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Singer-- Chris Elliott is a recording every note, and doing so under DIY record the tracks? the original blueprint of how the song sounds and wordsmith of the highest order. With an innate constraints—using simple gear, limited resources, An old MacBook—from back when they were feels solo and, importantly, what the songs means. ability to turn a simple word or phrase into a and a handful of instruments. I get fired up and white—hooked up to a 4-channel Motu Traveler So, by the time I record, I’ve settled on the thought provoking puzzle, it’s no surprise that feel comfortable faced by limited options, not preamp/board running Audiodesk, which is a sonic character—things like key, tempo, and chord the well known musician is on the staff of the overwhelming possibilities. I like toiling over a solid ProTools knock-off with a decent suite of voicings, plus attitude, vibe, or feel–and then the International Language Institute of dozen mixes of the same track like I do a dozen effects and compression choices, and a clutch details of overdubs or production touches may in Northampton, MA. His love for words and his drafts of the same song. of Rode NT-1A mics. Mixed and mastered 24-bit. evolve as I add to and subtract from the mix. There simmering musical prowess makes him a mighty Also, to my taste, I don’t like the aesthetic of solo Hats off to Tom at Thomas Eaton Recording for isn’t much you hear in the final recorded track that’s musical mensch indeed. artists bringing in hired guns to lay down virtuoso recommending this set-up. It’s all I know and all not suggested or implied in the solo arrangement. Riding the wave of his latest , the self overdubs. I’ve heard many generic, overproduced I need. Like Ragu spaghetti sauce, “It’s in there.” titled offering captures Elliott’s brilliant prose and albums by otherwise interesting, idiosyncratic METRONOME: What instruments do you play METRONOME: How does the songwriting musical ingenuity in all it’s glory. But don’t take my artists whose songs and solo performances can on the record? process work for you? Personal? Observational? word for it. Experience it for yourself. You won’t speak for themselves. The point of recording is to Electric and acoustic guitars, plus the same Completely off the wall? be sorry... Tough question. I like all three choices you give. So yes. All three. At once. to write songs that METRONOME: Your new album is joyously are different, sound fresh, and don’t waste the clever. How long did it take to write the songs? listener’s time. I work on having an interesting Chris: In most cases, many years to reach a point of view, strong hooks, vivid language, and final version, and seldom less than months. When a timeless quality. The ideal is to compress your I have an idea for a song that fires me up, I’ll revise best ideas into little three or four minute nuggets. for however long it takes to perfect it. I’ll discard However, if I had to choose, I’d say observer. completed drafts entirely, weigh every word As an only child, I’m accustomed to looking at the choice, even debate a “the” or “a.” In a moment of world from the outside in, so in that sense, I’m an inspiration, a first draft may come together quickly, observer, thinking to myself, “Well, look over there, but then months or years of revision may go by that’s crazy!” or “Alas, behold the folly of man.” before I’m happy. Other times I’ll carry a notion Still, without a personal connection, I won’t find the for a song in the back of my mind for years until fire in my belly to write about what I observe, or the missing piece or right arrangement suddenly I won’t have a point of view worth elaborating on comes to me, and it all comes together organically. in song. In terms of “off the wall,” I get ideas any Patience is key. place, any time, from songs, books, conversations, On this album, the oldest songs, like “Cinderella’s silent musing. You never know what borrowed line, Midnight Surprise,” “Cheat on You,” and “Star odd image, or sudden conjured turn of phrase will Trek, Star Wars, and the Holy Bible” are over seize your imagination. twenty years old, dating back to early drafts on METRONOME: How many albums do you have demo tapes. These earlier versions have extra to your credit? verses, different lines, different arrangements—but My other in-print solo record is 2004’s Satellite, the same basic gist. I don’t like recording until UFO, Jet Place, and Star. This pre-dates me having performing the song in front of an audience for a a home studio, so it’s recorded at Mixed Emotions reality check. This is part of the revision process Music with a host of friends and guest musicians. to get a feel for what works and what doesn’t. Before that, I sold CD-Rs like Round Like an Other songs cannibalize previous incarnations. Orange and Voice, Guitar, and Ten Good Songs For example, “Round Like an Orange” arose from recorded with Steve Freidman, and a demo tape the ashes of “Point of View,” which I recorded on with Steve Rapson. an old out of print CD called, coincidentally, Round Austin & Elliott put out Cradle and Crow in Like an Orange. Both of these songs grew out the 2016. Another spare, acoustic CD came 13 Songs traditional ballad “Jim Jones” and the magical Plus out in 2005ish—different versions came out realist imagery of One Hundred Years of Solitude. in CD-R, so the dates vary. Most of this music is There are exceptions to my practice of obsessive available on Bandcamp, Spotify, CD Baby and revision. “Sleepwalkin’” was written and recorded other usual suspect. Our EP Truth That Hurts is a in less than a day. It was inspired by a series of create fleshed-out, crafted versions that are true bass, 6-string , hand drum, and kick drum full-band production produced by Lorne Entress; photographs by my friend Maya Krinsky depicting to the core of the song and devoid of distracting, that Lisa Austin uses in our duo. On top of that, a physical copies are long out of print, but it’s junk and detritus, plus a conversation about how extraneous elements. It’s all about the song. selection of public domain samples I hunted down available digitally. people join cults to escape the somnambulance of METRONOME: How long did it take to record and tweaked, plus a couple of drum beats I bought METRONOME: Who are some of your musical daily life. Later I added the clip from Night of the the CD? from a royalty-free service. My is influence? Living Dead, which is dear to my heart. I grew up On and off for 8 or so years, while also recording the best thing I own. It was made by Alan When I first started writing songs, it was Bob on Romero movies. Austin & Elliott’s Cradle & Crow. Plus, my hard Carruth. Check out his instruments. Dylan and related singer-: , METRONOME: Did you know going in to the drive is full of other songs for future collections, METRONOME: Did you have definitive ideas , , Dan Bern, album that you were going to handle a bulk of as well as outtakes and alternative versions. I’m so for how each song would sound before the Loudon Wainwright III, Robyn Hitchcock and the instrumentation and vocals yourself? thankful technology allows us to make and record recording process or did they evolve as you Johnny Cash. Since then, my favorites include Absolutely, except for Lisa’s vocals on a couple music at home. Gone are the days of flushing away went along? Todd Snider, Low, the Handsome Family, the tracks. I like doing everything myself. I’m an only weeks of wages in an hourly studio, making do Once I start recording, I have a strong sense of Decembrists, , Gillian Welch, Patty child. If I don’t know an instrument or production with takes and mixes as time and money run out. the sonic template in mind. I write and arrange all Griffin, James McMurtry, the Violent Femmes, and technique, I’ll learn it myself, my own way. If it’s Now for a fraction of the cost, we can DIY till the my songs for solo acoustic guitar. When recording, many others. not perfect, it will be different, and that’s more cows come home, exercising total artistic control, my goal is to produce a fleshed-out realization For blues, guys like Blind Willie McTell, Blind important. recording live whenever the spirit moves us. of the solo arrangement. In the studio, if I add Willie Johnson and Son House had a huge impact. Part of the fun is composing, performing, and METRONOME: What medium did you use to instrumentation or production touches, I follow Besides Americana, in the late and early 90s, like Pixies, REM, Bauhaus, , like Kafka and Swift. The essays of David Foster arrangements, one day the current one cut through and my favorite song. What prompted that one? , King Missile, plus some reggae and Wallace, though I’d be a poseur to pretend I’ve the clutter, simple like a knife. Not sure what prompted it. Johnny Cash meets soul—all this moved me. I suppose much of this yet to muster the fortitude to tackle Infinite Jest. METRONOME: Was “Home For The Holidays” the funny songwriters that influence me. An early is to be expected from a guy in . METRONOME: Who else played on the album taken from your personal diary? version without the last verse is on a 1996 demo In addition, I’m also into metal and prog-rock. with you? That’s a good example of how the observational tape. I still remember submitting it to WERS to The first records I ever bought were a 45 single Lisa sang a few back-ups. Otherwise, just me, and personal intersect. Half is based on personal book an in-studio interview. When I called to follow of AC/DC, “Back in Black” and a 45 of the Bee for better or worse. experience, the rest invented from observation or up, the person booking balked, saying, “Your voice Gees, “Stayin’ Alive.” To my still-forming brain, METRONOME: Your songs are sinfully quirky. exaggerated for comic effect. On a personal note, and guitar playing is fine, but I’m not sure I’m they were equally rad. Do a mash-up of “Back in How do you come up with the ideas that fuel the line calling out the passive/aggressiveness of comfortable with the content.” To be fair, that early Black” and “Stayin’ Alive” right now in your head. the prose? carnivores against vegetarians definitely comes version may not have worked as well—the attitude It totally works. Both have a driving, bad-ass minor Ha, “sinfully quirky.” Sounds like marketing for from my life; Lisa’s vegan, and I’m kind of, almost of the singer may have been more obnoxious and key groove. decadent, but peculiar chocolate. What can I say? there. Carnivores often complain that vegans less comical. In fact, I played the song