(Tracks 1-5)
Jordan - Vocals
Chuck - Guitar
Rich - Bass (1, 2, 4)
Xavier - Bass (3, 5)
Jeff - Drums (1, 2, 4)
Chase - Drums (3, 5)

1. THE BRIDE AND THE WOLF - This song along with Law, were originally available on the Split 7" with our good friends IT'S CASUAL. This line-up gave us a little bit more of a heavy rock feel. A lot of which was due to the drummer Jeff Watson who has played in such bands as THE ICARUS LINE & SHOEGAZER among others (a very solid and heavy hitting dude). I give him a lot of credit cause three of these next 5 songs he learned and recorded all in one night. I just about killed Jeff, having just gotten off a tour with the LEMONHEADS the last thing he expected was to be playing like this for about 4 hours. Rich from the band INSTED also joined us on these recordings (albeit after the drums and guitars were recorded). It was a thrill to have Rich in to play bass on a couple of these songs, especially being such a fan of his band. The style was a little less hardcore then most Insted stuff but Rich finds his stride on the song "Designated" as he played on that track which all the Fat Wreck Chord singers contributed to.

2. LAW OF OBSERVATION - Same line up as above with Rich, Jeff, Myself and Jordan from VULTURES UNITED, this was the first time working with Jordan, things went so well and we clicked so good that I invited him back to sing on the "Children" & "Havana" covers just for fun. I'm pretty sure Jordan hadn't recorded this way before and he was totally open to try different things like standing on the other side of the room screaming to give that break in the song a real distance feel. This is a great song, a very chaotic old school style track. One of those songs I knew when recording it was going to come across great.

3. I HATE CHILDREN - This is a cover of the ADOLESCENTS classic, it actually wasn't the first Adolescents song we ever recorded. A few years earlier we did "LA Girl" on the Furious World cd. (That version didn't make it on here, as we wanted to keep a few songs floating around out there). Jordan joined me and two other guys for this recording and "Havana". Drummer Chase Manhatten who has played with DEE DEE RAMONES band and AMEN among others played drums on those two tracks. Recording with Chase was a totally new experience, as we had never even met each other before recording these two songs. We had actually been in touch through myspace and ended up chatting and decided it would be fun to record. He was familiar with both songs but had no idea at the speed I intended to play them. Nonetheless a few beers in we were recording. Had a blast and enjoyed all the great Dee Dee stories he shared. I'm sure we'll do more in the future. My friend Xavier joined me on bass, he had actually sang on the very first original Bullet Treatment track many years earlier (another track you'll have to hunt down that's not on here) and is a great bass player and huge Ramones fan so was an easy fit.

4. GOD HATES WHORES - This song is unreleased and has never been heard before this release. It was the 3rd song we recorded for the split with It's Casual and just ended up not being on the 7". A great song and I really dig the middle break.

5. HAVANA AFFAIR - This is probably my all time favorite RAMONES song. We had also actually recorded this song many years earlier for a split with RIOTGUN. The songs on that release were recorded in a pretty drunken state, and didn't live up to my expectations of how we should play a Ramones song. Grant it we never intended to get this far so having a BBQ and recording while throwing back a lot of beverages seemed like a great idea at the time. When Chase came in to record the Adolescents song we finished it and started with some Ramones talk and told him what a geek I am for them and he suggested recording another song since we were set up. I kinda had hoped he'd bring something like that up, he was game and we ripped through it.

(Tracks 6-9)
Liza - Vocals
Chris - Guitar
Chuck - Bass
Dave - Drums

6. DEAD ARE WALKING - These next 4 songs are all from the "Dead Are Walking" 7" only release with Liza Graves from CIVET singing on them. This is another situation where I had never even met Liza prior to recording the songs. I think I had mentioned to Dave one day that it would be cool to get a girl in to sing on some stuff. He was working with her at the time and said she would be into doing it. I wrote these 4 songs went in with Dave rehearsed them a few times with me on guitar and was ready to record. The only problem was I knew exactly what I wanted for the bass and guitar parts and figured I'd be better off playing bass and having someone else play guitar for these tracks. A couple songs I had written with guitar leads in mind, I was looking for a certain feel that I thought would be better accomplished by someone else performing them. Enter Chris from THE VOIDS. I've known Chris for a few years and one night his band was rehearsing and I mentioned to him if he'd like to record some stuff with me. We sat in the office at the studio a couple times, rehearsed the songs and he came in and recorded them. I really like the way all four of these came out. They have a very "analog" sound to them for whatever reason. Could be the fact we recorded them all in Dave's little rehearsal room.

