Here’s another song in bad taste. Written, sung and accordionized by Mike, electric guitar’d by Richard, drummed by Shroom (just snare + tamborine?) and bass’d by me. The song is a parody of Weezer’s “Buddy Holly”. Well really, it just uses the tune from “Buddy Holly” – it’s not like it’s making fun of “Buddy […]
“Mike and the Morons” is yet another band I was/am in. We’d play parodies, “Weird Al”-style, which were written, and sung by Mike Hurlbert. As usual, I’m on bass, and the original line-up had Darren “Shroom” Foulds on drums, and Richard Pepper on guitars. We went through a few line up changes over the years […]
At least, I’m pretty sure all this was recorded in Kevin’s garage probably in ’94 or so. I’m on bass, Shroom is on drums, and I’m not sure who’s on guitar. It sounds above Kevin’s level at the time (he has since improved), but below Brian Dunn’s. Maybe it was Dave Wolframe? Any suggestions are […]
A.k.a. “Happy Birthday Ron”. I think Darren and I decided to make a tape for Ron for his birthday, so we recorded us playing/singing a medley of mostly Neil Young songs. I have no idea why we thought this was a good idea. Presumably this was back around ’94 or so. The songs, in order […]
This song is a 7 minute epic – a story about mind-controlling aliens, featuring a great kazoo solo, and some fun harmonies. I like it! I believe this was recorded during the living room sessions at my dad’s place. I just found out that Quarters was recorded on Oct. 4th, 1995 (my sister’s 21st birthday) […]
This is pretty much my favourite recording besides the North and the Sea stuff, and a couple Richard Pepper tracks we helped out with. Darren did drums and vocals, I did guitar and bass. In some ways this song was very much a preview of what was to come in NatS. Darren had written the […]
I’m not totally sure if this is Darren and me playing, or just me. For sure I’m playing bass, and maybe Darren is on guitars, or it’s me multi-tracked. Maybe Darren will remember. Petra was one of my favourite bands in the late 80s and early 90s, and this was one of my favourite songs. […]
I’ve been looking for another one or two Heads Up! tracks, but can’t seem to find anything except this instrumental by Ron, and only Ron. If you don’t like it in the first minute or so, the next four minutes aren’t going to do anything new to change your mind. Maybe Ron or Darren can […]
I had a few different recordings of this song to choose from. None of them were perfect. I chose this one because Darren doesn’t stray into his Ernie voice much, and it’s the only one with a “guitar solo”. Like all our stuff, this is very high on the cheese scale, but at least it’s […]
This song is more than a little bit quirky. Like, a lot quirky. I believe at one point there was the idea that all our songs would contain “Head” in the title somehow. I don’t think we got very far with that, but I’m pretty sure the overall sound of the music Ron had made […]