I have a show tonight with Here Comes Everybody, a band my wife and I formed together 40 years ago. This show is remarkable or significant for a number of reasons. It’s a record release party, as we celebrate and release on vinyl for the first time a 20th anniversary edition of our album Submarines.Continue reading “We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program So That Michael Can Write About His Own Band”
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#648: C is for Class M Planets
This is the secondmoment moving throughthe collection, landingon a record made by people I know. And again, my mainconnection here is a bass player, one David Gilde, also knownas Grilch. We met in the early 90’s and he played in my bandfor a few years a couple of differenttimes and has madeguest appearanceson our recordingsContinue reading “#648: C is for Class M Planets”
#646: C is for Claire, Kathryn
In this endeavor of listeningto every single album in my collectionin alphabetical order by artist’s name, this is my first encounter with a recordmade by someone I know. I would not have this record, and I would not have met Kathryn, had it not been for the musicianwho plays bass on this album, my friendContinue reading “#646: C is for Claire, Kathryn”
#600: A is for The Appleseed Collective
It’s 2014, my band Here Comes Everybodyhas booked an album release party at a ballroom downtown, the name of whichI can no longer remember. It’s a big deal, our first ever release on vinyl, which at this time, has made a kind of hot wax comeback. We are excited beyond imagination to bring our keyboardContinue reading “#600: A is for The Appleseed Collective”
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