frankieromustdie: first demo ever? 🤷♀️
Crazy what you find while cleaning up… I believe this may be the first demo i ever made with a band in a studio. Tape is labeled 8-22-96 which makes me 14 soon to be 15, and i believe this was a band called Fountainhead but i could very well be confusing that with another incarnation. I remember my first day of little league i met a kid named Matt Smith, he and i got to talking… we realized we both loved Nirvana and wanted to be in a band so we made plans to ditch baseball and go back to my house and start a band. For awhile the band was just he and i in my moms basement listening to records and smoking cigarettes but eventually we met some other kids who wanted to be in a band and could also get us weed. So 🤷♀️. A band we did start.
This demo may have been recorded at a place called Pearle studios but i have no real recollection of it… only that i wore a really weird jester hat while recording for some reason and no one at the studio was very into us being there.
Anyway here you have what i think is my first “studio demo” where i’m playing guitar and making strange harmonics during the verse of the song “cookies” enjoi.
p.s. we REALLY liked Nirvana
edauletta: I found another stack of old photos. This was the first time we toured Europe in 2003 with @theused. We where staying at what we found out was a legendary rock hotel called @thecolumbialondon fun fact. This night, in this picture. We where all hanging out at the hotel bar with The All American Rejects and The Yea Yea Yeas. Everyone wasn’t as big then. All three bands released records that year that propelled them to where they are today. It was a crazy time. I have video of this tour and evening in question 🤫. . We all paid our dues on that tour.
“So you guys did have a lot of fun this weekend, huh? You guys went camping? Drinking? Fucking around? Have you guys been…dancing? Have you been dancing? Would you like to dance? Well, let’s do it!” (X)
Behind the scenes photos by photographer Justin Borucki for Kerrang! magazine. New Jersey, 2004.
“I was hired by Kerrang! magazine to follow Gerard and Ray around and revisit the making of their latest album (I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love). We visited a hospital, the bar where they played their first gig, their childhood homes (Ray’s childhood bedroom is pictured), their practice space, and a diner that they ate at a lot when making the album. Most of these images were never run or seen by the public.”