HeyJaredFour Track Substack
Musician and writer Joe Pernice shares recordings and some words about making them.
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Benign ramblings about making and releasing music. Plus a demo from the archives. (opens the original)
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Friends,I hope this finds you all relatively well. I always feel like I’m giving a knowing nod when I open with that sentence. Relatively seems to be more and more loaded as our time barrels forwards…or is it backwards? Lately I’ve noticed myself saying more often than ever, Well, you have to die of something. With that in mind, I choose to fill my blink with love, music and bicycles. Those are the best three in my opinion. (Small displacement motorcycles from the 1960s through 1980s would be fo
Scud Mountain Boys having a bit of a moment... (opens the original)
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Friends,Hope this finds you all relatively well. Been a strange few months, to be sure.Before I start, please enjoy this live recording of the Scud Mountain Boys playing Silo live at The Iron Horse in Northampton, MA. At first I though this was from our 1995 10:00 am (not pm) Saturday performance at the 1995 Loud Music Festival, but Tom Shea is not on the recording and clearly wasn’t part of the band yet. So this has to be 1994. Also, we were pretty lathered at that 10am show. We played too well
"Queen of California" alt version (opens the original)
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Friends,I hope this finds you all relatively well.I apologize for being a bit quiet on Substack. I have been working long hours at home whipping together way too many demos for a recording session I have coming up next week. Don’t feel super comfortable talking about it because I don’t really know how the sessions will go. The group’s name rhymes with Mud Fountain Toys. And all that dovetails nicely with this post.While I was going through potential songs to track next week, I came across a fold
Video: Me trying to impress a friend with a new song. (opens the original)
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Not sure if I succeeded. I do like the song though. It’s called Supermoon.
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