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 | 1993 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2021/02/21/cricket-home-foundations-volume-1/|Home]] | | 1993 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2021/02/21/cricket-home-foundations-volume-1/|Home]] |
 | 1993 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2021/02/28/cricket-jim-foundations-volume-2/|Jim]] |  | 1993 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2021/02/28/cricket-jim-foundations-volume-2/|Jim]] | 
-| 1994 | Beans | +| 1994 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/cricket-beans-foundations-volume-3/|Beans]] 
-| 1994 | Cricket | +| 1994 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2021/03/14/cricket-cricket-foundations-volume-4/|Cricket]] 
-| 1995 | Joe Christmas Playing on the Stereo |+| 1995 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2021/03/20/cricket-joe-christmas-playin-on-the-stereo-foundations-volume-5/|Joe Christmas Playing on the Stereo]] | 
 +| 1995 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/cricket-brown-cow-foundations-volume-6/|Brown Cow]] |
 | 1995 | One Side Has Covers, The Other Side Doesn’t | | 1995 | One Side Has Covers, The Other Side Doesn’t |
-| 1995 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/cricket-brown-cow/|Brown Cow]] | 
  
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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 "Dad" makes an appearance as does a better version of "Jet Plane." Blood gets new lyrics and becomes "Homer" (I don't understand either title), "Colour" gets reworked into something resembling Green Day's "She." "Wrapped Around You" and "If They Said" get similar Green Dayesque treatments as well. Of note, are the bonus tracks... our first ever Ramones cover (complete with slightly incorrect lyrics) and an "oh so punk rock" Stryper cover ("Reason for the Season" sung with the lyrics of "Makes Me Wanna Sing").  This recording is interesting as you can clearly hear that we were heading straight for the punk rock sound that we would soon find ourselves embracing fully. It just took the willingness to truly start over to get there." "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 "Dad" makes an appearance as does a better version of "Jet Plane." Blood gets new lyrics and becomes "Homer" (I don't understand either title), "Colour" gets reworked into something resembling Green Day's "She." "Wrapped Around You" and "If They Said" get similar Green Dayesque treatments as well. Of note, are the bonus tracks... our first ever Ramones cover (complete with slightly incorrect lyrics) and an "oh so punk rock" Stryper cover ("Reason for the Season" sung with the lyrics of "Makes Me Wanna Sing").  This recording is interesting as you can clearly hear that we were heading straight for the punk rock sound that we would soon find ourselves embracing fully. It just took the willingness to truly start over to get there."
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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/guitars\\ 
-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)
  
 +Tracks 1-24:
  
 +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
 +
 +Track 25:
 +
 +Recorded, Engineered & Mixed by Randy Rose\\
 +Recorded and Mixed July 1994 at Rose Studios in Riverside, CA
 +
 +"Two months after our //Joe Christmas Playin' on the Stereo// demo, we haphazardly packed our gear in a U-Haul trailer, hitched it up to my car and drove to Marietta, GA with our friend, Luke, to record our first album. At this point, we had been a signed recording artist for more than a year, and, with all of the home recording we had done, we were chompin' at the bit to record a proper studio album. Our label had recruited a producer we all knew and highly respected to work with us, Chris Colbert. They also secured a place for us to record, sleep and gig at, the Strand Theatre.
 +
 +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's snare and proceeded into the riff of our first song (a mocking cover of Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69"). At the exact moment the full band came in, I broke a string. I didn't have a backup guitar. Boom...our portion of the show was over practically the moment it began. Luke came running up, laughing like crazy and saying how it was the most punk rock thing he'd ever seen. We passed the time the best we could for the rest of the show, which consisted mostly of us making fun of everything going on around us. It was all very ridiculous to us and we didn't exactly hide that fact.
 +
 +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.
 +
 +Chris Colbert was a hilarious taskmaster...shouting epithets at us to hurry up and rock, then taking breaks and going to restaurants, telling us behind the scenes stories about all the bands we had known and loved growing up. Chris was actually quite kind and patient with us and very VERY good at recording and production. We learned a ton during this experience.
 +
 +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.
 +
 +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.
 +
 +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." Pierce says it was my idea and that he never liked that title. While I have no memory of this, I certainly make no dispute of this account. Every song we recorded with Chris Colbert appears on this 6th and final volume of our Foundations set, as well as one other real studio recording we did with [[Randy Rose]] ([[Mad at the World]]) in California the year before.
 +
 +//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.
 +
 +Thank you from the bottom of our hearts,
 +
 +Cliffy"
  
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 +==== One Side Has Covers, The Other Side Doesn’t ====
 +
 +1995 Independent
 +
 +Cliff Powell: Vocals/guitars\\
 +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.
 +
 +  - 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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 +===== Links =====
 +
 +  * [[https://huntingtonsusa.bandcamp.com/music|The Huntingtons BandCamp page]]
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