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It's A Shame

Beer And Salad Days

In July of 2002, Spud and Mad Dog (then known as "Bro") were travelling to Lancaster, PA for Octothorpe's first real live show. On the plane with us, headed to D.C. was an old acquaintence of Mad Dog's, Matt Robesch (mattro). After some catching up, we gave mattro a copy of a four-song demo CD that we had brought with us. After listening to the demo, he told us about a project he was contemplating to create an Oingo Boingo tribute album, and asked us if we would be interested in participating. Do we look stupid?

A year and a half later, we got a call from mattro asking if we were still interested. He sent us a CD of some Oingo Boingo tunes to choose from, and Spud starting arranging "Little Guns" for recording.

A year later, we were in the studio with Leland Hirschman (lelando) producing, It so happened that Blue Lang and Glenn Case were in town to play a show with MC Frontalot (with Spud on keyboard and horn), and we were all practicing for the show at Octothorpe Studios. We worked up Little Guns as well, and we got them into the studio with us.

The lineup was as follows:

Mad Dog - vocals
Spud - horn
Crash - keyboards
Glenn Case - bass
Blue Lang - drums


Now, another year and a half later, the CD is out, and it's a winner. We are in good company with 16 other bands from up and down the West Coast, Texas, and even Wales.

The playlist includes:

Who Do You Want To Be - Mark Lemhouse
Running on a Treadmill - Woodrush
Grey Matter - K23 Orchestra
Heard Somebody Cry - jack the original
Lost Like This - They Walk Among Us
Nasty Habits - Sick
On the Outside - Disbonded
Spider - Scott Fisher Band
Nothing Bad Ever Happens - The Cheats
Skin - Maneja Beto
Little Girls - Sneakin' Out
Only a Lad - Delta Nove
Not My Slave - Shiftless Layabout
Stay - Lelando
Little Guns - Octothorpe
Private Life - Brett Dennen
Dead Man's Party - Intervision
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