The Beatles  I Feel Fine has been a staple for the band since before we were “the band,” dating back to our porch party days!  Even back then we somehow started doing it as this reggae-bluegrass mashup!

Rich: “An original ZFB Halloween porch party stomper since the early oughts!  We'd like to congratulate beer for its assistance as co-arranger of this tune. The reggae-hillbilly genre is gonna catch on with them there Tik-Tok-ers! Take it, mon!”

Pete: “Apologies to the Fab Bour for messing with this classic…

As has become our custom, Zen Fuse Box and the Daughters of Zen convened at MPQ Studios for the MLK holiday weekend!  Much food and beer were consumed, and we even got some stuff recorded!  

On the recording front, we finalized some overdubs on a few tracks slated for our next album of original material, including Red Lights and Bigfoot O' Bigfoot.  We also started recording what is likely the last track to be added to our next album, a piece that Steve conceived entitled 1-2-3, a one-chord epic in three…

We're happy to announce the release of our latest single, The Night Before Christmas, just in time for the holiday season! 

It's a ZFB-hip-hop take on the classic Clement Clarke Moore poem from 1822 entitled “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” but popularly known as “T'was the Night Before Christmas.” 

Our tune features Peter Preston on vocals and harmonica; Rich Marcil on guitars; Steve Davis on bass, keyboard, sleigh bells and vocals; and the Daughters of Zen on “Flaaah."  (It's a throwback to our tune The…

! We had a fantastic time (some may say it was too fantastic) performing at the 2025 DeLand Original Music Festival!

Our set at the lovely Abbey Wine Bar (formerly Red's or Hamm's or some such) may have been our tightest set ever - rehearsal pays off!   Below are some pics of our adventures!

 We partied hard, but not hard enough to have to visit the inside of the court house.

On the back porch of our AirB&B. Pete swears his boots smell earthy.  We just choose to take his word! 

A few post-show shots! 

As of the…

Just in time for Halloween 2025, we've released our latest single and music video, Ghost Dance!  Links to the audio and video are below, but first here's the artwork, created for us by Abby Marcil!

The guys' thoughts on the song:

Rich: Ghost Dance started as a song back in January ‘25, when I was at home playing guitar to some drum loops and came up with a few punky riffs that I arranged into song sections. Later in the month, I presented the guitar/drum arrangement to the guys with the working title of Ghost…

The band, and the Daughters of Zen, got together over the weekend of August 15-17, 2025 to record music, shoot video, eat food and drink beer (not necessarily in that order). 

As always, the weekend started with a listening session of our works-in-progress, to whet our creative appetite.  It worked because we recorded an upcoming Christmas tune, a cover of the Beatles' “Mean Mr. Mustard,” and some ongoing original tunes including “Too Much Too Soon,” “Big Indie Psychedelic,” and “Every Day a Holiday.” 

The…

We are excited to announce the release of our latest single, Blast Off! 

The song came about as an idea that Rich had for our last weekend recording session. Essentially the idea was that each of us would come into the weekend with a song idea or fragment, and that we would collectively work on them, with the goal of having three fully written and recorded tunes by the end of the weekend.

Blast Off! is the first of those three songs to be released. (The others, Ghost Dance and Red Lights are in the process of…

Chicago is a tune by Sufjan Stevens, from his 2005 album, Illinois. Our cover version is on Audio Dropouts, Vol. 1, and our thoughts on the song are below:

Rich: "I've always loved this Sufjan Stevens tune and suggested it to the guys. It was awesome to hear the Daughters of Zen sing the chorus, and Steve did a nice mixing job blending the voices of the 5 girls. Pete should win an Oscar for his performance on the video. I laughed, I cried, I ate Junior Mints.

Pete: “I first heard this song at my daughter's…

Overkill was written by Colin Hay for Men at Work's 1983 album “Cargo,” and it reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Our version appears on “Audio Dropouts, Vol. 1” which was released on September 15, 2023. Our commentary on the ZFB version follows:

Steve: “Well, this one is my solo piece.  From time to time, I sneak a solo recording in as a surprise, and since I'm the chief mixer and engineer, the other guys don't seem to mind (or maybe they do and just don't complain!).  I've liked this song since I heard…

Sunshine Superman is the first track on our 2025 cover tunes collection, Audio Dropouts, Vol. 2 (after the introductory WZEN (good morning) which is a tone-setter for the album). The song was written by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan,  and was originally released in 1966. The cast of session musicians on the song included pre-Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, and the song reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

Pete suggested this one as a song we should cover, and he was right! We had a lot…