7. PICK YER POISON - Now although I'm not really talking about the song it's more like a running commentary on the process of how these all came to be. A note about this 7" release we did them on multi-colored vinyl including, pink, purple, yellow, green, tan and brown. May even be one or two more I'm forgetting about, but they are all out of print so if you see one get it.

8. IN YOUR MEMORY - Liza's sis Suzy ended up actually also singing some back ups on these tracks. She knocked through these very quick. I love Chris' solo on this.

9. SWEET SOUNDS OF ROCK N' ROLL - You may wonder who actually titles the songs, for the most part I will have the person writing the lyrics title it. Although there are a few exceptions where I may have an idea or working title for them to go off of. When Liza first told me the title of this song, my first thought was is sounds like a chick named it. Haha Well there ya go.

(Tracks 10-16)
Richie - Vocals
Chuck - Guitar
Jeff - Guitar (14)
Joel - Bass (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
Adrian - Bass (16)
Dave - Drums (10, 11 12, 13, 14, 15)
Danny - Drums (16)

10. COUNTING DOWN - These next four are from "The Bigger, The Better" 7inch. This song has always been one of my favorites, it was the first song I wrote for this release and in my opinion is the best of them. Richie really nails his vocals. I had been working with him on his band in the studio and could tell what a good singer he was. It was a similar situation like with Matt, both great singers in their own right but I could tell if they let loose there was gold in there. Well Richie proved me right (just like Matt) and tore everyone a new a**hole on these songs. This was when Bullet Treatment started to really hit our stride, we identified our sound, style, and energy and although "What More Do You Want?" is the benchmark for us it was around this time period when things clicked. Even more proof that Richie could hold his own we did some shows with DEAD KENNEDY'S and Richie did all of his material as well as some of Matt's and pulled it off without a glitch.

11. FUCK UP - A lot of people have no idea this is actually a cover but it is actually a song by THE NIPPLES. I remember playing this at the HOB in San Diego and seeing the crowd going ape shit, I thought to myself the Nipples would have been proud. Great song, maybe one day we'll just record a bunch of Nipples songs.

12. TRAITOR, LIAR, FAKE - On these four songs from TBTB, Along with me and Richie, Dave played drums he has played with such kick as bands as THE DRIPS, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, SPINNERETTE and more. I've recorded with Dave probably the most and mainly because it is so frickin easy. Dave has absolutely no ego and not only takes great direction but always tends to wow anyone within listening distance. Joel actually joined us on bass for these sessions, there were like another 6 songs that we recorded but never laid down vocals for. Joel had a different style altogether; he played with his fingers (which of course made me cringe) but knew where the pocket was so fit in nicely on these songs.

13. JOSE MOLINA FROM WEST COVINA - This is a Part II to "Francisco Cabrerra From Pico Rivera", Both of these songs are an example of me having an idea with titles and having the singer run with it. Francisco was an idea I had about a Mexican Mafia guy who is a bad ass, kinda like a West Coast story of the Godfather with Latinos. Well Jose Molina messed with the wrong guy.

14. IT'S A SETUP - One of the very first original songs I wrote. This is the first recording that had us as a 5 piece, as Jeff Tucker of ROCK KILLS KID also played guitar on this track, Jeff had actually played on some of the other demos from the session but we never used them for anything. This was also the first stab at having Richie sing and getting him to let loose, you can hear the progression from this to Counting Down.

15. I'M NOT A PUNK - A cover of THE DESCENDENTS, we used to play this, "Bikeage", "I'm Not A Loser", "Sour Grapes", "Catalina", & a bunch of other Descendents songs but decided to record this one.

16. ROAD TO RUIN - This was actually recorded for a DEE DEE RAMONE tribute. It was a label in Canada that had like 30 bands all doing original songs based on Dee Dee or The Ramones. Took me like maybe 5 minutes to write the whole song. I even penned the lyrics on this one in that 5 minutes, Richie did the honors vocally though.

(Tracks 17-21)
Matt - Vocals (17, 18, 19, 20)
Vince - Vocals (18)
Bill - Vocals (21)
Chuck - Guitar
Vince - Bass (17, 18,)
Adrian - Bass (19, 20, 21)
Dave - Drums (17, 18)
Danny - Drums (19, 20, 21)

17. ORGANIZED STATE OF CRIME - This was the demo version Matt did when he first heard the song. We had a show at the Anarchy Library and wanted to play something new so I wrote this I think on wed., rehearsed it on Thurs., and played it at the show on Sat., it ended up being a different version of "A Hundred Faces" from "The Mistake".

