"No Shelters" liner notes.
This is for my friends and listeners who kept telling me, "We love your
first record Firehammer & The Forge, but we want to hear you the way we know you." "Live, in person, just you
and your guitar." Well, call me insane, but here it is! A completely live, solo acoustic guitar and vocal recording! In this
age of ever increasing production values and hi-tech recording studios, I offer you "No Shelters". Recorded live, and in
stereo, on the Caffeine Tour in bookstores, clubs & coffeehouses, somewhere between Geddy's Down Under in Bar Harbor
Maine and Warehaus 57 in Hollywood Florida. With a portable digital recorder and a set it and forget it approach to the
mixer, I rolled tape for 6 months at more than 60 shows. Then I retreated to a basement in New York state where I began the daunting
task of listening to all those tapes! Again and again and again until I narrowed it down to what you are holding in your hand. I
think you'll find the final recording quality to be quite good in spite of the stray espresso machine hiss or laughing child that
can occasionally be heard between phrases with a careful listen. Gone is all my personal banter which some of you seem to
appreciate. I'm sorry, but the task of deciding what to keep and what to throw away was to much to handle since the good banter and
the good takes were not necessarily on the same tape! Those moments live only in the memories of those that were there.........The
Caffeine Tour 1999!
