RARE ROOKIE TRACK OF THE DAY
Since Adam listens to one cd every day alphabetically and is on the R's, he's got a few Rookie Card cd's to listen to. As long as he's doing that, we thought we'd upload a rare track from each one and share. Myspace is being weird about letting us link directly to mp3's, so just go here: RARE RC TRAX DOWNLOAD PAGE http://singleclick.com/gallery/v/adamn/album103/audio/RCtrax/. If the link doesn't work, you can cut & paste the URL and click on whatever song you want to download to go to a page where you can click "Download audio" and listen to your heart's content.

RC CD OF THE DAY
7/22/04 Near Mint CD release show at Casbah
Arguably our finest hour. Kevin was truly a rookie, playing his second or third show with us in front of our biggest crowd of friends and fans. The night we released our first record, we got everyone who helped on it to get up and play along. There's two sets of great photos from the night, thanks to David Gimbel and Joe Elwell (missing link) plus there's a live recording of our set thanks to Emusic. There were lots of fun moments but the part that everyone remembers is us dragging the whole club outside to do Near Mint's hidden bonus track, "Happy Endings" and breaking into the Beatles' "Back In The USSR" when a plane flew over. Luckily, Joe's camera also takes video so almost 9000 people could eventually see the magic on Youtube.

RARE RC TRACK OF THE DAY
"Put Your Honey Where My Mouth Is"
Probably the best onstage moment came when we did a song that wasn't even on the new album. Doug Camphuis played harmonica on Near Mint's bonus track/outside encore tune but we wanted him to be part of the regular set, so he got up and blew on this song from our demo. He blew alright.


RC CD'S OF THE DAY
LIVE AT THE CASBAH 10/16/03
LIVE AT THE CASBAH 12/23/03
These are two of the last recordings of us before we put out our first record. When we first started playing two years earlier, the Casbah was webcasting and archiving our shows through Digital Club Network. It never sounded good but it was kinda neat. They changed things and started to record live shows for Emusiclive.com. Emily from Bunky twiddled the knobs and you could buy a cd copy right after the set. With a combination of a board feed and some room mics, they actually sounded pretty darn good. The program didn't do that well (hard to get your friends to plunk down more money) but we walked away with some cool recordings.

Adam's starting his new job (do check out Mtraks.com, a cool new place to buy mp3's) and couldn't send out the song of the day yesterday. So, as a special treat, we're uploading FOUR live tracks from these two shows from 2003. The first show was us playing semi-acoustically (which usually just meant Adam on acoustic) opening up for Califone and Clem Snide. Two months later, we did a Christmas show with The Stereotypes and Caution Children. We decided to do a whole set of songs we hadn't recorded yet since we knew we'd get an Emusiclive disc out of it. It's a fun, sloppy set with lots of silliness since so many friends were there. We started out saying that we were a Caution Children tribute band called Kareful Kidz and actually did a little of one of their songs that we learned watching their hands during their opening set. We also did an impromptu "Rock The Casbah" because the doorguy we'd arranged it for was finally working on a night we were playing.

RC SONGS OF THE DAY
"Dead Flowers"
"Boys Of Summer/Mazzy Starship/Happy Birthday (Clem Snide)"
"Gimme That Look"
"Got No Time"
The first song is us doing the Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers" with Brad Paye (Agave) on mandolin, Jeremy Cooke (Billy Midnight) on violin and Bobby Shaddox (Billy Midnight) playing cowbell and harmonizing*. Since Clem Snide mentioned Don Henley's "Boys Of Summer" in their new song "Happy Birthday", we stuffed a little of both songs into "Mazzy Starship" for our last song. From the Christmas show, we've uploaded a very loose speeded-up version of our unreleased song "Gimme That Look" and an early version of "Got No Time". The band performed the song for months without having any lyrics other than the chorus so Adam would just sing parts of "Turning Japanese", Violent Femmes' "Add It Up" and name off 26 baseball teams in alphabetical order (which they kept). On this night, he sang the White Stripes' "Little Room" since Jason had just sung "Little Drummer Boy" to that tune like he'd done with the White Christmas Stripes.

*The last time Bobby had sung this song with us, he didn't look so good, because he'd just found out that someone had been killed crossing the street behind the Leucadian while we were playing. Buzzkill anyone?


RARE RC TRACK OF THE DAY
"Who's Got Dibs?" (clean version)
When you've been in the gangsta rap game as long as we have, it's hard to hold back with the cursin'. But now that we're role models, we have a certain responsibility. We don't want to inspire a small army of foul-mouthed three year olds. So we decided to make a "clean" version of our soon-to-be-huge hit-single "Who's Got Dibs?" (any day now). We took the *ss out of *sshole and turned sh*t into "sh-". NOW you can play it on the radio!

