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In the early \u201870s, there was a migration of musicians to Colorado, including Cleveland\u2019s Michael Stanley, who passed away in 2021, and Jonah <\/a>Koslen<\/a>. During that time, Stanley released two solo albums until he and Koslen returned to Cleveland and became the singer-songwriter, guitarist nucleus of the Michael Stanley Band (MSB), joined by fellow Ohioans Dan Pecchio, from Glass Harp, on bass, and Tommy Dobeck, from Circus, on drums. The quartet was signed to Epic, at the time when another Clevelander, Steve Popovich, was a vice president for the label. The band released You Break It\u2026You Bought It!<\/em> in 1975 and Ladies\u2019 Choice<\/em> in 1976. The group had a strong concert following, with Stanley having four albums of music under his name to draw from, the same number that Peter Frampton had leading to his multi-platinum breakthrough double-live album Frampton Comes Alive<\/em>. Popovich hoped for a similar fate for MSB in 1977, with a double-live album called Stage Pass<\/em>, including a fifth member, Bob Pelander on keyboards. This meant that Koslen would abandon a few songs he had written for the next studio album, which fans would not hear until now with Unreleased Tracks from the Stage Pass Era<\/em>. When Stage Pass<\/em> did not achieve the success of Frampton Comes Alive<\/em>, Koslen left the band in early 1978, released a solo album of recordings called Back Tracks<\/em>, performed a Coffee Break Concert on WMMS, a few months later formed the band Breathless, and performed in the summertime entourage the Euclid Beach Band.<\/p>\n Unreleased Tracks from the Stage Pass Era<\/em> is a limited-edition vinyl album release with three unreleased tracks from the Stage Pass<\/em> era on side one and the Coffee Break concert filling side two. Koslen spoke with Goldmine<\/em> about songs from both sides of the album.<\/p>\n JONAH KOSLEN<\/strong><\/p>\n Unreleased Tracks from the Stage Pass Era<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n JAKK\u2019D UP Records (limited edition autographed vinyl release)<\/strong><\/p>\n The beautiful \u201cWaste a Little Time on Me\u201d from You Break It\u2026You Bought It!<\/em> was selected for the Coffee Break Concert. Koslen told Goldmine<\/em>, \u201cI wrote \u2018Waste a Little Time on Me\u2019 when I moved back to Cleveland from Colorado in 1974. The title came to me first, thinking about going out and meeting people at a club, and it seemed like a perfect pick-up line. It seemed to have worked. I have had a lot of people tell me that they have had a lot of success using that line over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n