I was walking by the lake near my house and Alex Davis, (violin, songwriting and guitar) called me for some reason. On a whim, I asked him how he would feel about writing a rock opera, and of course, he was down. I recruited some other great minds and musicians to kind of pool together and write an epic. This was December 29th, 2009. On New Years Eve I was hosting a very special event for Morristown's First Night, the Teen Coffeehouse, an expressive event for high schoolers looking to rock out. SO the night before New Years, Myself, Alex, David Pitt (rap and spoken word), Jacob Benton (percussion and elec/acou guitar), Gloria Bangiola (songwriting and guitar), and Ian McCleary (harmonica and songwriting) sat down, and began to brainstorm. The first hour or so was rough, we didn't really know what we were doing, but then we really began to focus and write and sing and revise and sing some more and use different sounds and actions, turning it into a musical performance by 3 in the morning. So in 10 hours 'me and my friends wrote a rock opera!' and we performed it the very next night, celebrated afterwards with music, drinking, song and dance, a wonderful way to start the 2010.There is only one video of it, in three parts, filmed by and elusive man with an HD camera and a strange laugh, so here's the links in order.
1. Intro
2. Spider's Song
3. Bear's Song
4. The Deal
5. Sunrise
6. The Destruction of the Forest
7. Spider and Bear (Leaving Together)
8. The Deal II
9. Wolf's Song
10. Sunset
11. The Wolf's Attack