out live a If I had to choose two albums that lay the All of us are born sinners, but only some of us are are shrill ideologues, but in my experience most couple years before realizing how much stronger foundation for this and future solo records it born strange? I’m left-handed, and pretty much vegans mind their own business; on the contrary, the song would be with a killer, OTT finale. Duh. would be Freewheelin’ and I Often on the left in every other respect too? if anybody’s shrill, it’s the meat-eaters who more Then it came to me, “If it’s a ménage a tois/you’re Dream of Trains or Eye by Robyn Hitchcock. I’m inspired by the folk revival notion of the often get in your face, make little comments, act not invited, ha ha ha.” Dylan’s “Master’s of War” showed me how folk singer/songwriter as “a lone guitar and point of weirdly defensive, smirk. Well, you say it’s hilarious, but it depends. music could be dark, driving, and bad-ass, and view.” To pinpoint where my ideas come from, I’d By the way, the hook line, “Jesus was a lamb/ Years ago I sang it at a comedy open mic at the “Talking World War III Blues” showed me how folk have to map out the points of intersection of my life lambs get slaughtered” is played for laughs here; Lizard Lounge. Nobody laughed. Maybe one music humor didn’t have to be corny and tepid, as an only child who got bullied and grew up to be I also appropriated that line for a darker, grimmer titter. That was eye-opening. I learned that what but satirically edgy, philosophical and cutting. an aspiring wordsmith with a music collection that context for an Austin & Elliott tune of that name. works in the context of a musical performance Robyn Hitchcock, with his combination of humor, consists of Americana, metal, prog, and comedy. METRONOME: “Procreation Song” was stark may not necessarily work in a comedy context. weirdness, sentimentality, and his mixing of METRONOME: What made you throw in sound and to the point? How did you come up with After bombing, I remember commenting to a local pop, rock, psychedelic, folk and even a Capella, bytes on the CD from TV shows and the like? that tune? comic who I knew from the Passim open mic, showed me how a solo record could create its The idea comes from artists like You might laugh, but that song is partially “That went great, except nobody laughed,” and own unique world, complete unto itself, diverse, BDP/KRS-One, , and Public Enemy. In inspired by “Procreation of the Wicked” by Celtic we talked about how stand-up comedy songs are whimsical, outside of trend and time. So those two particular, I get a kick out of how certain tracks of Frost, which sports the raddest doom riff this different from clever folk songs. You don’t make a songwriters taught me breadth and depth. theirs juxtapose ironic, even goofy spoken samples side of Sabbath. That, and misanthropic stand- comedy audience roar with unbridled laughter by Randy Newman taught me concision -- editing with the gravity of the social criticism, slamming up from Bill Hicks and George Carlin, SF books, rhyming “floozy” with “Jacuzzi.” Now, after loving songs down to the essential core and leaving beats, and intricate wordplay. For instance, check my own ambivalence about the future of our and Flight of the Concords, I get it. things unsaid. His songs can imply so much with out the clips scattered across BDP’s By All Means species on this planet, and old folk songs that Those songs are hilarious in a comedy show way, a handful of simple lines. Like the old saying about Necessary (“I’m a philosopher…I think very subversively question call the verities of family not a funny folk song way. how what matters isn’t the notes you play, but the deeply”) and Sex and Violence (“Feeling laid back life. The lyrics came together relatively quickly, METRONOME: How often do you play live? notes you don’t play. Same goes with words. and mellow”). A great example: at the beginning of almost cathartically, but I’m always changing the We aim for 2 to 3 times a month, sometimes Because I spend creative time with singer/ Ice Cube’s “Bird in the Hand” on Death Certificate, riff. It’s like a blues song in that the words could more, sometimes less. To find out about shows, songwriter folk, in my downtime as a music fan and a chirpy cartoon bird says, “I was just cleaning out fit endlessly varied arrangements. For the album, sign up for our newsletter at austinandelliott.com. record collector, I tend to delve into other genres. my nest, and I found an old book of my poetry,” one day I tuned the low E down to A and started METRONOME: Are you having a CD release I listen to 70’s prog like King Crimson, Rush, Eloy, and then Ice Cube launches into a cutting, socially pretending I was Tony Iommi. The only time I ever show for this album? and Italian groups like Le Orme and Banco, as conscious rap about guns and poverty. I love that played it out was with Lisa and my friend Josh Maybe eventually, but really, every show is a well as metal of all vintage, from thrash texture. Besides hip hop, I’m quite taken with how Owsley on upright bass at a gig going by the release show. Every day I’m releasing my music, to the contemporary underground. A few names Steven Wilson incorporated sound bytes into early name Harbinger (with an umlaut). That time the is the way is see it. for the curious: Voivod, Baroness, Yob, , Porcupine Tree, my favorite modern prog band. riff was different, with the E tuned down to C. The METRONOME: Tell us about your duo, Austin Electric Wizard, Dark Tranquillity, Trouble, Clutch. METRONOME: “Jesus My Son” is brilliant. What lick sounded a little like Billy Squire’s, “Everybody & Elliott. Is that your primary group? Finally, thanks to a series of lecture by the Teaching inspired that tune? Wants You,” but twisted and metal-y. Yes. Lisa and I sing songs about love gone Company, about 6 years ago I got into classical I don’t remember exactly, except that I’m I also recorded a version with extensive wrong and death done right. I write most of that music, especially Beethoven and Haydn. All of this prone to mull over themes of religion and a fallen sampling of an Alan Lomax field recording of a material too. It’s less satirical, darker and more music seeps into my own. My house is overflowing world, as do many of my favorite comedians chain gang song called “Early in the Mornin’” by emotional, but still narrative, reflecting the same with CDs and vinyl. In fact, I may have a problem. and songwriters. As with many other songs, for Parchman Farm prisoners. I’ve tried to contact dark, irreverent sensibility. I’d be remiss not to mention a few literary heroes years I carried around the idea of God having a for permission to use this and METRONOME: Where can people go to find out too: bleeding heart cynics like Vonnegut and concerned sit-down with his Only Son. As with other Lomax recordings on future CDs, but thus more about you on the internet? George Saunders; witty poets like Thomas Lux; many of my satirical songs, early drafts were more far in vain. So if you’re out there Rounder—have They can go to the web sites: www. surrealistic poets like James Tate; horror/Weird/ jokey, and over time it grew more deadpan and your people reach out to my people (my people austinandelliott.com, christopherthomaselliott. SF writers like Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Jeff poignant as I widdled it down to the core irony and being me). com or the Facebook pages for Chris Elliott Songs Vandermeer, James Tiptree/Alice Sheldon; classics bedrock emotion. 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As a mental skillfully orchestrated and performed and • ORACLE Brigette Herron and Mary Jane Hassell health advocate, Booth’s mission resonates will lend themselves well to the live arena. • START IT share vocals and it is difficult to figure out close to her heart and she’s found a way Radio friendly tracks of note include • BOUNDLESS INFORMANT who sings what without seeing them live. to make her music speak for people who the rousing album opener, “Need,” the • NEVERMIND THE COBBLESTONES However, they do manage to maintain an would otherwise not have a voice. shufflin’ blues saunter of “Layin’ It Down (In • YELLOW HEART IS MY SKY SIGN analog sound signature. Instrumental in nature (with implied Beantown)” featuring James Montgomery • WINTER’S MIND “Incinerate” has a sassy vocal take, vocals), Booth has created a dreamy, on , the high-steppin’ “Treat You • THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS vaguely reminiscent of Luscious Jackson in otherworldly musical space that is both Right,” and the smoldering future classic • JULIA the late 1990s, in front of a neat tranquil and exhilarating. All the instruments arena ballad, “Why.” • NRC melody and machine like beat that could and voices are performed by Booth with Singers Terri O’Soro, Mary Beth Maes • SHIFTCHANGER have come straight out of MTV in 1982. careful aplomb while Sara Cashman makes and Joanie Cicatelli also add their stellar • THE REST OF US “Noise Problems” allows the noisy guitars a vocal cameo on the song, “Indecision.” backing vocals to this outstanding project • ME AND NANCY to enter the mix for more horsepower to Favored tracks: the prodigious “Opus of new original Beantown rock & roll. Good • PRETEND TO BEND back the dual vocals. “Blackwater Homes” 714,” the solemn “First Order Beating,” the stuff! [B.M.O.] • COUNT TO TEN has cool chanting. “Start It” rocks out hopeful “Will Never Break,” and the chiming Contact-- • MAGIC JANUARY more while sideswiping conventionality. bonus track “Awake.” [D.S.] www.barrygoodreausengineroom.com • DREAM SUGAR “Nevermind the Cobblestones” is a sweet Contact-- www.dedebooth.bandcamp.com • PITOCIN ENDUCTION HOUR and simple lo-fi indie pop song so utterly • IMAGES OF FUTURE SELVES charming and exposed, you’ll feel like TUNABUNNY • COME FEED YOUR DOGS joining in. BARRY GOODREAU’S ENGINE ROOM PCP PRESENTS ALICE IN • WORK IT AROUND “Winter’s Mind” could be a new age camp FULL STEAM AHEAD WONDERLAND JR • REVOLUTION NONE fire song and shows their lo-fi tendencies 11-SONG CD 28-SONG DOUBLE VINYL LP • I THOUGHT I CAUGHT IT (With You) again. Tunabunny maintains the lo-fi vibe with the bouncy rhythm and jangly guitars • NEED • CARTESIAN THEATER In contrast to Tunabuny’s intimate fourth of “The Rest of Us.” “Pretend to Bend” has • LAYIN’ IT DOWN (In Beantown) • INCINERATE album, which had the listener feel as if strong post punk/new wave echoes with • TIME its searing electronic backing and urgent • TREAT YOU RIGHT beat all while the vocals have an almost • DIRTY