This is everything I wrote for the 2nd album. I started writing for the follow up to Where We Belong a week after its release in May 2012. I was really eager to write another album and I had tons of ideas, including follow-up tracks and "musical winks" to songs on WWB. Over a period of about a year and a half, I wrote these 16 songs; some of which have fully-produced vocals, some are instrumentals and some just have a bit of vocals here and there. But yeah, this is all of it...

Most of these songs were going to be finished and would make it onto the album, which was going to be split and released in two parts. We wanted to release Part 1 in October 2013 and Part 2 about five months later in March 2014. But about a month before hitting the studio, our drummer Alex left the band and we had to delay everything.

Once Guillame joined as Alex's replacement, we started recording Part 1 and dragged the process for about a year. As we were starting vocals, our bass player Nic left; tired of the constant delays, disappointed with the mixing quality of the album, the speed at which it was being made, and sick of the tension within the band. Our friend Stéphane, who had previously played bass with Chris, Ric and myself in Track Map Liberty joined, we scrapped the entire album and started over in early 2016.

Recording drums, bass and guitars went relatively smoothly, but by the time we got to vocals and programming, we had fallen into an unproductive work ethic where we'd only do a couple of takes over 3 or 4 hours once per week due to conflicting schedules. I thought we'd eventually get to the end of it, but more drama around production speed made it so that we couldn't stand working together anymore. Jams were shit, the recording process was shit and we just weren't getting along.

I was really starting to get over the songs, the album concept and the band itself, so I wrote a bunch of stoner rock songs and started another band called Horsedog with Ricardo and two other friends. Towards the end of 2016, after a quick discussion between us, we decided to pull the plug on Bad Captain and formed a casual cover band just for the love of playing together.

At that point in early 2017, even if I wanted to mix, master and release what was finished from the recording sessions, there was no way to get my hands on them. After all this time and hard work, Bad Captain's second album is never going to see the light of day, unless I decided to start over once again.

I decided to release a couple of the more polished demos in mid-2017. A very small and quite dedicated bunch of people wanted to hear more, so I thought I'd upload everything (including the previously released tracks). It's over an hour of mostly instrumental tracks, but to anyone who actually wants to take the time to listen to this big mess of Garageband demos, it's all here!

If you're going to give it a listen, thanks for being such a trooper and enjoy!

- Pat

Part 1:
Intro
As Long As I'm Yours
My Way
You Were Mine
Home
Empty of Everything
All For Nothing
Forever

Part 2:
R.I.P. Pop Punk
All My Life
Gloves
The Hurt
Run Away
Higher
We Belong Together
Outro