Category Archives: Thunderegg History Lesson
History Lesson: I Don’t Want to Stay Here (with Me)
“I Don’t Want to Stay Here (with Me),” from Where Are the Cars (2008) For about one week of the summer that I lived in my parents’ empty house—not coincidentally, a week when my father was home for meetings—I took … Continue reading
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History Lesson: “Keep It with You (demo)”
Keep It with You (demo) by THUNDEREGG “Keep It with You (demo),” from Powder to the People (1998) I was in graduate school for fiction, writing short stories like I was supposed to. I hadn’t managed any songs in a … Continue reading
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History Lesson: Conversation Hearts
“Conversation Hearts,” from Universal Nut (1995) Every Valentine’s Day, my mother used to send me a card and a little box of Necco Conversation Hearts. My senior year of college, I spread out the chalky candies on the bedspread in … Continue reading
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History Lesson: I Felt Wonderful
“I Felt Wonderful,” from This Week (2007) Elliott Smith is said to have frequented O’Connor’s when he lived in Brooklyn, but Farrell’s, in Windsor Terrace, is the only bar where you can actually write a song. There is no jukebox … Continue reading
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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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Thunderegg History Unit Action Plan
Every Monday and Thursday, there will be a new Thunderegg History Lesson. There are now twelve. Once there are fourteen—representing a song from each Thunderegg album—we will have completed a Thunderegg History Unit. Here’s how History Unit #1 has played … 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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History Lesson: Dog Leg
“Dog Leg,” from New England Music (1996) There is a batch of Thunderegg songs with titles drawn directly from the scorecard of a putt-putt course that used to be on the Boston Post Road in Westbrook, Connecticut, a beautiful postwar … 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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The Thunderegg backyard family jamboree
First of all, Saturday is the backyard gig at Jake and Alicia’s. Second of all, Bob Porri has just confirmed that he’ll be able to sit in for some of the Egg set, which starts at 4:00. This party’s already … Continue reading
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