The Sofa Music Rehearsals | I Am Not The Janitor

The Sofa Music Rehearsals | I Am Not The Janitor

First demo from 2002. Now available on the BandCamp. Download it. It's not bad.

DERP!

So, these people sent me a survey:

Really? Obama's more of the threat than the Nazi's? Soviet Union? The Civil War? If these "Christians" (note the quotes) keep this shit up, people like THEM will be the cause of a civil war.
The stupid. It burns.

I Am Not The Janitor

No available for download and streaming - the final album by I Am Not The Janitor. More to come. Maybe even some video, if Dan sends me the tapes. That would be awesome!

edit: NOW available for download....stupid spelling.

I Hung Around In Your Soundtrack...: Show # 10 'Just One Summer Before I Go'

I Hung Around In Your Soundtrack...: Show # 10 'Just One Summer Before I Go'

Gratuitous Sirago 17 mentions and AIRPLAY! By GOD we got AIRPLAY!!

The Lovetones - "City Meets the Stars" MP3 (PopMatters Premiere) < PopMatters

The Lovetones - "City Meets the Stars" MP3 (PopMatters Premiere) < PopMatters

New single by The Lovetones available for FREE over at Pop Matters.
Go get it. You'll like it. I promise.
Then, wait for the new album. Then get that. You will like that, as well.
Then, go see them on tour in October/November.
I, for one, will be here: http://www.clubspaceland.com/?m=20101030&cat=2 - and also any other California shows I can swing. Hopefully there will be a couple...
Honestly, in some alternate - better - universe, this band would be seen as a modern Beatles.

The Sirago 17

In the process of transferring all the music over the Bandcamp.com. Now you can stream, download, and if you're feeling generous, even pay. But the albums are still free first and foremost. Free is the new Awesome.

The Sirago 17 - The Closeout EP

The Sirago 17 - The Closeout EP

Repurposing tracks from a solo album. I mean, they really don't sound any different to the S17 stuff, so why not, right?

Form a Post-Drone-Shoegaze-Psychedelic-Rock Band

Step 5: Learn songs.
I am currently endeavoring to learn "In The Light Of Time" by Flying Saucer Attack on acoustic guitar for the new project a friend and I will shortly begin pre-preparations for. After less than 15 minutes, my finger-tips threatened to leave. They are very angry with me at me moment. And my entire left index finger is sore.
EVEN MY FREAKING FINGERS ARE OUT OF SHAPE!
Gack.
This could be a while...

Bookmarked for future reference...

"A letter to my daughters about weed" by Dan Shapiro
http://open.salon.com/blog/danshapiro/2010/03/09/a_letter_to_my_daughters_about_weed

"...I want to write you the truth because you already know the “no one has ever used” speech is crap and if I leave you to figure everything out on your own you’ll just ask your friends -- whose sum of information comes from only slightly less clueless older brothers and sisters or the internet – which is a three car garage stuffed by hoarders. There may be some truth buried in the internet about weed, but you’d have to clean off ferret droppings to find it..."

The Sirago 17 - Set The Controls For The Heart Of Your Heart

The Sirago 17 - Set The Controls For The Heart Of Your Heart

This is an approximation of what would have become our first proper album. If only...

Back in the late 90s I began sending cassettes to Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3/Spectrum/E.A.R.). We weren't necessarily angling for a record deal, I just wanted to see if he dug our stuff. Soon after, we were contacted by Space Age Recordings (Sonic's label) and we were offered a contract. That's when the well ran dry. We didn't sign, and I didn't do much creative again until mid-2002 when I joined I Am Not The Janitor. Then THAT fell apart and I again did nothing for several years....

Form a Post-Drone-Shoegaze-Psychedelic-Rock Band

Step 4: Get organezized
(or, more accurately: procrastinate)

 Although, looking at these broke-ass guitars will hopefully light a fire...

Form a Post-Drone-Shoegaze-Psychedelic-Rock Band

Step 3: Discover that the Vibrato Channel on your Fender Twin Reverb (the channel WITH the reverb and "vibrato" - why do they call their tremolo a vibrato?) is giving you guff and tends to short out here and there randomly.
I'm hoping this is merely because it hasn't been used in 7 years and just needs to get the shit blown out of it...(I can hope, right?)

Form a Post-Drone-Shoegaze-Psychedelic-Rock Band

Step 2: Assemble

(step 2A: bust the first damn string you put on)

(step 2b: finally get it together)

Form a Post-Drone-Shoegaze-Psychedelic-Rock Band

The urge to make more music has been slowly building over the past year or so. The last time I played in a band was I Am Not The Janitor in 2003. I didn't do much in the way of music in the intervening years. Now that I've been remastering my old songs, and have met some very inspirational people, that old feeling has started bubbling up again.
So, I've decided I need to make music.
I need to play live.
It's time to move...it's time get down with it.
I think I need to testify!

Step one: Gather supplies

The Brian Jonestown Massacre rehearsal shots

http://www.sarahmorrisonphotographyblog.com/?p=223

Love the rehearsal space. Is that red velvet?

The Sirago 17 - Sunshine

A cover of Chatterbox's cover of "You Are My Sunshine" by way of Spacemen 3's epic "Suicide." Lay back and let the sound surround you.

*I forgot to note this in the info file included in the ZIP - it's labeled "Sunshine/Suicide (edit)" because the instrumental part originally went on for 22 minutes. I intended for there to be a final "Sunshine" verse ("the other night, dear, as I lay sleeping...") after the middle "Suicide" bit. However, due the temperamental nature of the TASCAM 424, the day we did the vocals, it decided it didn't like the last 7 or 8 minutes of the tape and started wobbling something fierce. So, we never finished it - I faded it out just at the point it would've picked up again. Plus, I find it amusing to have a 15 minute long song called "(edit)".
(Years later, I Am Not The Janitor had an EP with a track called "Janitor Theorem (Short Version)" that clocked in at 14:38.)

Oh, Google....

http://lifehacker.com/5470104/google-updates-explains-buzz-privacy-setup
http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/fuck-you-google/

Uncle Lou's Metal Machine Music in QUAD!!

I can finally stop searching for the original quadrophonic vinyl!! (well, I say that...)
http://www.loureed.com/metalmachinemusic/
Made of WIN. Or FAIL. Whichever. Possibly LULZ...

I'd like to tell PG&E to get bent...

...but it's not like I can switch to another energy company.
I don't even know where to start...

http://www.fresnobee.com/832/story/1813080.html

The Lovetones live review

Live in Melbourne at the John Curtin Hotel 5 Feb 2010

"...During the brief encore we are given a thrilling climax as (Matthew J.) Tow jumps off stage, playing into the crowd before dumping his guitar at our feet and leaving. At which point the guitar is taken up by Three Month Sunset guitarist Gabriel Lewis who seamlessly continues the song and joins the band on stage. Leaving us in a state of shocked excitement."

From here: http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/events/22415/The-Lovetones--The-John-Curtin-Hotel-Melbourne-050210.htm

Awesome.