About Me
Dark Yellow is a solo project. It started innocently enough while DY was recording the Transoms' first record in South Bend, Ind. back in the innocent year of 1999. He said, "I'm going to start a solo project and call it Dark Yellow." "That's a horrible name," said Vinne Bag-o-donuts, drummer for the Butterfly Effect. "I guess it's perfect then," DY responded, before nearly forgetting the whole thing.A year later, DY moved to Chicago and lived in a small, one-bedroom apartment and decided that he didn't want to do the indie-rock grunge-boy music he'd be involved with previously. "I want to use acoustic guitars and that little egg-shaped shaker thing that turned up in my box of stuff somewhere along the line," he thought. And so, in 2000, he started transforming old songs, originally intended as Transoms songs, into quieter pieces, as well as developing new songs. He didn't expect to release it, but he gave a CDR of eight songs to a friend, who said, "This is pretty good," and started completely making fun of DY's singing voice. DY made some notebook doodle-inspired cover art, Kinkos'd a sleeve and started distributing them. He even played a few live shows.Then, in 2001, he made a second collection of eight songs. This one he called, "quinine and quinine and quinine," which apparently is a Hemingway thing. Then he bought a semi-decent acoustic guitar. That made things sound nice. It reflected in the 2002 release, "Like Hamlet, Like Socrates," which featured Ty Poe's inspired comic-style two-panel cover.Then someone gave DY the shittiest digital drumset ever made. Seriously. But he liked it. Apparently he was getting the itch to start another rawk band, because he released another album in 2002 called "Fractal Fern," which contained some strange rock-inspired song-type things. And a song created entirely by five or six fractal equations. And a Monkees song. Then DY's four-track broke. So he bought a digital eight-track. That made things sound nice. It reflected in the 2003 ultra-limited edition CD, "Formaldehiding," which featured some stolen art from Sara Bassick on the cover.But then he took some of those songs turned them into rawk songs, as DY put the solo thing on hiatus to start the Grackles. The Grackles is good. Listen to the Grackles. But in the meantime, DY decided, "Why not put together a mini-studio in my apartment, revitalize the solo project, dust off that egg-shaped shaker thing, make a new Monkees cover and experiment with music again?" I know, I know. Such a cliche question from such an original artist. (That's pronounced, "ar-TEEST") Anywho, no new CD is in the works, but several songs have been constructed and DY thought he should put the thing up on Myspace so all you jocks and sluts can ask him to be friends so they can beef up their "friendcount."So stand up and be counted! (And listen to a song or two, if you'd like.)
