Yes, That Is Sean Condron Playing the Banjo at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Nicaragua: No, this was not the first thing you would have predicted from young Sean back in 1993, when he was the lead bassist for Matt Welch and the Froggy Peat. (You can hear both his bass & lead guitar stylings on our version of "Purple Rain," from the early 1994 release Slip Disko.) Sean was better known in Prague for his lead-guitar heroics in the seminal, manic depressive expat grunge band Dope.

Condron's the kinda guy you might encounter in the New York subway playing the clawhammer banjo, or perhaps performing live with a punk rock circus. He is certainly either drunk or sober. Last I saw him, a few years back, we were a little snookered, and he put on some really fucking phenomenal 1930s-style jazz tracks that he'd been working on. Next thing you know he's, uh, on a goodwill grassroots music tour organized by the State Department? Why the hell not!

08/08/2009 11:28 AM  |  Comment (0)

Let's Put Up Videos of Dudes I Used to Play in Bands With! That'll give this here website a reason to believe. Let's start with some grainy live footage of Stig Roar Husby, featuring the lead cock'o'walk stylings of Michael Lindsay, with whom I made one the the 1990s' very best unreleased 4-track records, the self-titled Golden Penetrators. Here they are, obviously, on Hungarian television:

08/06/2009 06:51 PM  |  Comment (0)

Arbor Day:

08/02/2009 08:10 PM  |  Comment (4)

Hi! What are you doing down here?