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Past Lives

Bottom Lounge, 06/15/05

CHEER-ACCIDENT Bottom Lounge 6/15/05 from CHEER-ACCIDENT on Vimeo.

6/15/05. Bottom Lounge. Chicago, IL

Alex Perkolup- bass
Eorl Scholl- drums
Todd Rittmann- guitar
Andrea Faught- trumpet, melodica
Jeff Libersher- guitar, trumpet
Thymme Jones- drums, trumpet, keyboards, vocals
Nils Frykdahl- pan flutes
Carla Kihlstedt- violin
Michael Mellender- baritone horn
Matthias Bossi- melodica
Dan Rathbun- homemade something-or-other

Some Salad, some Desert, then the Sleepytime folks come up to join us for some spliced Eggs. Sorry about the quality of the recording. And not sorry about the quality of the recording… BECAUSE THE ROCK PARTS SOUND TOTALLY BRUTAL!! And Jeff and Todd break the video at one point with their rocking.

Song of the Month

Parthenogenesis

Parthenogenesis

Carmen Armillas- vocals
Jeff Libersher- guitar, bass
Thymme Jones- drums, piano
Scott Rutledge- lyrics

Mastered by Todd Rittmann

This is actually quite an old song that never got properly recorded until now. More than two decades ago, Phil Bonnet came up with the chord progression, Thymme wrote the melody and Scott supplied the words. It was a contender to be included on Enduring The American Dream, but did not quite fit thematically. Thymme made his way down to snowy Bloomington, Indiana so that Carmen could lend her always-beautiful vocals to this modern rendition. Definitely worth the trip… and she got to sing with Phil’s spirit, which was very much present via Jeff’s fingertips.

Wild Card

102797 Autoharp

10/23/97. Phil tries out his new autoharp. Or was it Dylan? Or was it Jeff? Or was it Thymme?
In any case: One of those four. And everyone else played everything else. This was an odd phase of the band. Spirits were definitely being conjured during this period. The four would enter the practice space and “things” would immediately start happening. Ritualistic sonorities. Questions arose as to whether CHEER was to continue being a rock band or not. There was mostly interest in non-rock at this time…