Early Hours
June 20th, 2007
Every once in a while I still manage to delude myself into thinking I can encapsulate, in a single song, my obsession with the mnemonic redshift that comes with “growing older”. Once the earth has cooled after such an attempt, I consider myself lucky if I have scraped off something akin to lemon zest. But there are worse places to start from. I think this tune has a lot of zest. It is a salty salute, soundwise, to REM and the Rock*A*Teens, the former a part of my DNA; and the latter one of the bigger muses to my post-doctorate work here at Get Help U: dark, elegiac, inscrutably uplifting. I can’t get enough of those guys.
I spliced a buttload of Garageband drum loops putting this together, and used the Yamaha for the bassline. Reverb makes everyone get along.
The Summer of Help
June 1st, 2007
Mike and I have an imminent, super-secret Get Help performance on the horizon:
Friday June 8
Club Midway
25 Avenue A (btw 2nd and 3rd St)
New York, NY
We will be taking the stage at 8:00pm in a dusky, twilight performance.
Unfortunately with the short notice we weren’t able to get Lucky, Lefty, and Will to join us, so it will be just Mike and I bringing the noise, in Get Help’s first New York City appearance. Not bad for a NYC band that’s been around for a year. It should be interesting. And if it isn’t, know that we’ll be crying inside. We hope to see you there.