Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The History of Audubon Park, Part Fifteen

After the universal, crushing success of "Angry Bees Outside, These Bees Inside," the band decided we needed to strike while the iron of popular acclaim was hot, so we returned to Nick's studio a few months later and recorded what we thought would be our masterwork.

I mean, one of the songs even had two violins on it, which is some next level Carpenters-type sophistication.

A friend of mine, Mike Turner of the Warmer Milks said he wanted to put it out on his record label, so we sent him the master. "It might take a while," he said. "I want to do this right."

That release, I will tell you about later. This is not its story. This is the story of the EP we recorded to fill the gap between EPs.

I proposed the idea one afternoon at Go!. "Let's record an EP with the two songs from the demo that we know that didn't make it onto 'Bees' and this new song 'Tree Full of Snakes' and maybe a cover." We didn't have any money, so another weekend with Nick was out of the question, so we decided to let Matt record it on his 8-track 1/2 tape machine. But where.

"My mom is going to be out of town," Finn said. "We can do it at my mom's."

We sure can!

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