something in after you haven’t done it in a long time, it confuses people. So what we do, and it probably keeps us from getting a record deal & probably pisses people off, is we constantly change our set list around. I don’t like playing the same songs every night; I don’t like being predictable; I don’t like people coming out to see us and say “Oh, they’re going to do THIS song right after THAT song”. For a while, on the original recording of “No One Gets Out”, the song “The Death of Love” was followed by “Crawl to the Alter”, so for familiarity we would play those two songs in a row live. Everybody knew that after the last note of “The Death…” fades away, pa-pow…..“Crawl…” comes, and it was a high point in the show but after a while you say “You know what….we’ve DONE that”. Not that we’ll never do it again, but we need to change it up, keep it fresh, and keep people guessing….that’s what we like to do with the set list.
managers die on us; we’ve had people pick our pockets and steal our equipment, feed us a line of shit & lead us down the wrong road. It’s been one bad experience after another from a business standpoint, as far as what we’ve done within the band. There’s been a lot of great experiences; we’ve played with some really great people & made some great friendships….written some great music. There’s so much of a library and a pool of material already that exists from this band and it’s cousin shoot-off bands that we could make ten albums right now, and love all the songs. Some band will put out a record and there will be three good songs on it, but the rest of it is just filler. I guess I’m biased in saying this, but I don’t really feel that we have any filler. We put one hundred percent into our song writing; right now, we have four creative guys in the band. Sometimes that causes friction, but we have four guys in the band that can write & have good ideas, and everyone feeds off of everyone else’s creativity. One guy will throw an idea out there, and everyone else will jump in like piranha & just get in on it. We have songs that haven’t even been fully written yet, and ideas for new songs on top of the two hundred songs that no one has ever heard, that have existed for the better part of twenty-one years. It’s just been a financial thing as to why there hasn’t been a recording. Some people
think that there hasn’t been a recording. There’s “Don’t Metal With Evil”, “Victims of the Night”, “No One Gets Out”, “Vicious Demos”, “1031”, “4.0”, and “Don’t Metal With Evil LIVE” which has been recorded but was never mixed & put out because we never had the money to do it; that was with the original line up. Obviously, once the original line up is gone….I say original, but I am referring to the main line up which people know. So, once those guys aren’t in the band anymore, could George and I put that album out for financial gain and to keep the name out there? We could, but why do it if it’s not the right time to do it? We’ve got guys in the band right now and we’ve got plenty of material. It’s just sitting, waiting for the right time, and hopefully with Rick & Bill’s blessing, that will come out at some point.
John Mustad from Molten Metal wanted to release both albums & make things right, including good artwork and a nice package. He contacted me through some road crew in a record store. When we finally hooked up, we talked about what we could do with these things. Through talking, it just rekindled the fire amongst the band. We were never really in a silent period. Like I said, we’ve had times where other things beat us into being less visible, but we’ve always been there. The ONE time that I can say, “Yes…..we fucking broke up and it’s all over!” was November 1, 2002. I can tell you right now what that was about: In 2001, when September 11 occurred…….for one, that blew my fucking doors off, just like it did most of the world…..especially New Yorkers and I’m from the New York area. [silence]………..How do you go out and put on a horror show when the most horrible thing you can imagine has happened to your country?? The rest of 2001 and most of 2002 was kind of uneventful for us. We played some shows, but you couldn’t really put your heart and soul into it because your mind was fucked up by what just happened in society. That was a rough year for us, and then when Halloween time of 2002 came around, it was announced that our drummer at the time only wanted to play once a year, we were only rehearsing twice a year. We were forgetting songs and playing sloppy when we would go out. We didn’t have the money to put on a good show; when we did put on a good show, the venues that we were playing at would try to not pay us what we were promised. For one of the last two shows that we played, I put $1500.00 of money from my pocket into revamping the stage show and make it awesome…..the club didn’t even promote it, so we had less than three hundred people in a 1500 seat theatre simply because of promotion because we told people we just played this club and nobody knew about it. They said “We would have all been there but, it wasn’t even announced. Nobody knew you were playing.” And that’s the kind of underhanded crap, the political side of this business that I hate. At the end of the night they paid us $14 for a show that cost me personally $1500 to put on. It’s not a major loss if you are rich but if you’re living on Oriental noodle soups, macaroni & cheese, and day to day pay……..that was a chunk of change. That, combined with the fact that the drummer didn’t want to play but once a year. I just said: you know what….I am done. I have exhausted all the energy that I can put into this cause I am only one guy; if everyone isn’t pulling their weight then what’s the point of doing it? So at that point I was going to walk away completely. In fact I announced it on stage at our last show. I didn’t even tell the guys in the band I didn’t want to do it anymore. It wasn’t that I was quitting…….I mean if they had decided to continue on without me, I would think “have fun…..see ya later”. I had just announced on stage this was going to be our last show and it was, until we put together a decent group of musicians. But we kind of half-assed the reforming; without that reforming we wouldn’t be sitting here having this interview. I would be talking about a band I used to be in. So I am grateful to the guys that helped to refocus us and get us back on the right track. Donnie and I joined up with another drummer and bass player and a rhythm guitar player, I’ve always liked the two guitar player thing. We put out 4.0 and that led us to George being back and us discovering Rob Brugg, who’s a mother fucker on the drums!! I can’t wait for people to hear these recording and hear us play out. A lot of people that saw us over the past year saw half a performance from me because I just had back surgery and I shouldn’t have even been on stage. But, you can’t keep a good man down.
