This song started when I realized I'd never written a song that prominently featured me singing "ooooooo." So I decided I would, and what would be good to rhyme with "ooooo"? "Papathanassiou," the surname of Aphrodite's Child keyboardist, Jon Anderson…

Drum solo!!!  Err, not really, just a beat that I never ended up using for anything else, repurposed as a transition to "side 2" of the album.  In my dreams, this will end up sampled and tweezed by some famous…

I've been writing songs about various holidays for many years -- some day it's likely that my Greatest Hits album will be a calendar...

This is the first song I've ever written starting from a Facebook status update.  "Dolph…

Here's me trying to laugh through my anxiety attacks.  Most of my immediate family has dealt with anxiety disorders; I've fought them since I was 13.  At the most anxious periods in my life, I have experienced hallucinations, many involving…

It started as a joke.  I just couldn't resist the idea of singing a love song about refusing to sing love songs because of love-song phobia.  Then I fleshed it out with references to other phobias and superstitions, and in…

One of 3 short interstitial instrumentals I used to break the album into sections.  Telecaster --> Boss GT-3 --> board.  Basically one marching chord, with a couple of mutations.  The title is because this was the 37th song recorded on…

Did you think I'd forgotten you?  Never fear.  Just dealt with a mind-fogging cold and some other energy drains for a few weeks.  Back to comments about the tracks on GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA.

"Queen For A Day" started with the…

Eccentric, gooey, rhythmically-challenged wanker/baby or witty, funny, clever, nicely sentimental king-to-be?  You be the judge...

http://popdose.com/rob-smith-cant-say-no-dolph-chaney/

So what is the 5th dementia, anyway?  Possibly, it was the dementia that led me to think I could play this correctly on overdubs without a click track...

Generally, the lyric is about taking myself down a peg while encouraging…

I wrote the music for the chorus and all the lyrics for "About Face" in 2005 but never came up with a satisfactory tune for the verses.  I was also envisioning it as more of a loud 90s-ish rock song…

The album is titled GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA from 3 of its songs: "Water From A Bourbon Glass," "Break," and "The 5th Dementia."  I like the way the words sound together and the different meanings you can get by inserting various…

At 11:59pm Central Time on New Year's Eve, I hit the "upload" button  to put my newest album online.  It arrived a few seconds after 2010 began.  The album is called GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA, and I like it. 

I started…