Thunderegg is a band/recording project, led by Will Georgantas, that has been around since 1995. Depending on how you count, there are somewhere between twelve and a gazillion Thunderegg albums now, and hundreds of songs. Some of these recordings feature Will alone, recording to a four-track cassette deck, and others feature the full band—which includes Jake Fournier on bass, Ken Moon on guitar, and Russell Lord on drums. Well, until Russell moved to New Orleans. They have alternately been hailed by a discerning wing of the media and willfully flown beneath the radar. Thunderegg has, for better and for worse, always been cultish. Some might say churlish.
Over the years some efforts have been made to address this, with varying degrees of “success” (an entire modality that Thunderegg is fascinated by). In addition to a series of almost secret live shows and label representation from Orange Entropy Records, from 2000 to 2003 there was the Thunderegg page on a site called IUMA. Then we had a MySpace page, and a defiant little MySpace blog. Will has also put stuff up at Slush City and Four-Track Kings. And all along we had a website at thunderegg.org, where a ton of mp3s resided hidden in plain sight, ultimately causing Chinese mp3-seeking bots to comprise 99 percent of our monthly traffic. Who knew that Chinese mp3-seeking bots were totally into four-track bedroom rock?
Now the time has come for a consolidation, a regrouping. Here is the master Thunderegg page, where you can keep up to date with Thunderegg, hear all the music, audit the Thunderegg History Lesson (a series of pieces, posted Monday and Thursday, that connect specific songs with stories from the time of their creation), and also witness various other flights of fancy that often involve baseball. Thunderegg likes baseball a lot.
- Thunderegg in Trouser Press
- Thunderegg’s IUMA page (via waybackmachine)
- Slush City
