Welcome to TrueAnon Presents: Keep the Dream Alive, a history of the legendary analog recording studio Tiny Telephone San Francisco.

In this episode: moving to SF; the band breaking up; renting a space; Survival Research Labs; assembling a team; the first tour.

Interviews with John Darnielle, Greg Freeman, and John Croslin.

Featured tracks: "Borders" by Ganfalloon Bus and "The Dream Is Over" by MKUltra.

Survival Research Laboratories show from 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeNdH2ByfCM

Keep the Dream Alive Part 1: The Dream Is Over

Welcome to the fifth and final chapter of TrueAnon Presents: Keep the Dream Alive.

In this episode: facing the inevitable; the sacred and the profane; falling in love with LA; opening in Oakland; embracing digital; on the road again.

Interviews with Merrill Garbus, John Congleton, and Tabor Allen.

Featured tracks: "cracked pass words" by John Vanderslice, "If" by The Dodos, "Coast to Coast" by Tune-Yards.

UNLOCKED — Keep the Dream Alive Part 5: After It Ends

If You Don't

Comfortable

By Mr. O. Recorded in August 1989, Rut's garage. Music: Ian, Kevin, Rut

Mr. O: Heroes Let Themselves Be Killed (1989, digitized 2023)

First single of Control Group's debut album Hot Swap, due end of summer.

You Can Be The Star Mp3

I Am T-Paine (And His Landlord's Daughter)

Al - vocals, drums, bass
Gregg - guitars
Abby - super quiet keyboard
Mastered by Mike Quinn at The Moontower
Recorded in our practice space fall 2017

The Concerns - Stitch in the Ditch (demo version)

In this home-recorded track Rachel sings a beautiful vocal over Darren's drums, Evan's bass and my guitar. This was recorded some time in 2012 in my basement in Bed Stuy. The image is Rachel putting down some guitar at a songwriting/recording retreat we did in the Catskills.

The Hudson

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