18. FASCIST PIG - A cover of the SUICIDAL TENDENCIES classic. We had actually been playing this for fun since Dave was now playing in ST, when we were doing drum tracks for "The Mistake" I said lets record it for fun and maybe put it on the vinyl version. We did but thought it was kinda weird to put it on there since he was playing with them at the time, so we just pushed it aside. We did finish it at the very last session and had Vinnie sing and play bass, and Matt did backups.

19. PATHETIC - These next two songs are what really got the ball rolling, I had talked to Matt on the phone one day and asked if he'd be into singing on a couple of songs for a split 7". I had just recorded Matt's first band BROTHERHOOD OF DEATH and had a feeling with him just like with Richie that if he learned to let loose something killer would be there. Matt came in and knocked out these two songs. Contrary to popular belief both of these were recorded before he was in THE BRONX. It was during the "What More Do You Want?" sessions that he started up with the Bronx. Both of these versions are the original versions that were on that 7". We ended up re-recording some guitar and re-mixing them for "WMDYW", which in hindsight these are way better more punked up versions.

20. FRANCISCO CABRERRA FROM PICO RIVERA - I can't remember where I came up with the name but like I mentioned earlier it was the original idea for the Mafia dude. I think people started looking too much into the idea for this. It is and was the only song that had a concept. Next thing you know I'm getting emails asking if Francisco is the guy holding the gun to the dudes head on the cover, or if the girl from the Nipples split is actually holding the gun to that guys head and does she work for Francisco. Where's Hollywood when you need them???

21. PAY TO CUM - A Bad Brains cover, when we were recording "What More Do You Want?" We talked about recording some covers. At that time Matt, myself, Danny from ODDLAGER & THE JEFF TUCKER EXTRAVAGANZA was on drums and my buddy Adrian from my first band played bass. I threw a handful of covers to Matt and see which songs he'd like to sing on he picked "What's Your Problem?" from The CIRCLE JERKS which ended up on "WMDYW" and "Pay To Cum" which he never finished. Like I mentioned during that recording was when the Bronx got together and got signed in like two weeks. Well the music for this kicked ass and Danny's old singer from Oddlager Bill said he wanted to take a shot at singing something, well Bill came in and this is his take on the song.

(Tracks 22-25)
Icky - Vocals
Chuck - Guitar
Anthony - Guitar
Adrian - Bass
Danny - Drums

22. MASK OF ANARCHY - These next 4 songs were all released on the "Furious World" 4 way split. We actually had 7 songs on it but these are my four favorites. These songs came across a lot more hardcore sounding. Be it the riffs, vocals, whatever they are pretty in your face. This is the same backing band as "What More Do You Want?" we just were joined by Icky from the band SPIDER. Spider was a pretty well known band in the Long Beach area; they had that classic Old School So Cal sound. So this is totally different from what Icky did in that band.

23. BURN AWAY - I frickin love playing this song, it has a more old school Thrash element to it, kinda like what DRI, SOD, or ST woulda done back in the day.

24. PUSH SOME BUTTONS - This song was one of the first ones we recorded during these sessions. I remember Icky saying after he finished this song he was probably only going to be able to sing one song a day. Haha Of course I had him do at least two.

25. SCARS - A great song, and this is a little secret about this song. We recorded it and I ended up listening to a guitar demo track I had done like a week later. The opener on the original had a longer break and was a little less traditional. So I ended up having the engineer cut and paste the first measure a couple more times so when Icky came in the vocals would be in the right spot. All those first hits and bass line until the song kicks in is all cut and pasted. Punk Rock baby! Hahaha I also had a good friend of mine Anthony do some guitar stuff on here. He was in a local band my old band used to play a lot with and we always used to talk about the MISFITS, RAMONES, etc. Well low and behold one day I called Anthony and invited him down to the studio to jam, I was playing drums at the time and he was on guitar, we ended up recording the songs "Bullet" by The Misfits" & "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" by the Ramones. The songs ended up on a comp. And we needed a name, hence BULLET TREATMENT.

(Track 26)
Chuck - Guitar
Rich - Bass
Dave - Drums

26. DESIGNATED - That brings us back to present day. This is the instrumental version of the song that was released with all the multiple singers on Fat Wreck Chords. Guest vocalist who have sang on this song are Tim/RISE AGAINST, Sturg/STAR FUCKING HIPSTERS, Johnny/ SWINGIN UTTERS, Thomas/STRIKE ANYWHERE, Chris#2/ANTI-FLAG, Russ/ONLY CRIME. Vol. 2 is in the works and should be released soon. This is just the instrumental version. So if you ended up reading through all this and have a pretty good idea of how I do things with this band and you want to take a stab at doing a vocal track. Go ahead and record something to this and email it to me at: bullettreatment@yahoo.com you never know one day it may end up on a release.