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Slightly Broken Place (1993-1995)

It began in 1993, months after high school graduation. Myself and friend/songwriter Scott Watts started a brief but rewarding music project. It was a good excuse to get high and hang out. It also offered some solace from an otherwise stressful (its hard staying drunk and stoned 24/7!) and hectic (free cable television) college life. I've taken the time to digitize our comedy tracks from our early days. We also tried more serious songwriting but never quite found our groove. The comedy songs are the only items from the first few years I find 'acceptable' to play for myself or others. Part of their charm is their crude, creative, and edgy feel.

Below are MP3s that chronicle the brief career of our comedy project. It had undergone 4 name changes from 1993 to 2002. Represented on this site are Broken Chords, Slightly Dimmed, and Ed's Place [hence Slightly Broken Place]. We had settled on Dischord for our final serious release. At our height of popularity there was one local gig at Mother Earth's Cafe (no longer exists) and one "Quad Jam" in May of 1995. From that show the MP3 for "Baking Grandma" represents the pinnacle of our success. I estimate that over 200 cassettes of our music were circulated in the 2+ years we produced our own releases.

We borrowed the Ed's Place banner from one of my other side projects during 1995 and 1996. That too failed to survive the test of time. At its peak we played a single acoustic set at Mother Earth's and another small show at a local Lark Street bar (that also no longer exists).

Scott sang and wrote/improvised the lyrics on most of the tracks. I played guitar and was in charge of all phases of production (as usual). I hope you find them as disturbing and fun as we did at the time we recorded them. We were either using an old 2 track reel to reel machine or a Tascam 4 track for these recordings. Microphones varied from a $5 Radio Shack special to a Shure SM58.

MP3s:

Broken Chords - Cooking With Playdough P1 (Aug 1993) Yellow Snow In Mexico.mp3

Broken Chords - Cooking With Playdough P1 (Aug 1993) A Scene From 'Shit'.mp3

Broken Chords - Cooking With Playdough P1 (Aug 1993) Acidic Attitude.mp3

Broken Chords - Cooking With Playdough P1 (Aug 1993) Mo' Money.mp3

Broken Chords - Cooking With Playdough P2 (Aug 1993) My Dream Girl.mp3

Broken Chords - Cooking With Playdough P2 (Aug 1993) Reveille Bungle Calk.mp3

Broken Chords - Classified (Jan 1994) Fido.mp3

Broken Chords - Classified (Jan 1994) Fixin Grandma.mp3

Broken Chords - Classified (Jan 1994) Seattle Santa.mp3

Broken Chords - Classified (Jan 1994) Hair.mp3

Broken Chords - Classified (Jan 1994) Classified (Ad).mp3