Ted Leo
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SHAKE THE SHEETS: The Demos 2003-2004 on Bandcamp
🕑 Added 2024-05-02 18:00:59 +0000 UTCHey, folks - this is just a heads-up to you Patreon supporters that after digging around and finding that Little Dawn demo I posted here a couple of months ago, I found demos for the rest of the album, and will be putting them up on Bandcamp tomorrow (Fri. May 3, 2024). As with all my Bandcamp stuff, I'm working with a "free if you need it/happy to accept if you want to pay for it" model, and YOU, as Patrons, should feel absolutely entitled to download it for free. I did some writing about the thing in general, and each song specifically, and there's a demo-y bit of "album art" that should automatically come with the full album download. I'm going to try to get a video up here later tonight to also mention audio/visually, and though I'm still coughing A LOT (now, largely thanks to the pollen bomb that went off in the northeast this past weekend), I'll try and tack an acoustic song onto that as well. Woot!
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Ted Leo
Agh - yeas I meant the Outcasts! Thank you! Off to EDIT!
Greg Fasolino
This is absolutely fantastic!!! Thank you, Ted! I remember seeing the name Cactus World News back in the '80s but for some stupid reason never gave them a listen. You made me a fan now, downloading "Urban Beaches" as we speak. This comment made me smile: "“another Stiff Little Fingers song? Rudi? Protex? Outsiders?” I've always heard that specific subsubgenre of stuff in your music and loved it, having been into all those bands as a teenager circa 1982. Would love to hear you sing "I Can't Cope" or "Crimson." But you know what Belfast punk rock anthem I'd love to hear you cover the most that's in the same vein as those? "Capital Letters" by Ruefrex, one of my top 10 punk songs of all time. Also, did you mean The Outcasts (Belfast) instead of The Outsiders (Adrian Borland from The Sound's first band)? OK, off to see The Damned. Thank you once more for this bounty of sonic riches.
Ted Leo
Ha. I understand that! I’ve only ever used the stock humbuckers that came in the guitars. In the Shake the Sheets era I was still using the Epiphone Sheraton that I’d gotten in 1997, and all those stock parts were still in it when we did the album. It was a couple of years later that I got into a brief flirtation with Gibson and I got a couple of 335s at cost from them, but again - all stock. Amp-wise, this era was all my MusicMan 4x10 (seventies tube era), and on the LP, I doubled every single guitar part with an SG with active electronics for some extra brightness.
Chris Durst
Geartalk question - what kind of pickups were you using in your 335? I've always enjoyed your tone and am considering a change but only want to go through the hassle of fishing everything thru once.
