teaux jam swan song 1993

recently, during the long drive to and from boston, i had an opportunity to revist a recording of my college band, the teaux jam. years ago when i worked for a dot-com, i burned this 4-song ep onto cd from a dat master. this enabled me to save these songs from total oblivion, rescuing them into a modest, mature obscurity.

we recorded this in 1993----i remember having a severe flu, needing to crash in a blanket pile between takes. it seems self-serving, but now i stand by the adventurous music that those angry, restless, searching, young men made 17 years ago. i'd say that the songs have aged well and sound better now than they did at the time. in fact, what made us anxious about our music [and made others apathetic] was that it didn't really sound like anything else. i'll let you judge...

so i post the four songs here...and in doing so, run a little web experiment of the proverbial tree-falling-in-the-forest variety: how long, if ever, will it take for one of my former bandmates to find this posting after searching for traces of his past? i'll include their names for the sake of the search engines [and to give credit where it's due] the clock starts now...

the lineup:

don hutchison: vocals, trombone, banjo
dan madinabeitia: vocals, keyboards, saxophone
matt robinson: bass
me: drums


1. living in the guest room





2. now




3. mom's bridge club warned me of the real world




4. waitress pop fetish



btw: embedding mp3 audio on this blogger blog was surprisingly convoluted and frustrating!!! after following at least 4 suggestions in vain, i stumbled across this tutorial on youtube which finally worked.