This was from the CD “Fake Rabbit” from 2004. This song basically covers how Skurj does stuff. Rabbits, Sears, Nixon and Ted Danson all make verbal appearances. I think we even have a Bionic Woman in there too. This reminds me of the sound we were making before I left D.C. This is the mid 00’s Skurj here.

 

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IC-Grey and the MAACP take it down a knotch with this tune.

Do you wanna kick it? I don’t know. I haven’t thought about it much…Dan and Malcolm always kick it.

 

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When I lived in Baltimore and D.C. I used to make a weekly trek to a West Baltimore basement to record with the amazing SKURJ! I played guitar and recorded while Allen played bass and Dan and Malcolm rapped off the top of their heads. I would hit the record button and hope whatever happened would be awesome. I would then tweak the tracks over the next week and mix everything down before the next session. After a month or two we would have a compilation to duplicate and hand out to our small but loyal group of fans. Aside from from our Baltimore base, Dan says we were big with some high school kids in Jersey.

We were never a big deal and we never even tried to be. All of us just loved trying make the other guy laugh. So the music reflects that. We never took ourselves too seriously, and that is why Skurj still exists after more than 10 years. The fact that we respected the humor and we couldn’t wait to hear what was next kept us going. Get us in a room with some party favors and hit record. We will give you an album with at least one good song.

When I first started playing with Skurj, I approached the situation from the perspective of being a big fan of Ween, Beck and Sebadoh. I was way into the whole 90’s D.I.Y. recording thing. Skurj was just the right situation to actually do that. I started out recording on a 4 track and graduated up to a Roland VS-880EX. Technically it was a huge pain in the ass by current standards, but I captured the sound. Now Allen has a roided-out PC with numerous recording programs and I only record on my computer. Anyway, that means there is a bunch of SKURJ sitting around on tape. We did our first 2 years analog, and none of that is online….Watchout!

Well here is a classic that captures our late 90’s early 00’s sound. I guess this was recorded eight years ago? I can’t really remember. I’m sure Dan or Allen might. I miss those guys on Sunday afternoons.

This is only my first Skurj post. In the future I will be posting rare tracks from the past.

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Here is a song by my band The Fadge. We wrote and recorded this in April 2008. It was inspired by my talkative and sometimes nosey neighbor Janet who was moving out at the time. I couldn’t walk out of my apartment without hearing, “Hey Kurt.” This would be followed by at least a half hour of Janet talking at me about whatever was bugging her that day. She was a nice lady, but man could she talk. She showed up one afternoon while the Fadge was relaxing and barbequing on the back porch. I think she hung out until 10pm talking about nursing and rodent problems etc.. She made a big impression on the other guys, and we had to write a song about her.

Here is a picture of Juan Croucier (Billy) during the six hour Janet Fest. He came up with the first guitar chords the next day. Enjoy.

 

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