When I took hold of my first electric guitar at age 14, learning to play popular songs of the day was the primary objective.  However, once I had a handful of chords under my belt, I soon began crafting my own songs, and before long, had a stack of notebooks full of what I believed were solid hits.  It was at this point I realized that I needed other musicians to perform this material.  Fortunately, there were other kids around the neighborhood, and in my own house that had an interest in playing in a band.

I found out pretty quickly how most kids who were anxious to play in a rock band were much less enthused about playing home-grown songs. I needed to find players that could understand my vision.

Within a couple years of experimental jam sessions and evaluating who the likely suspects might be, we settled on a close-knit group of four friends and brothers to form what would become Flamin’ Amos.  We wound up gigging around the Madison area for a few years and built a repertoire of over 30 original songs. 

The music player below contains a small sample of music from the band.  Unfortunately, Flamin’ Amos as a group never made its way into a recording studio of any kind, so all that’s available is live cassette recordings of club concerts and basement rehearsals.  

A couple songs in the player were recorded later without the full band.  “Free Love” was recorded at a buget studio in LA with a drummer named Tom that was hanging around the studio and agreed to play on the song for a burger and fries.  More recently, “Verses of Destiny” was recorded at Pearl Music in Hollywood and is the only Flamin’ Amos song so far to be fully produced (adding to the speculation of a revival album).