Back in the 1990's I really got into music. I started listening to it a lot more and eventually started trying to make some. I went down to OU while my friends back home in Columbus were working on their band and meeting all sorts of new people in the scene. I started hanging out with Rich and Lizard when they moved to Athens in late 1995. They didn't stay in Athens very long but we got to know each other well enough to where we started hanging out in Columbus whenever I was in town. During the break between my Junior and Senior, me, Rich, Jason, and David formed a band called Coronado. Rich and David on guitar, me on bass and harmonica, and Jason on drums. Rich was the lead singer/song writer and David did some backing up on the vocals every now and then. When I came back for my Christmas break we played a couple of shows around town. During that break we were asked to contribute a song to the LFM holiday compilation "An LFM Christmas Krissingle".



It was a cassette with 4 bands doing covers or originals of holiday songs. The bands were Bigfoot - Silent Night, Preston Furman - A PF Holiday, Earwig - Feed the World, and Coronado - Mrs. Christmas. I'm not too sure how many of these tapes were made up but they all sold at an LFM show at Bernies around the holidays. I have 2 copies of the tape but only one with the case and insert. As you can see it's a little banged up but it still gets the job done. I like to listen to the tape each year at Christmas times to relive the memories and to listen to some great music.

The Coronado song we recorded for the tape wasn't the same as we played it live. For the cassette version I played a drum beat on a brown paper bag and a seat cushion. I also did a track on the harmonica. David played the keyboard and Rich played a little (little meaning the size of the actual guitar) acoustic guitar and sang. Jason was at work when we recorded it but he sings at the end when the music fades back in. I think the lyrics to the song are hilarious. We ended up speeding up the tape just a little bit to get a funny kind of comical sound out of our voices. The recording takes a few seconds to kick in but once it does you will be blown away.

I recently saw somebody online asking about the tape and decided that I should probably put the tracks online. Merry Christmas!

Bigfoot - Silent Night
Earwig - Feed the World
Coronado - Mrs. Christmas
Preston Furman - A PF Holiday