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Music Samples by Tony La.

On this page you can hear some samples of my guitar playing, originals, recording skills ....blah blah blah. For now most of the samples date back from 1985-1989. I will be adding more current samples.

Phone Booth (3MB)

Recorded Summer 2005. This song is almost finished. Once finished it will probably appear on my first cd. That's me singing and doing all the guitar work. My friend John Lindberg is playing the bass. This song was recorded at John's home studio, "Octavia A". except the drums. The drums were mixed at my home studio using beta monkey drum samples.

Minor A (1.7MB)

Bosa Groove (1MB)

Recorded March 5, 2005. Nothing special just noodling around in my studio this was recorded using Magix Software.

Evil Ways (7.5MB)

This one is a blast. Recorded live, November 2004 on a rainy night in forest park at a place called the Circle Inn. The lead guitar is hard to hear but noticeable. We are joined at the end by one of the bartenders.. Mary.

The cast

CJ - Keyboards and Vocals
Mary - Vocals
Jeff Sax - Fiddle
Adam Rebellious - Drums
DobroJoe - Dobro
Scott Parrish - Bass
Tony La - Guitar and lead vocals

Mistaken Identity (4.5MB full version)

Recorded Winter of 1989 at the Rave studio. This is an original written by Tafoya/Larrain, performed by Big Brix. Most of this is live with a couple of lead and vocal takes.

Members of Big Brix:

Willy Mendes - Bass
Joe Mihalik - Drums
Mike Tafoya - Vocals/Rythmm Guitar
Tony Larrain - Lead/Rythm Guitars

Moonlighting (4.4MB)

Recorded Fall of 1987. ARS studio, Alsip Illinois. This is an original written by Tafoya/Larrain, performed by Tafoya/Larrain and some drummer who happened to be around. I play guitar and bass, Mike sings.

Kev's Late Not posted

Old Mexico (2.5mg))

Human Chant (3.7mg)

Recorded Summer 1989. Oakforest in some guy's basement. Here are some originals written and recorded in 1989 with a band called Klicks(Originally called Fresh Start).

Members of Klicks:

John Balestri - Drums/Vocals
Dave Zidel - Sax/Congas
Kevin Wiberg - Bass
Mike Tafoya - Vocals/Rythmm Guitar
Tony Larrain - Lead/Rythm Guitars