I started home recording back in 1993 and decided to use the name "DogTrax" for my music - The name was one that I had already used for a published cartoon series I had in a couple of magazines back in Tucson years ago. When I was in the Navy, I had a parachute jump school instructor who could not pronounce my name (Man - duh - nee - see), so he dubbed me with a nickname that followed me through the years: "Mad Dog", which I even used as a stage name back in my years of doing stand-up comedy.

DogTrax music was first created on a 4-track recorder in a small bedroom of a small apartment back in the days.... I had my old acoustic Yamaha FG160 and a Cortez Les Paul copy for my guitar collection and I used a Pringles can with rice in it for my percussion section. I eventually bought more guitars, drum machines and all to constantly improve my sound.

Some of the recordings that are on the earlier tapes were pretty bad, but I didn't have the equipment I have now. Here are the Tapes & CD's I had put out years ago:

Acousticool/Electricool - released 1993 Side 1: Acousticool 93 Alone Again Can't Be Satisfied Acousticool 79 Blues In E Major Spedup Unicorns & Wars Dreamin' Ballad of the Mad Dog Side 2: Intro: Jaime's Dream/Funky Hand Electricool Angel Lost N' Not Found Electrikill This was my first "Official" tape I released. Side 1 is all acoustic guitar/multi-tracking & singing and side 2 is all electric guitar music. I remember trying to sell this to co-workers at a company I was working at at the time and didn't get much feedback from them. My Mom seemed to like it tho. (ahahaha)

Another Day In The Paradox - released 1994 Side 1: By The Pool Time To Go Jacob Barley Stuck in the '60 Moses The Mindbender Cold-hearted Woman Side 2: Oond Schnap Goze Der Mind Mr. Weasel Nine Day Hangover Devil's Dandruff Surfin' USSR I started getting back into writing lyrics and singing at this point - most of these songs have me singing on them (This does not mean it's good news)

Losers & Heroes - released 1994 Side 1: The Loser Wizard's Room Welcome Back/ Misery Loves Company The Dream Battle Axe Stone Castle Down The Road Side 2: Hero Slide On Inn Where You At? I Want You Too Goodbye Cool World Losers & Heroes was sort of a "thematic" album and I had used a really bad drum machine and borrowed an old Korg synth to get some of the songs together. I was excited about the fact that I was using more instruments for this recording.

Spiderwebs & Raindrops - released 1994 Side 1: Dogpie Acoustiboy Quiet Time Song For Leo Daydream Another Change Spiderwebs & Raindrops Side 2: Lessons With Todd Down The Line Welcome Home Just Friends Long Gone So Happy Hog Punk 5th Corner Melvin Milktoast By the tail end of Losers & Heroes, I was wanting to get better on my guitar playing as well as my songwriting, so I started taking lessons with local guitar legend, Todd Grubbs. Some of the songs on here start expressing a new style I started honing in on. MOST of the songs here are instrumental guitar songs. I had also purchased a much cooler drum machine (Boss DR5) that was helping immensely with the sound.

Songs For The Vocally Challenged - released 1996 Side 1: Move Over, Eugene So Lonely Sonoran Sunrise Christopher's Room Somewhere The Note 9 Day Hangover Surfin USSR Side 2: Dream Catcher Shades Of Rain Send Me An Angel It's Alright Falling Led Hed Whammy Guitar, Inc. In 1996, I had purchases a Tascam MK488 8-track multi-track recorder and started going crazy, sometimes going a bit overboard with guitars, but I was also digging into some unusual sounds, guitar-wise and musically.

Unchained - released 1997 Side 1: Unchained Stellar Cellar Going To Morocco Sleepwalk Just Like You Stone Castle Duck Polka Side 2: Bluefrog Blues Just For U Cause We've Ended As Lovers Foolin' Around Colder Shoulder Seashell Shelly Pine Rock Park In 1996 I started jamming with a neighbor who was most excellent on guitar - Blake Compton..... we ended up playing at Borders & several coffee shops around the Tampa Bay area. I also released this CD around that time. "Stellar Cellar" was actually a song written and performed by Blake and he plays rhythm on "foolin Around" as well as "Pine Rock Park".

Hand-Me-Downs - released 1999 This CD's information is in our Store - click here to listen to samples or purchase.

With all of the released tapes/cd's mentioned above, it was mainly just me working with drum machines, guitar, bass, synths, pianos. harmonicas and anything else I could get my hands on. In 1999 I actually formed a band named DogTrax - this band was dis-banded (no pun intended) in October of 2005 and we have just released a CD that was recorded over a period of 5 years - that is now in my downloads section titled "Earllusions". Through the past 14 years of making music, I have not been able to release all of my music until now. I am planning on putting the 100's of songs that are archived in the VIP section and the online store, as well as newer songs I am working on.

To listen to free samples of my music, please go directly to my MP3's section in my store.