First Shot – From The Hip – Released: 2001
The “First Shot” album was a collection of songs I had recorded over the many years with Doug Edwards (guitars, keyboards), Dave Pickell (keyboards) and Peter Clarke (bass, vocals). There’s also an ‘a cappella’ song “Being with The Ones You Love” written by Michael Sicoly, Mick Dalla-Vicenza and myself.
Khalil Turk from Escape Music felt it was best if we gave the project a band name, pretty much as we had done in the case of Blackstone. I must admit I was more than happy to get these songs out. If you listen to them, you can hear time passing. It was a pleasure to write and record with everyone involved.
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First Shot – Midnight Madness – Released: 2003
The second “First Shot’ album was the collection of the rest of the many demos I had recorded over the years with Doug Edwards (guitars, keyboards), Dave Pickell (keyboards) and Peter Clarke (bass, vocals), and also included songs written and recorded with Bob Buckley and David Sinclair. Paul Dean helped to assemble and remix both of these albums. For that I will always be thankful to him. Although these records did not become commercial successes, certainly they were made simply for the love of making music.