Paul
Chastain & Ric Menck
- Hey Wimpus: The Early Recordings Of...
Recordings
made in 1987-8 thanks to a $500 loan from a good friend.
At the time there were a lot of "smelly guy" rock
bands around our town, and we
felt really out of place wanting to make music influenced by the Beach Boys and
the Left Banke.
It was the beginning of wimp rock for sure! I remember we had a lot of fun doing
this
stuff, and we really were inspired by older records that we were just discovering
for
the first time. Stuff by the Zombies and Hollies and Byrds and even Simon & Garfunkel.
Later we signed a bogus record deal with some people in the UK, and when pressed
for
a name for our project, came up with ChooChooTrain, something we definitly have
lived to regret. Still, the music has held up rather well in the face of all
of the
indie-wimp pop that's come after it, and this is your chance to hear all of it,
including
the unreleased original "There Before The Dawn", and a ragged version
of
Paul Collins' "Walking Out On Love" that we cut at the very last minute of the final
session. |