classical quality. “Count to Ten” could have • KEEP THE FAITH been a children’s chant, but the paranoid • DON’T STOP PLEASE! intonations and atonal non-melody will • WHY make sure this never happens. “Magic • BALL KEEPS ROLLIN’ January” and “Come Feed Your Dogs” • REASON TO RHYME reduces the proceedings to the absolute • ALL MINE minimum of melody and rhythm or guitar within a very echoing environment. Some of Former Boston and RTZ guitarist Barry it is quite repetitive. Goodreau has been quiet on the recording “I Thought I Caught It (with You)“ sees scene for many years... until now. After the two vocalists harmonizing together being inspired by Jonny Lang when sitting on a lovely and emotional indie pop that in with him on the “2016 Experience reaches new highs with a minimum of Hendrix Tour,” Goodreau went back to his filler but a lot of cymbal crashes which sketch pad and started writing new music must be invigorating live as a set ender inspired by the blazing blues-rock sounds when they perform in their Athens, of the 1960’s and 1970’s. headquarters. They have quite a few “found Enlisting old RTZ friends, singer- objects” or experiments like songs number keyboardist Brian Maes and bassist Tim 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 26, 27 in Archibald, the idea for a new band was which Tunabunny loosen their creativity to formulated from the trio’s very first meeting the utmost and challenge the listener to find together. After fleshing out many of the the point they are making. While I like a lot songs, drummer Tony DiPietro was added of the tunes, the old saying “Less is more” to the fold and the nucleus of the band was comes to mind. [Gecko] complete. With the passing of Goodreau’s Contact-- tunabunny.bandcamp.com musical partner, singer Brad Delp, Maes was asked to handle the lead vocal responsibilities, a position he accepted with LOS TONES honor. WHAT HAPPENED On Full Steam Ahead, Goodreau and 10-SONG CD the Engine Room leave all their collective band experiences behind to create a fresh • BATTERY ACID sounding rock & roll experience. Expounding • WASTED • THE DOOR The title track, is more paced and • SHAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS • RUNNING OUT OF TIME pensive, but the guitar solos bring you back • THAT’S WHO I AM • WHAT HAPPENED into the fold every time. “Eye Jammer” has • DIVING DUCK BLUES • EYE JAMMER a far away echoing effect amid a tense but • SQUEEZE BOX • SINKING IN fast paced jam, only interrupted by a doom • AIN’T NOBODY TALKIN’ • RAT BAG ridden middle eight. “Sinking In” is a bit • SOUL • HOLD ON more easy going with a nice swing and a • WAITING ON THE WORLD TO CHANGE • WITCH HAZEL snooty vocal take. “Rat Bag” is mostly in www.facebook.com/metronomemagazineboston 2/2, but the refrain takes you on a lovely Longtime fans of both Keb’ Mo’ and Taj Today’s more sophisticated garage bands roller-coaster ride and then has a tasty solo Mahal, are going to find their new release, sound a lot better than many of the originals giving you one more bang upside the head. TajMo, a welcomed, prescribed elixir of the the world. Either way, it rocks to the core. back in the swinging ‘60s. Having reliable “Hold On” qualifies as a fast and loose joy blues from these two iconic players. The duo settles in for a Sleepy John Estes equipment and knowing how to generate ride through a bright colorful hillside of It’s nears to impossible to ignore the backporch short on “Diving Duck Blues” the authentic sound in a studio environment Arizona peyote flowers with no ballast to chemistry between these two spirited before reinventing ’s is half the battle. All they need to do is hold it down save the searing solo. It’s a performers after listening to just the “Squeeze Box” into an exuberant Zydeco write decent songs and deliver them with worthy heir to “Can’t Explain.” opening notes of the album’s revelatin’ romp. passion. Los Tones, the mutant Australian “Witch Hazel” slows down a smidgen for commencement track, “Don’t Leave Me “Ain’t Nobody Talkin’” is straight bastard sons of ? and the Mysterions and a more thoughtful jaunt through your frontal Here.” Their voices are steeped in emotion out of a film noire and performed with the Human Expression, have this down to cortex before closing off the disc. Rocky and tradition as they bring the blues to cool collectedness. Keb’ Mo’s “Soul” a science. You get a chromatic psychedelic Erikson himself would tip his hat, if he the ears of a whole new generation of incorporates Afro/Caribbean rhythms for wall of sound with lysergic high pitched remembered where it was. File this release millennials. a beautifully crafted song that speaks the vocals that will melt half your brain and get in your medicine cabinet. [Gecko] “She Knows How To Rock Me” is a language of the ancients. Closing out the the other half hooked. Contact-- los-tones.bandcamp.com/ playfully simple ditty while “All Around The album with ’s “Waiting On The The intro to “Battery Acid” builds a huge album/what-happened World” features a full band production and World To Change,” Keb’ and Taj pile on amount of tension for a long while and then groove. “Om Sweet Om” is a beautifully a much needed helping of hope of their kicks in for a wild ride of twangy ‘60s guitar arranged number that features the vocal own while staying true to Mayer’s original and microphone attitude as well as a fair TAJ MAHAL & KEB’ MO’ prowess of Lizz Wright. Steely Dan comes sentiment. dose of soul. Here, Los Tones avoid the TAJMO to mind on “Shake Me In Your Arms with This superb album from Keb Mo and repetitive riff for a wildly varied texture and 11-SONG CD it’s infectious funky cadence and hip call & Taj Mahal is destined to be worn out in your time signature. “Wasted” sounds docile in response between Keb and Taj (wasn’t that home and car CD player. Just make sure comparison, but then gets more and more • DON’T LEAVE ME HERE Wolfman Jack in there too?). to buy two or more copies so you have a insistent. The hit of the album, “The Door” is • SHE KNOWS HOW TO ROCK ME Penned by Keb’ Mo’, “That’s Who I backup. [B.M.O.] a veritable mantra suitable for altering your • ALL AROUND THE WORLD Am” could be an introspective view of his Contact-- perception. • ON SWEET ON own life or just a universal message for www.tajblues.com or kebmo.com Harsh Armadillo by Brian M. Owens

Touting themselves as a “9-piece steamroller,” so I don’t think I would have sought out the would have never gone. Physically, I’ve carried about 14 years or so. When I was around 10 or the New Hampshire based Harsh Armadillo meld without constant encouragement and support the keyboard from the depths of a dank college 11, I expressed interest in learning from my father funk, hip-hop, jazz, Island and R&B into an original from my mother. After 6 years of working my way basement to the top of a mountain in northern (Rusty, a frequent attendee of Harsh Armadillo groove fest resplendent with blaring horns, searing through the lesson books, practicing everyday Maine. Mentally, the keyboard has brought me performances and future band mascot), who is , whirring keyboards and spirited seemed more like a chore. As a teen, I had different from frustration and discipline to pure freedom of an accomplished guitarist himself. He taught me female vocals. Well known on the New Hampshire priorities. No more lessons. I had a solid foundation expression. Spiritually, I’ve used the keyboard to what I needed to know to get started, and exposed seacoast for their energetic live shows and playful of musical theory, piano skills and an appreciation provide for myself as well as a number of people me to a plethora of musical styles to choose from on-stage antics, Harsh Armadillo offers up far for many musical genres. I also played saxophone who have seen me play. The keyboard is a healthy at an early age, which I couldn’t be more grateful more musical fun than their name might imply. in the school Jazz bands. addiction. for. Through high school, I was practicing everyday They weighed in recently with Metronome to tell By high school, my mentality of the piano METRONOME: Max, how long have you been (which came in handy with my semi-loner lifestyle us about their 2014 release, “Thayer It Is,” and changed. I realized that I didn’t want to “practice” playing? Who are some of your influences? at the time), and learning a lot of heavier music. their plans for a new album dropping this summer every day to master not-so-hip tunes (written by Max: I first picked up a saxophone in 2nd grade My stylistic turning point was a combination called, Blame Bad Habits... some old guy) in order to excel at my instrument. when my older brother Luk brought one home from of joining jazz band in high school, and being I also realized that I could (and wanted to) use my his first day of elementary school band. Afew exposed to more experimental, less intentionally METRONOME: Harsh Armadillo is a cool name skills to play hip tunes, or what I enjoyed listening years and some failed attempts at getting him to calculated genres of music to listen to. I became for a band. How did you come up with that? more interested in the band as a unit, not how hard That’s proprietary info-- although folks with a someone could shred. Jazz was the pinnacle of muscular will and vernacular can usually beat it my musical desires. This carried over into college. out of one of us. I had been a member of Stop Tito Collective (a METRONOME: Where is the band based? Reggae Fusion outfit that Max, Dimitry, and myself Portsmouth, N.H. are still members of) for a few years, and we were METRONOME: How long have you been beginning to try new things musically, which was together? very satisfying. My influences were completely Something like 100 fortnights... 