The Storm

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Thermos:
There once was a boy named Henry Parsley who discovered that the open D-Major chord may be moved freely up & down the fretboard to pleasing results.  He placed several such instances back-to-back and coupled those with some other chords, also in a pleasing order.  Having done so, he paused to reflect on the piece he was composing.  Upon this contemplation, he ascertained no lyrics were needed, and he proudly displayed this arrangement of chords to his partners in a musical endeavor.  Many smiles were had all ’round, and the boys happily performed the piece as such to scattered audiences around the lower southeast portion of Michigan.  When the time came, the notes were laid down upon magnetic media of different varieties.  This particular instance utilizes the services of a compact disc filled with sound effects.  Sadly, these self-same effects were eschewed from the more time- and money-intensive recordings which were later disseminated to the general public in exchange for reasonable remuneration.  Whether there is a meaningful loss may be determined only by the individual listener.

Ingus: While Strange But Still is the oldest set of words, this is officially the oldest Burnt Toast song.  Dating all the way back to 1990, The Storm was written for a band called Waterfall that included Drew and Rob from Beatnik Mecca / Lapeer County Rockers and a kid name Ethan who coincidentally had gone to Jr. High with Louis and Thom.  We played zero shows and had two practices, neither of which Rob showed up for, most likely due to us forgetting to tell him.  Anyway, Drew and I wrote The Storm, then called just Storm, after the X-Men character, fully intending to write lyrics for it at some point, but that never happened, due to the band imploding.  I think Ethan sold his guitar shortly after.  The only other song we ever worked on was a cover of Almost Saturday by Guadalcanal Diary.