When we were little, Tom and I were in what was called Y Guides (formerly YMCA Indian Guides). It was a YMCA kids and parents group that went camping and organized other outdoor endeavors. From our friendships grew a band: The Lost Cause, with my brother Jon on Drums. In our early formation, I played guitar and Tom played bass. As I came to understand my love of and appreciation for Paul McCartney and Sting, the idea that I could play bass and sing grew. Following that model, I played primarily bass. We both sang lead. Tom and I wrote co-wrote songs. LC opened up for some of the bigger bands that traveled through Deep Ellum, including Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, Soul Asylum, Reverend Horton Heat and the Descendents. Commercial and college radio stations (like KNON) even played our stuff.) At the time, we called our music "underground." And that's literally because it was without genre. It didn't connect to anything that was happening on the radio. We didn't have any way to know what was happening in other towns. It was a really cool thing to be a part of the Dallas music scene, although I didn’t know it at the time. One review called us "young songwriting lions."

What's so cool is that bands came out of that scene I was involved in, like the Buck Pets,  The New Bohemians and others got signed. I'll never forget the fretless bass player from this band called The Daylights. In college at UNT, I had a The Daylights sticker on my dorm room door. I later learned my nick name to those that didn't know me was “daylights”. 

I make my art and it goes out to the world and does what it does. If some people like it, then great. Back then we were doing it just for the sheer joy, fun and thrill of it. Our band was just putting art into the world. We had no idea we were part of something bigger than ourselves.

Posters and discography here.