SIN CITY SINNERS frontman Todd Kerns continues his track by track commentary of the band's debut album, Exile On Fremont Street, below. Part 1 can be found here.

'Arianna Incomplete' - "This song first appeared on the STATIC IN STEREO CD. There are two little girls in Canada named Arianna after this song which is beyond an honor. They are not mine! Thanks to Maury Povich for clearing that up. Vinnie Paul (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN, HELLYEAH) was involved in the mixing process of this song. Vinnie has been an amazing friend of this band for a long time. I was blown away by his knowledge behind a mixing desk. We all know he is the man behind the drum kit. That is why he is thanked on Exile as our Jedi Master. His guidance has been invaluable. This is another of those songs that is very special to me. It is a musical apology to a girl who carried me through a terrible low point in my life. We were Sid and Nancy. We all know how they ended up. We didn't end that bad thankfully. Those transitional relationships are always so troubled. 'You took the pain away, You put me back together then I broke you anyway' 'You sucked the poison out, You nursed me back to health and then I broke you anyway'. We have all been on either end of this scenario and it sucks. That's me on the shakers. I like the subtle organ part I played in the second verse. I wanted verse one to be tonally different than verse two. We de-gnarlified Ellis' bass tone in this one just barely. Ellis' bass is insane on this record. It is a big, scary monster. For this one the monster had to be just barely contained. Barely. Here's Brent Muscat revisiting the talk box from FASTER PUSSYCAT's 'Little Dove' from Wake Me When It's Over. Frampton's got nothing on him! A nice reverse guitar solo a la Hendrix. Sort of a Jimi Frampton-esque performance if you will. Our manager Jason always laughs at all the BOWIE references in these songs. This one contains a Marc Bolan from T-REX reference. 'We smoked a forest and we drank the rain but I was Bolan, you were Doris Day' Some of you might remember a Bolan reference from an AGE OF ELECTRIC song called 'I Don't Mind' -'Bolan smiling down on me.' Needless to say Marc and David have always been heroes of mine. Oh, and by the way, her real name wasn't Arianna."

'Blow Up Doll' - "Song #2 to have first appeared on the Static In Stereo CD. This one is more stripped back the way it was meant to be. My brother Ryan and I wrote this one together. Ellis abandoned a straight AC/DC line for a more early Gene Simmons walking line that gives it real swagger and dirty groove. Brent's got a two octave melody solo going on. The STONES-y/'70s glitter rock 'ooh oohs' are much more prominent in this version the way they were meant to be. Lyrically my brother brought up the idea of singing 'won't you be my blow up doll' which I suppose means 'I don't want to hear what you have to say or think. Just be available for sex.' My demented brain immediately went to Dennis Hopper's character from a film called River's Edge where he had a blow up doll as a girlfriend and everyone referred to her by name as if it were totally normal. The song starts off talking about her being made of polyurethane and having a helium brain and ends with me being made of polyurethane and having an alien brain. Who's really the blow up doll? Sounds like an adult Twilight Zone episode. One of my fave lines is- 'You're wasted with your cold Barbie-Rella eyes and your sili-clone implant disguise' Yet another Bowie reference-'Cyberspace Major Tom'."

'Big Time Superstar' - When I went to Europe with Brent's version of Faster Pussycat, featuring Eric and Brett from the original version, we started writing songs for an intended album for that band. One was 'Goin' To Vegas' and this one. Brent brought this song in. Very BEATLES meets Bowie. We got pretty carried away in the best possible way. Big QUEEN vocals. Strings, Piano. It's the most epic on the CD. The title was initially pointedly directed at someone in a negative way, but I couldn't help finding it's theme more familiar and melancholy. We've all had ups and downs in our careers. The Sinners have been lucky enough to play with a lot of cool people and every one of them were amazingly cool. This song is more directed at that 1% who were total jerks and now that it's over things must seem pretty sobering. Great solo by Brent. Really channeling his inner Clapton. I play the piano in the solo section and Ellis is on the sythetic cello. My co-producer Kurt spearheaded the great vocal arrangement in the middle eight. Very Beatles via CHEAP TRICK. That's he and I 'doo doo dooing' our way through it. Big modulation at the end taking us home. Great tremelo guitar throughout. Incidentally who was singing for Brent's version of Faster Pussycat? Kurt Frolich, our engineer and co-producer. Funny ol' world innit? Bowie reference? 'Rusted to a broke TIN MACHINE.' Jason pointed that one out to me. It wasn't intentional but Bowie had a band in the '80s with Reeves Gabrels called Tin Machine.

'Gotta Girl' - "And here comes Ellis breaking the door down! Everyone loves this song. Especially me. I remember when we were still in the planning stages of recording this record we did a show and Ellis was dressed as Jager Man. Jager Man is a character Ellis plays fueled by Jagermeister. He wears this big orange Jager helmet and a cape made from a Jager flag. I just thought to myself, 'We have to have Jager Man on this CD.' Hence 'Gotta Girl'. This band is made up of four very distinct personalities and if you come to a show you get to know each one individually. That had to be shown on the CD. I had recently got into KISS' new CD Sonic Boom at the time and decided right there and then that we needed a Gene song. Hence 'Gotta Girl'. It's loud, in your face and lovable just like Ellis. The intro guitar line is something I came up with that plays during the chorus. I like the way this song follows the softest song on the record. 'Gotta Girl' starts with a light guitar picking line leading you to believe you've reached the mellow section of the record and then Ellis crashes in and burns your house down. The words to this song make me laugh in the best way every time. Me and Rob always laugh shouting 'Porn Star!' onstage to this one. It's great. It's very honest and actually very touching in it's way. I really enjoyed coming up with all the little lead lines throughout. Always one of my fave things to do. That's me on the solo. We wanted it to be reminiscent of Ace Frehley's solo from 'Strange Ways' off Hotter Than Hell. A little bit of Tony Iommi in there too. That's us with Kurt doing our BEACH BOYS impression in the chorus. So funny how this is Pantera meets the Beach Boys."

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