MAN MAN
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Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between Sub Pop, 2020 |
Very ambitious Double LP - that doesn't happen every day. I am really proud to be part of the making of this album. |
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Beached Sub Pop, 2019 |
Starting off with Nirvana, the Sub Pop Singles Club introduced me to The Reverend Horton Heat. I've been friends with Man Man since Icy Demons toured with them in '05, and it's great to be drumming with them all these years later. |
BRONZE
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Calypso Shakedown Unsound Records, 2008 |
On a blustery pre-Yacht-Rock Wicker Park night of 2003 Scott McGaughey and I were forcibly removed from a party. Our crime? Playing a Doobie Brothers song on the hi fi. We begrudgingly resigned ourselves to his apartment and began writing this record for all those twenty somethings with the same seemingly unrequited love of Steely Dan, Bee Gees, Hall ;& Oates, and Rupert Holmes records. We had only a Wurlitzer and Scott's four tracks so we did the demos over the next year and a half with that keyboard and sang string, horn and vocal parts over that. I think there are something like 20 amazing musicians that ultimately play on this record. |
MICHAEL COLUMBIA
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Stay Hard Alabaster, 2006 |
We did this one in the exact opposite way as TACB and took our time recording each track. There was a great creative collective consciousness at the Shape Shoppe at this time and folks from Chandeliers, Icy Demons, Royce, and Mass Shivers were all recording, rehearsing and playing foosball deep into the night. Art by Justus Roe. |
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These Are Colored Bars Alabaster, 2004 |
By this time we were going for a Pink Floyd meets James Brown vibe. It was recorded live for the most part, just as we would have performed at the stuff at a show. We had some fun with linking two TEAC reel to reel machines together and getting some old fashioned analogue delay on some of these songs. We toured this record a lot in my '92 Volvo station wagon. Our circuit was Chicago-Phily-Athens, aka the Triangle of Death. Sayre Gomez hit a homerun with this record cover. |
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Michael Columbia 2002 |
Two men, two SP-202's, one line 6, one drum-set, one alto. Live sampling made by some Eno-obsessed free-jazzers. No guitar, much to many a soundman across this great land's chagrin. Chicago in 2001 was lacking some of the now present show spaces and galleries and may God bless Phyllis' Musical Inn for welcoming us in the early years. Art by Butchy Fuego. |
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Miami Ice Obey Your Brain[US]/Leaf[UK], 2008 |
Many a friend and many a style. Check the Pizza Cam for proof. |
 | Tears of a Clone Eastern Developments, 2006 |
I wish I still had this vibraphone and those booze-soaked torn and tattered mallets. I have the highest respect for all world punk singing vibes players. Though we are small in numbers, we are bountiful in spirit. |