Music

Sensible Shoes

Sensible Shoes was a pop/rock/new wave band I played in in Boston in the early 1980s. The band was composed of

Suzie Brockmann (lead vocals, guitar)
Brice Buchanan (guitar, vocals)
Frank Hanan (drums)
Barry Singer (keyboards, sax, and vocals)
Jim Davis (bass, vocals)

All of us wrote songs.

This collection comes from a show we played at the Rathskeller, in Kenmore Square, on Oct 29, 1982. I think it's the debut of the band.

The songs are listed in alphabetic order, not the order we performed them. All of them are MP3.

Baby I'm Just No Good Without Your Love (Hannon)
Blame (Brockmann)
Do You Believe I Love You (Carolyn Maas)
Don't Be Long (Buchanan)
Ghosts (Brockmann)
Gotta Think It Over (Buchanan)
I'm Not Crazy (Brockmann)
It's Okay (Brockmann)
Jerk (Brockmann)
Khatmandhu (Buchanan)
Letter Lost (Davis)
Nobody Cries For The Damned (Brockmann)
Nose to the Grindstone (Hannon)
Pain and Glory (Hannon)
Quote Goodbye Quote (Maas)
Second Chance (Brockmann)
Tomorrow (Brockmann)
What Friends Are For (Singer)
With Your Heart (Buchanan)
You're My Baby (Buchanan)
encore: Venus (Shocking Blue)

Suzie Brockmann and me on stage at the Paradise, Boston MA.

Harmful if Swallowed

In Ithaca, New York, I played with Dexter Kozen, Bruce Donald, and Daniel Scharstein in Harmful if Swallowed, another band with four song-writers, but also with three PhDs, and two full professors of Computer Science.