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ENDLESS SLEEP

dundrells and shadowy men tag team for world domination

dundrells smen

WHITE TRASH SEX DREAM

i could never figure out if this song was ironic our not...recorded over a nice saturday afternoon and never really finished. vodka and lemonade was the drink of choice that day...inspired by the opening sequence of ghost world......vadim song and played keys...scott complained a bit and yours truly played porn-funk guitar-bass-percussion-and manned the rock'n'roll typewriter......

GOD IS YOUR HERO

number two in the phil ochs collection...dundrells feel inspired by squirrel bait as per don pyle's request........

TAPE FROM CALIFORNIA

yes yet another interpretation of the famous cheap trick song....except mom and dad are listening to the smiths instead of kiss.....the bridge between anyhowtown and blanche....derek on drums...darren on drums jimmy mac on riddim guitar...the beautiful daphne on all the vocals and ph on drone guitar and leads....early nineties so there.......

Surrender

it seems like a thousand years ago now...happy stan was the band and i think we were playing at this club on bloor street near lansdowne called branko's...kind of an off-shoot of the last resorts....stan sang and played guitar...ed played drums...billy played bass and i played fuzzy electric 12 string-in fact lenny breau's baldwin-we weren't arty enough for queen street...not punk enough for the market...not rock enough for yonge street. stan was the reason this band existed...smart funny...lou reed meets pete townshend without the cynicism of either and a really good printer to boot...as long as you could ignore the heroin....still missed.......

RUNNING FROM MYSELF

sherman set the way back machine to 1985...i think...minimalist jug band and his terrific song lousy lover lousy lay...later famously borrowed by the look people. pogo'a'gogo-aka chris houston-and i dragged al mader out to the credit woodlands area of mississauga where i had my original studio in the stinky basement of a beauty salon...al brought his washtub and did what he did...i recorded it and still love this simple recording. i worked with him 25 years later..........

LOUSY LOVER LOUSY LAY

i met jojo rock when he was in big king corpse with future rusty scott m. jen was my wife's best friend....i was still me...after playing with jojo in big daddy, he decided as maturity set in that the songs should be more something...but i forget what. he and i recorded...jen came along we became snowdogs....rush references were always cool and it translated well into french-canadian where we had a solid fan base of about 14 people...mostly from the west island....this a sad lament of lost love and appeared in a horrible movie called thick as thieves...i think this was the last time i wore shorts......

CRAZY LOVE THING

five leaves left were playing pysch-cowboy-rock when blue rodeo were still an electro-pop band....we had the right idea, but we were a bit out of sync with the queen west reality at the time.....no big haircuts...slide guitar...songs about trains and an appreciation of nick drake well before it was fashionable.....this was recorded in mississauga before the great migration east....purple shag carpets on the ceiling and the smell of perm fluid in the air....mark goldberg did his best to play like richard thompson and sang-and wrote this damn fine tune-terry carter smashed away cuz he could and your humble author played bass poorly and slided.....kissess all.....

MOVING TRAIN

two...two...two songs in one....yes dundrells great ode to being careful in the music industry....right in the middle is take me to a party which was written by lori yates and stan demonsky and was a last resorts tune....i think that this was from the rivoli, but the tape was unlabled....i am still unlabled.........

SOCK IT TO ME/TAKE ME TO A PARTY

a pop song by jojo rock and myself about the pain and joy of slipping into middle age...now seemingly more relevant today....inspired by everyone we knew and no one in particular and bearing no obvious resemblance to any songs by the who, jam or kinks. jojo drummed and sang lead...jen bassed and sang backup and i jingle-jangled in relative key and sang backup.....recorded at hallam street on a nice august evening a long time ago....

DAVE

high noon! mark from trenton...terry from the rock...and frank and graydon from somewhere....playing cowboy chords on queen st west in the early eighties....recorded at my stinky beauty salon studio one fine sunday afternoon onto something we use to call eight track tape...short and to the point....this knob manned the knobs.........

HAPPY YOUNG MEN

first dundrells song i ever heard...must have played it a thousand times...from the purple/green cassette and recorded in beautiful mississauga...thanks bert........

CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE

this is me with the deadly snakes at their very last show at the horseshoe tavern in toronto...it is the only time in my career or theirs that we/they/us performed louie louie on stage....this was supposed to be for a live record but it's never coming out so i am tossing it out here...i did five albums with the snakes and managed to show up on most of them......i love these guys because they always brought beer and had great songs too....who cares if nobody actually knows how to play the song.....

LOUIE LOUIE

one of the first things recorded in the basement of hallam street back in 1986...i think...a cover of the terrific poppy family song where evil grows..i couldn't find a copy of the record so this was all done from memory...you know those pre-internet days...young sherone black sang...young terry carter played drums...and i made all the other noises including electric sitar....all recorded to eight tracks in a tiled basement...done for fun so it's far from perfect...released as is and now sent to the clouds from the original vinyl...although i shortened the intro a bunch...rumour has it that when doa did their cover of where evil grows, terry jacks used this version as a reference...so doa copied some of my stupid mistakes...funny little world innit.......

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