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After over 3 years in the studio, Chicagoland rock band The Vinyl Goods completed work on this collection of new recordings and previously unreleased material. Produced and Engineered by Tim Moberly and Randy Flones, Long Live The B-Side packs 17 original songs in one package. Recommended Tracks: Track 2: Pictures of Amy Track 12: Tools of Ignorance Track 15: Help Me Through the Night Track 17: Close Enough to Rock and Roll. The disc includes their popular song "Pictures of Amy" along with their late 90's era MP3.COM hits "Close Enough to Rock and Roll" and "Help Me Through the Night". Shortly after their last release, 2002’s Bridges To Burn, the band spent nearly a year upgrading their recording studio. They experimented with various hardware and software options, greatly expanding their recording capabilities. The new studio included a new computer, new multi-track sound card, and upgraded versions of their core recording software including N-Track Studio, Cool Edit Pro, and FL Studio. The group also spent much of 2002 promoting Bridges To Burn on the internet, where their music was downloaded in over a dozen countries. Recording for Long Live The B-Side began in mid 2003, and was a continuation of the project started with Bridges To Burn. The songs were selected from a catalog of previously unrecorded material. The disc contains 13 newly recorded songs and 4 previously unreleased tracks recorded years earlier. The 4 previously unreleased tracks were taken from a series of recording sessions in 1997 at Metropolis Studios in Villa Park, Illinois. Shortly after those sessions, the recording studio disappeared along with the original 24-track master tapes. The tracks briefly surfaced on the internet a few years later, but quickly disappeared along with the demise of mp3.com. The band had retained a stereo mixdown of the tracks and recently digitally remastered them to include in this new release. Moberly and Flones started the Long Live The B-Side project with the intentions of completing an archive of the band’s unrecorded (and unreleased) material. In a recent interview, Moberly commented, “This is probably the last of the older material that will be released, outside from bootlegs. It was fun recording some of these older songs for the first time. We changed the arrangements a bit from the familiar sound heard in past performances. Some of the tracks on this release had only existed as songs on paper and were never performed by the band as a whole." The Vinyl Goods were formed in 1991 by the three remaining members of pop misfits Childhood’s End. In mid-1992, the band recorded their first release, On Location, and toured briefly. Following the exit of Andrew Thies and Mike Mallo later that year, they re-grouped in 1993 with Frank Marzano (formerly of Childhood’s End) temporarily returning to the fold on bass. Marzano and Thies both contributed to 1994’s Coming Home disc. The release of 2002's Bridges To Burn heralded the era of home recording for the group, and currently The Vinyl Goods consist of Tim Moberly and Randy Flones, who both serve as musicians and recording engineers for the group. Check out the artist's website: http://www.VinylGoods.com Track List: 1. Down at Lorrain's 2. Pictures of Amy 3. Lincoln Logs and Railroad Tracks 4. The Greys 5. Elliptical Song 6. Kansas 7. One More Day in the Sun 8. Someone to Blame 9. Saturday Night at the Drive-In 10. Bring on the Rain 11. Run to the Hills 12. Tools of Ignorance 13. Lisa's Having Fun 14. The Fool Will Survive 15. Help Me Through the Night 16. Black Gold 17. Close Enough to Rock and Roll Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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