Tryptophan Music

Here is a new demo, that seems fitting to put out right about now.

Inauguration (will birf a nation)

Pay special attention to this one, it was mixed by our good buddy Alex Armitage, and it one of our better live recordings. The first tune is with our good pal David Selitto. This is a full multitrack recording and we play pretty good. Check it out!

SPECIAL BONUS:
Here is The Headlocks set from the show too!

On 9/27/2008, we played at Martini Red. 2 days later the stock market did in fact meltdown. A week after that, the Red was temporarily closed for alcohol sales, waiting for a renewed license…thanks for the memories!

Photos By Ivy Mike

On 8/31/2008 bestinshowradio.com and hearustalk.com streamed a party and concert from my backyard. Listen to the talk show segment right here Best In Show 8/31/2008. Or You can watch the talk show segment hereLive TV by Ustream

Here is what Keith from Best In Show had to say about the show: “When we streamed the non-Rock the Harbor Church of Manlove performance from Ron’s house in the spring I got an idea to do a Hear Us Talk event with a live Best in Show and musical performances featuring some of the HUT show members. I never thought it would actually go down and work but it did. Robgigs was absolutely amazing from the early part of the day to late at night. Our friend Alex spent the day in the basement with a mixing board and some margaritas making sure the bands all had a great sound. Unfortunately, the Church of Manlove video is lost forever, which is a shame because it was by far the most fun I’ve ever had performing. Germ and Newstyle were great and so were the rest of the bands. I must have been asked 15 times who the beautiful girl in the green dress was. Those of us who hung out in the side alley with Chris during a certain portion of the party witnessed one of the best parts of the day. This is one of those times when the next day you’re really sad that it’s over. I hope we can do this again next year, with more planning so everyone has a chance to come down. Although, maybe for Ron’s sake, we can do it somewhere else.”

Alex Armitage mixed the whole show live for the podcast and then spent the 2 days after polishing that mix. The arists heard here are Terrible Tim, DJ New Style, The Humans, The Church Of Manlove, Dave Sellitto, Tryptophan, and The Headlocks. Alex vows an additonal remix of some of this stuff is coming soon.

“The History Of Music” is going to be my virtual online boxset, drawing from my archive of old musical projects. Staring with Cannibal Overdrive seems like an easy one.

Cannibal Overdrive (1992-1995) was my first band that I would play shows with. The band was founded by Mike Runner and Dan Reitz, who drafted me, and then I drafted Alex Armitage, who was a frequent musical collaborator of mine. We were joined by vocalists Rebbecca Rupp and Eileen Donlon.

The music heard here was recorded by Alex, on old school 24 track 2 inch tape, my last experience with that medium. We made demo tapes which we gave out to friends or sold at “Our Music Center”, the finest record shop Staten Island ever had. The individual tapes were called “Eat” 1993 (the first 4 songs here) and “Your Friends” 1994 (the rest).

First things first: Click on the image below to visit Tim Nolan’s amazing Tryptophan environment. All the images are inspired by our music, and clicking on all the various objects unlocks rewarding and time wasting content. Hours of fun and mystery!

The members of Tryptophan lead a busy life performing live music. I have recorded and posted a number of shows at my site over on Divshare. I would like to share shows in the ol’ mp3 format with ya! Here is a playlist of many of our online shows going way back!