Jimmy Rice on drums. Andy Irivine on bass.

When did we record this 96?  very T -Rex-ish, I think that was the goal we had discussed prior, if I remember correctly

SMILE

BABY DON’T LEAVE
Words & Music: Stephen and Robert Vessenmeyer


I reach and I tune in
The signal is too far away, but I listen anyway
Then I found you singing
About something to believe in
You’re breaking up-baby, don’t leave me now
(Chorus:)
Baby don’t leave me now
Baby don’t leave, baby don’t leave
Baby don’t leave me now
Can you hear through the static on the dial
Is God your wheel (steering wheel) or your spare tire?
I can still hear you singing
About something to believe in
You’re breaking up-baby, don’t leave me now
(repeat chorus) Drive, Baby, baby I believe (x2)
Across the miles and the distance
This breaking up is hard to take
The song that you’re singing
Is just what I wanted to say….Baby, baby don’t leave
Baby don’t leave me now (x3)
Baby don’t ya leave, Baby don’t leave
oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

Performed by Experimental Pilot: Stephen Vessenmeyer (lead vocal, harmonies), Robert Vessenmeyer (acoustic guitar, harmonies), Keith Brogden (drums), Keith Hornback (bass), Reeves Gabrels (electric lead guitar), Curt Perkins (electric rhythm guitar, keys), Tyson Rogers (hammond B3), Pete Finney (pedal steel guitar)

From the unreleased album “Spark of Life”


BABY DON'T LEAVE

hello im back its me that doggo 

Hows everyone doing? im on bit of a remix spree atm i hope u guys cool with it. This one is special to me cause its just one of the coolest things ive made. 

when they say anything is possible literally i'm starting to believe it cause yo I'm a dog lets gooooo.

When ur in a big crowd of people do u ever wonder if everyone in that corwd is real? i do. 

Ranch or BBQ ? 

happy Cinco de mayo . be safe out there 

make sure to tell ur cat u hate them at least once a day.

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from the upcoming 7" on Fat Possum Records

Pre-order: https://store.fatpossum.com/products/too-late-saturday-7

Bash & Pop - Saturday (feat. Nicole Atkins)

Written by Brent Rademaker & Trevor Beld Jimenez
Produced by Jason Soda at Palomino Sounds Los Angeles, CA.
Played and sung by
Brent Rademaker- vocals, guitar & bass
Jason Soda- vocals, guitars
Jon Niemann- keyboards
with 
Kyle Crane- drums
George Sluppick- drums
Andres Renteria- percussion
Pearl Charles- vocals
Sam Blasucci- vocals
Will Courtney- vocals
Steve Taylor- vocals

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Me&My (To Bury Your Parents)

Guitar Dream is out on 1/25 in LP/CD/Special Edition LP tormats!
PRE-ORDER LP/CD/SPECIAL EDITION HERE - https://www.wharfcatrecords.com/store/david-vassalotti-guitar-dream
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About 'Guitar Dream'
It's 2018. Guitar music is as good as dead, exiled into irrelevance after decades of debasement. David Vassalotti (known for his work with a slew of Florida-based projects, most notably as co-founder of 4AD recording artists Merchandise) has crawled out from under his rock to record and release a record called Guitar Dream. Out of moroseness? Hope? Sarcasm? Are guitars’ death and life but a dream?

A quasi-breakup album voiced through a protean pastiche of dejected characters, this new record sees David Vassalotti at his most up-front and confessional. Vassalotti's guitar and songwriting work in Merchandise is much more apparent on this album compared to his last record, 2015's omni-genre and collage-heavy Broken Rope. On Guitar Dream, he channels some of Merchandise's melancholic post-punk balladry, but this record maintains a decidedly bleaker and more literary tone. Vassalotti is known and respected for his guitar playing, but his abilities as a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist are finally given opportunity to clearly shine, thanks to the production and engineering talents of co-conspirator and Merchandise frontman Carson Cox, in whose Silver Spring basement Guitar Dream was tracked. 

Fractured glam, keyboard trumpets and, yes, the occasional guitar solo prop up Vassalotti's fragile voice throughout the album's 10 tracks. Blankets of reverb and delay ghostify these maudlin pop nuggets. This is music best experienced alone, whether that be sitting on your unkempt bedsheets in the midnight hour or headphoned in the anonymous flow of the dreaded morning commute. In the tradition of other ambitious loners, fans of Leonard Cohen, Tim Buckley, Cass McCombs and Franco Battiato will find much to love here.

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David Vassalotti - The Light (From the "Guitar Dream" LP out 1/25)

WHITE DOVE is a song written by Stephen Vessenmeyer and recorded by Men From Earth during the Summer of 1995. This was taken off of an old worn out cassette tape!

I love the way you fly
Tearing up the sky
I like the way that you groove me
Like I was born on Tuesday
Nobody's gonna shoot you down while I'm around
So fly high & proud, my white dove

(SV)

SMILE

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