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- Thunderegg_(band) abstract "Thunderegg is an American rock and roll band and recording project currently based in San Francisco, California, led by songwriter Will Georgantas (guitar, vocals) and including Reese Douglas (guitar), Alex Jimenez (bass, vocals), and James Sundquist (drums). Its earliest incarnation was the Yale University band Larry, formed in 1992 and featuring founding Thunderegg players Jake Fournier (bass) and Keith Woodfin (drums).Between 1995 and 2004, Georgantas recorded the first eight Thunderegg albums by himself to four-track cassette in various apartments in Brooklyn, New York, and his parents' house in Princeton, New Jersey. These albums, from 1995's Universal Nut through 2004's Sweetest One, display increasingly elaborate lo-fi (or "bedroom music") arrangements, and reviewers have remarked on their high lyrical quality. In January 2006, all of these recordings were collected for the anthology Open Book: The Collected Thunderegg, 1995–2004. The independently produced Open Book featured 231 mp3s on a single data CD along with a 108-page illustrated lyric book. It enjoyed a positive reception both for its large scale and its music, which was likened to rock in the vein of Guided by Voices, The Velvet Teen, and The Mountain Goats.Thunderegg began playing and recording as a full band in 2000 after Fournier moved back east to Hartford, Connecticut, from Portland, Oregon. (The band was named after the thunderegg, the state rock of Oregon.) In 2002 a new full-band version of Georgantas's song "If I Went on a Diet" was selected for inclusion on a compilation CD produced by Jane magazine; in 2005 that song and nine others would comprise Thunderegg's first full-band album, A Very Fine Sample of What's Available at the Mine, recorded by Nathan Gohla at the Shed in Manchester, Connecticut, and featuring Jonathan Chatfield (keyboards) and Tim Kane (trumpet). Thunderegg's second full-band album, Line Line, saw the addition of Bob Porri (pedal-steel guitar) and Ken Moon (guitar, keyboards) and was completed in April 2007. It was produced and mixed by Alan Weatherhead (Sparklehorse, Cracker) at Sound of Music Studios in Richmond, Virginia, and released belatedly and independently in September 2011. A follow-up with Weatherhead, C'mon Thunder, featuring Darren Jessee of Hotel Lights, is scheduled to be released on May 13, 2014.A brief new 2010 lineup included Greg Zinman (guitar), Aileen Brophy (bass), and Russell Lord (drums), and a 2011 lineup saw the return of Fournier and Moon. Georgantas continues to record at home on his 424 Portastudio: In 2005 he posted a new song every week to Thunderegg's web site, the best of which were collected for the CD This Week, which was self-released in early 2007. Outtakes from that project were released as Where Are the Cars in 2008. Platinum, recorded from 2007 to 2009, collects covers and originals. Gazillion comprises most of the material Georgantas wrote and recorded in his final apartment in Brooklyn in 2010 and 2011. The electronic files of the download-only compilation Thunderegg History Unit Volume One include embedded stories about each song, written while Georgantas was a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Not What I Meant, Thunderegg's first San Francisco album, was recommended for fans of "The Eels, Ween, The Flaming Lips, and Pulp" and features guest appearances by local musicians Josh Johnson, Pieces, David Colón, Mario DiSandro, and Liz O, as well as Reese Douglas, who would later join the band full-time. The album's closing track, "The Guest Star of the Rest Stop," was initially commissioned by author T Cooper for a CD accompanying his 2012 book Real Man Adventures.By December 2013, Georgantas had 267 songs credited to his name. To provide an easier point of entry to the extensive Thunderegg catalog, that month marked the release of a 90-minute best-of compilation, He's Actually Pretty Cool Once You Get to Know Him: A Thunderegg Sampler, 1995-2012, packaged as both digital download and double-length cassette. The collection eschews the full-band, snippet, and outtake albums to focus on Thunderegg's better-known four-track-cassette songs.Thunderegg toured Germany in the summer of 2013 with a lineup that included Georgantas, Fournier, Moon, and Ken Matsuda (violin). Between July 5 and July 13, the band played beer gardens, festivals, house concerts, and cafés in Püttlingen, Berlin, Ampfing, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg.".
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