Hi, I’m on a horse.
There isn’t much in the way of launchiness to this post, but hey independent rock has feelings too.
Last October I shot the Atlas Sound concert at the Music Hall of Williamsburg for Time Out, and it was comprehensively dope. One track in particular, which I wasn’t familiar with, was so good that I switched the D90 from still to video mode. After the concert I went through everything Atlas Sound has on iTunes, and even snooped around the interwebs trying to track down the song, so I could, you know, buy it.
Couldn’t find it anywhere, so I dropped the matter.
I was trying to organize my photos on the computer last night and came across the video file again, and was again overcome by frustration, sadness, so I put it up on a website, and then started pounding the Facebook pavement and the Thomas Morrison pavement. Thomas Morrison aka “the Gandalf of Indy Rock,” aka the coolest bartender in New York, aka the Idiotarod martyr.
Thomas may have gotten to the bottom of it.
Via electronic mail:
“OK. so searching the Morrison mental database, this is indeed one of his (Bradford Cox’s Atlas Sound, Deerhunter) own songs called “The Screens”. It was a b-side to a Virtual 7″ (he releases singles all of the time from his website for free). The A-side is a cover of a song by The Five Discs called “Doctor” (an old 50′s doo-wop band from Brooklyn). Often, live, he plays songs “more electric” and vice-versa, more “acoustic”, depending on who is playing with him. Indeed, I think it sounds better with the heavy guitars
For reference:
http://deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com/ Check out the website. There is a ton of stuff on there. including some amazing mixes or other peoples songs that they listen to on the road.
He is by far one of my favorite musicians out there right now. They (deerhunter) will be playing the Williamsburg waterfront this summer. Date t.b.a.”
I listened to the song Thomas says the mystery song is, and I’m not convinced it’s a match, although Thomas is a smarter and better person than I am. They sound dissimilar.
Which means the mystery remains unsolved. Maybe I’ll try to ignite a storm of electronic mail through that blog Thomas referred to. If you have any ideas about the provenance or title of this song, please feel free to enlighten me.
Thank you.
Tags: atlas sound, bradford cox, willi
