coastal alt/indie rock

"My Match" started with a guitar groove in our condo in Monterey.

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I was in my studio playing my D'Angelico Custom Excel semi-hollow Hawaiian guitar. I love the custom Hawaiian paint job on it... very Glenn Coast... anyway, I was strumming this heavy, repetitive pattern that I liked. Angie was at the other end of the condo in the living room. At some point I stopped playing, and from across the condo she yelled, “I really, really like that.”

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I said, “That’s why you’re my match. We like the same things.”

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And there it was.

I shut the studio door and started writing:

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You’re my match, my flame at night


Ignite me baby in this moonlight


With every touch we set the world alight


Yeah you’re my match, we burn so bright

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Sometimes songwriting really is that easy. You have a groove. You have a title. And suddenly the song already seems to know what it wants to be.

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Once I had the title, "My Match", all the fire imagery came almost automatically: white hot, a thousand kilowatts, striking the fire, lighting my soul, torch and wick. I wasn’t trying to be particularly clever. I was just following the metaphor wherever it wanted to go.

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I’ve always wanted to write love songs that aren’t sappy. "My Match" is a heavy, driving rock song, but underneath all that rhythm and heat, it is an absolute, unequivocal love song.

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And that may be one of the harder things to pull off in rock and roll.