Never Made MidnightThis was going to be an album about friends and good times and I was going to have some songs named for some people…The title comes from a friend of mine who said to me the day after we had been to a party that started earlier the night before. I asked why he did not go to another party later that night, and he said, “ I went home, I never made midnight”. As I was working on songs for this album several friends passed away and in a moment of weirdness I realized that they would never again make midnight. In Tombstone: The struggle of being either too lonely, having something to do or worrying about not being killed. How some things never change regardless of the time or place.Never Made Midnight – The title says it all.Gary Soderblom – The wonderful musician and friend that got me hooked on electric guitars after I saw and heard him playing Lovin Spoonful songs. Gary passed away on December 5, 2007. When I found out I turned on the recorder and started playing my guitar, and this song is for him.Cheese Blues – We’re all looking for something, especially when it isn’t there anymore.Zal Yanovsky – As I was working with some guitar sound effects for a song, I came across what sounded to me like the guitar sound in the Lovin Spoonful’s ‘Didn’t want to have to do it’ played by Zal Yanovsky. Then I realized he had passed away too on December 13, 2002 (he was born December 9 1944). Yeah, the late great guitar player from the Lovin Spoonful had already been gone for 5 years when Gary died and then it hit me, the connection between it all and so I just had to do a song for Zal too.Nashville – I had gone to Nashville on a work assignment and found out I kinda like the place. A short time later I was creating a PowerPoint on the trip and decided to do a song about Nashville, and well, this is it.Nelson’s Jam – I figured no one was going to do a song for me, so I did one myself!We Would Do – This was really going to be the album title and basic theme, and in a way it still is.Billy Hahl – Bill was like my second brother and he passed away on May 18, 2007, two years and one-day after my mom did. I miss all these people who are gone so that’s why I created songs to let me help them remain forever.