The Facade Discography

The Facade catalog began in 1987 with the recording of "Hell's Kitchen", a cute story about a high profile politician who gets involved with a call girl. The great American Spitzer story, and one which I no longer remember how it ended. Maybe the politician kills her off, I don't know... "Hell's Kitchen" was a terribly produced, poor sounding demo, with a few decent songs buried within. Don't expect to ever hear it; I think 6 copies exist in the world, and I'd sooner burn my own single copy then risk having anyone hear it. It's that good!


The next 8 or so years were spent working on song-writing, production techniques and recording demos. In 1996, it seemed like a good time to compile a collection of selected songs as the first "official" release. "Fade" was another poorly produced collection of hit-and-miss songs.



A few years later, I began work on my most ambitous endeavor yet; "Dorian Gray" - an updated remake of the Oscar Wilde classic. I recruited gifted musicians and vocalists from around the world - ala Ayreon (before I knew who Ayreon was). The production came out pretty good, but it ran too long, had lyrics that were difficult to follow, and contained a few weak songs.



Around 2003 came "Scared Alive", a compilation of songs containing the 20+ minute 6-part epic, "Scared Alive" plus a few other of my favorites, such as "Jealous Woman" and "Gather 'Round". Plus many more!



By 2006, the results of Dorian Gray were bugging me enough that I felt the need to re-do it. Well not entirely, but I dropped the weaker songs, re-recorded a few parts, and re-mixed everything. The end result was a leaner, better sounding version I called "Dorian Gray - Director's Cut". Sure, with cutting a few songs, the story probably doesn't make any sense anymore, but no one could follow the full-length story anyway. What's a little more confusion? Featured songs from Dorian Gray include: "Beautiful Lies" (featuring female vocals), "7th Century" (metal, featuring 3 different vocalists), "Art School" (neo-prog), and "Walk out on the Rain" (acoustic, featuring viola).

Stayed tuned for what's been in the works since then...