I did some tracking earlier this evening. Added some new vocal parts to 2 new songs, songs that will go out as the last rewards of 2020, to my upper tier BDFSC Patreon members. Afterwards, Al stopped by and we rehearsed for Thursday night's live stream gig with Kepi, David and Jonah. We're pulling out a couple from the wayback vaults, songs I wrote back in the early 90s, where we briefly called ourselves Near Mint.
I'll be putting up the one and only Near Mint release for people who never got a chance to hear it. It's only 5 songs and is raw (recorded on my old 4-track cassette recorder) but I really have a warm, soft spot in my heart for them because they remind me of when Al and I first started dating and then singing together :)
This audio features a few little snippets off an old shitty cassette I managed to hold onto for over 4 decades.
In 1979, a UNR (Reno) student named Carl Nesbitt hosted an hour-long Saturday night new wave radio show on KUNR and he was cool enough to take me, my brother Steve and sister Cari's requests.
We knew that he predominately played lighter new wave stuff so we would request stuff from bands like The Police, Boomtown Rats and the B-52s but eventually, we badgered the poor guy to play more punk rock until finally, we convinced him that he should let us come by the station during his show with records from our own collections and play our records on the air.
So, we did. Every Saturday night.
Back then, we referred to ourselves as the 'Sex Pistols Fan Club' which Carl references.
In 1979, a UNR (Reno) student named Carl Nesbitt hosted an hour-long Saturday night new wave radio show on KUNR and he was cool enough to take me, my brother Steve and sister Cari's requests.
We knew that he predominately played lighter new wave stuff so we would request stuff from bands like The Police, Boomtown Rats and the B-52s but eventually, we badgered the poor guy to play more punk rock until finally, we convinced him that he should let us come by the station during his show with records from our own collections and play our records on the air.
So, we did. Every Saturday night.
Back then, we referred to ourselves as the 'Sex Pistols Fan Club' which Carl references.