some velvet sidewalk
  SHIPWRECK
 


"...and if it's shipwreck, you can
shipwreck all you want
and if it's desert isle, you can desert isle your fill..."

 
  Eyes Like Yours
Puppy
Empty House
Eye of the Storm
Unhitched
Dumb    mp3 (3.4MB)
Boardwalkin'
Wondercat
Hopeless Case
Mousetrap    mp3 (2.20MB)
 
 

The band was Al Larsen - voice & guitar, Tobi Vail - drums, Louise "Zeb" Olsen - bass with guest appearances by Brad Sweek and Donna Dresch

Some of these songs were recorded in a house in Olympia with Colm Meek engineering and the rest were recorded at Lowdown in San Francisco with Greg Freeman running things. (Years later we returned to Lowdown to record tracks for Generate! with Greg Freeman).

Donna was living in San Francisco at the time. She came with us to the studio and played the distorted bass track on "Mousetrap" and the metal guitar part on "Dumb". It wasn't really metal I guess, but it was distorted and it was in tune and in rhythm - that's what I thought metal was.