TEN HANDS VAULT

Miscellaneous stuff from live gigs, tapes I come across, whatever. Email me if you have any requests, there are tons of versions of songs on any number of old cassettes I have laying around in my closet. I will try to put new stuff up occasionally but it always helps to pester me.

YER JOB SUCKS       A raw live recording from those halcyon days when I was playing guitar in Ten Hands.  I shouldnt say that I was playing guitar, so much as I was sculpting space with sound and the guitar was my chisel.

BIG SHOT                   This was one of the songs that we recorded for T Bone Burnett.  He was gonna make us famous like he did with Counting Crows.   It didnt happen.   I think I pissed him off by calling Bono a pansy.                                                          At the time I didnt know he was friends with Bono.  oops.   For the record I now think that U2 is a badass band and that Bono is really pretty wonderful.    It's a little late now.

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SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET        Arguably one of the best 10H  tunes.  But then, I just like arguing.

GENIUS IN MY SLEEP                      One of the oldest original ten hands songs, written back in in the mid 80s

CHILL OUT              Rare recording, rare because we didnt like the song enough to play it much,  I didnt even finish the words.

OH, ELLEN           Somebody actually requested this ancient history relic, a song about a high school friend, very early 10Hs

E ICKY THUMP      From a live recording made at Dave Castells' infamous Garland studio in preproduction for our big L.A. record.

WORLD INSIDE YOUR HEAD     A different version from The Big One.  Also from the Castell session.

TRIP TO CARROLTON     From a live gig  at The Library in Denton. 5-25-89.  Folks, I have a ton of  tapes from this period.  I will be searching

                                            through them from time to time and will turn you on accordingly.  Any requests?

BARNABY JONES/MARY TYLER MOORE A PUNK ROCK TV THEME SHOW MEDLEY

                              From a wedding we played back in 1991.  The wedding reception was in the main room at Sumet Studios in

                            Dallas, a very prestigious studio.   We multitracked the whole thing.  The theme was fish. 

HARD HARD CITY            Steve Brand is the only person who might really enjoy this.  From the wedding tapes.