Recording at Tiny Telephone Studios, San Francisco
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Foxtail Somersault Live Performance (from LA's Mindwave Fest) Various songs from Foxtail Somersault's 5/28/11 performance at Echo Park, Los Angeles. |
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Medley [5:03] (song clip comp) A medley of some clips recorded with Morning Spy. |
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Various Morning Spy songs (MySpace) Full songs on Morning Spy's MySpace page. |
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Our Way to Fall [0:27] (rock w/swing feel) Recorded at Little Red Wagon studios in Fremont, owner/engineer Brad McGowan was able to get a Bonzo-certified sound out of the kit. |
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Two Horses [0:31] (indie rock) A clip of a mellow version is here. The rock version is from The Silver Age. |
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Silver Age [0:30] (glam/indie rock bombast) The title cut from our most recent full length is among songwriter/singer/bassist Jon Rooney's best. Drum take #1 was deemed too mellow, and I recall Jon saying "give it another try, and bash those goddamn cymbals!" From The Silver Age. |
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Foggy Filter [0:36] (indie rock) Foggy Filter appears in the award winning 2007 documentary A Lawyer Walks Into A Bar. From The Silver Age |
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Half Time Groove [0:57] (rock) Recorded at Lennon studios in San Francisco. |
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Summer Ache [0:39] (alternative rock) From Morning Spy's self-titled EP. |
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Hey Kirsten [0:36] (low-fi folk rock) Hey Kirsten is Morning Spy's #1 download from iTunes. From the album Subsequent Light. |
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Please Stay Out [0:36] (indie rock) From Subsequent Light.
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Accidental Stars [0:34] (indie rock) From Subsequent Light. |
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Ask Us To Dance [0:43] (indie pop) Inspired by Jon Guerin's light pop touch. From the Two Horses EP. |
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Vista [0:42] (post-punk/rock) Allison Goffman sings in 3/4 time on top of this 4/4 Joy Division type beat. From Subsequent Light. |
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Cosmonauts [0:48] (indie rock) From The Silver Age. |
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Daughters of History [0:39] (70's style rock) Laid back rock'n'roll. From Subsequent Light. |
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Overnight [0:41] (dream pop) If you listen close, you can hear crickets chirping. From The Silver Age |
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Already Won [0:39] (super-mellow dream pop) Russ Kunkel had a great quote about how the drums should be felt more than heard. Especially on his playing with James Taylor, he's there, but he's not, if you know what I mean. From the Two Horses EP. |
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Sugar Witch [0:30] (60's psyshedelic pop) Late 60's psychedlic pop. To brighten the chorus, a pair of claves that a previous band had been left behind were used. From The Silver Age. |
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Atomize and Connect [0:23] (proto-punk) House of Faith studios is known for its long resume of Bay Area punk bands, and engineer Bart Thurber gave the song a punk edge. From our first self-titled EP. |
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Drum Solo [1:07] Between songs at Little Red Wagon studios, owner/engineer Brad McGowan hit "record" for a couple minutes while the rest of the band was out for lunch. A true expert with drum mic placement, Brad made the Pearl kit rock. |
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Porcaro Shuffle [0:20] This shuffle beat had been played before by the great John Bonham on Led Zeppelin's Fool in the Rain and by Bernard Purdie on Steely Dan's Home at Last, but it was Jeff Porcaro who made the beat famous on Toto's early 80's hit Roseanna. Played on the first version of Yamaha's |
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Jazz beat [1:35] Having some fun with a basic jazz beat. |
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Cost of Things [1:12] (indie rock) The first song Morning Spy recorded. From the self-titled first Album. E-mail (markplaysdrums@gmail.com) for a copy ($10). |