PAT ALDRICH: THE DIBIASE FETISH (2009) Starter Bravery Kit was the first song Pat wrote after nearly slicing off the tip of his pointer finger, left hand. A few months of no guitar had started to frighten the songwriter, especially the frankenstein-like stitches that went four deep into the center of his fingernail. To anyone who has never played acoustic guitar, the Pointer Finger on the left hand is CRUCIAL to almost every basic chord. Pat started to play, and after a series of frustrating nights and painful realizations that there was no way he could play the chords right without that finger (and no promise that he ever would have the finger back) - he came to a conclusion. He needed to re-learn how to play the guitar WITHOUT that finger. He worked ceaselessly at this goal and began replacing the pointer finger (which is the base for most of the chords) with his middle finger, stretching it across the rows of strings and bringing up the ring and pinky to work harder than they ever had. He ended up writing and recording the CD "Things I would miss if there was a Nuclear Holocaust" and released it under the psudonym RICHIE DYNO on the fledgeling Ios Productions record label. The entire album was then swallowed up and placed on the ARCHIVES cd when he decided to kill the psudonym and release his work under his given name.

PAT ALDRICH: THE DIBIASE FETISH (2009) This song was a lighthouse shining through the fog. Too bad I could never truly express this to who I wanted to. I am always here for you, bro.

PAT ALDRICH: GOODBYE LETTERS (2009)

PAT ALDRICH: GOODBYE LETTERS (2009)

PAT ALDRICH: THE ARCHIVES (2008)

PAT ALDRICH: THE ARCHIVES (2008)

Pat Aldrich is deeply influenced (along with half of the world) by Radiohead's groundbreaking work in the history of Rock. With the album "OK Computer" easily making it's way into his most-played cd's list, he couldn't help but pick up a few tunes that were suited to his style of playing. As he plucked the first couple chords from NO ALARMS, he realized with joy that he could play a semi-decent cover and like a child at christmas, ran to the studio to lay it down with haste. This recording came out and actually became the first of many to lead off his "Under The Covers" project.

Pat lived in a basement for a while, where his main source of daily energy came from listening to and playing songs for inspiration while his band "Johnny Space Command" worked in that same basement on their rock resume. One of the more influential songs was this White Stripes slow jam which instantly began finding it's way to his own guitar. He played it over and over, obsessed, and had to throw down his own version in respect to the frequency. Thanks Barrss for the cd and the inspiration!

Growing up, Pat's brother Sean was an extremely ecclectic music collector, listening to every type of music created, and owning one of the most diverse and rare music libraries - all of which was shared with Pat at an early age. While most kids in his class were eating the force fed diet of hair bands or bubblegum pop - Pat was listening to the early work of glam god and arguable father of Punk: Alice Cooper. Among his endless works of rock and roll invention came a Cooper-esque trilogy of songs, mashed into one long dramatic anthem of insanity and melencholy with the center focus, "The Ballad of Dwight Frye". After a lucky run in with the greatest Kareaoke DJ ever, Pat had brought the house down at a biker bar with his dead on kareaoke version of the classic (which he was shocked that they had) and decided to take the journey necessary to cover it acoustically. this recording is a dedication to his brother who helped inspire Pat to be the best he could be, and to Alice Cooper, the most influential songwriter in the young artist's development. rock on Alice!

As played by Pat Aldrich and Mike Romasco (pilot of the hope). Don't Look Back In Anger was one of the first cover songs Pat learned how to play with his long time friend and musical team-mate Jay Fox, who taught Pat the intricacies of the british bad boy rockers. This song was a classic in their musician's apartment, and it was a known soundtrack to some serious partying. Rock on Jersey City!!

RHCP were deeply influential to Pat as a youth, among his group of friends (the skaters and punks) in a day before the commercialization of skateboarding, when the "curb rat" was always in danger of "jock" attacks. The young Aldrich and his cohorts clung to music and their non-conformity as a way to an inner truth. The RHCP were not only creating music in a similar mind, but Pat would spend hours listening to their songs and checking out the collective ink that they sported on the album inserts and covers. He was inspired not only to make art, but live as art as well. This song may have been one of the more commercialized, but was always one of Pat's favorites.

Pat Aldrich covers the Walston song "Cross the Line" acoustically.