“The Road to Wakarusa” Battle of the Bands.
Local Gents, Dave Black, Alabaster Brown, Big Thumb USA, and DJ J Public played before us. Big Thumb won! We lost. First gig billed as “Solitron.”
Set 1: Optimus Prime*, Each Day’s Better Than The Next*, Lot Trash*
* first time played.
During the fall of 2005, Rick, Mark & D-BAD had a series of jams with different bass players. We were fortunate enough to play with a number of cool cats – friends new and old, including our brothers Dan and Greg from CPB, Kevin Neill from Synergy (the solitron’s favorite St. Louis band of all time), and local looper-legend Stendek (doing a rare appearance on bass guitar), our step-brother Dave Atkinson, and more.
When the dust settled, we found that old habits are hard to break – and reunited with our good friend biddy. But the moments we captured were too cool to pass up – so we put them together and made a CD.
For a limited time, this compilation will be available free for download. Right-click on either the MP3 or the FLAC links and choose to “Save Target as…” to download files. (And feel free to share or seed this music far and wide!)
Or, track us down in person for a free copy of the CD (limited edition of 400), with included poster and sticker. Update: hurry up, we’re almost out!
| 01 | fantasy blues | w/ dan gorry (of Florrisant) | 10/26/05 | 9:28 | mp3 | flac |
| 02 | optimus prime jam (part 1) | w/ kevin neill (formerly of Synergy) | 09/25/05 | 4:12 | mp3 | flac |
| 03 | indian summer | w/ stendek | 10/20/05 | 2:32 | mp3 | flac |
| 04 | wet t-shirt contest | w/ kevin neill | 9/25/05 | 2:32 | mp3 | flac |
| 05 | anxiety attack | w/ Stephen Lindsley (formerly of Languid) | 09/29/05 | 1:39 | mp3 | flac |
| 06 | panda-monium | starring Mark Williams | 10/13/05 | 4:46 | mp3 | flac |
| 07 | the stumbley wumbley song | w/ dan lake (of CPB) | 10/18/05 | 4:24 | mp3 | flac |
| 08 | klonopins | w/ biddy (formerly of Headstash, speedball) | 10/16/05 | 13:01 | mp3 | flac |
| 09 | all aboard the crunk train (radio edit) | w/ dave atkinson (of Fire in the Trees, Chicago IL, formerly of Bombastic) | 11/13/05 | 6:43 | mp3 | flac |
| 10 | i hate my life | w/ greg lorton (of CPB) | 10/29/05 | :28 | mp3 | flac |
| 11 | creepy | w/ greg lorton | 10/29/05 | 1:54 | mp3 | flac |
| 12 | magical disappearing act | w/ dan gorry | 11/04/05 | 2:14 | mp3 | flac |
| 13 | invasion of the stumbley wumblies (part 1) | w/ dan lake | 10/18/05 | 7:23 | mp3 | flac |
| 14 | falcor jam (excerpt) | w/ stendek | 10/20/05 | 1:26 | mp3 | flac |
| 15 | optimus prime jam (part 3) | w/ kevin neill | 09/25/05 | 4:35 | mp3 | flac |
| 16 | lot trash | w/ biddy | 11/15/05 | 8:22 | mp3 | flac |
For best results, burn to CD with normal 2-second pauses (”Track at Once” mode) and enjoy from start to finish. On repeat.
CD Insert in GIF format: front back
Poster in GIF format: front back
Info file: thesolitronjams.txt
| bonus track |
the national pastime | w/ kevin neill | 10/13/05 | 5:22 | mp3 |
Thanks again to all the bass players who jammed with us!!
