Leo Wiess

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 

Written by Gordon Lightfoot At the time it was launched in 1958, the 729-foot long, 75-foot wide freighter S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship to ply the Great Lakes. On November 10, 1975 the Fitzgerald left Superior, Wisconsin carrying 26,000 tons of iron ore pellets, bound for Detroit. Though the day was bright, in her path lay a terrible storm with 60 MPH winds and waves in excess of 15 feet. As the storm built, her experienced Captain Ernest McSorley bore north across Lake Superior, seeking the relative shelter of the Canadian shore and Whitefish Bay.

This track not only contains the song by Mr Lightfoot But also recounts the story by experts on the subject and the radio calls for help the coast guard received that fateful night!

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Learning to fly

A song recorded in 1991 by Tom Petty & the Heart breakers. A cover that in many way relates the ups and downs of recording and producing this first album myself! Ya, might re-think that for the next one!

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Hold On Baby

This song recounts my "adventures" with Pine County where we live here and a group called W.I.N.D.O.W.S which stand for something, just not sure what and last but not least, our "justice system" a very confusing term!

A few years ago I was tossed in jail for six mouths for making phone calls I never made! never proved it, never was true! the case went to trial I was convicted after laterally a smear campaign in court which had nothing to do with the charges as it turns out they were just gunning for someone anyone to make the local cops look like they were doing something. I was there scrape goat or "flavor of the month" some locals might say for awhile and for other reasons these false charges were all they could come up with at the time, "A year later after jail time" was over and most of the fines imposed paid the Minnesota state supreme court sided with me and over turned the convection completely! Siting Pine Counties notorious judicial misconduct. interestingly Pine County nor W.I.N.D.O.W.S did not show up for this hearing at all! interesting fact I think!

The original statement "Hold On Baby"actually came out of a ride to a local landmark Horton's Sawmill, to get firewood slabs that I took one sunny afternoon with my daughter Mandy many years back in our old 1950 Chevy one ton dump truck! In which I have to "pump those breaks" to get them to work! as some of you older folk may remember that was the norm even back when those tracks "brand new" or so I'm told.

Seemed at the time to be very relative statement to how our justice system is not working, so out of any of our control citizen or law maker alike and really in my opinion has become no more then a control mechanism the upper cases to use over the lower cases?, and although I must admit in the end after lots of time and money was spent on both sides and the whole point lost the case was over turned! but there is no getting that time back and no one to blame except the system itself and all it's back doors to peoples rights to be left open?  the moral? it is no longer about justice but power, control and money and really in my case it felt out of control with no brakes left at all! guess I would say this first hand experience of my own related in this song has shown this to be true! over and over again apparently as related to me by other "victims of justice" so know this, if it can happen to me it can happen to you too, Baby!

You Guys Just Kill Me

This song was written in response to artistic differences encounter with a local band I started but later left called Wolf Creek, Leo Wiess Was said to be the " Pete Best" of the group till the "Outer Spaces" solo album was produced in 2003