1400 days or so. fulfilled when I met Dimitry and Dan while we METRONOME: Who’s in Harsh Armadillo and attended UNH. I came to a jam session, and a few what instruments do they play? weeks later, Harsh was born. Alphabetized by surname: Andrea Belaidi on Guitar has become a much more useful vehicle vocals, Aiden Earley on guitar, Thomas Forbes on of expression for me in the past 4 years with Harsh bass & vocals, Dimitry Harris on keyboards, organ than it was in high school when I thought speed & synth, Maxim Harris on sax & vocals, Nick Murray was king. The instrument has been a huge part of on , Camden Riley on guitar & vocals and me for most of my life, and with so many different Daniel Tauriello on the drums. influences, whether they are musical or not, my METRONOME: Andrea, how long have you style seems to subconsciously evolve all of the been singing and how did you get inducted in time. I have drawn inspiration from all kinds of to Harsh Armadillo? players (ironically, most of them not ) and Andrea: I’ll always remember getting up in front there is always something to strive for musically. of my music teachers in 3rd grade for my first Harsh Armadillo as helped me nurture this drive theater audition. It is a strange moment when you to. This is when I learned to listen. I listened, teach me to play later, it was my turn to pick an entirely. know somewhere inside yourself you love to sing figured out, copied and crudely recorded chord instrument - naturally I wanted to be cool like my METRONOME: Thomas, what (or who) made and want to share your voice, but have no idea if it progressions and grooves, turning them into my brother so I was delivered my own Alto and my you want to be a bass player? sounds good or right. When I got a part in the show, own. This is when I learned to have fun with the parents had to deal with another kid squeaking Thomas: Geez that’s a tough one. Flea first I felt a sense of validation that moved and grew piano. around the house. Similarly to my brother I got and foremost when I first started playing the bass into doing theater for the next 10 years. Looking The electric keyboard and the plethora of hip discouraged in middle/high school with playing in 2003. He proved to me that bass was badass back, it was such a special environment to grow sounds that it offered entered my life. I started the music chosen for me by my band directors - it and just as much an important role/lead as the in; extremely accepting of any and all walks of life. organizing, hosting and attending jam sessions was rare to find a saxophone in the guitar. He mixes energy, technicality, groove and Getting inducted into the dillo was a pretty with other musicians including Max Harris (my albums I burned through. I switched over to guitar improvisation together amazingly and I have harsh process. I heard about the scene over at brother), Dan Tauriello and Thomas Forbes. It for a few years because it was what I was listening always been intrigued by that. Davis Court and it seemed to be the most enticing was a rewarding and exciting hobby. I played at to and it allowed me to imitate the songs I enjoyed In 2003 my bass teacher Keith Foley taught me partying happening on campus at the time. I had UNH college parties and dive bars with Struggler’s hearing. As my music tastes evolved and I realized the basics of the instrument and then I would play been to the previous parties where the OG dillo’s Sound Band, a reggae-funky-but-mostly-party the world didn’t need another mediocre guitar along to records I liked by artists such as the Red had lived, and there was always a FUNK-y smell band that my cousin and brothers (UNH students player, a desire for playing opportunities turned Hot Chili Peppers, Sublime, Sly and the Family in the air. I shoved a beat up microphone into my at the time) recruited me into. I was a high school me back to the . Stone, Bob Marley, , 311, and Rage Against jacket, walked across campus in a blizzard and kid, at a college party, soaked in beer and getting Playing sax again has afforded me the best the Machine, to name a few. got down with these funky monkeys. kissed by college chicks. It made the whole thing musical opportunity I could never had seen coming I also remember sometime in 1998 listening to Originally, I just jammed with the keyboardist seem pretty hip. This is when I learned how to - traveling, performing, writing, and participating in Blink 182’s “Online Songs” and for some reason and drummer (Dimone and Dimone), both of which perform. all manner of debauchery with my harsh family. My loving the bass intro of that song, the tone or I had graduated under in grade school growing In college at UNH, I played at music festivals influences have varied greatly with time, but as far something about it just made me think in my young up. I had never really known them until this, so it and bar-venues with All Good :: Feel Good as sax players go I’d have to say Karl Denson, Ryan mind, “That’s sweet. I would love to be able to was a sort of nostalgic vibe. I was nervous and Collective, a ska band whose members included Zoidis and Sam Kininger are the top three. Outside make that sound,” and getting super excited about comfortable. After we jammed, I felt really good Nick Murray and other aspiring professional of that, bands which are shaping my sound at the it. It’s kind of funny the small things that make big about it... the rest is history. musicians. I continued to organize, host and attend moment are Vulfpeck, Anderson .Paak, Lettuce, impressions on our minds at a young age. METRONOME: Dimitry, how long have you been jam sessions with motivated musicians including Smalltalker, Turkuaz, Busty and the Bass and more. METRONOME: Dan, how long have you been playing keyboards? Camden Riley, Aiden Early and Andrea Belaidi. A METRONOME: Camden, how long have you hitting the drums? Are you the band leader too? Dimitry: My mother set me up with weekly Harsh Armadillo was born. been playing guitar? Dan: My grandfather shipped me an antique piano lessons in the 1st grade. I was 6 years old, The keyboard has brought me to places I Camden: I’ve had my hands on the guitar for snare and cymbal from his neighbor’s garage when I was ten. Before that I was busting caveman of the songs we create come from jams, which is grooves on my mom’s Tupperware with sticks (some or all of) us getting together and jamming from the yard. I had always played trumpet in around on chords or an idea someone came up the school jazz groups, and didn’t start seriously with to then build that into a full song. working on the drum-kit until college. I’ve probably There are a few prominent song-writers in the been seriously working on the drum kit for five band, Dimitry, Thomas, and Camden. For lyrics, years now. Andrea, Thomas and Camden each write all of I don’t call myself the band leader. We’ve got their own lyrics. Sometimes one person will have kind of a triumvirate thing going to manage the day- an entire song written and will bring it to the band to-day operation, and over the years everyone’s to play and work with, but more recently we have settled into taking charge at what their best at. It’s a been fully collaborating with the song-writing delicate beast though. Lot’s of bands have a pretty process which makes for an amazing final product. well defined power structure, but Harsh operates METRONOME: Where did you record the project very democratically. The problem is we’re all too and who is Thayer Harris? good of friends to really boss each other around. Max: The entirety of the project was recorded Stuff usually gets done with the right combination in Durham, New Hampshire at my parents house of peer pressure and verbal abuse--- just like one and in their barn. We were incredibly lucky to get big happy family. to have some time with a very talented young METRONOME: Aiden, who’s your favorite guitar engineer named Thayer Harris who essentially player and what inspired you to be a guitarist? converted both the barn and my parents living Aiden: I would have to say is my room into a one weekend at a greatest influence. He has made loads of incredible time over a year or so. We had never recorded music, most notably with the Red Hot Chili anything in a studio, and he had never recorded Peppers, but his solo projects have been equally in the space we brought him to. It was a learning inspiring to me. I’ve always gravitated towards process for everybody involved. Thayer managed improvisation and to me he has always been the to mold and shape our group which had only ever most impressive individual who can channel that played these songs in a live setting into an effective creative energy. I started playing guitar during my studio band. The whole process took at least a discovery of him and the Chili Peppers in 2007. year, with Thayer traveling up from Boston to set I started playing drums initially when I was 10 up the space with us for a full weekend of recording years old, but switched to focusing on the guitar every few months. just before high school. The switch was largely due Thayer was one of my best friends through to the desire to connect with my cousin (Thomas) high school and college. He had an incredible on a more melodic level. We spent time in our passion for music, both from the recording/ early years jamming on drum and bass styles, but engineering side, and performance (he played I remember wanting to interact in a different way. bass like nobody’s business, we played in a Seeing the chemistry between John and Flea, band together in high school). This passion led definitely set some deep aspirations to connect him initially towards Berklee school of music to on that same level with T. pursue performance, but after gaining a more full METRONOME: Nick, what made you want to understanding of the industry, ultimately to the be a trumpet player? Audio Engineering program at the Arts Institute of Nick: Hard to say what was going through my Boston. He acquired the skills and equipment to awkward little brain in 4th grade when I started in set up a portable studio in any decent-sounding band, but I remember an older kid who lived on my room, and had a knack for pulling the absolute best block played trumpet and I thought he was cool. out of musicians in a studio setting. Plus, it’s pretty loud so it seemed like a good fit. Our first album,Thayer It Is, was his last work. Growing up, my parents would listen to a ton Thayer tragically and unexpectedly passed away of Chicago, and Earth, Wind and Fire as well as from a brain aneurysm one month after he sent us orchestral music like the Canadian Brass Quintet, the final mastered tracks. We did not have a name so I felt naturally drawn to horns and brass for the album at the time, and, well, there it was instruments in particular. right in front of us. He left us with an incredible gift METRONOME: Who are some of the band’s which has and continues to bring pleasure, spread musical influences? our sound, and open doors for us to this day. Snarky Puppy, Erykah Badu, Hiatus Kaiyote, METRONOME: The band sounds like a great Steely Dan, , Lettuce, , Roy live act. Are your shows generally planned or Hargrove, Experiment, Sly and the is there a lot of musical improv? Family Stone, Earth Wind and Fire, and D’Angelo. Max: We always have a blast when we play METRONOME: How many albums does Harsh live, and that usually spreads to the people Armadillo have out? watching us, kind of a symbiotic thing going on. Dan: Just one titled, ...Thayer It Is which we For our shows we usually write out a set list, but released in July of 2014. then we will jam/improvise at certain parts of the We are currently finishing up our second album set to make the live experience truly unique and entitled, Blame Bad Habits. That will be dropping different from any other time you’ve seen us live. this summer. Each show has a different set list, so we loosely METRONOME: How many songs are on the plan the performance with areas of improvisation recording(s)? and tight transitions. Dan: There are 12 tracks and one ‘bonus track’ METRONOME: How often does Harsh Armadillo on ...Thayer It Is. play live? METRONOME: Are they all originals? Max: More or less weekly. We do private parties Dan: All of the songs are originals except for and weddings to stay harsh between the club gigs. “FreeTime” which is our version of a song by METRONOME: Do you have any big shows Boston funk band, Akashic Record. coming up this summer? METRONOME: Who is the principal songwriter(s) Max: Yes, we’ve got the Wild Woods Music and for the band? Arts Festival in Croyden, NH on August 11, Nectar’s Dan: We have a very communal way of writing in Burlington, VT on August 19 and a bunch more. our songs, which we have been working on and Keep an eye out for our album release party at 3S getting better at the more we play together. A lot Artspace in Portsmouth, NH this summer. The Time Machine Private Lightning

