Mr. Stiff
Robin Lewis: Guitar, Sax, Lead Vocals
Bruce Boldon: Bass, Vocals
John Tenney: Keyboards, Vocals
Pete Weller: Drums, Drum programming

It was my great fortune to work with Robin Lewis and Bruce Boldon. Drummer Pete Weller was very talented as well. We had a bunch of gigs in Central Florida and actually made a buck or two. Everyone who made the effort to come and see us loved us. Our agent, Didi from Babe's Entertainment Plus, was pretty disappointed when I ran off to join Clutch, although she is the one who got me the gig. I would love to know what Bruce and Robin are doing these days. Listen to "Business Lady" and you can see that these two had a talent for vocals, and most important, could blend their harmonies perfectly. I still think there is talent there for a record company.

Business Lady
Written by Robin Lewis
Produced by John Tenney
Copyright 1988 by Stiffsongs, ASCAP
Recorded at Circussound, Orlando, FL
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I love this song. Tony George and Bobby Lord said it took too long to get to the hook and therefore they rejected it as a presentation to the record company. I was really disappointed. We worked really, really hard on this demo and it hit hard that it wasn't accepted. So off we went to do covers and played the club circuit for almost a year.

Credits:
Guitar and Lead Vocal: Robin Lewis
Angelic BG Vocals: Robin Lewis and Bruce Boldon
Bass Guitar: Bruce Boldon
Keyboards: John Tenney
Drum Machine and Cymbals: Pete Weller
Binary Man
Written by Robin Lewis
Produced by John Tenney
Copyright 1988 by Stiffsongs, ASCAP
Recorded at Circussound, Orlando, FL
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This song made us crack up. We were all working as engineers on things like EEPROMS and what not and this song just hit home. An interesting note: Robin's background vocals were doubled digitally rather than by recording twice as we usually did. This was done to save a track on our 8 track.

Credits:
Guitar and Lead Vocal: Robin Lewis
BG Vocals: Robin Lewis and Bruce Boldon
Bass Guitar: Bruce Boldon
Keyboards: John Tenney
Drum Machine: Pete Weller
Layers Of Life
Written by John Tenney
Produced by John Tenney
Copyright 1988 by Stiffsongs, ASCAP
Recorded at Circussound, Orlando, FL
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I know this song is on this website three times but I really like it. I later used much of Robin's vocal interpretations in the final version. He did a great sax solo, too.

Bruce originally recorded the bass track but I had to re-record it later when he was sent out of town on business. I struggled to play exactly the same notes as his and it came off.

Credits:
Acoustic Guitar, Sax and Lead Vocal: Robin Lewis
BG Vocals: John Tenney and Bruce Boldon
Bass Guitar: John Tenney (Bruce couldn't make it that night)
Keyboards, Drum Machine: John Tenney

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