Side Projects:

The founding Shambles have been involved in other bands and recording projects over the years. Manual Scan and The Crawdaddys have their own pages on our site (links below), with other recordings listed here. Also included here is listing of session work (however minor: -) and finally a listing of other artists covering the songs of Bart Mendoza, Kevin Donaker-Ring and David Fleminger.

 

The Crawdaddys Discography (featuring Mark Z.)

 

Mark’s was the original bass player with the band, and the discography of his tenure with the R&B legends has a page of its own on our site, reachable here: http://www.theshambles.net/crawdaddys.htm

 

Manual Scan (featuring Bart and Kevin)

Bart and Kevin were founding members of this band. Their discography has a page of it’s own on our site, reachable here: http://www.theshambles.net/mscan.htm

 

 

Mystery Machine Discography. (featuring Mark Z.)

 

This group mutated into the Tell Tale Hearts, originally to be “The Tell Tale Hearst”, a tribute to SLA member, Patty Hearst. Sadly, due to a spelling error at the printer, this was not to be, leaving David Klowden particularly devasted. Just checking if anybody is really reading this…. Here’s the real paragraph:

 

This group mutated into the Tell Tale Hearts and also featured future Shambles Ray Brandes, Bill Calhoun, and David Klowden, as well as one time (literally) live Manual Scan bass player Carl Rusk. All are various artist releases containing the same song: “She’s Not Mine” !

 

LP’s

Battle Of The Garages Vol.1 (Voxx/US) + other groups

 

CD’s

Destination Bomp (Bomp/US) + other groups

Battle Of The Garages (Voxx/US) + other groups

Roots of Powerpop (Bomp/US) + other groups

 

 

Mission: To Mars* Discography (featuring Bart)

A Bart side project which featured Mike Kamoo and Dylan Martinez, as well as, alternately on bass, Billy Lovcki, Gregory Page and Hector Penalosa plus Robert Boynton on keyboards.

 

CD's

1)    San Diego Music Awards 12th Annual -(SDMA/VACD/US) Down Enough

 

 

The Spring Collection Discography (featuring Bart)

Mike and Bart (and Joe) co-produced, playing drums and bass respectively as well as adding harmonies and percussion.:

 

CD’s

1) The Spring Collection (Blindspot 104/CD/US) 9/04 On and On, But I Did, Something Happened, A Little Bit of Me, Already Gone, Getting Used To Missing You, Going Away, Haw Are You Getting Along Without Me?, And If I Don’t, I Thought You’d Miss Me, Rolling Hills and Winding Roads, What Would That Look Like?, Were I The Kind, Wonderful Tonight, You’re The One, Lullaby.

 

COMPILATIONS

1)  Hook Heaven (Not Lame NLHookHeaven1/VA2CD/US) 10/05 But I Did

2) The Young Idea: A Tribute to Squire (Twist / CD/UK) 10/06 In A World of My Own

3) Staring At The Sun IV (Blindspot/VACD/US) 11/06 A Little Bit of Me

 

 

Static Halo Discography (featuring Bart)

Bart sings back up and co-wrote the lyrics to this killer track!

 

COMPILATIONS

1) International Pop Overthrow 2004 (Not Lame /CA3CD/US) Fade - Bart co-wrote and sings

 

Misc. Sessions

 

 

LP’s

1)    Jetset -V (Dance Network Jetset 5/UK) – Heaven and Mrs. Winter –1988  Kevin plays guitar!

2)    Rachel Gordon - (Subterranean/) "Coming Of Spring" -Bart produced project, Mike did post production on work by Richard Livoni. Bart wrote Fun At Your House and plays rhythm guitar

 

CD’s

1)    Jetset- Best Of Vol. 2 (Tangerine/UK) 1992 Heaven and Mrs. Winter

2)    Jetset- V (Nippon Columbia COCY75651/CD/Japan) 1993  Heaven and Mrs. Winter

3)    Jetset -Mania (Castle 91081/CD/UK) 2000 Heaven and Mrs. Winter

4)    Pop Greetings: California (Yesterday Girl/Sweden) Rachael Gordon:  Fun At Your House (remake) Bart wrote it and plays rhythm guitar

5)    San Diego Music Awards 2000 (SLAAM/US) Rachael Gordon: Sense Of Perception (remake) Bart wrote it and plays guitar

6)    Moloko (Germany/VACD+) 2002 Rachael Gordon: Fun at Your House (remake) Bart wrote it and plays rhythm guitar- this is a freebie various artists CD given with copies of German magazine "Moloko"

7)    Rachael Gordon - (Subterranean/CD/Germany) "Coming Of Spring"

8)    Rachael Gordon  (Wizzard In Vinyl/CD/Japan) Oct. 2006 “Rock ‘n’ Roll Girl” Contains three songs written by Bart with lyrical help from Maya Morris: “Fun at Your House,” “Sense of Perception,” and “And Sometimes,” each with both demo and finished versions here. Bart plays guitar and provides vocals on those tracks as well covers of “Man’s Best Friend,” “Thirteen,” “Goodbye to You,”  “Crying in the Night,” and “When You Find Out,” which also appears in demo form

 

SINGLES

1)    Rachael Gordon / Bad Apples Split 7" EP (Sounds Of Subterrania - Black Vinyl) All Sorts / Crying In The Night - 10/03 Bart wrote "All Sorts", plays on both Gordon tracks.

2)    Rachael Gordon / Bad Apples Split 7" EP (Sounds Of Subterrania - Yellow Vinyl) All Sorts / Crying In The Night - 10/03 Bart wrote "All Sorts", plays on both Gordon tracks.

3)    Rachael Gordon / Bad Apples Split 7" EP (Sounds Of Subterrania - White Vinyl) All Sorts / Crying In The Night - 10/03 Bart wrote "All Sorts", plays on both Gordon tracks.

