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Zach Berkman

don't forget about the letters

About Me



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It seems a long time since I lived down the long road and through the woods in the house where I grew up. And every morning I woke up to the sunrise over the Illinois River. Then I turned sixteen and found out the sun rises nearly as beautiful riding the early morning train as the glow lights up Lake Michigan. I discovered what it meant to play guitar and sing and write, and perhaps played and sang too often and too loud for my aunt and uncle who I lived with at the time. But by 18, I was in New York City where I've been ever since. Now the sunrise is the end to a beautiful night more often than it is the start of a beautiful day, but that doesn't mean I'm not still looking. These songs are fact and fiction, but none are lies. Welcome and thank you for listening.

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Member Since: 3/20/2005
Band Website: purevolume.com/zachberkman
Band Members: Zach Berkman
Influences: in no particular order....ron pope, paul hammer, will frish, rachel ries, ryan adams, the mirriam-webster's collegiate dictionary, too many raccoons at my window in the middle of the night, broken promises, ben gibbard, the snow, and a girl
Type of Label: None

My Blog

A Band. A new song. A summer.

So yesterday i had the opportunity to go visit my friend dan chertoff up in chappaqua, ny. he had sent me a guitar riff which i had put a couple of verses to. we hung out at his place all day and wr...
Posted by Zach Berkman on Sat, 27 May 2006 12:05:00 PST

the coming of summer...up comes the sun

it's not yet 1 am, but it feels like it's about to be sunrise. for those of you who didn't know, "even rest," which is on my page, is about the sunrise. apparently people are enjoying "better time,"...
Posted by Zach Berkman on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:54:00 PST

NEW SONG....TOUR....and other news...

goodness, i haven't written here in quite a while, but as i have been woken in the middle of the night by strange dreams, now seems like a good time. i've taken pavement to the park off of the page, ...
Posted by Zach Berkman on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:45:00 PST

In Chicago & New Years Resolutions a little early

It's been forever since I wrote anything up here, so here goes. I suppose that this fall has been pretty successful. I've written a lot and I've learned quite a bit about record production, but I ha...
Posted by Zach Berkman on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:02:00 PST

check out my friend eli palnik!!!!!!

i really haven't written on this blog in a while, but i thought it would no that a friend of mine got on myspace.  his name is eli palnik and everyone should check him out.  www.myspace.com/...
Posted by Zach Berkman on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:08:00 PST

my own record, a band?, and production of The District

so, there are those people in the world who wonder where, when, and why about a cd from me. it will available here, soon, and because i'm almost done. the record will be an ep, mostly of stuff that'...
Posted by Zach Berkman on Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:18:00 PST

back to the city

the time has come to end the new york hiatus, and i just can't wait to get back to the city. i fly in tomorrow and begin to take it by storm. there's the new apartment, the new classes, and the whol...
Posted by Zach Berkman on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:28:00 PST

NEW SONG ON PUREVOLUME!!!!

so, the song that i wrote in the last post (1000 years ago) is now recorded and it has a name. it's called "one word answers," and it can be found only at my purevolume site www.purevolume.com/zachbe...
Posted by Zach Berkman on Sat, 20 Aug 2005 09:55:00 PST

lots of work and a new song that needs a title

so i'm directing the wizard of oz right now and the work is incredibly fun, but intensely stressful.  i work on the play in the day and also teach drama to kids and am working on a couple of othe...
Posted by Zach Berkman on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

1st week of camp and a friend's glorious return

so i'm back in chicago for the evening. i've been catching up with people and making my phonecalls, reading the myspaces of others and thinking about my own. i'm back down from camp so that i can st...
Posted by Zach Berkman on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST