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Title: Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix) Band/Artist: Dark Yellow Personnel: John Huston Recorded: Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 at Studio Ridgeway, Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: Recorded in about three hours on the last day of the Mayan calendar. You know, just in case. "Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?"
Title: Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac) Band/Artist: Dark Yellow Personnel: Cynthia Castiglione, vocals; John Huston, other Recorded: Friday, April 13, 2012 at Studio Ridgeway, Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: No, we're not getting divorced. We had a rare Friday night with no other obligations so we recorded this song in the span of about four hours. While I recorded the instruments, Cynthia cooked us dinner. After we ate, she did her best Stevie Nicks impersonation, sans cocaine.
Title: Maroon & Blue Band/Artist: The Transoms Album: The Weather is Here…Wish You Were Beautiful Personnel: Ron Garcia, drums; John Huston, vocals, guitar and bass Recorded: June 1999 at The Hive, South Bend, Ind. Fun fact: Written as a song to woo a girl, if you can believe it. References my pal Doug's two stellar punk bands -- the girl liked The Cuba Five, but my preferences clearly were with his then-current band, The Butterfly Effect. The girl now hates my guts, but that's unrelated to the song (as far I as I know).
Title: Hollow Water Scene Band/Artist: The Pawners’ Society Album: Pull the String (never released) Personnel: Stephanie Morris and John Huston Recorded: 2007, Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: Steph once told me that my songs made her voice sound like Liz Phair. I'd written this song originally for a Dark Yellow CD about a girl I was dating at the time. When The Pawners' Society started (roughly five years later), I bumped the key up a whole step, changed a few lyrics to make them less embarrassing, and asked Steph to sing lead. It sounds amazing, whether or not her voice sounds like Phair's.
Title: Pink Pig Band/Artist: Citrus Boy Album: Conniption Fits Personnel: Mark Langgin, drums; Sam Long, bass; John Huston, vocals and guitar. Recorded: Spring 1996 by Chris Hunter at Studio 16, Ottumwa, Ia. Fun fact: I originally called this one "Gold-Plated Clothesrack," until Mark nearly laughed himself off his drum throne and convinced me it was the worst song title of all time. He was right then, and he'd be right now. So we named it after the original restaurant in our hometown's historic Hotel Ottumwa. Also, I'm still angry that the guitar solo got mixed so low. Seriously. I think about it from time to time and shake my fist.
Title: Straight, No Chaser Band/Artist: The Wingtips Personnel: Ian Kenning, trumpet; Shawn Neary, bass; Brian Boesen, drums; Erin Alberty, keyboards; John Huston, guitar Recorded: Aug. 15, 1998 at Mind's Ear Studios in Bloomfield, Ia. Fun fact: One summer during college, some friends assembled a jazz group and we won a "Battle of the Bands" competition (in spite of my clearly non-jazzlike guitar playing). Top prize was a couple hours in the recording studio to record a single for play on the local radio station. We sweet-talked a six-song EP out of the recording engineer, promising that we'd play our songs extra-fast, like this incredibly speedy Thelonious Monk tune.
Title: Tongue Depressor Band/Artist: Dark Yellow Personnel: John Huston Recorded: Late 2005 in Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: I remember writing and recording this song shortly (read: minutes) after watching the documentary "Dig!" about the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols. It was an entertaining film, but I don't really care too much for either band. For some inexplicable reason, I thought it'd be fun to combine their styles. There's probably a little My Bloody Valentine in there, too. And I may have been going through a bit of a "synth" phase...
Title: Sissy and the Stooges Band/Artist: Dark Yellow Personnel: John Huston Recorded: November 2008 in Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: The vocal track is an honest-to-Pete voicemail I received at work, left in the middle of the night by a man who didn't give his name, but is likely mentally ill. (Or that or it was a colleague playing a prank. Or both.) It's totally bonkers in a most intriguing way -- meandering from one subject to another -- and ends with the guy duh-doo-doo-ing in a borderline musical way. Figured I'd put the recording to good use as part of a pseudo-industrial song I made up.
