Category Archives: Extracurricular Activities

Microphones and Wires and Instruments and Songs…

October 7, 2010 – 11:49 am

First things first: a BIG thank-you to all you righteous people who came to see us on our East Coast jaunt last weekend. It was such a pleasure to see you and share the new Wheelhouse stuff with you. Back in the day, when we drove from gig to gig all the time and brought [...]

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Our latest Tinker Bell song goes international

September 30, 2010 – 12:01 pm

We have vague recollections of hearing something about Disney taking the master tapes of “Summer’s Just Begun” (not yet available on iTunes), the song we wrote which opens the film “Tinker Bell & The Great Fairy Rescue.” and sending it off to get re-recorded with translated lyrics in a number of different languages. But we [...]

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Free Tinker Bell 3 sneak-preview screenings nationwide this weekend

August 16, 2010 – 6:41 pm

In case you’d like to check out this direct-to-DVD movie, TINKER BELL & THE GREAT FAIRY RESCUE, on the big screen… Once again, Bren and Val have 1 1/2 songs in this film, just like in last year’s TINKER BELL & THE LOST TREASURE: for this year’s film (the third in the Tink series), we [...]

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Walking Long Distances to Write Better Songs

August 2, 2010 – 6:00 am

Val and I live in greater Los Angeles, California. There are a lot of cars. Cars are, you might say, necessary to the economy and to a life in LA. Recently, I found myself mysteriously without either a car or a bike. Millie Van Lily, our aging yet functional monstrous van, was on its way [...]

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WC Demo #5: Standing In The Shadow.

May 12, 2010 – 8:00 am

This week’s song is about a guy who discovers too late that he’s lost his chance with a girl he used to date. It’s my hope that this song will become part of our live set with Gene singing lead…but in the meantime, this demo has me singing lead and Val playing the role of [...]

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WC Demo #4: I Want You For Real

April 30, 2010 – 4:54 pm

When I was in high school, it became clear to me that I needed to get my hands on a Nintendo Entertainment System. It had the best games available, games that played pretty much exactly the same as they did in the arcades. I finally saved up and bought one, and many hours were wasted [...]

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WC Demo #3: Crazy For You.

April 21, 2010 – 6:41 pm

Take a listen at the link directly below this sentence, and download a copy if you like (and throw the band a little cash). A couple of years ago, our manager Ben asked us if we might want to submit a spec song for inclusion on the soundtrack (and perhaps in the film) of an [...]

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WC Demo #2: That Technique.

April 14, 2010 – 8:00 pm

Take a listen at the link directly below this sentence, and download a copy if you like (and throw the band a little cash). This week, it’s a song intended for a young female singer–maybe late teens, early 20′s–who is trying to maintain a reasonably “nice girl” image, and yet find her own identity. And [...]

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Softball … and wheelhouse

April 8, 2010 – 9:03 am

It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in the suburbs.  Early April.  The time when every self-respecting suburban dad’s mind turns to … well … softball.

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WC Demo #1: Up, Up, and Away.

April 7, 2010 – 8:25 pm

If you want to simply hear the song, dive right in with the play button beneath this sentence. If you like it, do us a favor and buy a download in the format of your choice (including FLAC for all you audiofile geeks). The money goes straight to us, not to Apple or Real Networks [...]

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