My Music Videos

These are not the punkers moshing to my casiotone, but the vibe fits. Footage from American Bandstand 1969. The music I taped in 1983 with my band The Pancake Experience with Robert Hecker.

Recorded in 2002, animated in 2023

Written in 1984, I'm using Unreal Engine 5 to bring my music to life!

An EPIC bender told the morning after, always a crowd-pleaser when we played it live! Lyrics and vocals by Colleen Lead Guitar - Jeremiah Estes Bass - Craig Ferguson Drums - Harry McDermott Recorded in 1999 on 4-Track Audiocassette

A bawdy song recorded back in the 80s with a fresh new CG music video. No, nothing here is AI, it is a 100% human voice recorded back in 1983. Through Unreal Engine 5, face capture, and a Rokoko motion capture suit, Colleen gets to have the music video she never could back then. Shame there's no MTV anymore!

I wrote this song about my parents' divorce in the middle of growing up, and how sometimes you can cry so much that it starts to feel like you're being cut up by every drop. It's me there on the tape, just out of high school. Original audio recorded in 1982, recovered from cassette tape in 2020, mastered in 2022. Lyrics, arrangement, and vocals by Colleen. "Thinking of a Friend" full album available in March from CD Baby! "Those Quiet Nights" now available on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube Music https://music.apple.com/us/album/those-quiet-nights/1673884393 https://open.spotify.com/album/6BOkgcjwOrrR0jo4D4ilw3 Today I cried Steel Tears, They fell like broken mirrors, and no-one, no-one, saw them fall but me Last night I had a dream, I cried a steady stream, of steel tears, steel tears, and no-one there, to see I'm not as detached as I'm going to get, the tears have fallen, I know that I haven't finished crying yet The tears have fallen, and left me wet And who I thought were friends have let our friendship end and I cant, I can't, understand why Here I am, alone again it's best, I know, oh, oh, evil's from your point of view, which I've left - so now the evil is gone? Last night I slept and dream't, and in my dream I wept, steel tears, steel tears, and no-one there, but me.

I wrote this more than 39 years ago, to myself. It was originally called "Picture" or "Hey You" and I wrote it as a warning, to never forget my younger self if I ever got too lost in life. Then I lost it somehow. I was archiving all my music from cassettes in 2020 and 2021, and only had a warbly instrumental version. After re-reading an article Greg Burk wrote about me in the LA Weekly back in 1998, I realized that he had it, that also Dave Van Heusen and Spot would have copies. It found its way back to me. Thank you all so very much, for Spot insisting and helping me record it (and spending after-hours time at the sound board that I never knew), for Dave Van Heusen for safekeeping and archiving it, and to Greg Burk for loving it enough to write about it. Just over the weekend, we learned that Spot passed away. I had gotten back in touch with him briefly this last year, right after Thanksgiving, and we talked on the phone for a few hours. When I didn't hear back from him, after a few tries, I made the rounds and Dave told me Spot had suffered a stroke just before Christmas. I'm so very grateful I got that opportunity to talk with him. Throughout my music release this year, there were already going to be tracks that either Spot features on in some way (drums, banjo) or that he helped produce. I originally wrote "Thinking of a Friend" (the song) about people falling out of our families and groups of friends back in the day, either to addiction or death. The whole album has that theme. Now, the album is dedicated to Spot, as without him much of it wouldn't exist. Now he is the "friend" I'm thinking of the most. Album 1: "Those Quiet Nights" Out Now - https://music.apple.com/us/album/thos... https://open.spotify.com/album/6BOkgc... https://www.colleenofficialmusic.com https://www.instagram.com/colleenoffi... www.reddit.com/r/colleenofficialmusic

Werewolf lady has a Halloween song! Originally written and performed in 1982's LA Punk scene with Robert Hecker of Redd Kross and Alan Hansford of Bulimia Banquet, this recording was made in 1999 during a live performance, now brought to life in Unreal Engine 5! Lyrics & music by Colleen (Pancake at the time).

"Fire" by Jimi Hendrix, vocals by Colleen (Pancake) Carlson. A flashback to my days in a band called "Blues Job" that later became "Trouble." Good times until the drummer got into his (first) motorcycle accident. My second band overall.