The story begins with me making a trip to Stockton to visit my good friend Nick. He attends school there at The University of the Pacific. The reason for the trip was to spend a few days in the dorms, meet some people, and make a few recordings. So I packed my portable studio into the trunk of my car and made the hour drive to Stockton.

Once there, we set up my things and got right to work. After a few takes, however, hunger set in and we stopped and headed for the store. Along the way we ran into a few of Nick’s friends who happened to be planning some sort of outdoor festival at the school that weekend. Turned out, Nick was going to play in his band the very next day. I thought nothing much of it and proceeded to follow Nick out to the parking lot and drive to get some food.

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The next day we awoke and went to breakfast. He found a way to sneak me into the cafeteria and so we ate breakfast. As we were walking back to the dorms we came across what was starting to resemble the stage for the festival. I meet some people and before I realized I had offered up my services to do the sound engineering for the show.

When Nick’s band, Avon Union, came on I was immediately impressed with their enthusiasm for playing and offered to record the band at a home studio in Fremont. We made the necessary arrangements and the recording took place in mid-December. The songs were then mixed a month later when they returned from their winter break from school.

What you have here is one finished song from their EP and the artwork. The later was a collaborative work between Deadlymarxist and I. I felt the band had to be illustrated as larger than regular size and suffering from carrying all their instruments. It was an attempt to show the amount of hard work that is involved in producing music and the size difference was to say they have the necessary ego to be professional musicians.

A big thanks goes out Deadlymarxist, Fabian for engineering this putaso of a project, thee Frognuts for his input / opinion, and of course the musicians involved for actually finishing. The process from inspiration and creativity to a finished product is truly about interdependence.

You can find further recordings of Avon Union by clicking HERE.

Girl Dilema doesn’t happen everyday, but when it does, it’s bittersweet. My friend Nathaniel and I discovered the name in 2001 while in math class and it has since been sleeping due mostly to school and miles of distance. A few weekends ago we met up after three years apart.

not just breakfast anymore.

This song was recorded in a hotel room using a laptop, two microphones, an electric bass and acoustic guitar. We managed to record three songs before the occupants next door began to hit the wall.

This is the third version of the song. You can find a band profile and the remaining songs we recorded here.