Photo circa: 1979 Band Members: Steve Keith (bass), Paul Van Ness (), Patty Van Ness (violin & keyboard), Adam Sherman (vocals), Eric Kaufman (keyboards), Scott Woodman (drums). Musical Achievements: Private Lightning was formed by Paul Van Ness along with Eric Kaufman, Steve Keith and Paul’s twin sister, Patty Van Ness in the mid-1970s. Singer Adam Sherman and drummer Scott Woodman rounded out the lineup. The band enlisted Fred Heller (Mott The Hoople) to manage the group and soon were signed to A&M Records. Their debut album was recorded in Montserrat and released in 1980. The group didn’t hear the finished product until their record release party and were horrified to hear the rough mix (they had last heard) and final mix was completely different. The dynamics and especially the drums were muted with the overall production too bright. The group disbanded in 1981 Where are they now?: The band’s self-titled 1980 album was reissued in 2009 by Renaissance. Bassist Steve Keith has made previously unreleased tracks available via the internet. Paul Van Ness works in film/video production. Patty is a renowned medieval instrumentalist. Adam Sherman went on to sing with Boston based band, The Souls and teaches voice lessons in Cambridge. Scott Woodman played drums with Hank Decken as well being involved with production/engineering. Eric Kaufman does photography & album design and has been featured playing bass & keys on projects.

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Peter Hook published Unknown Pleasure: musicians and complex individuals. Liverpool UK. Cope tells you of his favorite Jah Wobble (born John Wardle) published Inside in 2013. Joy Division Hooky tells you how he reluctantly drove artists and albums and from which garage Memoirs Of A Geezer in 2010. John Lydon’s was clearly one of the most groundbreaking the van until unloading this responsibility on rock classic he borrowed riffs from though East London school friend proved to be more post punk bands in Britain and a roadie, which became the starting point of he leaves out how exactly he learned to play lasting as a bass player and musician than clearly was one of the most influential bass his alcoholism. Hooky remains tortured from the instruments. the disaster magnet Sid Vicious, but also players of his generation. Hook also shows having watched the vulnerable Ian Curtis There is lively dialogue and a complex wasn’t an easy person to get along with. great talent as a writer and raconteur with deteriorate from his epileptic fits and difficult cast of characters, in particular the musicians The intelligent yet undisciplined youth was these extremely valuable anecdotes of this marriage. The author feels a lot of guilt from of his day. Ian MacCulloch (Mac), the leader a natural talent and moved from beginner to pre digital era. As usual in this media, he not having seen Curtis’ suicide coming or of the significantly more successful Echo master in a few short years within PIL, while starts off with a later action packed scene having prevented it. They were just a bunch And The Bunnymen, features prominently also troubled with alcohol. that gives you a bit of flavor, before starting a of teenagers who wanted to rock and tour as Cope’s nemesis, while band members While Lydon made him sound like a traditional chronological story of his life from America when Curtis ended it all. come and go like old socks. After the first flake, it also appears that PIL was less than his youth up until the end of Joy Division in Previous to this, Peter Hook wrote The Kilimanjaro album, Cope, having turned on professionally managed under the former 1979. The language is a rather spicy working Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club in 2009. to psychedelic substances, systematically punk icon. Wobble is constantly observing class Mancunian (Manchester UK dialect). This book, though written earlier than ousts all concerned from his band and most and analyzing people and situations and Unknown Pleasures, is almost like a sequel effectively self-destructs his band career in sometimes judging. of sorts in how it recounts the creation of one the next two albums. Teardrop Implodes, Interestingly enough, Wobble was able to of the most legendary night clubs ever in the more like. almost immediately to make some records UK. Band Manager Rob Gretton and Factory During this he also hooks up with a new with the survivors of the German prog rockers label head Tony Wilson thought it would be a American girlfriend, while separating from great idea to reinvest all the profits from Joy his first wife who was really only there as Division and New Order into a night club that marriage was unfashionable for punks. In the would act as a sort of cultural center for all of Repossessed sequel, Cope settles into near Manchester. The problem was that they were domestic routine with Dorian and eventually way ahead of their time and secondly didn’t starts releasing new solo albums that at first know the first thing about running a club. It no-one wanted to hear. You can read of his was very arty and too expensive from the collaborations with tragic ex-Bunnyman start. Rather than just playing whatever music drummer Pete DeFreitas, yet most people was flavor of the month, they decided to go tend to move in and out of his life. Toy straight into electronic music before anyone collecting appears to take the place of illegal had ever heard of Acid House. Gretton also substances after a while, though Cope is not paid the bands playing there above the going immune to the odd lost weekend. He fondly rate even though it took years to get the club recounts his tours of Japan, which was a filled to capacity. Hooky related how New heaven for has-beens at the time. Order had to play benefits to bail the place Julian Cope makes no attempt to seek out financially. They did hit it big during the the sympathy of the reader and as such it 1988 – 1991 era when the drug Ecstasy remains difficult to ascertain if his weirdness fueled the dance music scene, but even then, is real or merely affected. Despite this, Cope they barely covered cost while Hooky and is quite the wordsmith, and keeps recording Sumner blissfully partied on. music yet remains the antihero no one in their CAN; Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay, after Manchester gangs eventually moved right mind would trade places with. Quite the leaving PIL and had a few early solo releases Hooky relates his youthful pranks with into the place and security costs crippled writer by now, Cope’s other books include a to boot. From there he quickly drifted into Joy Division co-founder Bernard Sumner, the Hacienda all while Hooky was trapped novel, Krautrocksampler, Japrocksampler, world music with his big solo band, Invaders affectionately, called Barney throughout the in an unhappy marriage with now deceased Copendium (a collection of music reviews) Of The Heart. book. The big bang for the Manchester music comedienne Caroline Aherne and unable as well as Megalithic European, The Modern After kicking the booze habit, Wobble scene proved to be the first gig to focus on day-to-day management. The Antiquarian which cover megalithic structures upped the ante with the reconstituted band, in June 1976 at which many of the couple Hacienda eventually closed in 1997 having like Stonehenge etc, just to stay close to the which now also featured the talented vocalist of dozen present decide to form bands (The drained all concerned of millions of pounds heavy rock theme. Natacha Atlas on some occasions. Wobble Fall, , Joy Division, , sterling and having caused the demise of gives you enough of his music theory to show etc as well as Tony Wilson of Factory records) Factory records. Peter Hook hints he may what an expert this autodidact has become. and Hooky brings this key moment into as eventually write the New Order story and we Always wanting to move forward and not much focus as anyone can. can only hope he continues with his lively and get too comfortable, Wobble even breaks Hooky recounts the process in which they entertaining tales. up this band at the height of their success coalesced first with the legendary vocalist in order to move to new directions as well and poet Ian Curtis and much later drummer starting his own label. Towards the end, Stephen Morris first as Warsaw and then as Julian Cope, of the Teardrop Explodes, Wobble laments the deterioration of East Joy Division. Hooky summarizes all their gigs published Head-On and Repossessed in London culture torn apart by ethnic gang and recordings in great detail without ever 1994 and 1999 as separate books, but they warfare and yuppie gentrification that tears losing the big picture, and leaving in plenty have now been joined back to back. Cope at his roots. Fortunately enough, an East of room for Rock N’ Roll humor. Still you see gives a you an extremely gritty down to Londoner can still be a geezer in down to how these young men evolved into creative earth view of the punk and post punk era in earth and neighborly Liverpool.

