Saturday, February 9, 2008
The Bunker: Where the magic happens
A lot of you people don't know what 'The Bunker' is. Let me tell you. This is the recording studio that was built in Mark Ewing's basement where almost all of the tracks are laid down for Tumble Recovery Records. It is very complicated to most of you, but there is a computer down there, also a whole stereo system. We have 2 sets of speakers . One set is in 'the Bunker', the other is outside on an outdoor deck for blasting songs out to experiment how they would sound in the open air such as outdoor stadiums and other venues. The Bunker has a Memorez CD and DVD Label Maker kit. It made it so CDs couldn't be played, so we scraped it. The Bunker has an Inport Deluxe, made by Xitel. We can't figure out how to use it though. There is a TV, clock, lamp, and other electrical devices. There are cassettes, CDs, DVDs, records down there. Also an extensive collection of pens and pencils. When you buy a CD made by Tumble Recovery Records, rest easy, for you know it was recorded and mixed in The Bunker.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Tumble Recovery: "Be Home Blyleven"
1-Bohemian Like You-Dandy Warhols
2-Shamemaker-Ween
3-Mercury Blues
4-Celebrity Skin-Hole
5-Castanets-
6-Knockers-The Touch
7-Wanna Rock'N'Roll
8-Love in a Trashcan
9-I Summon You
10-Love and Gasoline-Donna the Buffalo
11-Grey Day-
12-Retreat
13-Painted by Numbers
Recorded in the Bunker December of 07. Released to coincide with Bert Blyleven getting voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. There was going to be free CDs, free subsandwiches for EVERYONE. But!! Blyleven was not voted in. There was no party. There were no album sales. Mark Ewing was pissed off. Ewing had painstakingly searched hard for artists he didn't know very well. After the embarrassment of the whole marketing ploy died down, Tony and Sandy both found it listenable, which was a small victory at Tumble Recovery Records.
Rolling Stone on BE Home Blyleven: "Ewing has made a very silly record here. Ewing is the kind of industry mogul who thinks it's a good idea to have the Mormon Tabernacle Choir cover hard rock songs. Do not buy this record"
Trivia: Mark was torn on several songs: He pulled off "Snakes on a Plane" fearing it would pigeon hole the album as 'campy like his other stuff'..."Knockers" by the Touch was almost cut for the same reason, but it wasn't and became a surprise hit...also cut out was Paul Simon's "Graceland", one of Ewing's favorite songs, but it would have been too familiar with the masses. Tony really liked 'Castanets"...who would have thunk....Ewing could not get TBone Burnett to help produce the record, but his brother Sirloin Burnett was on hand and helped push all those toggle switches around. Ewing now denies that Burnett worked on the record.
Tumble Recovery: "Shark Sandwich"
At press time, Mark is in the studio in the Bunker, going through dozens of songs. One track is in. One song was just kicked out. Now Mark is reading Viking Update. He's not getting any work done doing that. Rolling Stone already has a 2-word review for Shark Sandwich: Sh*t Sandwich.
Dog Records: Beware of White Cars
1-Cocktail
2-Alcohol-Barenaked Ladies
3-Take Me Out
4-Nuclear
5-Dan cruisin' (unknown track)
6-Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell-Flaming Lips
7-Dan Oh Sunne(unknown track)
8-Solo par Ti (amiwawa)
9-Staple It Together
10-Long Shadow
Recorded at sunroom studios. Thanks to Dan ''The Danimal Signore for unknown tracks. Gipsy Kings would like to give Tony Signore a big 'thank you! for giving them a chance.
Cover has the script: You know it's shady'...2 cartoon men on jacket, one asking, 'do you like my hat?, the other one saying, 'no'. An odd, German-type Cross appears on the back.....
The song "Alcohol" is a huge hit, it is also rumured to be a 'celebration' of the mysterious night of 05Oct07, although insiders denied it......
Rolling Stone...accused Tony of running out of ideas and forcing his son Dan to lay down crazy, unknown tracks, but the results were somehow refreshing....Tony's idea of inventiveness was trying to coax 'fart' noises out of his Hammond B3 organ, but it bewildered the other session musicians enough that they couldn't keep a beat. The lyrics are Eastern mystical psychobabble heavily weighted down by dragging tempos. Like we always say, If you know it's shady, then you know it sucks."
2-Alcohol-Barenaked Ladies
3-Take Me Out
4-Nuclear
5-Dan cruisin' (unknown track)
6-Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell-Flaming Lips
7-Dan Oh Sunne(unknown track)
8-Solo par Ti (amiwawa)
9-Staple It Together
10-Long Shadow
Recorded at sunroom studios. Thanks to Dan ''The Danimal Signore for unknown tracks. Gipsy Kings would like to give Tony Signore a big 'thank you! for giving them a chance.
Cover has the script: You know it's shady'...2 cartoon men on jacket, one asking, 'do you like my hat?, the other one saying, 'no'. An odd, German-type Cross appears on the back.....
The song "Alcohol" is a huge hit, it is also rumured to be a 'celebration' of the mysterious night of 05Oct07, although insiders denied it......
Rolling Stone...accused Tony of running out of ideas and forcing his son Dan to lay down crazy, unknown tracks, but the results were somehow refreshing....Tony's idea of inventiveness was trying to coax 'fart' noises out of his Hammond B3 organ, but it bewildered the other session musicians enough that they couldn't keep a beat. The lyrics are Eastern mystical psychobabble heavily weighted down by dragging tempos. Like we always say, If you know it's shady, then you know it sucks."
