May 20th, 2007 Mike
Best Fwends: Alphabetically ArrangedSometime last summer I got an email from a nice guy named Anthony from Austin (or was it Denton or was it Fort Worth?) Texas. I think he’s a Texas nomad. Anyways, Anthony was asking about the availabilty of some old Wolfie lyrics. The reason he was asking was because his group,
Best Fwends, was going to cover a Wolfie song called “Getting the Reach that I Need.” Since I didn’t write the lyrics for the song (Joe Ziemba did) and didn’t have any of the lyrics handy, I wasn’t of much help. However, Anthony sent me
their instrumental version of the song sped up and bashed out on only keyboards. Anytime anyone takes the time to cover a song you’ve been a part of you tend to get just that much more interested in what they’re doing musically! I kept my eyes on Best Fwends and became a quick fan of their immediate and thrashy bashed-up and broken pop songs. Btw, Best Fwends is a duo. The other is an equally positive dude named Dustin.
Shortly after our first contact Best Fwends explained that their debut album was in the works and that they had a song called “Comforter” that they’d recorded sans vocals and needed a little extra input. I happily accepted their offer, wrote and recorded lyrics to the song and some other peripheral sounds and shot it back to them. All involved parties were happy with the outcome. And now the complete album is available to you, the public!
Order Best Fwends’ debut Alphabetically Arranged from the Moshi Moshi mailorder.
Go stream “Comforter (feat. Mike Downey)” on my Virb page.
Go get dizzy and bounce around on the Best Fwends Myspace page.
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May 7th, 2007 Mike
Hey! I just uploaded another podcast. I’m 5 for 5 as far as keeping this a monthly podcast, which is my goal for this project for 2007. I dug through the dusty archives again and put together another 12 previously unreleased (or rarely heard) songs. As it has been with the 2 previous Unreleases podcasts this one spans the full spectrum of time I’ve been recording music.
There’s a little song called “See Saw” included from 1995 that was, from my memory, the first time I ever put an electronic beat behind anything I’d recorded. I got my Casio Sk-1 sometime in the later ’80s as a Christmas present and finally got around to using it for real in ’95. It wasn’t the last time I plugged it in. It’s scattered throughout my recordings and now hangs on my wall here in my apartment. It’s a piece of electronic plastic I don’t mind looking at every day.
The other really old song is the original version of “V.F.W.” Wolfie went on to re-record the song a few times and it ended up appearing on our first 7″. This version is how that song sounded in the first place: a boy and his guitar, strumming away out in the suburbs, second story of a raised ranch.
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April 11th, 2007 Mike
I got to thinking…since the Wolfie 4 Track Rarities mp3 album was released as a free download as individual files it would make sense to offer it up that way again. Head over to the podcasts page to download them all in one .zip file. Enjoy!
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