A New Picture and a New Downloadable Song Everyday |
Just a reminder that there will be a new picture and new downloadable song everyday for the next month. Two shows next week - including a solo show w/ Joe DeRosa at Birds Nest Sept. 26th.
Posted by on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:20:00 GMT |
Drag Queen Days |
The City Electric recorded this song at Semaphore studios last Spring. It will be available on our Five Easy Pieces EP out on October 27th. It marks our first collaboration with Jeremy Lemos, my favo...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:25:00 GMT |
Hands Off Love |
This is a rocker the City Electric quit playing but we all still like. More below...Charlie Chaplin was one of the world's best loved public figures, greeted by cheering crowds wherever he went. Yet h...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:27:00 GMT |
Kill Devil Hills - live |
The lyrics for which were written in a mental hospital I worked in on the overnite shift a few years back. Your basic last temptation of Christ story, I recorded it for my first record but when we sta...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:45:00 GMT |
75 Years Of Art Sex - WHQ Recording |
This number has been a City Electric staple since we formed. Originally conceived as a sexy Zombies type number, a la Time for the Season, it mutated into a No Wave dance song with varied crazed live...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:04:00 GMT |
Been A Friend |
Another country number and the oldest song in the catalog. Its an honest portrayl of an age old story, that I spent half a decade stuck in. Me with guitar recorded under intoxicated circumstances in Q...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:30:00 GMT |
Cannonball |
I don't know why this was called Cannonball. Its an old City Electric song strongly influenced by Television. I gave our old lead guitar player Mathew "Marquee Moon" with the hope that we would become...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:06:00 GMT |
I'm Sorry I Can't Be There Tonight |
This is just me on harmonica and guitar before I learned how to play either. The song mentions the "Rockford" rain, but the girl in it was actually from Milwaukee. Really nice gal that I lost track of...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:07:00 GMT |
One + One |
In honor of our our show tonight at The Note I've decided to put up a current City Electric track. One plus One was written a month after 'Fancy Lamp' in the dead of winter. Notice the dramatic differ...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:48:00 GMT |
Fancy Lamp |
The second song of our series is entitled "Fancy Lamp". It was written on my friend Clay's Ukulele that he gave me when he left for California. It was written about a girl I had a mostly platonic rela...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:26:00 GMT |
