5 posts tagged “hop'd”
This is a tune from the band Hop'd, pronounced hopped, if there were any question. This must have been recorded in 1993- It seems to me that we recorded it around the same time that we recorded our only 7" single (split with Mohair, a band out of Philadelphia). As is typical, the most ambitious recording is done early in a band's lifetime. If something happens with the recording it can provide momentum to do something bigger, or so I assume.
At any rate, Hop'd was made up of myself, Bill, and Kurt from NervesLikeEels + a friend of Kurt's named Patrick Linehan and Craig gilbert. Kurt and Patrick had played in a band in the mid 80's called Hindu Circus with a couple of other guys including Corey Harris (featured on the Billy Bragg + Wilco disc Mermaid Avenue as well as his own stuff on Rounder Records). Craig was a friend of ours through Jim Nasi (40th Day) and Kyle Jones (Street Choir, Judge Roughneck, et cetera). I think I wrote this tune- I submit that it only has 4 chords, so I must have written it. It was, if I have the time fram right, recorded at Kyle's house direct to hard disk. If I don't have it right, then it was recorded at Kyle's house to an early ADAT recorder. I am playing an original Danelectro convertible (the one made out of masonite). I think Bill is playing a Tele, Patrick is playing a Gibson thing I can't remember, and Kurt is playing a Fender Jazz bass. I do the vocals.
Here is a thumbnail time-line for the bands under consideration here:
1985: The Decembrists -no not those Decembrists.
1986: minus bill
1987: minus bill, The Warlock Pinchers -yes those Warlock Pinchers
1988: Warlock Pinchers, Nerves Like Eels
1989: Nerves Like Eels
1990: Nothing I can remember
1991: Ditto for 91
1992: Autobody Experience
1993: Hop'd
1994: Hop'd
1995: Fletcher -there was another band of this name around at the same time in Boston maybe?
1996: Fletcher, Perry Weissman Three (PW3)
1997: PW3 -> and so on