Video: (uncensored)
Who's Got Dibs? Rookie Card

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CD OF THE DAY: ROOKIE DEMOS
Dylan recorded Adam doing every song on What's On Second on his laptop just before going into the studio so he could fine-tune his riffs and solos and magic. It worked. He came up with awesome stuff. Hearing Adam hoarsely run through these songs by himself isn't nearly as entertaining. There's really nothing here worth listening to but....
RARE TRACK OF THE DAY:
I Wish I Missed You (solo demo)
The song that seems to be the most popular from our last record wasn't written to be a duet. After the band recorded it with just Adam singing, he was so unhappy with how he sounded that he insisted that we either let a girl sing it or scrap it completely. The other guys talked him into making it a duet and Angela Correa single-handedly saved it. Hearing Adam forgetting his own lyrics and failing to sing the middle high part kinda fits the feel of the song. This is probably the worst thing we'll post. Enjoy. "I'll miss you when my voice is warmed up."

RARE CD TRACK OF THE DAY
"Mazzy Starship" (acoustic studio version)
We put a surprisingly good handheld cassette recording of us doing Mazzy Starship acoustically at the Ken Theater before the Wilco movie on our demo. Our friend/producer Mike Kamoo liked it so much that he asked if he could record us doing it for free at Earthling Studios for an upcoming compilation he was putting together. It's hard to turn down free, so we came in sometime in 2003 and did this cool recording with our friend Brad Paye from Agave playing mandolin and piano. "...and write a song about it," is a line from "What Sees The Sky?" by Philadelphia's Mazarin, a band we'd just played with. The comp never came out. So we're finally sharing it.
Adam: vocals/guitar, Jason: bass/harmonies, Nasr: drums, Gabe: guitar/slide, Brad Paye: mandolin/piano


CD OF THE DAY: EARLY LIVE STUFF
A few songs taken from our first or second live show plus a rehearsal recording of John's killer country rock blast "The Light". These are the only recordings of our original lineup, done in early 2001. He filmed a rehearsal on his video camera, pulled the audio of this song onto our mp3.com page and it raced up their alt-country charts, staying in the top 10 for months. It was so good that we couldn't bear to stop playing it when he left, so we re-wrote it as a tribute to him ("Dear John").
RARE TRACK OF THE DAY:
"The Light (rehearsal)"
John Andrews: lead guitar/vocals, Adam: guitar/harmony, Tim Peacock: bass, Eric Casas: drums




CD OF THE DAY:
What's On Second?
Our 2nd full length album and nominee for Best Pop Album at last year's SD Music Awards. Our best yet.

RARE TRACK OF THE DAY:
Today's rare track is the secret bonus title track, "What's On Second?" After Marie Haddad thought up the name, Adam wrote a silly song referencing friends and inside jokes to go along with it. So where is it? Maybe you should look at the album artwork a little closely. You don't even have to open it up to see where we've hidden it but if you've got a few spare seconds, you can look under the actual cd for a hint. We swore we'd never give any hints. If you've already found it, let us know. No one ever told us they have without our prompting.







CD OF THE DAY: Near Mint
Our first album. Have you heard it? Not a bad debut. Won us Best Pop Band of 2004 at the SD Music Awards.

RARE TRACK OF THE DAY:
Escalator To Heaven
Adam: vocals/guitar, Nasr: drums, Jason: bass/vocals, Dylan: guitar
None of these songs on this album are rare since most of our fans and friends have it but this song was never played a lot live and it's one of the best recordings on the album. A simple little attempt at sounding like the Everly Brothers but it came out pretty darn good. I just noticed that it's our best-selling song on iTunes (thanks, Pandora!). Then I checked the song sample they have and it's for another one of our songs. I hope people don't want their money back.



TODAY'S CD:
First Day Of Class (re-released 8 track version)
When we sold out of our first batch of demos, we figured we might as well make it better if we were going to spend the money to do more. So, we recorded three songs in our rehearsal space, found a decent hand held recording of an acoustic song and put a bunch of silly copyright violations in between every song. For a self-produced demo, it was pretty good but even we were surprised when it was nominated for Best Local Recording at the 2003 San Diego Music Awards.
RARE TRACK OF THE DAY:
"Dear John"
Adam: vocals/guitar, Nasr: drums, Jason: bass/vocals, Gabe:guitar
One of three songs we never re-recorded and possibly our tightest, most rocking song we ever did, even if it wasn't perfect on this recording. Done as an homage to our old singer, John Andrews, whose song "The Light" was copied and re-arranged to become this tune. Adam recently visited him, his wife and his cats in Pasadena and, unfortunately, forgot to get back the Replacements album mentioned in this song.



TODAY'S CD:
First Day Of Class (4 track demo)
We did a short run (maybe 100-200) of these demos in 2002 with just 4 songs on it and sold out pretty quick. We recorded the music at UCSD's KSDT studios and touched up the vocals at Earthling Studios. Of the first four songs, the only one we never re-recorded was "...in bed.". It's got the same music box we put on "Near Mint" and a Spandau Ballet reference that should keep it off of future albums for a long time to come. Gabe's guitaring at the end is pretty awesome. We thought we'd just fade it but what he played was so good, we just let it fall apart and added some noisemakers at the end.
RARE TRACK OF THE DAY:
"...in bed."
Adam: vocals/guitar, Nasr: drums/noisemakers, Jason: bass/laughing, Gabe: guitar