Toothpaste
2000 - Instant
Action
 Artist:
Toothpaste 2000
Title: Instant Action
Catalog#: Parasol-CD-077
Price: $12.00  |
Tracks
on this CD: |
| Bubblegum |
| Oblivious |
| Instant
Action |
| Cigarettes
& Magazines |
| She
Should Be Going Out With Me |
| You're So Cool
|
| You
Do & You Don't |
| That
Kinda Love |
| Sweetness |
| Too
Young To Know |
| Gurl |
| Killing
Time |
| Wherever
You May Go |
| Guarantee |
| Mona
Lisa Overdrive |
| Up
Past Bedtime |
|
|
Frank Bednash saw Donna Esposito's
band, the Cyclones, at TR3 in New York City in 1980 and loved
her songs, her singing, her guitar playing. He started following
Esposito around - not quite stalking - trying to convince her
to let the young Beatle wannabe with a Rickenbacker join her
group to flesh out their three-piece sound. The Cyclones were
already stars in their world and never asked Bednash join, so
he started his own band, the Riff Doctors. They rehearsed at
Maxwell's in Hoboken, above which the young Bednash lived. Steve
Fallon, owner of the legendary club, put out The Riff Doctors'
single "I Don't Wanna Go Back" on his Coyote label
around the same time Donna's Cyclones had a great single out
titled "You're So
Cool."
Soon thereafter the Cyclones broke up and Bednash asked Esposito to join his
band. She did. They changed the name group to Cowboy & Spin Girl and recorded
some songs with Mitch Easter, who at one time was the Cyclones bass player. This
recording eventually came out on Subway Records in the U.K., where the band lived
for a couple of years. After their return to the U.S. and subsequent move to
Seattle in 1991, Cowboy & Spingirl was sought out by Parasol owner Geoff
Merritt. After two CDs as Cowboy & Spingirl, in 1995 they changed the name
to Toothpaste 2000. This coincided with Bednash switching from guitar to bass,
because as Bednash says, "We could never find a decent bass player because
they don't exiSt, except on The Tonight Show and sessions for TV theme music.
That's why all bass players in bands used to be one of the guitar players. Just
ask Paul McCartney."
Following Toothpaste 2000's four, charming, home-studio recorded releases - Death
of the Italian Filmstar (1996), Fine, Cool, With Love, Best (1998) Bachelorette!
(1999) and Va Va Voom (2000) - Parasol commissioned Adam Schmitt to record and
produce the band's new album. With the recent addition of Kirk Jamieson on drums,
Toothpaste 2000 is a trio, not unlike the Cyclones. With that in mind the band
re-recorded the live show-stopper "You're So
Cool," a tough item to find as a Cyclones release on Little Ricky Records.
The other sixteen songs include 10 recently penned titles, old Cyclones'
favorites "Cool," "Too Young to Know" and "Up Past
Bedtime," and two Riff Doctors songs, "Gurl" and "Mona Lisa
Overdrive."
Bednash explains, "We basically dug out our best older songs which somehow
never got recorded, to go along with the new stuff we wrote, which, I think,
is our best stuff EVER, because we knew we were going to be recording in a REAL
STUDIO with Adam Schmitt, whose stuff we always loved and always sounded immaculate,
as opposed to the big loud thrash-fests that we had recorded ourselves! It's
a gas to record with a producer who knows every arcane band and song reference
that you can throw out that describes the sound you're shooting for - 'I want
to sound like Keith Relf,' or 'I want it to sound like Chris Stamey' - and is
hip enough to actually do it!"
Instant Action finally captures Toothpaste 2000's rave up pop band feel.
A message from Frank:
HELLO, I'm Frank,me, the Bass player fellow in Toothpaste2000,
here to tell you about our lovely new Parasol cd "Instant Action"! It's our best
so far, and we're really pleased and excited about it! We recorded it with
Adam Schmitt in the equally lovely Urbana, Illinois and Mr.S really captured
our sound & our VIBE gloriously well... to describe our music is hard for
me, we just try to write catchy 2 or 3-minute melodic pop anthems that rock
as hard as possible! We are a powerpop trio: Donna Esposito plays loud, sexy,
rock guitar & Kirk Jamieson plays Thundering Bev Bevan-esque drums, I do
my best Nick Lowe impression and we all sing like fucking birds! (BYRDS?)........
IF YOU LOVE: Rubber Soul, the Ramones, Badfinger, Cheap Trick, Lucinda Williams,
the Pretenders, the Stooges, Pet Sounds, Let's Active, Parklife, the Velvet
Underground, Nirvana, Elvis (BOTH of them...), the Sex Pistols, Get yer Ya-Ya's
Out, Jimmy Page, Marshall Crenshaw, the Move, the Who, the Kinks, the La's & the
dB's, I think we're the band 4 U! |
