TRACK:

Ernie Botts + the Miseries - Unresolved History
Just Don't Get It

Chad A. Carino

ALBUM:

A collection of tracks written and recorded from 1999-2008 by Ernie Botts + the Miseries. Limited by technology, access to instruments, and pure lack of skill, these tracks are just as rough and uninviting as the rest of the band's oeuvre, but with the uneven level of polish and complexity that comes with compiling a decade's worth of output that wasn't good enough for the other albums. It's the blended whiskey of Eb+M. Try it with ice or sour mix to really open up the bouquet.

LYRICS:

Osama bin Laden was right
We're better off without America
Getting into everything
Saddam Hussein was right
We're better off without
Bombing everything in sight

Freedom
Oh freedom
Oh, it comes at a price

Some people just don't get it 
Oh, people just don't get it
Why people just don't get it
Oh, people just don't get it

Martin Luther King was right
Better off not hating everyone
In sight, even if you're white

Oh, Ghandi was right
Better off not solving everything
With a fight

Freedom
Oh freedom
it comes at a price

But I guess some people don't get it
No, people just don't get it
Why people just don't get it
Come on people just get it

(3... 2... 1... watch those bodies burn!)

I guess people were right
Better off being complacent and sitting pretty
I guess those people were right
Just let our president kill everyone in sight

Freedom
Oh freedom
You aren't anywhere in sight

And I guess I just don't get it
No, I guess I don't get it

Unresolved History

Just Don't Get It

Ernie Botts was the stage name that Chad A. Carino selected for himself when he got tired of the persona he had developed for performing under his given name. So, Ernie Botts is normal Chad A. Carino, and Chad A. Carino is the persona. Make sense? 
(he will be referred to as Ernie for the rest of this bio to reduce confusion)
The full title of Ernie Botts + the Miseries occurred when Ernie was working on recording solo, stream of consciousness songs (that would become the release The Art of Fading Thought) and realized he was writing for an audience of one. He claims to have decided that all audience members for any of his solo work would likely be miserable, and therefore claim the title of 'the Miseries'. Audiences, however, failed to play along at the sporadic live shows following the release of TAOFT in 2003.
Toward the end of 2003, Ernie began adding 'hacked' robotic toys to the MIDI triggers set up to play layered tracks at live shows, claiming to hypnotize audience members who listened to more than one song... to what end, no one knows. During this time, he disappeared due to serious illness for a month, and then reappeared with a new EP, Dysphoria. Apparently, this was recorded both in stream-of-consciousness and in the middle of treatment for the illness.
In 2005, the release Backyard Experiments in Noise revealed a more layered approach, even as the tempo shifts and complexity grew more unsettling than in previous works. Ernie disappeared again, for a number of years, before returning to the stage with a new outfit (Formulae). Outtakes and solo tracks recorded during this period were released as a new album in 2008, Unresolved History. This release was followed by a number of shows (with people instead of robots, this time!) in support of the album from 2008-2010. 
All  prior releases from Ernie Botts + the Miseries are being released in 'remastered' form in 2024. This seems like quite the gap.