This record continued in the more song-oriented approach that I had taken with Meltdown. I had tons of songs to choose from for this CD as I had written about 20 different tunes. There were many things going on in my life at the time which had a huge influence on this record. It was very moody.

It was a lot of fun experimenting with different moods and textures when writing this record. I recorded the two acoustic songs, Winter Sun and She's only Sleeping in my own studio. This was the first time that I had released something that was recorded in my studio and it proved to me that this was possible to do with great results. I really like the song, Echoes. It was great to have the freedom to be creative and write things from out of nowhere (so to speak) such as Am I only dreaming?. In some ways, this was a little bit of an experimental record for me.

Unfortunatley, there are some very bad memories for me regarding this CD. I had initially recorded it in December of 1993 for a major record label (that I will not mention), and it was scheduled to be released in April of 1994. In March of 1994, I found out that the label did not want to release it because they decided that they did not want to be involved with a guitar-oriented record because guitar records were not "in style" anymore. I was told that I could get a new label to release the CD. But when I found a new label, the original record company wouldn't let us buy back the record even though they were not going to release it. Totally inhumane!

So, weeks turned in to months. My manager eventually got someone at the old label to agree to sell the new label the recordings. But at this time, TWO YEARS had gone by! Out of Nowhere was finally released in April 1996. It was devastating to have someone steal something that I had worked so hard on and was so close to. This was definately the low point of my career; it was a very disappointing thing to have to experience. There are some good, moody tunes on this, and I am grateful that it did finally get released.