"METEOR" is all SOLD OUT. For Now. BUT a few copies of the limited edition MINI-CD here with 7 unreleased songs on it ARE available on its own. ACT NOW. I have limited space to store CDs these days so I`m not going to hoard these for future Ebay offerings. So these copies are up for `who knows how long`. In the end 350 copies of these were pressed so make your way to grab one now - or never.
Here is Hans Rotenberry`s play-by-play run down on each track:
TRACK ONE: "COOL CITY"
I wrote the majority of this at Venice Beach, watching people roller skate by, waiting for Jer to get off the phone. When I finished it I thought of it as a sort of a rolling into town for the rock show sorta thing..I can see the lights, etc. I always thought of it as a " b- side". And some of my favorite songs are b-sides. I hope to hear it on vinyl someday. It almost got used in a major sports car commercial, which wouldn`t have been handy at all. We started recording it for Tomorrow The World and a Spinal Tap -worthy argument ensued and we did "Not Lost Anymore" instead, only to finish "Cool City" after the album came out.
TRACK TWO: "OKAY"
This is, in a way, the birth of The Shazam. Originally on Shake 500, this was from the first session that Scott Ballew played on. Back when we would record and finish three or four songs a night. I had called Scott for weeks asking him to play on some tunes I was working on. We`d played before in a different band, and were good friends, jammed around alot. But this was when I started singing. Freezing January night, it was sleeting. We did this one and several others, one of which even ended up on The Shazam.
At the end of the night we went to a Hooter`s, drank alot of beer and decided to find a bass player and go out and play my new stuff live. Or, to put it another way, start a band.
TRACK THREE: "WHERE DO WE GO"
London, XFM. Live radio. Year 2000. Someone later told me I was cracking jokes with Ricky Gervais, but I don`t remember; I crack jokes with everyone. Ricky - call me.
TRACK FOUR: "PLEASE PLEASE ME"
That little ol` English Band from Tennessee ! Three-piece. Some people have said this is unique because we never play stuff like this, but we used to all the time.
This is from around `95 -`96, recorded at Exit /In , Nashville. Thanks to Frank Sass, our superhero soundman back in the very day.
TRACK FIVE: "I CAN SEE FOR MILES"
We did this for a tribute album which never came out. It was recorded at home. We have, um, vastly improved our home recording skills since then.
TRACK SIX: "I CAN HEAR THE GRASS GROW"
Recorded at Abbey Road ( ! ) - in the cafeteria . What a weekend it was. We rehearsed all the day before with Carl Wayne at a studio where loads of classics were recorded.
Then we met at Abbey Road studios to do a performance on tv. We got to use one of the studios the Beatles used as a dressing room. That night Carl and Bev Bevan did "Beautiful Daughter" with us, and we ran thru tons of Move and ELO songs. But around noon, we were asked to perform in the garden outside the studio, like a real flower-power combo and do "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" on live BBC television with Carl and Bev . Then it rained, and we had to Move ( pun not intended ha ha ) everything inside -
in the Abbey Road lunchroom. And there was Paul Weller tapping his foot. Good times, great oldies. God bless Carl Wayne. Super guy, and man, could he sing.
TRACK SEVEN: "Gonna Miss Yer Train" Ah, the sound of my basement. At the turn of the century - back when I thought it was going to be the opening track of a double album called "Yow". | 
