Robert L. Bryant

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I put this band together shortly after I quit playing in Slow Intentional Damage. Chris Milligan(the drummer) and myself worked together at Sears, so we decided to try jammin' together to see if we clicked... sure did :D We ended up getting Ian Reed(vocalist from SID) to play guitar with us. This band was HIGHLY experimental for me because I had never really tried my hand at the slap-and-pop style of playing, and I had never been a vocalist. The main premise of this band was to just have fun, and do what you think is right for the music. I think it turned out to be pretty cool, though maybe not the greatest.

Ego 13

There's actually not alot for me to say about this band. It was the first band I joined, and it only lasted a month because I met the talented Phil Polezoes. This band only had a couple of songs that we played, but I did get to help write more into the material. I have no music to post up, but I just had to mention this band since I really liked the name of it.

Little-Less-Than Dynamic Duo

This is something ZEN and I used to do in our spare time. ZEN on keys, me on bass. It was pretty fun. It went from mediocre to pretty good. There's actually a song missing here that we can't find entitled Sly Dogs... and it's a shame too, because that was a pretty good tune.

Twaaang!

ummmm... yeah, this was our first attempt at even playing together if I remember right, and we just kinda threw it on a 4-track recorder. Nothing great really, but funny. ZEN does some drum sounds on another track and it makes it sound... funny ha.

Nightscape

This was a pretty cool tune. Really mellow. We used an Alesis SR-16 for the drum track on this tune. I remember not knowing how to use the drum machine very well at this point. I had a beat playing, and on the fly just pushed some button that made fills. We recorded a ton of it, and our buddy Kyle was in town. We actually had him record a guitar track on this song. He did pretty good for only doing a second take... and he's not really a guitar player anyway either.

Sarcophagus (Dewy-Doo)

I'm not sure how this song came together, but it did eventually. It's pretty damn short, but kind of heavy. I like the distortion thing ZEN used on the keys. This is actually a programmed beat, then it goes into a pre-set beat at the end... IIRC. Not sure.

Freedom (Generic version)

A RATM cover :P Kyle was over, and we were trashed... had to be anyway. This is almost a waste of bandwidth, but I find it hilarious... especially if you know Kyle (he does the "vocals" on here). If you don't know him, well, yeah, this is probably a waste of bandwidth.

Fire and Forget (incomplete)

This was an awesome song that never reached 100% completion. At this point I had figured out how to program the SR-16 pretty well, so it really came together. It's stealthy.

Red Ball Jetts

This band was an absolute blast. It was the first band I have recordings of, and we even had a CD that we put together. We didn't make very many copies, but it was cool none-the-less.

Feelings

Very mellow tune. I pretty much just lay back and play the root. Not too much here, just a mellow tune.

Have You Seen Me Lately

This is the song that I talked about in the SID section called Phoenix. Pretty cool listening to how Jeff used to do the vocals on it. Ah... nostalgia.

What You Could Of Been

Another song that's pretty damn mellow. For some reason there's a phase effect covering the WHOLE song... not just an instrument, but the song. Kind of lame and annoying. I really like the middle breakdown though.

2 Years

This song was the product of just too much weed. I started playing this bassline, Troy started drumming, Phil started playing, and Jeff started singing. That's about how it started. Not much else to yap about, it sounds cool.

Take Me Back

This song went through so many changes it's pathetic. I can't even count how many. This song is kind of joked about now because of the lyrics. They make no sense! Ha! It also has a rhythm in it that is the same as the one in Have You Seen Me Lately. You should notice a part that sounds like it skips... that was the dickhead in the studio editing and fuckin' up.

Battle Sessions

This... song... I have NO clue what it was about. It was something that was recorded on a jam box while Phil was playing bass or something. I have no clue how it made it to the Demo, but somehow it did. I figured I'd throw it on here anyway.

Slow Intentional Damage

SID was actually the third band that I was in, but only the second that I actually have recordings of. The recordings from the studio never got mastered properly, and everything else was recorded off a jam box I think. I believe we could've gone all the way and been semi-famous had we not been so damn lazy... and drunk.

