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fave it Classic Rock | Folk Rock
14 tracks | 47 minutes
Released May 2001
on Last Stop Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:14 Motordrive lyrics BUY MP3 02:14 Motordrive lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:14 Motordrive
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:03 Easy lyrics BUY MP3 03:03 Easy lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:03 Easy
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:47 The Game lyrics BUY MP3 03:47 The Game lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:47 The Game
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:42 Old School lyrics BUY MP3 02:42 Old School lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:42 Old School
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:42 Address Book lyrics BUY MP3 03:42 Address Book lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:42 Address Book
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:27 Innocence lyrics BUY MP3 02:27 Innocence lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:27 Innocence
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:34 Down The Road lyrics BUY MP3 03:34 Down The Road lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:34 Down The Road
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:35 Earache #9 lyrics BUY MP3 04:35 Earache #9 lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:35 Earache #9
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:48 Under Ground lyrics BUY MP3 03:48 Under Ground lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:48 Under Ground
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:49 Free Society lyrics BUY MP3 02:49 Free Society lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:49 Free Society
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:33 Looking For You lyrics BUY MP3 04:33 Looking For You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:33 Looking For You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:03 Bittersweet lyrics BUY MP3 04:03 Bittersweet lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:03 Bittersweet
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:07 Make My Day lyrics BUY MP3 02:07 Make My Day lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:07 Make My Day
Clever songs and passionate performances pull rock influences from singer/songwriters and alternative.
Bio / Background
After the split of Boston band Ten To Six, a new power pop trio was formed. SHRUG immediately had an identifiable pop/punk style but really never had the chance to develop. Alex abruptly split from the group in the middle of a stressful gig at the Boathouse on Lake Merced. "I just didn't want to do it anymore." Recalls Alex about playing shows, "So I spent the next few years working on dozen's of song demo's without the distraction of hauling gear around town and the day to day politics of being in an independent band."
At the time, Alex had a whole new batch of songs, many of which have gone unreleased and sit in the archives, but 14 of them made their way onto 1999's BLUEPRINT. A few years were spent toiling around the old basement studio on 32 Desmond street in the Visitation Valley area of San Francisco. Then setting up a short lived studio in Marin County, where final vocals and mixing were completed and the eventual release of BLUEPRINT in late 1999.
↓ more ↓With eager hopes Alex began talking with producers and independent A&R folks, who had expressed interest in shopping a demo to major labels, but after relocating to Los Angeles, the 'industries' thinking was, as Alex often tells it, "we'll take track #5 and Track #14, make a new demo and work the power-pop angle." Disappointment's aside, spending a year in Hollywood, working with former band mate, Crazy Town guitarist TROUBLE and local Ranchero act Los Primos, was time well spent. "The best thing for my music" says Alex "is to stay independent and make it the same way I always have. I just had to decide where."
Alex founded Last Stop Records in late 2000 to advocate San Francisco's independent music artists, resulting in a full time job as an engineer in the Last Stop Records Recording Studio.
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