Thee Electric Bastards

Press play to hear all the songs from 'the brown album'

To purchase a compact disc version of these songs hand assembled with the pretty custom rust metalic ink letter pressed card stock jackets and tyvek hand stamped sleeves and lyric/credit sheet and johnny dna go here: Electric Bastards Online Store.

.or you could be a hip young go getter running with the in crowd and just download this shit.



thee Electric Bastards -- 'the Brown Album' DOWNLOADS

320 kbps high res mp3's plus art; credits; lyrics; attitude.



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thee Electric Bastards -- Live! At Club Awesome DOWNLOADS

320 kbps high res mp3's plus DIY art vs. record label art; lyrics; self aggrandizement.

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This is a video that appeared on Somerville Cable Access Television in 2006 (I think?) The first part is an actual rockumentary that was done by Dutch film maker Charlotte Goevert. Why she thought we'd be a good subject for a rockumentary, I have no idea. She was bass player Josh' room mate at the time and when she first told us about wanting to do it we were kind of dicks and pretty much just laughed at her. We felt suitably bad when we finally saw it and saw how professional and well done it actual was. Very well edited by Mike Hall, who on his website jokingly referred to feeling like he got to know us quite well do to going through some 10 hours of film of us in our (then) shitty practice space--poor bastard. The best part of it is Charlotte's rad accent, which makes the narration sound totally PBS. Plus, she always called us 'thee Electrical Bastards' which we thought was hilarious. So its about an hour, first you get the rockumentary, then an exceedingly awkward live performance in the SCAT studio--complete with camera operators in the shot and all the good stuff you want from a cable access show. If you've never had to record in a TV studio, have some sympathy for us.do you know how weird it is to try to put on a rock show with absolutely no one there but camera men? I tried to rock out a couple of times and you can immediately tell how dumb I feltwhich just accents the overall uncomfortable feeling of it.which in retrospect is also pretty funny. Enjoy the video we came to refer to as "SCAT Bastards." (Also.really.SCAT? Your going to call your cable station SCAT? Maybe I'm immatureno definitely I'm immature.but that's unintentionally hilarious. "SCAT, huh? Must be really shitty TV!! Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck." Give 'er a minute to load up there, cowboy.



.and now back to the same 'bio' we've had on here since the year of ought three:

I think I understand the purpose this little blurb is supposed to serve. I write something that makes you say, "Hey! I think I'd like that!" and you come and see us and buy our album or you read this and say, "What an asshole" and that, I would guess, would be the end of that.



I've read quite a few of these things. They are at best boring and at worst pretentious-- usually filled out with the BAM and POW of tall claims of saving Rock and Roll or promises that, really, we sound like your favorite band-- I swear.



Rock and Roll, somewhere, is doing okay without any of us and I have no idea what your favorite band is.



I guess I could compare our band's musical output to feces. Yep, that's shit, pal. What I mean is that someone somewhere ate some Big Black, a bunch of old punk stuff, went on to eventually devour some 60's and 70's rock and psychedelic (or is it psychedelia?) and eventually sat on the porcelain and 'let loose the kraken' as we used to say on tour.



Of course, now you're going to listen to the record and say, "That sounds nothing like Big Black." Well, cake doesn't taste like baked eggs, but they're in there.



You'll like it. Or you won't. Take a listen. Come to a show. We're a band whose strong point is obviously not competent self-promotion. But we'd like to keep doing this and maybe get some people into it.



Like my dad used to say-- "Go mow the lawn."



See ya.

Love,

thee Electric Bastards