Archive for the ‘Burnt Toast (1993)’ Category

The EP original liner art

The EP original liner art

Here’s the original liner notes and art for the ep. Revel in its ball-point-pen glory! This is the original cut and paste (literally) master we used to make the photocopied covers.

September 18th, 2009 | Album Art, Burnt Toast (1993) | Read More

No Progress

No Progress

I love this song.  It was the official set-closer for so long that by about 95 or 96 you could see a lot of our fans leave to get more beer when they heard the intro, knowing that the show was almost over.
The picture here is from Omnium Gatherum, a yearly outdoor festival in Lapeer [...]

September 16th, 2009 | Burnt Toast (1993) | Read More

His Eternal Rest

His Eternal Rest

Ratza and I were hanging out at his parents’ house some time in 92. He had words written down, and I came up with a chord structure and a rough melody. I think I’d met Louis approximately twice at this point. Thus, I think this was the second Burnt Toast song written.

September 11th, 2009 | Burnt Toast (1993) | Read More

The Lawnchair Song

The Lawnchair Song

I believe this song has the distinction of being the first song we played in front of an audience. What on earth were we thinking?!?

September 10th, 2009 | Burnt Toast (1993) | Read More

Stereo Wars

Stereo Wars

Fretter was an electronics and major appliance retailer based out of Detroit, Michigan, with locations nationally, founded during the 1950’s, by Oliver Fretter. In 1992, Fretter acquired their biggest competition of the time Silo Electronics, a company that had previously not turned a profit since the 1980’s. This was an attempt by Fretter to compete with its new major competition, electronic superstores Circuit City and Best Buy, which were much larger stores than Fretter. This move would lead the company into serious debt and Chapter 11 bankruptcy and forcing the chain to close many locations by 1993.

September 9th, 2009 | Burnt Toast (1993) | Read More

Monsters!

Monsters!

Everybody do the monsters dance! Always a good time at shows, this recording presents one of the rare times the song was NOT coupled with Effinjee. If any song sums up the feel of those early Capitol Theater shows, I’d say this is it.

September 9th, 2009 | Burnt Toast (1993) | Read More

Strange But Still

Strange But Still

Okay, really rolling along now. One of my personal favs, as well as a perennial fan favorite. Ratza came up with the baseline while goofing around at a practice one day, and we wrote the rest of the song around it.

September 4th, 2009 | Burnt Toast (1993) | Read More

In My Eyes

In My Eyes

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the first Burnt Toast song with all three members singing. I give you the first Burnt Toast song with vocal harmonies. It’s also fairly corny.

September 4th, 2009 | Burnt Toast (1993) | Read More

Truancy

Truancy

Second song on the ep – always a live show favorite. The distinctive guitar sound is Ingus’ 5 watt Gorilla practice amp with all the knobs at 10 and a vocal mic haning from the ceiling, pointed at the ground. We had one actual mic stand.

September 3rd, 2009 | Burnt Toast (1993) | Read More

Concrete Shoes

Concrete Shoes

Starting at the beginning, here’s the first track from the first release. Concrete Shoes opens the first ep (what ep has 9 songs?!?), and it opened a whole lot of our early sets.

September 1st, 2009 | Burnt Toast (1993) | Read More