I love the artwork and the layout. They look really good. Don’t Metal With Evil and Victims of the Night I have always loved the songs. We had such a small budget when we recorded those two albums that I personally was never happy with how they turned out. I felt like the technology wasn’t there. Weather it was the technology or the right producer or whatever it was……those two albums were lacking big time. This is why I have always lobbied for re-recording those songs and adding them to re-releases of those albums so that people can hear them in there original form and hear them the way we do them now. Which isn’t a whole lot different. We still play the songs very similar to the way they were originally. It’s just that now we have the technology to give balls to the songs. And we have the attitude that was lacking back in 84 and 85 and 86. So, no I am not happy. I hated the electronic drums. I hated some of the vocal things. But, my hands were tied. I couldn’t really do much about it. Other people mix those. But the re-release sure its great that those songs and albums are available for fans to know we didn’t just shrivel up and die over those years we were still out there making music.
were shows we felt were important to do. For example, the Damien reunion show. We wanted to be on that really bad. We wanted to play the Motor City Rock.com show. We wanted to play with Michael Shanker and Uli John Roth. We wanted to play with Seven Witches. We wanted to play the Detroit music awards fundraiser show. So, we did all those and we were pretty upset about the fact that my surgery happened midway through September and there was an 8 week recovery period. So we couldn’t play a show in the month of October including our annual Halloween show. A friend of mine who writes for a local magazine here in town suggested to me that we should throw a party in our rehearsal space. So I mentioned it to the guys and all the people involved and the band family and all thought it was a good idea. So we basically put the word out on our website that we were going to invite up to 50 fans to come and hang out with us at rehearsal. Which was really all it was. We just threw a closed set rehearsal with 50 friends. And it was a blast. We played for 4 hours. We played songs we haven’t played for almost 20 years. It was great. We had a little section where we talked about future plans which included doing a children’s album, a spoken word album, a movie, and a documentary on DVD. It was just a great opportunity to hang out with our closest friends and fans.
Yes, yes, yes and yes. It’s being re-recorded right now. The reason the tracks are listed and the lyrics will be up also….basically it was recorded once and we weren’t happy with the way it turned out. We were tired of putting out albums we didn’t feel were our best effort. So, we have purchased recording equipment and we are re-doing those tracks with the current four members of the band. I am smiling right now because it is coming out awesome. Like I said I can’t wait for people to hear it. We do play some, if not all the songs live. I can’t think of any we haven’t played. “Head against the wall” hasn’t been played as often as some of the others. “Ways of Man” doesn’t get played that often but all those songs we have played live. The ones that are most regular are: “The Seer”, “Wake up Screaming”, which “Wake up screaming” has a connection to “ABFS” if they want to go look for it. “Fire Still Burns”….. they get played pretty regularly. There are songs on this that were written back in 1985. “Halloween night” was originally written to be a track on Victims of the Night and it was deleted. I don’t even remember why. In fact it was added on a bonus track on the re-release of it. That was the original recording. We are doing a new recording of it. It may have a new title by the time you actually get it. We’re talking about making some changes with the title. Fire Still Burns was a working title. We’re not sure if that’s going to end up being the name of it or not. But, for now that’s what it is.
Tons of B sides and rare recordings. Most of them are rehearsal recordings but some of them are pretty good. There are some demos that are out there. Songs like “I Want You”, “As Passions Dance”, “Bitten By the Dog”. There’s a demo version of “The Battle” from way back. There’s a lot of cool stuff out there. “Come and Get It” was available on the L’Amour Rocks album. That was originally supposed to be on Victims of the Night. “I Scream” was on the 1031 album….that’s on the Victims of the Night recordings. 4.0 wasn’t really a best of, and yeah there are tons of songs I would have put on that. That could have been a triple CD. Basically what that was: when we reformed with Donnie and myself, John, Jason, and Tommy V, we just picked and chose through the Halloween library. Everyone picked out a few of their favorite songs & we just learned them and recorded them…..new versions. It was done really fast; we were trying to hurry up and get something out in time for Halloween. I think we started working on it at the beginning of September. The entire project was thought up, recorded, and manufactured in under two months to get it out in time for Halloween. It’s a pretty crappy recording, and there’s a lot of things wrong with it but it was fun to do. It was like band member favorites; it’s like a tribute thing, not a greatest hits. It’s no longer going to be available; it was a one- time release.
Again, that’s also no longer available. People get their hands on them and they make copies & sell off the copies that they had. We had fifty of those to help pay for t-shirts in 1997 or 1998. Basically, a friend of ours mentioned the idea that we put out a bootleg of ourselves. We thought “Sure…..what will we put on it??”. So, we put on the five tracks from Vicious Demos, which later reappeared on the re-release of No One Gets Out. At that time, 1031 was the only way you could get the Vicious Demos if you didn’t buy the cassette, which was only available at our shows. Then, we just threw on a bunch of live recordings, demos, and scratch tracks…..just a bunch of weird stuff is on there. “The Battle”, “1988”, “In Darkness” by Abandon which is a side band that George and I were in for a couple of years, are on there. This caused a big controversy because the guys in Abandon got mad that this song appeared on one of our CDs & it didn’t list credit that it was an Abandon song. I wrote the tune, and the guy that put the bootleg out didn’t realize that it wasn’t a Halloween song; he liked it and put it on there but didn’t give credit. That got us in a bunch of trouble, and it wasn’t an intentional thing; we weren’t trying to screw anyone…it was just something that happened. Believe me…..the guy that did it heard about it. So, that’s on there, “I Scream”, and “Intoxicated” are too. “1-900”, which is one of my favorite Halloween songs, is on there, but it’s a crappy recording from a live rehearsal. I hope one day we will actually do a real recording of that tune. I can’t remember what else, but there’s about fifteen or twenty tracks on it. Again…….no longer available, unless you can find someone that has it & copy it, or find one on eBay. I’m lucky I still have my copy.