4)    Rachel Gordon & The Very Idea (Snap 7002/PS7"EP/Spain) Bart wrote and plays on: Sense of  Perception (Version I/ And Sometimes (Version 2)/ Fun At Your House (Version 2). He also plays on When You Find Out.

5)    Rachel Gordon & the Very Idea (Snap 7002/PS7"EP/Spain) Blue vinyl promo

 

VIDEOS

VespAmerica Video (Video/US) Features footage of the Riot Act live as well as Shambles Music

 

Covers

 

The following artists have also covered a song penned by Bart (alongside Jeppe Riddervold in the case of “Survive,” as well as several with main lyrical co-hort Maya Morris.)  Only recordings which have been released are included, check back for updates. The myriad Rachael Gordon release variations can be found at Misc: Sessions.

 

1)  Cockeyed Ghost - “An Alternate History of Cockeyed Ghost – Rarities Vol. 2” (Karma Frog/US) Sept 14 2004 features “Brilliant”

2)  The Eddies – In The Sunshine (Twist/CD/UK) 2004 features “Jungle Beat”

3) The Eddies – Twice Around the World (Twist /CD/UK) 2008 features “Don’t Know where to Start” and a new version of “Jungle Beat.”

4)  The Glowfriends – Covers EP (JAM/ CDR/US) 2002 Limited edition sold at Michigan shows only, includes “Blindspot” alongside tracks by the Replacements, The Velvet Underground, and Gene Pitney!

5)  Rachael Gordon – “The Very Idea” (Snap/45ps/Spain) features “And Sometimes I,” “Fun At Your House I,” “Sense Of Perception I”

6)  Rachael Gordon – “Coming Of Spring “ (Sounds Of Subterrania/LP&CD/Germany)  features “Fun At Your House”

7)  Rachael Gordon – “11th San Diego Music Awards 2000” (SLAMM/VACD/US) compilation features “Sense Of Perception II”

8)  Rachael Gordon – Moloko (Moloko/VACD/Germany) compilation features “Fun At Your  House”

9)  Rachael Gordon – Split 7” EP With Bad Apples (Sounds Of Subterrania/45/Germany) features “All Sorts”

10)  Rachael Gordon – Rock ‘n’ Roll Girl (Wizzard In Vinyl/CD/Japan) 2006 “And Sometimes I,” “Fun At Your House I,” “Sense Of Perception I” plus demo versions of all three.

11)                     Marie Haddad – A Beautiful Road (Hobo Kitty Music/CD/US) “Where You Are”

12)                     Daniel Hall - “Drive” - (Safety 5567/CD/Germany)  Sept 13 2004 features “Survive”

13)                     Jeremy - "Pop Dreams" (Jam/ CD/US) 12/2002 features "I Believe"

14)                     Kingpins - "Plan Of Action" (Stomp/CD/Canada) 1999 features "Plan Of Action"

15)                     Kingpins - "Plan Of Action" (Mad Butcher BBRO19/CD/Germany) 2002 features "Plan Of Action"

16)                     The Lola's - "A World Of Powerpop with..." (Wizzard In Vinyl WiV 008S/ 7"EPPS/ Japan) 11/02 features "I Can't Don't Want To"

17)                     The Lola’s – “Silver and Gold” (Snap/CD/Spain) 2003 features "I Can't Don't Want To"

18)                     Mod Fun – “Now… and Again” (  /CD/US) 2007 features “Nothing Can Be Everything.”

19)         The Anna Troy Band – “Various Artists – Staring at the Sun VI” (Blindspot 107/ CD/ US) features “31968”

20)                     Yeh Yeh – (Promo CDEP/UK) 2005 features “And We Still Feel The Same”

 

The Lipstick Demos CD

 

A collection of songs penned by Jeppe Riddervold, with lyrical help from Bart, placed here as he neither played or sang on the recordings. Nine of the best were recorded by Jeppe’s group at the time Lipstick (later re-named Liebling) in Denmark and pressed up as a limited edition CD, which came with a twelve page booklet. The recording here of “Survive” served as the demo which took first place in the 2003 EMI Publishing Awards, resulting in the Daniel Hall cover above and more activity on the horizon.

 

Lipstick: The Band From Denmark (Promo 001/CD/Denmark) 2002

1)    Diana

2)    The Girl From MTV

3)    Survive

4)    Annabel

5)    Let’s Get Married

6)    Seventeen

7)    Welcome

8)    Hold Me

9)    Meet You With The Sun

 

Upcoming Covers

 

Many of the songs in the Covers Section will be collected, along with the artists listed below, on the upcoming Shambles / Manual Scan covers project set for 2006. The plan is for two distinct editions.

 

Afterglow – Of Heart & Soul

Joe Algeri & Stefan Johansson – She Said It’s Late

The Andersons: Rain Or Shine

Mark DeCerbo – Original Tangent

Eddies – Don’t Know Where To Start

Herb Eimerman – All Sorts

Happy Losers – Blurs Somewhere

Hip Notes – Change (penned by the Shambles Kevin Donaker Ring)

Ed James – Nothing You Can Do

Ed James & Stefan Johanson – (Shes Used to Playing with) Fire

Mark LeGallez – Don’t Know Where To Start

Lemons Are Yellow – What Did You Say (written by original Manual Scan bassist extraordinaire David Fleminger)

Mega Super Ultra – Confidence & Love

Peter Max – Survive

Ringles – Innocence Becomes You

The Sleepwalkers – Days and Maybes (No Me Cueste)

So So Buffalo – A Short Spiral (Will Tell)

Static Halo – The American Way

Sugarplum – Confidence & Love

Truckee Brothers – Waiting Game

Viva Brown - Blindspot