“Day of the Dog” is over ten years old. Well, it came out October 8th 2013. I tried to write a whole thing explaining everything and thanking everyone and I think that just has to wait until I write my tell-all memoir. But thank you, everyone, for my life in music.
I will say that this is one of my personal favourites of my own records, and one of the few that came out exactly as I wanted it to. (There are two others.) This distilled the essence of something for me. It was exactly what I needed, musically and energetically. The realest I ever felt in public up to that point.
I feel a lot of fondness for it, the way we recorded it, the mood in my music life at the time – the newness and evolution of my still-new band and how much we were loving rock’n’roll, exploring it together, showing each other stuff we thought was cool, just absolutely soaking in music.
It was Howlin’ Wolf and obscure soul (thank you to Jorgen Jorgensen and his iPod and mix CDs by Will Kent) and so much Chuck Berry, plus the Pixies and Krill, and Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, and John Lennon, and Iggy Pop’s Raw Power (the song most of all), and Bruce Springsteen I would think?, and the Buzzcocks and Telekinesis, and of course Paul Baribeau, and Bo Diddley and the Velvet Underground and (flagrantly) Frankie Lee Sims and so much more.
On and after this record, everything happened. A life any favorite songs or good memories of it, please feel free to share ‘em.
For most of the record, the band is:
Ben Joseph – keys
Ezra Furman – guitar and vocals
Jorgen Jorgensen – bass
Sam Durkes – drums
Tim Sandusky – saxophone
And again. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Mitch Marlow Shane Daunt Marc Riley Simon Taffe Glenn Morrow Michael Hann Reinhold Seyfriedsberger and absolutely way too many more to say. Shout out to Adria
The Fat Angel Sings 