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All Time Quarterback!

All Time Quarterback! Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Acoustic / Experimental / Indie

    Location SEATTLE, Washington, US

    Profile Views: 39583

    Last Login: 11/30/2006

    Member Since 11/8/2005

    Website www.barsuk.com/bands/alltimequarterback

    Record Label Barsuk/Elsinor

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ..I am not Ben Gibbard, nor am I associated with him or Barsuk or Elsinor. ..I met Ben a couple of times, but that's another story.......From the Barsuk webpage:....In the Spring of 1999, Death Cab for Cutie songwriter/frontman Ben Gibbard had some time on his hands and a batch of songs running around in his head that didn't seem quite right for his band. He also had a few broken keyboards scattered about, a guitar that wouldn't stay in tune, an old four-track home-recording machine, and one of those Walkmans (Walkmen?) with a built-in condenser mic. What would have been a recipe for disaster in the hands of a lesser musician and songwriter resulted instead in two charming lo-fi releases (a five-song self-titled CD and the Envelope Sessions cassette tape) on the excellent Bellingham, WA scene-documenting Elsinor label under the one-off moniker ¡All-Time Quarterback!....Long out of print, the best selections from those Elsinor releases have been collected on an enhanced CD along with a previously-unreleased outtake and a hilarious, strangely heartwarming video. Standouts include "Why I Cry" (a lovely Magnetic Fields cover), "Underwater!" (later re-recorded by DCFC for a 2000 Sub Pop singles club 7"), and the unavailable-elsewhere pop gems "Plans Get Complex," "Sock Hop," and "Empire State."....You can check out the video for "Plans Get Complex" (and for The Decemberists' "Sixteen Military Wives" feat cameos by Chris Walla, Nick Harmer, and John Roderick from The Long Winters) at Aaron Stewart's and Nick Harmer's Otaku-House Studio site:....Otaku-House..

  • Members

    ¡All Time Quarterback! is Benjamin Gibbard

  • Influences

    Death Cab for Cutie, The Magnetic Fields, Phil Collins and Genesis, The Beatles, Smog, Bedhead, Superchunk, Teenage Fanclub, Martin Youth Auxiliary, Pinwheel, The Revolutionary Hydra, Kind of Like Spitting

  • Sounds Like

    Ben Gibbard with an acoustic guitar and a couple of broken Casio keyboards.

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