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===== Discography ===== | ===== Discography ===== | ||
- | | 1993 | Home | | + | | 1993 | [[https:// |
- | | 1993 | Jim | | + | | 1993 | [[https:// |
- | | 1994 | Beans | | + | | 1994 | [[https:// |
- | | 1994 | Cricket | | + | | 1994 | [[https:// |
- | | 1995 | Joe Christmas Playing on the Stereo | | + | | 1995 | [[https:// |
+ | | 1995 | [[https:// | ||
| 1995 | One Side Has Covers, The Other Side Doesn’t | | | 1995 | One Side Has Covers, The Other Side Doesn’t | | ||
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"2 years and a week after Mike and I first got together to record finds us making another single day live recording on the old faithful 4 track tape machine. Here we are trying to turn our songs into punk rock. We had yet to abandon our material in full, as we are trying to simply make the considerable material we had work in the environment we wanted to be in. The abandonment would take place in just a few more months. One truly new song called " | "2 years and a week after Mike and I first got together to record finds us making another single day live recording on the old faithful 4 track tape machine. Here we are trying to turn our songs into punk rock. We had yet to abandon our material in full, as we are trying to simply make the considerable material we had work in the environment we wanted to be in. The abandonment would take place in just a few more months. One truly new song called " | ||
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- | ==== One Side Has Covers, The Other Side Doesn’t ==== | ||
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- | 1995 Independent | ||
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- | Cliff Powell: Vocals/ | ||
- | Mike Holt: Guitar\\ | ||
- | Marty Shneider: Bass\\ | ||
- | Mike Pierce: Drums | ||
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- | A note on the tape cover indicates that this tape was supposed to be released on Flying Tart Records, but did not happen. Some of the cover songs were released on various Flying Tart compilations. | ||
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- | - I Don't Think | ||
- | - Coming Home | ||
- | - I Don't Mind | ||
- | - Mike's Girl | ||
- | - Tonight | ||
- | - Cryin' | ||
- | - Couple Skate | ||
- | - Makes Me Wanna | ||
- | - We Got the Beat | ||
- | - Suspicious Minds | ||
- | - Merry Christmas, I Don't Wanna Fight | ||
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- Hummer (About You) (2:03) | - Hummer (About You) (2:03) | ||
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+ | Recorded, Engineered & Mixed by Chris Colbert\\ | ||
+ | Recorded April 1995 at the Strand Theatre in Marrieta, GA \\ | ||
+ | Mixed June 1995 at Neverland Studios in Nashville, TN | ||
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+ | Recorded, Engineered & Mixed by Randy Rose\\ | ||
+ | Recorded and Mixed July 1994 at Rose Studios in Riverside, CA | ||
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+ | "Two months after our //Joe Christmas Playin' | ||
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+ | Upon arrival, we were notified that we were to play a gig with a two piece rock outfit called [[Velocipede]] and a dance rock band called [[Code of Ethics]]. We made some under our breath comments and proceeded to unpack all our stuff. The gig was the next night and we were told it would be quite the memorable experience. Code of Ethics were the headliners and their stage setup was enormous, like major label rockstar enormous. Their singer sashayed around during soundcheck holding a small dog. It was all very surreal and we felt like we were on some alien planet. The room was large, the stage was large, but the show was very very small. 10 people kind of small. We were the cold openers and were all set to make the most of it. Showtime had arrived, we got on stage and were ready to rock. I heard the crack of Pierce' | ||
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+ | So now the time had come for us to turn our attention to the real reason we had made the 12 hour drive and that was to make our album...at last. | ||
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+ | Chris Colbert was a hilarious taskmaster...shouting epithets at us to hurry up and rock, then taking breaks and going to restaurants, | ||
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+ | All in all, we recorded a whopping 23 songs, as well as a track that was five straight minutes of Mike locked away in the amp room making his guitar feedback...had to have it in full stereo, so he actually did it twice. Mike walked out of the room all smiles and drenched in sweat. He looked like he had taken a shower with his clothes on. "That was fun," he said. | ||
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+ | After a week with Chris, we packed up our stuff and went home with a rough mix of the sessions in hand. Two months later, we made the drive to Nashville for the final mix. Thinking back, I don't really know why we drove down for the mix. I think we just wanted the experience again and it was awfully fun to see and hear everything we had been working on for the past several years coming together. Plus, Chris was awesome to be around. | ||
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+ | The regular album features 18 tracks. We recorded them in the order we wanted them to appear on the album just like we had always done with our home recordings. //Brown Cow// was chosen as the title for our record after hearing Billie Joe from Green Day sing "how now brown cow" during a live rendition of their hit, "When I Come Around." | ||
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+ | //Brown Cow// was to be the culmination of everything we had been working towards as a band. However, a month or so after the album was mixed, Mike brought "Rock N' Roll Girl" to practice and everything we had been working towards as a band was discarded overnight. The next chapter of the band had commenced. Until now, we have looked at that next chapter as the beginning of the band. It has taken us a quarter of a century to give the real beginning of the band its proper due. It was a great time in our lives, filled with good songs and an awful lot of dreams. We count ourselves fortunate to have seen so many of those dreams realized. | ||
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+ | Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, | ||
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+ | Cliffy" | ||
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+ | ==== One Side Has Covers, The Other Side Doesn’t ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | 1995 Independent | ||
+ | |||
+ | Cliff Powell: Vocals/ | ||
+ | Mike Holt: Guitar\\ | ||
+ | Marty Shneider: Bass\\ | ||
+ | Mike Pierce: Drums | ||
+ | |||
+ | A note on the tape cover indicates that this tape was supposed to be released on Flying Tart Records, but did not happen. Some of the cover songs were released on various Flying Tart compilations. | ||
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+ | - I Don't Think | ||
+ | - Coming Home | ||
+ | - I Don't Mind | ||
+ | - Mike's Girl | ||
+ | - Tonight | ||
+ | - Cryin' | ||
+ | - Couple Skate | ||
+ | - Makes Me Wanna Sing Reason for the Season | ||
+ | - We Got the Beat | ||
+ | - Suspicious Minds | ||
+ | - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight) | ||
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+ | ------ | ||
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+ | ===== Links ===== | ||
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+ | * [[https:// |
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