Good morning. Is it ever too early to crank up some KICK ASS music?? I think noT ! Please take a few moments and check out this tune. It's from the first Trip Johnson Band demo CD (Bloated Toad). This song that you are about to listen to,(CRANK IT UP) was born in my studio winter of 2006...approximately, when I switched over to digital from analog. A real dream come true to put my four track Tascam back in it's box and fire up the sixteen track (128 virtual track) KORG. I wrote the songs and played all the parts. This was the CD I handed out to help potential TJB members learn the songs. It's also when I got a response from an ad that I had placed on Craigslist from a guitarist named Todd Fisher. We set a time for the audition, met and jammed!! It was a good musical fit. Todd and I started working on the songs and continued the auditions for a drummer and bassist. It took a few years, but we finally found Steve (drums) and Peter (bass). It was great fun working with all of them. We quickly developed a very cool and unique sound. Todd really waS a walking music dictionary. He had a lot of vinyl, and I mean A LOT of vinyl! We were always showing each other different things on guitar...like I would usually show him lead scales, or string bends, and he would show me easier ways to play rhythms. Todd was a one of a kind original, an old school rocker with unique new cutting edge ideas. He died from cancer just before we we're about to start booking our tour. I miss Todd, and I'm a better man for having known him. I'm looking forward to working with some very talented musicians very soon. Now... give a listen to "CRANK IT UP." I will be adding more songs from the CD in the next few weeks.