Canard Music

I have a new band as I mentioned before> Spring Break 82. The link will take you to the MySpace page which as of now might feature a couple of other songs than this one.

The members are Jordan Myers-g,bv, Pat Barousse-b,bv Brian Heath-d and myself-g,v. It is going well and we’ve been writing a lot of songs together and apart.

These are some demos we’ve been working on. We’re in the process of doing full on studio versions of these.

FANTASY STEVE

MEDIEVAL PLEASURES

THE AROMA SESSIONS

Some photos from our second gig:

Mike leanin’ in

Pat-Brian-Jordan

I thought this was lost forever, but this was the rough bio that was going to go out with the Invaders from a Forbidden Planet/Canard cd promo kit. I never edited it so there are several typos. It’s also very strange. Once again, thanks to James Rose for sending me this.

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James Rose(formerly Boyle) sent me a huge package of Bacon Ray memorabilia he collected when he was a wee lad in Tallahassee. Now that he’s got a family and a new baby-he doesn’t have time to look after this crap and has moved on to more important things. He has graciously donated his collection to this site. Thanks Electric Mayo! So here are some flyers and set lists!

Bacon

Bacon

Bacon

Bacon

Bacon

Here’s the cassette cover art to CHEDR by the SPoons and the bizarre insert that was folded up in the cassette. There are not too many photos of the Chedr era Spoons. Here’s a picture of us playing in the old Vinyl Fever in 1987. I remember we did a cover tune of “Sunday Morning” by the Velvet Underground and Chris and John Barlow spat fake blood. Fun times.

Here’s some more Canard. One track with Brent and Marc called “Ocean Wurm Theme” which was an older instrumental written right when Brent joined. This features the ‘Charlie Brown Principal’ guitar effect that disoriented audiences so much. As if we needed help!

The other two tracks were solo recordings made by me in late ’04 around the time we disbanded, went on hiatus, whatever you want to call it. I think the three of us are hearing that calling again a little bit and discussed it over at Marc’s last Saturday. The weather here in Tallahassee was so nice and Marc was obsessed about his brisket. Photo by Jamie Ito, Marc’s beautiful and gracious wife, at Marc’s Super Secret Meat Party.

“Tiny Ralph”

“Ever Heard Bloodrock?”

Bonus photo

Marc discusses his brisket smoking technique with my wife.

There were plenty of retards in Publix tonight. Very frustrating, as I reached for the smoked gouda I was almost run over by one of these damn things . This only serves to make everybody even more miserable. It would be more interesting if Publix could use a belt drive people system like at the airport.I had an idea that I wanted to set up a store where everybody laid flat stomach down on an elevated conveyor belt and rode around the store grabbing stuff. What a lazy bastard I am. We’d be human mayo for sure.

Here’s a newer Canard solo cut called “The Natural” it’s a little rocker. I’m not sure what its about. I think it may be about being a slave to a job that you hate. We’re human beings man! We’re supposed to be free!

Oh and here’s a classic outtake from the Golden Master sessions. Well, actually at the time it was going to be called Medieval Thymes. This was finally fused together from all of its parts. I give thee “Bea(s)tmaster Carpet Cleaner” . A song that conveys some disappointment in ELP and a heartbroken love of alcohol. I’m on bass, Merlin on guitar, The Prince on guitar and the always on time Beard for his expressive drumming. Dated for its Coolio reference in the bizarre reggae breakdown in which the protagonist Shabba Ranks would like to visit the Shoney’s breakfast bar and slobber all over this. Feeling irie?

Also, did anybody ever remember what a jerk off Eric LaSalle was when he left ER? His career is blowin’ up. Here he is in a recent publicity shot.

If anybody has any old photos, news clippings, video or audio of Singing Spoons, Ultraboy, Bacon Ray, Ancient Brain,etc. Please let us know and we can post some of it.

For now we have a cut of two of Canard and the Magnetic Band’s last recordings. We spent a lot of time in the studio after I hurt my leg in Atlanta. We eventually kind of petered out, but I doubt you’ve heard the last of these guys.

Wigwam Hill

You don’t Believe

Marc, Brent and Mike

If you look to the left of this page you will see a link to another page called “Jacket City“. This was an acoustic cassette the Singing Spoons released in 1989. All the necessary and unnecessary photos and songs are available there on the Jacket City page. Please drink responsibly.

Here’s a couple of tracks from Bacon Ray. “Young and Evil” is from the first bacon ray cassette which featured the bass talents of Chris Gleaseman. He was and is a good egg and friend. We recorded the drums on 4 track, dumped it to 8 track reel to reel and then recorded Merlin’s guitar through the shittiest little Peavey we could find. It’s noisy,drunken fun. Next is a great live version of “War of the Gloved Ones” from a 1998 show opening for Will Oldham and Anomoanon complete with some classy banter. A belated thanks to Jack C. for hooking us up for that one. We all wore capes that night. Oh, and here’s what we looked like circa 1999 at Georgia Street,