Dog Productions: "8 Segment Symphony (one)"
1-Celtic Folk 3
2-Twin Cinema-the New Pornographers
3-Velvet Underground- Modern Lovers
4-My Mistake-
5-Broken Boy Soldier- Recontuers
6-She's Electric-Oasis
7-Sin City-Flying Burrito Bros (?)
8-Unknown track 7
recorded at sunroom studio June07.....Dog Record's first CD release marks the first release since Dog Records cassettes in the 1980's. This came out only 2 weeks before Signore went crazy and faked his own death. Rolling Stone said, "allgedly pieced together over four years, 8 Segment has overorchestrated tracks rampant with bad rhymes sung in a fey voice designed to make you say, "oh gosh, what a terrible song" You lose interest after the first two minutes. If you like this, Tony has a truckload of old cassettes you could probably pick up".
Tony said, "I'm going crazy with this record business. I want to stop it. You want me to stop it." And how.
2-Twin Cinema-the New Pornographers
3-Velvet Underground- Modern Lovers
4-My Mistake-
5-Broken Boy Soldier- Recontuers
6-She's Electric-Oasis
7-Sin City-Flying Burrito Bros (?)
8-Unknown track 7
recorded at sunroom studio June07.....Dog Record's first CD release marks the first release since Dog Records cassettes in the 1980's. This came out only 2 weeks before Signore went crazy and faked his own death. Rolling Stone said, "allgedly pieced together over four years, 8 Segment has overorchestrated tracks rampant with bad rhymes sung in a fey voice designed to make you say, "oh gosh, what a terrible song" You lose interest after the first two minutes. If you like this, Tony has a truckload of old cassettes you could probably pick up".
Tony said, "I'm going crazy with this record business. I want to stop it. You want me to stop it." And how.
Tumble Recovery: "The String in my Leg"
Recorded in the bunker in July07...
1-Little Green Bag
2-Story of an Artist-Daniel Johnston
3-Jump into the Fire
4-Good Evening Mr Waldheim
5-Lit Up
6-Nutbush City Limits
7-Tight Connection to my Heart
8-All the Good Ones Are Taken
9-Hold Her Down
10-Joker and the Thief
11-Photograph
12-Hope for us All
Made up of fairly-known artists, under-the radar songs....'Story of an Artist'-is an odd selection, and Daniel Johnston is the first person to have his name included on the CD. Tony said the live version of 'Photograph' was horrible. Rolling Stone said "This record is compared to the Challenger exploding, and this should shut down the Rocket Recovery (sic) program."
1-Little Green Bag
2-Story of an Artist-Daniel Johnston
3-Jump into the Fire
4-Good Evening Mr Waldheim
5-Lit Up
6-Nutbush City Limits
7-Tight Connection to my Heart
8-All the Good Ones Are Taken
9-Hold Her Down
10-Joker and the Thief
11-Photograph
12-Hope for us All
Made up of fairly-known artists, under-the radar songs....'Story of an Artist'-is an odd selection, and Daniel Johnston is the first person to have his name included on the CD. Tony said the live version of 'Photograph' was horrible. Rolling Stone said "This record is compared to the Challenger exploding, and this should shut down the Rocket Recovery (sic) program."
Tumble Recovery "Apple-Buttered Sonetts"
The first CD released by Tumble...recorded in the bunker June07...For Rod Beck..."Look for the Rocket" logo appeared for first time.
1-Slash Your Tires
2-Gravity's Gone
3-Piss Up a Rope
4- Me Gustas Tu
5-We Didn't See A Thing
6- Jackson
7- Pollo Asado
8-Wounded Surfer
9-Postcards from Paraguay
Most called it typical Ewing stuff: odd and insane. Rolling Stone said, Nothing groundbreaking, just verifies that if you ever wonder what Mark does all day, well he listens to really bad music in his basement." Tony said, "Gravity's Gone" is a good song, but that other stuff is like South American music. Geez."
1-Slash Your Tires
2-Gravity's Gone
3-Piss Up a Rope
4- Me Gustas Tu
5-We Didn't See A Thing
6- Jackson
7- Pollo Asado
8-Wounded Surfer
9-Postcards from Paraguay
Most called it typical Ewing stuff: odd and insane. Rolling Stone said, Nothing groundbreaking, just verifies that if you ever wonder what Mark does all day, well he listens to really bad music in his basement." Tony said, "Gravity's Gone" is a good song, but that other stuff is like South American music. Geez."
Dog Records: Apologies To Sandy
This record came out 2007.... A NIGHTSHADES RELEASE....recorded at Sunroom Studios.
1-Highway Patrol
2-Skin and Bones
3-Get Down Moses
4- She Said, She Said
5- Joy
6- Danger
7- Jane
8- Perfectly Good Guitar-John Hiatt
9- Monkey to Man- Elvis Costello
10- Radar
Rolling Stone called it 'flatulent', but Mark liked it. So did Sandy, who demanded her own copy. the Album sold 0 copies, but this record stood out against the crap they normally put out.
1-Highway Patrol
2-Skin and Bones
3-Get Down Moses
4- She Said, She Said
5- Joy
6- Danger
7- Jane
8- Perfectly Good Guitar-John Hiatt
9- Monkey to Man- Elvis Costello
10- Radar
Rolling Stone called it 'flatulent', but Mark liked it. So did Sandy, who demanded her own copy. the Album sold 0 copies, but this record stood out against the crap they normally put out.
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