![]() ![]() “Remember how it was back in the day,” Lewis sings, and he also ponders the universe, the meaning of life, what’s to come and beer shampoo.Ĭo-producer John DeNicola helps find a common thread in the album’s wide range of musical styles. It’s frayed but arresting, and his flair for melody remains intact. Lewis had the most elegant voice in a group with four fine singers, and on “Imagination” his gentle tenor turns back the clock. Lewis, 77, was a founding member of Moby Grape, the supremely talented San Francisco band that was cursed by bad decisions, bad habits and bad luck but did release a classic album in 1967 during the Summer of Love. Peter Lewis bridges the past and future on “Imagination,” his music evoking the 1960s as his lyrics look toward eternity. “Imagination,” Peter Lewis (OMAD Records) Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.The No Ones still hope to meet you all in person, but for now, let's hope that My Best Evil Friend can at least pull you into their orbit, like a beacon from RKO. When downtime is forced upon you, the committed musician just turns it into more songs, more records, more life. Well, it does, but that's not the way it works. With a 2020 tour of Norway repeatedly Covid-canceled, as well as lost appearances at Roskilde and other festivals, you might think it makes sense to hang it up. And once again the quartet has enlisted contributions from generous friends, through the voices of Debbi Peterson (Bangles), Norman Blake (Teenage Fan Club), Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie), as well as 'lead bass' from Camper Van Beethoven's Victor Krummenacher, and strings from Marin Ballemo Bakke. There are even outright paeans to George Harrison, Jenny Lewis, and Phil Ochs, among others. Not exactly in linear or transparent ways, but you'll find shadows of Plastic Ono Band, Joe Tex, Sugar Pie de Santo, Nick Lowe, beat poet Michael McClure, Blind Tom, Pamela Polland, Dean Martin, and on and on. ![]() Whereas Great Lost Album was imagined as being discovered in 2054 by a retro-hipster-scribe in Mojo ("The Last Magazine"), the latest is a blurry tribute to our own LP collections and memories, the artists that populate our turntables, and those that continue to inspire us. Arne and Frode were able to track live guitars and drums together in Oslo, which somehow gives the vibe of a combo rockin' a high school gym - owing much to the engineering work of Bård Ingebrigtsen, who also did the final mixes. My Best Evil Friend was realized in the way it was required, bouncing tracks back and forth from studios in Norway to the Dungeon Of Horror in Portland, Oregon, with a few other helpful home-recorders. Thirty-plus songs later and we have My Evil Best Friend, the band's third release and follow-up to 2020's exceptional (by definition) The Great Lost No Ones Album. Conceived above the Arctic Circle, split by thousands of miles, and compounded by ridiculous schedules and pandemics. So, making music comes naturally to this band, despite the obstacles. I Was A King releases its 8th album Follow Me Home in September 2022. Master of melodies as well as guitars, capos, chords, and vocal cords. Scott The Hoople is his solo side-career.įrode Strømstad - I Was A King, Rider, etc. Casablanca and The Florida Project are required viewing. He enjoys coffee in his spare time, and dreams of Neil Young and Irma Thomas fronting Sun Ra's Arkestra, with Nice As Fuck opening. Primary lyricist, plus bass, keyboards, guitars and vocals. Scott McCaughey - Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus 5, R.E.M., Baseball Project, Filthy Friends, etc. Rural Tapes (solo/collaborative instrumental project) release 2nd album Inner Space Music November 2022. He loves forest green, his Korg MS-10, Can, and Raymond Scott. Arne played the controversial piano solo on "Turn Again" from first No Ones long-player. Drums, keyboards, percussion, vocals, etc. Made three amazing and fucked-up solo albums that are available only in an alternate analog world.Īrne Kjelsrud Mathisen - I Was A King, Rural Tapes, etc. Countless songs - you can only hope to contain them! Double-LPs and pizza. ![]() Peter Buck - R.E.M., Minus 5, Filthy Friends, Baseball Project, Luke Haines, etc. In this case there are but four No Ones, and you can put them all in one room, though not very often at the same time. The No Ones are also defined as "not a single person" and that's fine too. An example of no one is how you would describe who is in an empty house. Mammals fill the floor, spill out the door. We are all bags of meat, dreaming long-haired girls and boys. In the other corner, caged like a fox and fondling its fur: Billie Dixon as Harlow (pronouns: she/her). Richard Bright in a light show: Billy the Kid. Everybody here, policing their fear - is nature too foul?
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