Archive for the ‘Ancient Brain’ Category

My Brain Hurts

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Here’s another Ancient Brain track. “TV Doctor” was probably recorded in 1999 or 2000 and features one of the raunchiest bass sounds ever. Ancient Brain should have been a lot better live than it was. We had a couple of awesome gigs and a few mediocre ones. We formed right after Bacon Ray disbanded and I think Bruce and I were a little depleted. We practiced down in my studio and we couldn’t play as loud as we wanted which was also frustrating. We recorded an albums worth of stuff and most of it is great. It’s too bad we couldn’t stick it out. Anyway, more misanthropy from the Brain!

On Our Way!

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Hello again. I have finally mailed some MP3′s to my webmeister for downloading. First up is a track by Ancient Brain, a short lived band that I formed with Bruce Hamilton after Bacon Ray disbanded in 1999. This is from one of our myriad recording sessions . The song is “Two Pit Bulls Dragging a Hot Bitch to A Wizard”. The song title was derived from a tattoo parlor anectdote provided by one Travis F. Anyway, John McNeece on Bass, Bruce Hamilton on drums, Afshin Beheshti on keys. I sing and twang on the guitar. Song two is a cover from the Canard ‘Self Portrait’ sessions. It’s a George Jones tune, “The Honkytonk Downstairs”. This features Brent McNeal on Drums/Vocals, Marc Ito on Harp,vocals,bass, Jason Coleman on mandolin and I play guitar, lead vocal and lap steel.From 2003. Song three is from the aborted Newsboy Legion ‘I want to be a Service Station Attendant’ album. The album was a mish mash of leftovers and a few newer tunes at the time. Probably recorded around 1998 the song “Tim Conway = Pleasure” has Kelly Shane on drums and synth. I play guitar, bass and sing. Song four is a live session with Canard @ WVFS V89. “Annual Leave” would probably have ended up on the follow up to ‘A Pleasure to Be Around’ if there had been one. Brent McNeal on drums, vocals, Marc Ito on Bass, vocals and the Geddy.