Wednesday, July 12, 2006

My (Tossed) Salad Days

My first band, The Groot Velours (1987-1990) released a 7 song cassette in 1989, In God's Basement. The song "(I Get So) Hysterical" was included on the compilation What's All The Fuzz About (What Wave) out of London, Ontario in 1989 and has since been digitized and archived by CHRW in London. The production wasn't the best and the final mix seems to be sped up a bit making my voice sound a bit chipmunkish and overall the sound is tinny. Having said that, the song was actually pretty good and the main riff was cool. The mp3 that's out there is corrupted and you can't download it properly. Since then it has been linked to a few sites, but without any info on the band and a slightly wrong title.

For the record, here are the proper credits:

(I Get So) Hysterical (Schilling-Smith-Willett)
The Groot Velours

Produced by the Groot Velours
Engineer: unknown

The Groot Velours line-up

Mark Schilling: vocals
Rick Smith: guitar
Rob Willett: bass
Craig Caron: drums (1988-1990)
Jeff Sheeler: drums (1987-1988)

I hope to remaster the Groot Velours recordings as well as the recordings of my next band Liber Null (1992-1995) and put out some sort of compilation to download.