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Hello music lovers and welcome to the different appreciation of being alive, of the August installment of Metronome Madness. world, of my family, of my career. I want life Lot’s of music news to let you in on so why to be exciting and celebratory. I want to dig don’t we get started... Rick Estrin & The in. I want to grab life by the balls and not let Nightcats will release their new Alligator go, y’know?” Catch Walter and his band live Records CD, Groovin’ In Greaseland, on at the North River Blues Festival @ The Friday, August 18. Estrin & The Nightcats Marshfield Fairin Marshfield, MA. on August have created one of the blues’ most instantly 26 and prepare to be rocked! Celebrated recognizable sounds and no-holds-barred singer Malford Milligan and guitar slinger styles. With the world-class talents of Tyrone Vaughan have already begun their harmonica master, songwriter and vocalist first extensive tour of the Lone Star State Rick Estrin, guitar wunderkind Chris “Kid” in-between Austin recording sessions for Andersen, keyboard wizard Lorenzo Farrell their first album, MVP, produced by David and dynamic drummer Alex Pettersen, Rick Grissom and Omar Vallejo, which is set for Estrin & The Nightcats serve up sharp and release August 4 on Mark One Records. The incisive original blues and gritty roadhouse MVP album features nine studio tracks rock ‘n’ roll. With his wily and unforgettable recorded in Austin at Arlyn Studios and 512 original songs and his hipster, street-smart Studios, as well as two tracks taken from vocals, no one on the blues scene writes or their live show debut at the One 2 One club sings like Rick Estrin. No one looks like him in Austin during SXSW. The studio tracks either, as Estrin is always dresses to the include originals written by Milligan, Vaughan nines, sporting his trademark pencil-line and producer David Grissom, as well as mustache and pompadour haircut. Live, the Rick Estrin & The Nightcats release Groovin’ In Greaseland Buddy Guy’s “Leave My Girl Alone,” band is simply unbeatable. They deliver a “Compared to What” (popularized by Les high-energy show capable of bringing any Together is further proof of Walter Trout’s to light another rocket under his blooming McCann) and Rev. James Cleveland’s, “Two audience to its feet. Groovin’ In Greaseland position at the hub of the blues scene. This late career. “I’m 66 years old,” says Trout, Wings,” a beautiful acoustic gospel tune with features 13 original songs, 11 by Estrin is the sound of an artist not just getting by “but I feel like I’m in the best years of my life just Milligan and Vaughan. The two bonus (including one co-write with Andersen) and with a little help from his friends, but right now. I feel better than I have in years live tracks include the Grissom-penned one each by Andersen and Farrell. The band’s positively thriving, on an album that is sure physically. I have more energy. I have a whole “What Passes for Love” and the Freddy King performances bring the songs to life as richly signature tune, “Palace of the King,” that detailed characters spill their secrets and closes the album. The music is a powerful share their stories. One listen makes it clear mix of blues, soul, rock and funk, with that this is one of the tightest and most flourishes of jazz and gospel textured original groups in any genre, constantly throughout. Both Malford and Tyrone have a inspiring each other to new heights. Groovin’ deep love for the blues, along with a strong In Greaseland was produced by Andersen mutual respect for each other, and both share and Estrin and recorded at Andersen’s soon- a part in Austin’s rich musical history. At the to-be legendary Greaseland Studio in San time when each were looking to see what the Jose, . Lowbudget Records will future held and what musical path they might be releasing a tribute to take, one phone call followed by a short featuring a who’s who of area players this meeting brought the two together, and The summer. Walter Trout returns with a new Milligan Vaughan Project was launched. studio album called, We’re All In This There is a feeling of family here. Though not Together featuring 14 musical friends that technically related, the bond between them includes John Mayall, Joe Bonamassa, is strong. The stage is where they are both , Sonny Landreth, most comfortable and the synergy between Joe Louis Walker, Warren Haynes, Randy these two musicians is already bringing Bachman, Charlie Musselwhite, Edgar audiences to their feet. from Winter, Eric Gales, Mike Zito, Robben Hungary is about to hit our shores... The new Ford, John Nemeth and his son Jon Trout. album called, Europica, has just been Drafting fourteen A-list stars and writing an released featuring guest singers Blaze original song for each, Trout has made the Bayley (, Wolfsbane),Tim Ripper most star studded album of the year, and Owens (; found solace after a run of solo albums that Band; ), Fabio Lione (Rhapsody chronicled his near-fatal liver disease of 2014. Of Fire; Kamelot; Angra), Ralf Scheepers “Now was the right time for this record,” he (Gamma Ray; Primal Fear) and Tomek says. “Battle Scars [2015] was such an Horytnica. The album consists of 10 songs, intense piece of work, written with tears which were recorded over a nine month coming down my face. I needed a break from period in eleven different studios. The that, to do something fun and light-hearted. material will be released worldwide both as This album was joyous for me.” They say you CD and as vinyl record. Lee Roy Parnell will can judge a man by the company he keeps. release Midnight Believer on August 11 via If that’s the case, then We’re All In This Vector Recordings. Parnell’s new album Blue-Eyed Soul, , Road House the band The Glenwoods with Paul Leka Rock, Southern Boogie, Texas Swing, and and Dale Frashuer. After the band broke up, Gospel, Parnell’s sound defies conventional Leka moved on to become a producer/ classification. He draws from a broad range songwriter with . Leka of musical sources and combines them with invited DeCarlo to record some singles for seamless dexterity and, unlike many other Mercury. Mercury decided to release the hard-to-pigeonhole artists, Parnell has song “Sweet Laura Lee” as a single from enjoyed a run of success on the country and the recording session. Needing a B-side for www.facebook.com/metronomemagazineboston blues charts. He reflects, “I am a writer, the single, Leka, DeCarlo and Frausher guitarist, vocalist & a performer. Every skill revived a Glenwoods song they wrote called set feeds the next. I’ve never been able to “Kiss Him Goodbye” and recorded it as “Na separate one from the other. It all starts with Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” for the the song and when writing I’ve found that B-side. DeCarlo also played percussion on nothing is stronger than the truth. It is from the song. The song became a surprise hit that wellspring that my singing and playing when a DJ in Georgia played it and requests are born…performing, too. My goal is to keep for the song flooded the station. The single it honest and let the listener feel what I’m made it to #1 on the in feeling. No matter our different walks in life I December, 1969. The song was attributed to believe that most of us experience similar the band Steam, although at the time there emotions. I’m tapping into you as much as was no band with that name. The band seen Guitar, Bass & Amp you are tapping into me.” Parnell continues on the cover of the single and that performed to live every day with the mantra to keep on the song on a promotional video were hired Repair keeping on, producing material and playing Walter Trout Rocks the for their image. The singer in the video was Over 30 years professional experience shows he is proud of. He reflects, “Only now lip-syncing DeCarlo’s lead vocal. The “fake” Unsurpassed quality and reputation. Marshfield Fair, August 26 do I feel like I’m truly hitting my stride. Lifers Steam band went on tour and performed live. don’t quit, you know. I’d like to keep making Steam dissolved in 1970 due to DeCarlo’s Beverly, MA. encompasses a realized vision that reflects a record every 18 months of so…record with unhappiness with the false aspect of the the cumulative essence of who Lee Roy some friends of mine again. I want to keep band. VIDEO PICKS OF THE MONTH: (978) 927-3498 Parnell is today. He states, “One of the best making music that comes straight from the Solace- Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean PR22:29 FIXT things about gaining some maturity is you heart.” PASSING NOTES: , who Morgan and Colin Farrell star in this mind finally find out ‘Who You Is and Who You played guitar for band The bending mystery thriller. The movie finds a Ain’t.’ That said, I’d have to say that the song Afghan Whigs, died Tuesday, June 27, 2017, psychic doctor, John Clancy (Hopkins), ‘Too Far Gone’ best describes me as an artist, from colon cancer. He was 50. Earlier in his working with an FBI special agent, Joe now. It’s clearly a Blue-Eyed Soul ‘Beat career, Rosser played guitar and wrote songs Merriweather (Morgan) in search of serial Ballad’ as Barry Beckett (of The Muscle for a number of artists and bands, including killer Charles Ambrose (Farrell). Having lived Shoals Rhythm Section and my first Ani DiFranco, Tim Heidecker, and two of in isolation for two years after the death of producer) would call it. Barry really taught me Afghan Whigs lead singer ’s side his daughter, Clancy is coaxed by his friend how to make records. He taught me about projects, and the Twilight Merriweather, to help him solve several groove, soul, vocal delivery and how to make Singers. Following ’ murders committed by a serial killer. The every note count! The message here is in life reunion in 2011 after a ten-year hiatus, Dulli problem is that serial killer Ambrose is and love we ebb and flow. We have good recruited Rosser to join the band in 2014. psychic too. An exceptionally well conceived days and tough days. What counts is going Rosser toured with the Afghan Whigs and movie with loads of twists and turns; Arrival- the distance (or at least as far as you can).” played guitar on two albums, 2014’s Do to starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Parnell is part of a of Texas roots- the Beast and In Spades, released in 2017; Forest Whitaker. Linguist Louise Banks music eclectics, and is among the elite few Gary DeCarlo, singer for the band Steam (Adams), is lecturing at a Massachusetts who can be identified as a triple threat. An on their hit song “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him university when twelve extraterrestrial ace guitarist, as well as a distinctive singer, Goodbye,” died at age 75 from lung cancer spacecraft appear at twelve different and hit songwriter, his music runs the gamut at a hospice in his native , on locations across Earth. U.S. Army colonel of diversity. Combining the influences of Wednesday, June 28, 2017. DeCarlo was in G.T. Weber (Whitaker) asks Louise to join physicist Ian Donnelly (Renner) to find out why they have come. She is brought to an Private Music Lessons army camp in Montana near one of the spacecraft. They make contact with two Study with College trained teachers (Berklee & U-Mass Lowell) seven-limbed aliens, whom they call and professional musicians in our private lesson rooms “heptapods.” Louise discovers that they have a written language of complicated circular Learn how to play... symbols, written in a substance analogous Guitar ~ Piano ~ Drums ~ Voice to ink, or dark smoke, and begins to learn a Saxophone ~ ~ basic vocabulary. As she becomes more Violin ~ proficient, she starts to have visions of herself with her daughter and of their relationship with the absent father. The story grows deep. A great flick. Okay gang, that’s all for now. Until next time, keep making, listening to, and 1269 Main Street supporting beautiful music. HAPPY Tewksbury, MA. BIRTHDAY LEO, YOU LION YOU. 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Musician Bobbo Byrnes is a walking out into the alley so I could record the sound of me get much more personal than that. My hope is that with you? encyclopedia of Americana and roots music and hitting a dumpster with a metal dustpan. my songs still resonate with folks and make their All my co-conspirators. Tracy sang harmony he shares his vast knowledge and enthusiasm METRONOME: Did you have definitive ideas way into their lives and their own story. and played bass. Ben Riddle sang some harmony with the world on his newest album, aptly coined, for how each song would sound before the That said, I just released an EP that’s a as well. Rami Jaffee played some B3, Travis Motel Americana. Growing up in Massachusetts recording process or did they evolve as you companion piece to Motel Americana called King played a slide solo in “Heading South” and currently residing in California, Byrnes has went along? Pacific Coast Skyline. The title song got pretty far and Brandon Allen played the drums while Matt absorbed everything that the small towns and big Umm, yes and no. A song like “Hold Me” I out there. I was trying to recreate the sound of me Froehlich played the cajon kit. cities throughout America has to offer and then wrote one night alone in the studio and just started attempting to surf, the exhilaration of getting up While it is listed as a “solo” album, it clearly some. We tracked him down somewhere in Europe tracking it and made it up as I went. That one came and then getting body slammed to the ocean floor would not have been possible without them while on tour and he was happy to share some of together pretty quickly from writing to recording and rolled down the beach. I move to California playing with me. I’m pretty fortunate to have such his colorful stories with us as well as the making most of the tracks - probably about 2 or 3 hours and *this* is the surf instrumental I come up with. amazing folks who love and support me like that. of Motel Americana... and it was written and done except for drums and METRONOME: How many albums do you have You asked earlier about if I had an idea of how backing vocals. to your credit? things would sound, but you can easily get to a METRONOME: Your new album, Motel point where you’re playing a song and you know Americana is a departure for you from your that you need a different heartbeat playing on it. I band. Why did you make it a solo project? can certainly play bass and I can be playing Tracy’s Bobbo Byrnes: It’s a release valve to keep from bass plugged into her amp and it won’t sound the burning out the rest of the band.We’re on a small same as her. Tracy’s bass playing is a big part of German label and they were pressuring us for a everything I do and I realized that while mixing this new album and extended tour so I told them “No album - and that’s not even mentioning her singing. Fallen Stars album this year, but Bobbo solo album METRONOME: Your songs are a healthy slice instead.” I sent them some tracks of what I was of Americana. How do you make them sound working on and they said “Yes. Do it.” so personal? Since I was going to be out by myself I figured The salt and pepper in my beard adds to it. it would be easier to say, “this is me, this is my People see that and think “Ah, this guy, he’s been album” instead of “this is my band, I’m on here.” around... he must know stuff.” Actually that sounds Decision making is also quicker when it’s only my more like a Cialis ad than an album description. name on front - did you see? - I put toast on the It probably comes from my own limitations as CD face. I *heart* toast. a singer that everything I do sounds like me - even METRONOME: Did you know going in to the when I cover a song, folks often don’t know that album that you were going to handle a bulk of I’m playing a cover. the instrumentation and vocals yourself? I will say that performing in Europe really does Yeah, I had a pretty clear idea going in that I make the “American” part of my “Americana” stand wasn’t going to bury it in overdubs and just keep it out. I never thought of what I did as particularly relatively simple, and by simple I mean that every “American sounding” but it’s undeniable in reality. song only has one instrument carrying a melody I’m not saying better or worse from Brits, Germans, line or solo thing. It was very deliberate to keep it Australians or whatever, I’m just saying I don’t have lean and clean. Only one or two got away from to wave a flag. All I do is hit a couple of chords and me. It’s really easy to pile on a bunch of overdubs. I For something like “I May Never Know” I They look like this in chronologial order: My Affect open my mouth and it’s as obvious as apple pie. tried to go the other way and keep it less cluttered. recorded 3 or 4 times trying to get the tempo right. is Appropriate (1999); Stan’s Garage (2000); found METRONOME: “Nothing Needs To Be Said” was METRONOME: How long did it take to record I had done a ton of guitar overdubs and solos and & lost (2004); Where the Road Bends (2008); Vaya a wonderful, heartfelt tune. What inspired the the CD? hated all of them and then Rami laid down this real con Queso (Live album 2008); Heart Like Mine writing for that? The bulk of it was done in about a month. I tasty B3 part. I just dumped all the guitars and put (2010); This is Happening (2013); Leaves on the That’s one of my favorite songs that I’ve had been back in Massachusetts for a while last acoustic on it and called it done. I was getting in Wind- Vol 1 (EP - songs about the TV show Firefly written because I think I got it right lyrically. We all year as my Dad was passing and when I got back the way of that song. 2014); Leaves on the Wind- Vol 2 (EP - more songs know folks who struggle with mental health and to California, I funneled my grief into making this METRONOME: How did the songwriting about Firefly 2015); (2015); New substance abuse issues. Those issues infiltrate album. The time between me getting back to process work for you for this album? Personal? Coastline (2016); Motel Americana (2017); Pacific every family and it’s important to love and accept California and leaving on tour in Europe was a little Observational? Completely off the wall? Coast Skyline (EP 2017). the person as these things are diseases and need less than 5 weeks. Off the wall. Ha. I usually do a lot of strange METRONOME: Who are some of your musical to be treated as such. It’s really a song about METRONOME: What medium did you use to sound making in the writing process and some of influences? brotherly love. record the tracks? it is pretty out there, but when it comes time to I bow before the holy trinity of Springsteen, METRONOME: “APB” is a great song (and my ProTools. I