Inside You

This song was our opening song for gigs for a really long time. It had so much drive that it just got the audience really pumped and into it right from the start. Brad had a couple of riffs that he had, and the whole band built the song from there. Douglas Jr. had some awesome drums spots in this song. If you pay attention during the drum/bass break, you can hear me fuck up and get out of sync with Dougie... heh

Put It Down

This is the second song that Brad wrote for the band. It's about a crack-head broad, thus Put It Down. I'm especially proud of the bass line during the "white ghost" part. This song eventually got played less and less as we went on, even though it's a really cool tune. Check out the punk-ish part at the end.

Hide The Bruises

Phil wrote this song from start to finish. The lyrics are about Ian's stepfather for the most part. This song had alot of pick-up when going from the slow muted part to the upbeat version of it. I really got into playing this song. The harmony at the end is sick as hell! I originally wanted to play the notes with the guitar players, but Phil wanted me to keep chuggin' on some low notes. I'm glad he had that idea, because it turned out really good without the bottom dropping out.

War

This is the first song I ever wrote in my life. It was originally a Red Ball Jetts tune, but the band liked it enough to bring it to SID. It's got some really off-time stuff in it, which is what I really like to do :) Ian liked the name of the tune, so he kept it and just did the vocals in a different style.

Psychiatric Care

I believe this was the second song that Phil had written, and was also from Red Ball Jetts. When Ian joined the band he redid the vocals to make it more appealing than just the screaming that was going on during the whole song. We ended up keeping the screams at the end of the song though... screaming can be fun.

I Spit

Classic SID song right here. We used to try and play this song as fast as we could. This recording wasn't one of those times, but we used to play it SO fast. There isn't too much to say about this song... it speaks for itself I think.

Intermission

I wrote this song because I love funk. I was listening to alot of Parliament and RHCP around the time I started this tune. We didn't even put lyrics to it, and just used it as a segue into the more light songs that we played. It was fun.

Inside The Mind

This is the second song that I ever wrote, and it took me awhile to get it how I wanted it structure-wise. I had these ideas for Douglas Jr. to play the drum parts in a certain way, but the funny part is, I didn't have to tell him! He played everything exactly as I was hearing in my head while writing it. Pretty tight. This was a huge song for the crowd, and used to get some big pits going.

Slam

This tune is about judges and the legal system. This is the first song Brad wrote for the band when he joined. It's a pretty basic song, but has some good drive. The sludgy part towards the end is particularly awesome for a pit.

Phoenix

This is actually the first song that Phil had written. It was something that he had written and we used in Red Ball Jetts, but since that band went nowhere, it was another bring-over. This song also sports the first solo that Phil wrote. It's a basic song, but the way Ian sang it put new life into it.

Ho Down

Funk song that Phil and I wrote. Good times. We brought in a sax player that Dougie knew to play on this song... though he did overplay a tad, it was awesome.

For Pain

This is the first song that I wrote in drop D (well, drop C). I never did find out exactly what Ian was talking about on this song, so I'm really not sure :P This song has some cool guitar parts in it that make it sound... I don't know how to explain it... but they're cool.

Within

This is another song where Brad had a couple of riffs and we built off of them. It turned into one of our most recognized songs when we played out. All the women liked to sing the middle part while we played, so it was cool getting the audience into it that much. The bassline I wrote for that part was based off of Cliff Burton's smooth bassline in the song Orion. In retrospect the "I Feel Trapped" parts of this song drag on and are played too many times, but it worked.

The Valley

Once again, another whole band collaboration based off of a couple of riffs. The song itself was originally supposed to be a kind of "Phoenix Part II," but I'm not sure if Ian ever got the vocals down to make it that way. This recording is a jam box recording, but I _think_ it's audible enough... or maybe I think that because I know the song.

Disco

This is the song that we started opening up our shows with. We were trying to branch out to other musical aspects, and this song was a conglomerate of a lot of them. It was our longest song by far. We never knew how we wanted to stop the song, so you'll probably hear it just come to a halt with some trailing notes or whatever.

Super Slow Tune

I wrote an INCREDIBLY slow song, but we never got around to polishing it up. There was more to this song than is here, and it pisses me off. Right where the song breaks is the point we kick into a punk-style breakdown. There were never any finished lyrics.

Experimental Tune

A song that Phil brought to the band and never got finished. I was experimenting with using different bass chords on this song, so you'll hear some sour notes from trying different major and minor chords.

From Where I Sit

Brad wrote this song, and we did have it finished. Unfortunately, I can't find the finished product. The whole feel and the style of the lyrics reminded me of Alice in Chains. I'm not sure if we ever played this song out... I'll have to check some of my vids.