Category Archives: Egg
History Lesson: Retarty
“Retarty” (explicit), from Platinum (2009) And so after writing an enormous number of songs—sometimes I claim 350, 400, but it’s probably more like 200 if you don’t count the snippets and re-recordings, the experiments and the foolishness—Thunderegg finally hit the … Continue reading
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History Lesson: This Is Just Like California!
“This Is Just Like California!,” from In Yanistin (2000) That February, my gamble at adulthood—living with my girlfriend in Westchester County—proved to be not very well thought out, and I finally caved and slunk home to my parents’ house to … Continue reading
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History Lesson: Deliverance from Crack Rock
“Deliverance from Crack Rock,” from Sweetest One (2004) In your Thunderegg course packets, please flip to the lead story of the Tony Alamo Ministries newsletter, November 2000, which you found under your windshield wiper: DELIVERANCE FROM CRACK ROCK! During the … Continue reading
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History Lesson: You String Me
“You String Me,” from Larry (1994) I had arrived at college as one kind of stock character, the former student council president still in love, long-distance, with his high school sweetheart, and in less than three months I’d morphed into … Continue reading
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History Lesson: What Was I Gonna Do?
“What Was I Gonna Do?,” from A Very Fine Sample of What’s Available at the Mine (2005) I am on the mini futon sofa in the control room in the Shed in Manchester, Connecticut, sometime between 2000, when we started … Continue reading
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History Lesson: Double Reverse
“Double Reverse,” from Personnel Envelo-file (1997) Another number from the putt-putt series, recorded in the spring of 1996. I would take the Peter Pan bus to Hartford to visit Jake, to see the action transpire at Scarlett O’Hara’s in its … Continue reading
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Sweetest One, now available digitally
Today we celebrate the digital release of Thunderegg’s 2004 album Sweetest One, which features early versions of such favorites as “The Scheduled Show,” “Long Way from Home,” and “If You Knew Me So Well” alongside lesser-known gems like “Deliverance from … Continue reading
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History Lesson: The Drapes Come Open, Revealing the Grand Ballroom
“The Drapes Come Open, Revealing the Grand Ballroom,” from The Envelope Pushes Back (2000) There was a little man walking around the wedding wearing a huge tape recorder on his back. It was 1971 so the machine was not compact; … Continue reading
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Thunderegg at VCCA
Back from the Fletcher Tour, right in the middle of bringing the new record to the people, I’ve taken a quintessentially Eggish detour to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, Virginia, where until December 21 I’ll be … Continue reading
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And so ends Retourty 2011.
“Retarty,” Victoria House, Beaumont, TX, 11/10/11. Tommy O’Brien, drums. Huge thank you to the Fletcher C. Johnson Band for taking me on the road with them for the past two weeks.