originally learned to record on tape actually record the parts, they are always the first Strummer and Westerberg. But lots of other stuff personal favorite). Was it fun to write? and I still bring the mindset of the analog world to go. It has to have purpose, it can’t just be a cool like Blue Rodeo, Kathleen Edwards, Matthew It’s a fictionalized account of when I was young with me whenever I can. I don’t think I went over 20 part for no reason. Lyrically we can only write about Ryan, Morgan Keating, Daniel Lanois, Paul Kelly, and stupid and hanging with my best friends tracks on any of the songs. Sometimes building in what we know. I keep trying to write political songs, Old 97’s, , Ryan Adams. , Jayhawks, driving around Billerica with the police looking for a little restriction helps you separate the wheat from but they come out like shit. So I write more socio- Green Magnet School, too. I could go us. In my defense, we were mostly innocent and the crap. The only outboard gear I used was a pair political, stick with the people and tell stories. I try on all day with this. That said, I’m always looking really just stupid - it was a Han Solo gun, we were of Golden Age Pre-73’s and a Focusrite Sapphire. not to preach and try not to be boring. I really just for something new to light the spark. Lately, First 16 and didn’t realize what we were doing was bad METRONOME: What instruments do you play try to make music that I would want to listen to. Aid Kit and Richard Shindell’s new album has until we heard them looking for us on the police on the record? A song like “Hold Me” is about me not wanting been kicking my ass. Have you heard his song scanner at my folks house. The song is about trying I played acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, to go back to ‘regular’ life after coming off of a “All Wide Open?” It doesn’t get better than that. to help a friend out and screwing it up like you do. pedal steel, B3 organ, , banjo, tenor tour and running away with Tracy and not looking I’m a bit late to the party with the Tragically Hip, METRONOME: Was “Hate This Town” taken guitar, , tricone, mandoguitar, piano, some back. “Long Way To Nashville” is a song about a but I listen to “Bobcaygeon” almost daily. And of from your own emotional vault? bass, Casio sk-1 through a monotron, and drums songwriter trying to write his hit song and slugging course The Shaggs. I so wish I wrote that song. I borrowed it from on one song. I even ran stereo ribbon microphones through less than great gigs on the road. Doesn’t METRONOME: Who else played on the album Slim Dunlap who was the second guitar player in the Replacements. I heard him do a solo set at the Worth. Tracy had to fly out to Texas to finish the tour The Serenity (cantstoptheserenity.com) that raises I am from America.” Then he made a gun with his Paradise one night and this song haunted me for with us. She learned 35 songs on the plane ride. money for Equality Now and have done shows for fingers and said, “You want to kill me.” He repeated years. I love what it says and I know a lot of people She and I wrote this song together just thinking them from California to Germany. this to me 4 separate times over the course of an wrestle with the idea of their hometown and what about that. Brandon’s been staying busy drumming all over hour. I don’t think I will ever shake the feeling of it means to be from somewhere. Often a nice pair METRONOME: How often do you play live these SoCal while Matt has another band, Tall as Men. sadness that gave me. of rose colored glasses helps the looking back. days? Solo? Band? In the meantime, Rami just became a full time That’s the reality of touring Europe now. My METRONOME: You did a nice job with the Well I’m talking to you from Bremen, Germany. member of the . He was never actually Muslim cab driver from the airport made a point on “Millsboro.” How did you I’m on my 4th week on tour here and I have roughly in our band, but this way I get to name drop the of telling me that he is Muslim and not a terrorist. come up with that tune? 2 months to go. This year I will be doing 60 shows name Foo Fighters (laughs). A variation of this happens to me everyday now. I used to work in an old turn of the century mill in 70 days in Europe. Most of them are solo, but METRONOME: I understand you’ve been I’ve been touring Europe since 2012 and it’s in Lowell where I would routinely be moving 5-600 Tracy will be joining me for some shows where we working with refugees in Germany, what’s different this year. All I can do is keep being the lb. poly cotton fiber bales around the warehouse will be The Fallen Stars as will our friend Ben Riddle that like? best ambassador I can be and try to make the by hand. One day I was moving a large A-frame from Australia. When Ben is with us we morph into It’s been a pretty amazing, mind blowing and world better through my actions and my songs. rack with several 6 foot long metal combs for the Riddle & The Stars. heart shattering experience. In September/October METRONOME: Did you shoot any music videos carding machine and it collapsed and fell down METRONOME: Do you have any big local shows of last year I did a number of shows for Syrian for Motel Americana? on top of me. I thought for sure I was going to coming up this summer? refugees. There was one show where I was playing We shot one for “Millsboro” in our living room be another mill causality. When I ended up being I have two shows booked in August in the local for about 75 or 80 refugees, some were kids, some and one for “1, 2, 3” on the side of the road in fine, just buried under a couple hundred pounds of area. Friday, August 18th at UnchARTed in Lowell, adults and I had to ask the organizer if it was Arizona. Okay, that one is kind of crap (laughs). I metal that took me about 30 minutes to crawl out MA and Saturday, August 19th at The Pasta Loft in appropriate for me to be singing my songs about make music, I’m not a videographer. Good videos of, I prayed daily to the mill gods to keep me safe. Milford, NH. Then we head up the West Coast in “Hating this Town” or an “APB” because in the are stupid hard to make, it’s difficult to not end I took that idea and put it into a song, but I November with shows in San Francisco, Berkeley presence of folks missing limbs it felt audacious. I up looking like a self obsessed moron and I have found the town Millsboro, which is in Delaware, and ending in Portland, OR. We return to New was assured that they don’t want to be reminded not mastered that skill. Anyone want to make a was easier for me to sing than Lowell. I researched England in December for a benefit with Harbor of what they had been through. video with me? that town and it’s history of how it became a mill Homes (harborhomes.org). We talked afterwards and he told me that the METRONOME: Where can people go to find out town after they dammed the river. The rest fell METRONOME: Tell us a little about your band, teenagers and adults were ready to start a new more about you and the band on the internet? together, sing a song about a guy who doesn’t The Fallen Stars. Is everyone still happy and life, but that the children, because they had seen I’m pretty easy to find. I’m the only Bobbo want to punch a clock at the mill anymore and healthy? one or both of their parents killed in front of them, Byrnes in the world. Folks can go to: www. escape with his girl. It’s like Thunder Road for the Yeah, we’re all still strumming and smiling. It’s were more reluctant to leave the past behind. When BobboByrnes.com, TheFallenStars.com or www. industrial revolution. That’s also the song that has a strange summer for us beyond all the touring as you hear something like that, it’s gut wrenching. RiddleAndTheStars.com the dumpster on the end of it. we moved out of our place of many years and are This year I’ve witnessed more apprehension METRONOME: Is there anything you’d like to METRONOME: “1, 2, 3” is a full tilt rocker. What currently homeless until we return to California in towards me and it’s sad for different reasons. Two add before we close out? prompted that tune? September. So that feels weird, but I’m excited by days ago I was working with a class of 6-10 year Don’t leave your guitars in your car overnight. I was doing session work as a sideman on a it as I like change and new things. old refugees and explained to them the Woody Bring a pillowcase on tour so you can put your tour from LA to Texas with this band and the bass Tracy has been busy working on the “Leaves Guthrie song, “This Land is Your Land” and how dirty laundry in there and use as a pillow if need player on the tour was such an asshole that we on the Wind Music Project.” We’ve written a song it’s a song of unity. We translated it into German, be. Vitamin C is your friend. Pack light. Learn how left him somewhere in Texas. The drummer and based on every episode of Firefly and released changed some of the landmarks and it was good, to say “Yes” to things that scare you. Call your I both wanted to deck him before we were out 2 EPs so far. The third EP is almost done and but one kid would not come near me. When he mother and always greet the world with a smile of California. I think we left him in or Fort we’ve become a global sponsor for Can’t Stop finally did he asked, “You America?” I said, “Yes, and some love. Classifieds

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