These non-album songs comprise the alpha and omega of The Last on record, ranging from our first appearance on vinyl with the first single, "She Don't Know Why I'm Here", to "Perfect World", which was recorded and released on a CD compilation at the end of the '90's. The songs run the gamut from barely audible 4 track recordings done in somebody's living room to 8, 16 and 24 track studio recordings, and finally to modern digital recording and sampling, again done in somebody's living room.

These are the songs that were too bad, too good, or too weird to make it onto an actual album. Most, naturally, are long unavailable, though the original "She Don't Know Why" is on at least one Rhino comp and one Bomp comp. The earlier stuff may be still available on vinyl directly from Bomp online - I know the "L. A. Explosion" album is.

Actually, some of the mid-80's stuff is probably available on the Happy Squid website.

We put out three indie singles on our own Backlash label, which folded right before we were to put out some disks by Black Flag and the Descendents. Pity. We then did one album for Bomp, had a falling out which was regrettable for Bomp and disastrously stupid for us, recorded sporadically throughout the early to mid '80's, with songs ending up all over the place, then broke up, reformed, and became an SST band through the mid 90's. Now I hide from the world, and my music is secret. That will probably be changing very soon.

At any rate, there is a whole lotta stuff that never saw the light of day, from full band recordings to solo demos to many songs that never were recorded at all. There are many from the pre-Last era, many from the "L. A. Explosion" era, several from the 80's and a whole bunch from the 90's. I even have one or two things I'm playing with right now.

Our recorded output thus far released is, therefore, just the tip of the iceberg . . .

Mike Nolte says: A simple song of possession . . . nothing more, nothing less. This was the first song we ever did of mine . . . I wrote the lyrics (I don't think brother Joe contributed any words, but might have polished them up for me), and Joe wrote the music, which of course is the best part. Funnily enough, Joe was inspired enough by this song (musically, of course) to name the band The Power (which, was the precursor to The Last).