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Bundles of Joys

by Tripp Lullaby

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Wonderman 02:40
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Dear Old Dad 01:54
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Family Song 04:53
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She's Nobody 03:54
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Pessimism 03:58
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Mordo (demo) 03:53
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Flesh Potato 00:39
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E.E.G. 03:05
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Bizarro album of songs that range from psychedelic garage rock to angular art outburst. This includes outtakes from the "SLEEPER" recording session, plus two 1989 cassette-only releases "Tripp Lullaby and the Bundle of Joy" and "Play Golf". Drummer Chris Spulding played on tracks 7 - 15. Bass on "Wonderman" by Jon Berger. Tracks 2, 3, & 4 mixed by Tom Mosca 1993.

Special thanks to our family and friends for support, including Chris Spalding, Tom Mosca, Chris Blood, Dave Verkade, Chris Green, Jon Berger, the Short family, Bonnie Campbell, Ana Chartrand, Barre Pinske, Brett McNutt, Mary Liebau, Becky Bryant, Todd Schindler (for all the guitar loaners), Spinnaker Records, Charlie's Music, Dave Cowan/Gnomon Copy, Java Girls Coffee, WKKL, WOMR, WPXY, Cape Cinema, Incredible Casuals, Steve Wood, and many other Cape Cod musicians, esp The Freeze.

ERIK CARTER:
"I moved down to Cape Cod after high school to go to 4C’s. Can’t say I was much of a student, but I enjoyed my time taking bass guitar lessons over at the conservatory across the street and DJing on WKKL, and met some people. One of the first people I met was Eric Short, who was a guitar player. He was coming at the musician thing from a very different place than I, and had been writing and recording original material since he owned a guitar with his drummer friend from karate class, David Silver. The recordings of the band they started at age 14, Obscure, were impressive to me, as I had never really put the idea of writing my own material at the forefront of the reason to play an instrument. They explained it as being like playing GI Joe’s, but with a Tascam Porta 1 four track tape recorder. My musical upbringing on the south shore was more in the realm of jamming at house parties with a revolving cast of friends on a repertoire of classic rock cover songs that we all knew. It should be noted that this was mostly before the classic rock radio format had taken over the airwaves, so what records and mix tapes we could get our hands on all felt like sacred tomes handed down from the forefathers. Needless to say, my tie-died bass amp stuck out a bit in the new circles of people playing, for lack of a better term, punk rock.

Eric and I ended up getting a house together with some friends, and sort of half-assed tried to make some music together - He ended up moving out of the house and forming Tripp Lullaby And The Bundle Of Joy within a few months. At that point, he was joined by Patrick Campbell on bass, and Chris Spalding on drums. The template was already there, as were a handful of songs. After a few practices in Eric’s parents’ basement, we went into a recording studio and put out a 5 song demo tape (as I recall, every copy was dubbed on Eric’s dad’s dual cassette deck.) Having been shown the example of what the band sounded like, I started to write on guitar and contribute some songs for us to learn.

Around that time, Eric started looking for places that we could play, you know, for people who might come, as people tend to do when there is a band playing. It was a little unclear as to what real life in a band was supposed to be like. Most of the bars at the time were only interested in cover acts, playing non-interruptive wallpaper entertainment for people who had come to get dinner or drink. That was not wildly describing what the band was (or wanted to be). Eric came up with the idea of renting Carlton Hall and putting on a show of what we do. So down to town hall to rent the room and get an entertainment license, and a PA, and opening acts. Aside from bass duties, Patrick was also handy with a paintbrush, marker, and really whatever visual art device was in grabbing radius, and had a job at Gnomon Copy, which quickly translated into being in charge of all of the art, and all the free flyers for shows. Our buddy Dave Verkade got enlisted to create and run some sort of lighting for the show (on a zero budget). It was about as “do it yourself” as one could be. Well, that and “get your friends to do it with you and give you a ride in their truck to pick up the gear”

We went into “Become A Star”  studio on main street Hyannis (a location more designed for tourists to lip sync to top 40 hits of the day) and recorded 4 more songs which was released as another demo tape called “Play Golf”. Soon after David Silver of local hardcore bands Obscure and House of Whipcord took over on drum duties.

Over the next few years, the pattern was repeated, either with that recipe at Carlton Hall or the West Dennis Community Center,  playing with all sorts of bands from all over; House Of Whipcord, The Freeze, Straw Dogs, Green Day, Form Alex, The Brood, Arc Of Violets, 7 League Boots, Green Magnet School, Curtain Society etc. We would also travel off cape to where others’ music scenes had shows of this musical sort, but it was the hall shows that really come to mind all these years later when trying to explain what the band was about. There really were not a lot of all ages live music options back in the day. Nor was the radio reception all that good to hear what the Providence, Boston, North Dartmouth college radio stations were playing as far as contemporary “underground” music to be aware of. Even WKKL was hard to hear outside of the 4C’s parking lot! So the shows provided a sort of platform, or you might say they provided a suggestion, that it might be worth paying attention to what music the people around you were making. This also came with an underlying theme that: yes, you can also be in a band, or really do ANYTHING you set your mind to. As somebody said “do what you can, with what you have, where you are”. 

At one of these shows, Eric had set up for us to play with the Incredible Casuals. As strange as it seems now, at that point I had never heard them (though had seen the flyers for their shows up around cape for years prior). Watching them play at the West Dennis Community Center was like a crash course in delivering a better band performance. Soon after, their all around dude, Chris Blood, invited us to his swanky home recording studio (Trout Towers) to record a document of what Tripp Lullaby was. About 18 songs worth of recordings were left tracked but essentially unmixed and unreleased when the band started to not exist anymore.

Years later, Eric Short’s friend Tom Mosca bought the same multitrack deck we had recorded those songs on, and borrowed the reels to play around with mixing 'em. Eric mailed a cassette tape to my house in California of some of these mixes, which were never released. 2019 marks 30 years since we began to DIY. It has been like a Hardy Boys mystery trying to track down the recordings, graphics and other relics from back in the day and see just what “best quality” we can dig up and what “worst quality” we can bury in a cranberry bog.

Special Thanks to the Short family for all the time we made noise in their house, ate their food, swam in their pool, left their lights on, wore out their tape deck dubbing demos, used their phone for long distance booking calls, and every other above and beyond measure of support."

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released June 15, 2019

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Tripp Lullaby Massachusetts

Tripp Lullaby is a post-punk rock band from Cape Cod, MA. SLEEPER is their lost album from 1990. Remastered and self- released in 2019. Bundles of Joys is a collection of earlier demos.

Erik Carter: vocals, guitar

Eric Short: guitar, vocals

Patrick Campbell: bass

David Silver: drums
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