A Duo Recording Between Maryland and California Wrote A Guy Like Me Together
A Thousand One Night Stands runs to 20 tracks. The sixteenth, A Guy Like Me, is the one Aguon and Breen are putting back in front of listeners. It is three minutes and ten seconds of classic rock with alternative and indie edges. The duo’s two members, John Alexander Aguon Jr. and William Breen, wrote it together. The song came out on 28 June 2025. The records around it credit two studios on opposite sides of the United States.
Aguon and Breen’s A Guy Like Me is in the playlist below, and the duo’s coverage across the network is collected on the Aguon and Breen profile. The track reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Listen first, then keep reading for the two rooms behind it.
Two Home Studios More Than 2,000 Miles Apart Put Aguon and Breen in Rock’s Remote Recording Wave
The wave here is a working method. A lot of independent rock is now made by players who never share a room. One tracks the guitars, another adds the vocals, and the files cross the country until the song is finished. Then a distributor such as CD Baby puts the result straight onto streaming services, with no label in between.
Aguon and Breen are a clear case. Their recordings credit two rooms. One is Bill Breen’s Netjams Music Studios on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The other is John Aguon’s High Desert Drive Studios in Desert Hot Springs, California. Breen handles the guitars. Aguon sings, and on some tracks also plays bass and drums. On the duo’s version of 25 or 6 to 4, for instance, Breen plays guitars and Aguon handles bass, drums and vocals. Joe Martone adds piano and B3 organ.
Session Players and Family Fill Out the Credits Around the Duo
The circle is wider than two names, though. Drummer Mark Wilson appears on several recordings, while bassists Mike Pryor, Gus Velasquez and Glenn Wanex rotate through the credits. At times it is also a family affair. Jenny Aguon sings on the duo’s take of You’re All I Need to Get By, and Johnny Aguon III plays tenor saxophone on their version of Changes.
Netjams also works as the banner the duo’s music travels under online. The Netjams homepage currently features their recording of Black Cow, and it links out to Netjams playlists on Pandora. Aguon’s own profile, meanwhile, describes a producer, songwriter and human rights activist, and lists a string of other projects, from California Man to Stonepeople.
A Guy Like Me Is an Original Song Credited to Both Members of the Duo
That background matters because A Guy Like Me is not a cover. The songwriting credit goes to John Alexander Aguon Jr. and William Breen together, so this is the pair writing in their own voice rather than reworking someone else’s song.
The track sits in alt rock pop territory, with classic rock and indie rock in the mix. Its pull comes from guitar riffs, a melody that stays with you and a steady rhythm section underneath. At three minutes and ten seconds, it is also short. The song states its case and stops, which suits a catalogue built for repeat plays rather than one big moment.
The album around it shows how the duo releases music. Where most independent acts drip out one single at a time, Aguon and Breen release in bulk. A Thousand One Night Stands holds 20 tracks, with titles running from Dreaming of Guam to Bohemian Groove, and their recording of Black Cow sits among them. Their next album, Black Friday Blues Explosion, followed in July 2026 with 25 tracks.
For a listener arriving now, that scale is useful. A Guy Like Me works as a front door. If the song lands, there are dozens more recordings behind it, all made the same way.
Steely Dan, ZZ Top and Chicago Are the Classic Rock Neighbours Aguon and Breen Keep Recording
The quickest way to place this duo is to look at the songs they cover. Each one points at a different corner of the catalogue, and together they explain the sound of A Guy Like Me.
Steely Dan is the closest neighbour. Black Cow opens the 1977 album Aja, and Aguon and Breen recorded it with guest players on guitar interlude, piano, bass and drums. That fits the reference. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen stopped touring in 1974 and built their records from session musicians in the studio. A duo that assembles songs from parts recorded in different rooms works in that tradition. The only change is that the rooms are now thousands of miles apart.
ZZ Top marks the heavier side. The duo’s version of I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide, from the 1979 album Degüello, puts Breen on lead guitar over Gus Velasquez on bass and Mark Wilson on drums. That is a riff-first choice, and it shows where the guitar on their own songs comes from.
Chicago is the third marker. 25 or 6 to 4 came out in 1970 and remains one of the best-known riffs of its era. Taking it on with piano and B3 organ in the credits shows a duo comfortable with arranged rock as well as bar-band rock.
Bowie, the Beatles and a Motown Duet Round Out the Duo’s Reference Library
The wider list confirms the range. David Bowie’s Changes from 1971 and The Beatles’ I Am the Walrus from 1967 sit alongside a Motown duet. In other words, the duo’s reference library is the full span of rock radio.
So the audience is clear. A Guy Like Me is for listeners who grew up on that radio and still want new songs written in its language. It also suits anyone who likes a record that sounds played by people rather than assembled from loops, even when those people are recording on opposite coasts.
The RockRevival.News curator team put it this way:
“Aguon and Breen use the classic rock catalogue as a working library. A Guy Like Me is what two players who have recorded Steely Dan and ZZ Top sound like when they write their own song, and over a year after release it still earns its place on the album.”
Where to Hear A Guy Like Me and Follow Aguon and Breen
Stream A Guy Like Me on Spotify or Apple Music, where A Thousand One Night Stands and Black Friday Blues Explosion hold the rest of the catalogue. Follow Aguon and Breen across platforms: Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube and Facebook. The duo’s page at Netjams collects their videos and recordings.
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