9. Horse And Buggy (Live at The Knitting Factory NYC)
The version of the ultimate song that appears on the 1999 album, Whirlaway, was Take 2 and we spent time adding lots of studio magic to it prior to release. This version, Take 1, was recorded live on the Knitting Factory main stage to an audience of no one, but Kramer (and some Knit staffers), who was in a lower level control room wired up to the stage and talking to us through the headphones. We couldn't see him - We could just hear his disembodied voice giving instructions. This was all just one take, live, no edits...just a Tadpoles' space-jam on one of our favorite tracks.

Instrumental

from Feel Like A Freak (A Historical Sideshow of Missing Links), released 06 September 2011 
This version previously unreleased. 
Original version from the 1999 Bakery Records/Camera Obscura Records CD "Whirlaway" 

Produced by Tadpoles 

Recorded and Mixed by Kramer at The Knitting Factory, Manhattan, NY

Mastered by Todd Parker at Starlight Blanket Studio, Sacramento, CA in 2011 

Todd Parker - Guitar 
Nick Kramer - Guitar 
David Max - Bass 
Adam Boyette - Drums 

©1999 Boyette/N.Kramer/Max/Parker, BMI

Horse And Buggy (Live at The Knitting Factory NYC)

7. Lyman Bostock (Harvest Mix) 
The entire Whirlaway album was originally mixed by Gene Holder of the famed 1980's jangle/power pop group, The dB's. We only ended up using two of Gene's mixes for the Whirlaway album as we later remixed it with Pete Drivere at Ampreon Recorder in Youngstown, Ohio where it was originally recorded. This was one of the unused Gene Holder mixes that highlights Nick Kramer's vocal and heavy rhythm guitar. 

Begging with a borrowed hand again 
Burning bridges, swimming rivers 
Building and breaking and fixing things 
You can never run from the devils in you 
But you can beat a path to my door 
When the running gets the better of you 
Rest yourself a while, sit a spell 
And you know that tomorrow is a new day 

It's all in how you harvest me 
It's all in how you harvest me 
It's all in how you harvest me 
It's up to you, how you harvest me 

Betting on a borrowed hand again 
Desert sands in your barren palm 
Your rivers dried out into the seas 
Brother, don't you curse my name 
I haven't made peace with parts of my past 
Or with those ghosts with halos round their eyes 
And you hope that tomorrow is a new day 

It's all in how you harvest me 
It's all in how you harvest me 
It's all in how you harvest me 
It's up to you, how you harvest me 

It's all in how you harvest me 
It's all in how you harvest me 
It's all in how you harvest me 
It's up to you, how you harvest me 

©1999 N. Kramer/Max, BMI

from Feel Like A Freak (A Historical Sideshow of Missing Links), released 06 September 2011 
Harvest Mix version previously unreleased 
Original version on the 1999 Bakery Records/Camera Obscura Records CD "Whirlaway" 

Produced by Tadpoles 

Recorded at Ampreon Recorder, Youngstown, Ohio by Pete Drivere 
Mixed at Jolly Roger Studio, Hoboken, NJ by Gene Holder 
Mastered by Todd Parker at Starlight Blanket Studio, Sacramento, CA in 2011 

Todd Parker - Guitar 
Nick Kramer - Guitar, Vocals 
David Max - Bass 
Adam Boyette - Drums

Lyman Bostock (Harvest Mix)

5. Butterfly (Red-Spotted Purple Mix)
Originally on He Fell Into The sky, this is one of my favorite Tadpoles tracks - we always had a lot of fun happily overindulging on wah-wah pedals. Added some fresh vocal tracks in 2011 to update Butterfly to sound like it did when we played it live.

Investigating all that is wrong with this place 
leaving an impression of you 
only thing missing what's wrong with this face 
leaving an impression of you 

how can i get out of here and get out alive 
leaving an impression of you 
i'll follow you until you get lost in the sky 
following a butterfly 

©1992 Parker, BMI
credits
from Feel Like A Freak (A Historical Sideshow of Missing Links), released 06 September 2011 
Red-Spotted Purple Mix previously unreleased. 
Original version from the 1994 Bakery Records CD "He Fell Into The Sky" 
Produced and Mixed by Kramer 
Additional Remixing by Todd Parker 
Recorded at Noise New Jersey with additional recording in 2011 at Starlight Blanket Studio, Sacramento, CA 

Todd Parker - Guitars, Vocals, Effects 
Michael Kite Audino - Drums, Percussion 
David Max - Bass 
Andrew Jackson - Guitar 
Nick Kramer - Guitar

Butterfly (Red-Spotted Purple Mix)

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From Last FM bio ~ From Hoboken, NJ, the Tadpoles pretty much exemplify what most American psychedelic music sounded like in the 1990s— melodic rock wrapped in blankets of fuzz, heavily processed guitars and the occasional electronic studio effect. The Tadpoles were adept enough at jamming and developing themes, but they were at their best when working with concise, punchy songs. The Tadpoles have always been know as a ‘psychedelic’ band, which means their music references the mind-expanding sounds of experimental artists of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. But that ‘retro’ tag has never sat well with the band, which insists it’s as inspired by modern-day guitar bands like the Jesus & Mary Chain and Spacemen 3 as it is by classic rock.

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