Dennis Melton

Wow. It's odd for someone as verbose as I normally am to be at a loss. Hammer of Karma finally got finished and released as an EP (9 songs and 43 minutes) and I have a mild case of post-partum. People keep asking me where it's all going next. I guess we'll see. Hammer was by far the darkest of my compositions to date and, unlike Forever is a Lie and Outland, contains no songs or even parts of songs that are less than a year old.

Much of the first two albums were things that have been banging around in my skull, unrecorded, since the 70's. (I never did find a group that "got it", so to speak.) But Hammer of Karma was my first project that completely reflects where I am at musicially as of its completion. Sort of exciting in that it also adds a little finality (closure?) to a previous era and opens a door, having recorded all of the ghosts that have been haunting me, to a new body of work.

I have to admit that I feel like a kid on his birthday whenever one of my cds hits Amazon (thus Target, Waldenbooks, Borders, CDNow, etc.)

Composing and producing myself gives me a sense of satisfaction that performing live for 40 years never did. But, alas, without those countless shitty gigs (and a few great concerts) I wouldn't have arrived where I am and wouldn't have a reference to compare this giddiness to.

Thanks for reading and thanks even more for listening!