Dateline: 1997...
Never mind that the fuckin' album didn't even come out til we'd been back a month from our 7 week tour to support its release...
Our record label was actually nice enough to make sure that we had some copies to take out on the road with us, along with a box of our t-shirts...
Never mind that the fuckin' van broke down so many times that we started (half-)jokingly calling it the PepBoys tour...
We actually got to learn quite a bit about the inner workings of a piece-of-shit van. Rather useful, that...
Never mind that the fuckin' booking agent lied repeatedly about 'confirmed' shows that we were later told by him were cancelled (only to find out in at least one case that he'd never even contacted the club til that week)...
We had some excellent shows to help make up for that sorry piece of shit not doing his fuckin' job... + even bookt some while on the road - in a pre-cellphone, pre-internet world...
Never mind alla that shit, cuz we didn't know any of that was gonna happen a year earlier when we recorded this album,
Glad to Be Unhappy by
Go! Dog! Go!
In January 1996, we were fortunate enough to spend two weeks recording with now well-noted producer (and
Drive Like Jehu drummer)
Mark Trombino (Mark's on the right, trying to get out of the picture, I'd imagine...) at
Big Fish Studios in Encinitas, CA.
We met with Mark in LA a couple of times, once notably in
the bowels of the Capitol Records building, where he was using some of their classic studio space to work on some mixes for the then-soon-to-be-released self-titled
Jimmy Eat World record (their first on Capitol, I think). And he was a decidedly nice guy, very easy to work with even though he'd just quit smoking prior to our fortnight of recording.
And below's the result, for yr downloading pleasure, recorded + mixt by Mark Trombino at Big Fish, produced by Mark Trombino + G!D!G! (except
Bloated Worm, recorded + produced July 1995 by
Andre Champagne + G!D!G!)
(<--That's Tim B. + me in Andre's bad-ass gingerbread home studio)
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track listing:
- Intro (It Could Happen)
- Socket
- Engine
- Drive, Turn Left
- Rolled into One
- Intent to Change
- Soft Spot
- Bacon Shrinks (All My Blue)
- Lobby Song
- Ceiling
- Borrowed
- Pillow Soft
- Spinch
- Platter
- Spacegirl (Live)
- Bloated Worm
1997, Risk Records.
Eric Beetner. guitars/vocals
Tim Boyd. alto+soprano sax
Tim Christopher. drums
Craig Smith. bass/backing vocals (lead on
Borrowed)
(Eric, Tim C., Craig, Mark Trombino. trumpets on
Spinch)
(Oh, and the cover photo credit: Marie's dad)
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