Title: Crack Pipe Full of Wheat Band/Artist: Olive Sail Album: for... Personnel: David Owen, vocals; John Huston, guitar Recorded: Spring 1996, Pirate Alley Studios, Ottumwa, Ia. Fun fact: My pal David was an amazing singer, so he and I teamed up our senior year of high school to record an hour-long cassette of originals, covers and odd sound-snippets. I wrote this one about a girl, but it's not a love song. I promise.
Title: Skunk 'N Chicks Band/Artist: Citrus Boy Album: …Not Nirvana Personnel: Mark Langgin, drums; Sam Long, bass; John Huston, vocals and guitar Recorded: Summer 1995, Pirate Alley Studios, Ottumwa, Ia. Fun fact: Originally a Smirnoffs song, which got lost in the temporary divorce. When Mat, the Smirnoffs' singer, left the band, the three of us started Citrus Boy. This was the one tune we took along with us, along with changed lyrics that are just as dumb today as they were then.
Title: Case of Beer Band/Artist: The Smirnoffs Album: The Day Jerry Died Personnel: Mat Sims (Schlage Smirnoff), vocals; Mark Langgin (Marky Mark Smirnoff), drums; Sam Long (Ohio Smirnoff), bass, backing vocals; and John Huston (Don Smirnoff), guitar, backing vocals. Recorded: Aug. 9, 1995 (i.e. the day Jerry Garcia died), Pirate Alley Studios, Ottumwa, Ia. Fun fact: A fictional account of high school drinking. (But I can confirm that neither Sam nor I were drunk when we recorded those terrible background vocals. It's merely ACTING!) Figured it was a good song to post today, on St. Patrick's Day.
Title: Fake Wounds Band/Artist: Dark Yellow Personnel: John Huston Recorded: Oct. 29, 2011 at Studio Ridgeway in Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: A new song! Written and recorded in a few hours one Saturday. One of those things where you need to get it out of you as fast as possible before it evaporates.
Title: Looking thru Microscopes Band/Artist: Dark Yellow Album: Like Hamlet, Like Socrates Personnel: John Huston, vocals and guitar Recorded: 2002 in Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: From the third Dark Yellow album. I hadn't listened to this for a long time, but it got stuck in my head recently when I gave it a spin. I was shocked by how complicated this song's structure is, and I can't imagine how I ever managed to play it live. Rough recording and some questionable vocal choices, but this has a bunch of good hooks.
Title: Sun Spots Band/Artist: The Grackles Album: Honeypot Personnel: Nicole Roach, drums; Brian Aleman, bass; John Huston, vocals and guitar Recorded: Spring 2004, Phantom Manor Studio, Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: Of any song on the record, this one would have been "the single." When we were featured on "Local Anesthetic," on Chicago's WXRT radio station, this is what they played. And when we appeared on the local hipster/children's dance show Chic-A-Go-Go, this is the one we lip-synced to.
Title: You is the Letter Band/Artist: Dark Yellow Personnel: John Huston Recorded: July 2000 in Oak Park, Ill. Fun fact: Wrote the lyrics while still in college, but didn't finish the song until I was living in my super-hot apartment the summer after graduating. Living alone in a new city and not knowing anyone provides lots of opportunities to stay home and write music.
Title: Surrender Band/Artist: Dark Yellow (featuring the Poker Night Tabernacle Choir) Personnel: John Huston, instruments and main vocals; Jason Harvey, Ben High, Paul Hornschemeier, Nathan Keay, Fritz Lenneman, Jonathan Messinger, Jon Rosenblatt, Dan Roush and Brad Williams, backing vocals. Recorded: Feb. 24-25, 2012 at Studio Ridgeway, Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: Work gave me a rare Friday afternoon off, so I took the opportunity to record the instruments and the main vocals to this Cheap Trick classic. The next night I was hosting a poker game and prodded my friends into taking a break to record the chorus.
Title: How Little Feels Band/Artist: The Transoms Album: The Weather is Here…Wish You Were Beautiful Personnel: Doug McEachern, drums; John Huston, vocals, guitar and bass Recorded: June 1999 at The Hive, South Bend, Ind. Fun fact: I was tinkering with the main riff of this song in my college dorm room when a friend, Scott Little, was walking by and heard it spilling into the hallway. He came racing in and said, "Keep playing that song! That song that makes me feel the way I feel!" So when I finished writing it a few weeks later, I named it for him.
