Featured Artist of Monday, October 28, 2024
With the Album: Pre-Zulu TExas: 1985-1988


Artist's Biography

Patrick Evan Fleming is an extremely good looking song writer from Cleveland Ohio. He started off in 1985 as a Singer/Lyricist. Fall of 1988 he started learning the guitar.


About the Album

Pre-Zulu TExas
Zulu TExas was Patrick Evan Fleming, Mark Beck and Sean (Michael) White. These are the very first songs we ever wrote together. We wrote them when we were teenagers: 1985-1988

In the beginning Mark was the lyricist/driving force, Sean was a guitarist (And the only one who could play an instrument).

1985/1986 - For 2 summers we got together in June and wrote a half dozen songs. It was always short lived and never went anywhere.

Fall of 1987/Early 1988 - Mark and Sean roomed and wrote together in Monte Rey CA. Big creative strides forward. Then it crashed and burned.

Aug 1988 - Mark and I moved to Columbus Ohio and started Zulu TExas in earnest.

The crappy analogue recordings from 1985 didn't survived. For some reason I remember all the words and chords. Which is weird, considering I didn't know how to play the guitar.

Featured Artist of Monday, Februay 26, 2024
With the Album: Begin At The End


Artist's Biography

Patrick Evan Fleming is a song writer from Cleveland Ohio. About a year ago Patrick (finally) embraced Digital Recording. He has been chiseling away steadily for the last year. His earliest musical memories are of Frank Sinatra and The Beatles. He's a mean motor scooter and a real go-getter.


About the Album

The Poser Tapes (1995)
By: Patrick Evan Fleming

This is a collection of songs I wrote in 1995. I started off in Claremont California (Where Los Angelas hits the Western Mountains). In 1994 my friend Mark discovered religion (Literally). Met the girl, started handing out blankets to the poor and got married. I got a terrible chest cold after the wedding, ran out of money and went back to Cleveland, for a bit. West again that summer for 4 months working at a Butterfly Hotel in Pacific Grove (Monte Rey CA area). Finally back to Cleveland for long, cold, drunken winter. By Jan 1 1996, I’d written 286 songs.

Those were the days of Analogue Recording. People get all romantic about Analogue these days. But don’t believe it; Analogue Recording sucked. It was a temperamental, unforgiving process that I was completely unsuited for. Rather than spend a lot of money I didn’t have on something I was never going to be any good at, in 1993 I bought a $450 Yamaha 4-track (on sale), a series of cheap Radio Shack mics and filled a bunch of tapes with noisy little Demo’s that I never played for anybody.

I filled 10 tapes in 1995(13-14 hours worth).
The first 8 were called “Poser”.

Featured Artist of November 3, 2023
With the Album: Begin At The End


Artist's Biography

Patrick Evan Fleming is a song writer from Cleveland Ohio. About a year ago Patrick (finally) embraced Digital Recording. He has been chiseling away steadily for the last year. His earliest musical memories are of Frank Sinatra and The Beatles. He's a mean motor scooter and a real go-getter.


About the Album

“Begin At The End: 2022-2023”
Patrick Evan Fleming

My old friend Mark Beck died of a drug overdose Oct 30 last 2022. We’d known each other since Jr High. We learned to write music together in the 1980’s. I’m writing this 2 days before the anniversary of that death.

My 1st response was to record a collection of early songs (Zulu Texas I). Since then I’ve recorded 10 CD’s worth of stuff. I haven’t posted much online. My goal is to record 202 songs (2 more than Taylor Swift).
Once I do that, I’ll dump them on Spotify. Then throw everything away and eat my Laptop.

Along with the old recordings, I had a few of Mark’s old voicemails. You’ll hear his voice on 3 of the recordings. They kind of forced me to develop a new approach to song writing. Which you’ll also hear in some of the songs,

1st line of “Don’t Let The Bastards” attributed to something Kris Kristofferson said to Sinead O'Connor at Madison Square Garden, October 16 1992.

“It All Started With Rosie” was based on a couple things Ring Starr and John Lennon said in the “Get Back” documentary, January 13 1969. They decided to film themselves talking, but no one had anything to say. After a while they just started saying random things. Ringo said “It all started with Rosie.” Later Lennon said “Tripping on that golden ship of sky”. Seemed like a good foundation for a song.

1st line of “Hypothetical Epitaph For Bob Dylan” attributed to something Bob Dylan said to Maria Muldaur at the Newport Jazz Festival, July 25, 1965

The refrain from “Meow Meow Kitty Blues” devised by Mark Becks son, Evan.

The last track is the only older recording: “The Memory Of June” - April 15 2020. First 95 days of Covid I recorded and posted 1 song a day: 95 songs in 95 days. This was Day 31 of the Pandemic in Ohio. It was 11 days after my father died. And it also my birthday.

“June may come while I sleep” - Mark Beck

Featured Artist of May 14, 2023
with the Album: Early 1990's - Vol. 1


Artist's Biography

Patrick Evan Fleming is a songwriter who never tried very hard to market himself.

In his first 2 1/2 years out of Art School (BFA-Ohio State University) Patrick wrote and recorded about 800 songs. If he's being honest with himself, only about 20% of those songs are any good. Still, that's 160 songs that don't suck. Which is pretty good. I mean, James Taylor barely wrote 160 songs his entire life. Still he did end up with that giant pile of money. So what the hell does Patrick Evan Fleming know about anything?

Anyway, last June Patrick decided to buy a copy of Logic Pro and finally learn digital recording. Hopefully this time, 80%of his musical efforts won't suck so badly.

Patrick Evan Fleming lives in Cleveland Ohio. He is in the process of finishing a 4th CD.


About the Album

A small collection of songs I wrote: June 1993-March 1995.

My first 2,700 recordings are Analogue Demo's, recorded on the cheapest equipment possible.. Most of my life I was driven by a fear of stopping, If I stopped writing and started recording, I would lose momentum and my song writing days would be over. Last summer I decided to finally get over myself and learn actual recording.

This CD represents an early effort

Featured Artist of April 16, 2023
with the album: Zulu TExas I


Artist's Biography

Zulu TExas was a songwriting collaboration between Patrick Evan Fleming and Mark Beck: 1988-1991. We met in High School Drama Club (1983). When we first started writing in 1988, we'd never written together and neither of us could play guitar. "The Waltz" and "Sundown" were our first two songs. We wrote them on Bass guitars, because that's all we were capable of. We never played live or did anything to promote ourselves. Less than dozen people even knew we were musical. After 1991, Mark kept playing Keyboards as a hobby. To date, Patrick has written close to 3,000 songs. Mark passed away October 30th, 2022 from a drug overdose. Patrick lives in Cleveland and is planning 4 CD's of their work; 3 studio colletions and 1 live.


About the Album

The songs were originally written 1988-1989. Patrick re-recorded them all after Mark's death in November 2022. 1988 - Patrick was moving down to Columbus to go to Art School. Mark was living in Monte Rey, but wanted to come back to Ohio. We got together to write music. In the beginning, it was all poorly recorded Analogue. We wrote our first songs on Bass Guitars. Neither one of us had used real recording equipment. Everything was brand new.

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