Being in a band. Touring. A major label record deal. Studio time. Money. Every musician's fantasy.

Add it up and you get success. Who cares if your not happy. Just crank another album out and everything will be OK! Right?

Maybe not, especially if you ask Tommy Joy, the creative force behind Pusher, and former guiding light for the Supreme Love Gods.

So what if Joy had moderate success with SLG, got to tour all over the place, and record a couple albums. I mean, he's there! But for Joy, to get there he had to make too many sacrifices. And in the end the record deal, the money, the touring; it wasn't enough. He had to get back to the roots of rock and roll. So a few months after leaving SLG, he gets together with some friends and recorded Problems in three weeks for under $10,000, proving that you can record an album cheap but not have a cheap sound.

The standout track is "Who Isn't Lonely." The deep, probing lyrics will stay with you for a long time. And "Spit" is an in-your-face assault.

Shying away from using samplers, synthesizers and computers, his forte with SLG, Joy focuses more on the energy of rock. And how easily he meshes with the rest of the band. And it shows in the end result.