from the new HARD PLACE CD 'WORD ON THE STREET' Released Nov. 2015

Written by Nathan Lee Shafer and Freddy Cristy

Hard Place - Music Is All That You Hear

Hard Place - City Of Love

recorded c. 2000.  Super early Hard Place jam, long thought lost but for the archival skills of Jeremy Duncan.  Recorded in my apartment on Grove St. in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco.  My parents in Horton, Michigan mailed me my 4 track and I was getting it warmed up for a new era of music making in that city by the bay.  Freddy Cristy wrote and sang the words and played that funky James Brown style guitar line.  Me, Nathan Lee Shafer I played the Hohner Pianet N, programmed the Dr. Rhythm and added a 2nd guitar.  The result?  Magic.  

Hard Place - Benjamin

Recorded at our Post Street studio in SF, Summer 2002 I think.  Me on Pianet and keyboard bass, Freddy on vocals, guitar, and Private Eye style handclaps, and Tom Marzella on the drums.  

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