Name: Scalding Creek [GBV Cover] - Children's Garden Of Yeses by willmaierica1
Duration: 1 min 46 s
Description: Written by R. Pollard - Originally recorded by Guided By Voices - Recorded here by Will Maier and Mike Postalakis.

"More than a fading song..." 

This was recorded and performed by some of my friends that called themselves both "Simon Said..." and "Highwire Saints." It's one of my favorite songs of theirs, and seemed to be a turning point for the band's sound, back in 1999. They were sort of a mashup of genres, with some solid pop songwriting underneath. My band, Tepado!, regularly played with them, and all the members of my band secretly (maybe not so secretly) wanted to join theirs. 

If you're familiar with my song, "Tiki Bar Revolution" you can hear that I directly ripped-off Darrin's guitar part during the chorus. (His chorus got used as my verse). It wasn't intentional, but just like The Rapture, it DID happen. 

They were also the original creators of the song called "Monkey Steals The Peaches." 

Even though it's not a polished performance... (I think it was the second take recorded for free as guinea pigs at a recording school) these guys were writing songs like this when they were barely out of high school. 

Anyway, after the band recorded this song, all the tracks were lost for years and years. Until I was going through some boxes...

Archived, compressed backup files discovered on a random Windows-formatted CDR, in a box of old junk from Florida on Friday, May 13, 2011. Original files dated from March 3, 1999. Sent to Steve Cox in Florida, who installed a 12-year-old version of Cakewalk on his PC and exported the files as WAVs, then uploaded them back to L.A. Re-mixed by Mike Olekshy in Santa Monica, CA on May 18, 2011. 

Just in time for Judgment Day.

Brad Fries - Drums
Darrin Johnson - Guitar, Vocals
Stew McLain - Keyboards
Skot Ward - Bass
Travis Niolet - Vocals


Opus

Folk rendition of the popular Toyota commercial song. 

Performed by William Maier & Ian Covell as New Super Head.

https://www.facebook.com/NSH-NewSuperHead-102743879796381/

Written by Don Piestrup.

Toyota (I Love What You Do For Me) - slight edit - New Super Head

Stirling and Frog's neighborhood.

Tune in Thursdays at Midnight EST to "Cheap &amp; Easy" web stream/ show info: www.cheapne.se


The Cave by Stirling and Frog's Neighborhood

Everybody's Favorite Catchy Surf-Folk Tune supporting the "TRADE CENTERS WERE SOMEHOW BROUGHT DOWN SUSPICIOUSLY" theory: Play this at any party you want to end.

Released on the event's 7th anniversary.

Freefall (Catchy Folk Tune To Celebrate The End of the Republic)

Written by R. Pollard - Originally recorded by Guided By Voices - Recorded here by Will Maier and Mike Postalakis.

Scalding Creek [GBV Cover] - Children's Garden Of Yeses

Promotion for Carl King's "Complicated Music Hour"

Complicated Music Hour Promo - 2012.02.07

by Stewart McLain with William Maier; Distant Drumming by Brad Fries. CAT#45 12/99

William's Got Some Moving Arms - Wm Maier & S. McLain

Recorded in late 2011 by Jared Whitham and Frog Still 

Citizen of the Universe

http://willmaierica.com

See also: http://soundcloud.com/willmaierica [Main Soundcloud]

Scalding Creek [GBV Cover] - Children's Garden Of Yeses

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