Again, I apologise for the delay…those “couple of days” were more like two weeks. I’ll keep my promise about one thing though, that I will share my knowledge about the Treeclimbers with you.
The band formed in the early 80’s in the glory days of the
Studying the back cover of the EP, we find out that the band is composed by: Jonathan Poneman - bass, Gary Thorstensen - guitar, Loren Evans - vocals, Jeff Lindeman – keyboards and sax and Peter Barnes on drums. The songs were recorded and mixed at Triangle studios in
Treeclimbers were a “rotating cast of characters” as Jonathan Poneman recalls: “…some real "characters"! - who played in a band whose nucleus was Gary Thorstensen (ex of TAD) and myself. We were around for 5-6 years and managed to put out one ep, produced by Peter. While I have a fond place in my heart for that EP, Gary and I were always striving for a more nuanced, textured sound that neither of us could adequately convey to our various bandmates”.
Regarding shows, bills and gigs, the Treeclimbers may have been more of a “studio band”, and please correct me if I’m wrong, the comment section is at your service.
See you next time. Enjoy:
2 comments:
Feel free to upload the rest of this ep. I like what I'm hearing. You can check out Loren's next band, Gnome right here:
http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2008/02/singles-going-single-16-gnome-13-family.html
and here: http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2011/05/gnome-fiberglass-1993-cz.html
And where is two other tracks from this EP?
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