Songs from my band (Avant Garage)

Source: SoundCloud
Published: Oct 21, 2016
Author: Me
Post Date: 2016-10-21 15:04:54 by Deckard
Views: 2302

Back in the late 80's and early 90's I was in a band called "Avant Garage". We started out as a cover band, playing bars and clubs in the Minneapolis area, starting out as "The Verselles". We went through several drummers and changed our focus to writing our own songs.

Anyways, we recorded a demo tape in 1992 and a few days ago I was going through my cassette collection and discovered the tape. After recording it with Audacity and cleaning up some of the hiss, I put the entire album (10 songs) on SoundCloud.

They styles range from power pop to garage, rock, alternative, rockabilly, yet there's a certain cohesion throughout the entire album. In my opinion, the best song of the bunch is "One and One" the last song on the album and a power-pop gem. "4 Barrels" is a hard-cranking rockabilly number, "Television" is a ditty about having "52 channels...and nothin' to watch".

"I Got A Girl" is a pure slice of garage goodness, complete with 60's Farfisa organ.

"Fannie Mae" is based on a character from "Whipping Star, a 1970 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert.

"Plutonium Surfing" is an instrumental surf-rocker.

We never became famous or anything - I suppose we had a pretty good following in Minneapolis back then, but I think the music still holds up today.

Thanks for listening.

Avant Garage (1992)

Thanks for listening.

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#1: Deckard    To: Mudboy Slim, sneakypete, ConservingFreedom, hondo68 (#0)

Thought you guys might like this.

Deckard posted on 2016-10-21 15:14:20   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Hondo68    To: Deckard (#1)

Thought you guys might like this.

https://soundcloud.com/user-5295701

Maybe, but the link's not working for me.

"Server Not Found"

Hondo68 posted on 2016-10-21 15:20:02   Reply   Private Reply

#3: Deckard    To: hondo68 (#2)

Works fine here, maybe try copying and pasting the url into the browser to see if that works.

https://soundcloud.com/user-5295701

Deckard posted on 2016-10-21 15:53:01   Reply   Private Reply

#4: Pinguinite    To: Deckard (#3)

DNS has been funny lately. I'm outside the US and I'm seeing it too. Could be related to ICANN transition stuff as per Obama.

Pinguinite posted on 2016-10-21 16:10:12   Reply   Private Reply

#5: nolu chan    To: Pinguinite (#4)

http://gizmodo.com/todays-brutal-ddos-attack-is-the-beginning-of-a-bleak-f-1788071976

In 2011, hacker collective Anonymous rose to fame with DDoS attacks that pale in comparison to today’s attack on Dyn. Instead of taking out an individual website for short periods of time, hackers were able to take down a major piece of the internet backbone for an entire morning—not once but twice. That’s huge.

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835

Update 4:22 PM EST: Looks like this is probably going to get even worse before it gets any better. Dyn says they are being hit with a third wave of attacks. Dyn told CNBC the attack is “well planned and executed, coming from tens of millions IP addresses at same time.”

nolu chan posted on 2016-10-21 16:46:26   Reply   Private Reply

#6: Hondo68    To: nolu chan, Trumpkin a thon (#5)

Probably just a new RNC protection racket, fundraiser. Pay up and the attacks stop.

Hondo68 posted on 2016-10-21 17:23:55   Reply   Private Reply

#7: ConservingFreedom    To: Deckard (#0)

In my opinion, the best song of the bunch is "One and One" the last song on the album and a power-pop gem.

I listened to this one first ... good stuff!

ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-10-21 17:27:28   Reply   Private Reply

#8: nolu chan    To: hondo68 (#6)

Probably just a new RNC protection racket, fundraiser. Pay up and the attacks stop.

Or a bring-it-on response to the Obama admin recent threat of cyber war.

nolu chan posted on 2016-10-21 17:27:46   Reply   Private Reply

#9: Stoner    To: Deckard (#1)

Deck, thanks for posting. How many piece band were you all? What did you play?

Stoner posted on 2016-10-21 20:26:37   Reply   Private Reply