Will Georgantas (guitar and singing), Jake Fournier (bass), Keith Woodfin (drums), Bob Porri (pedal-steel and electric guitar), Tim Kane (brass), Ken Moon (keyboards and guitar), and other assorted friends
Influences
John Prine, Sparklehorse, Boo Radleys, Mojave 3, Neil Young, CCR, the Kinks, Springsteen, Luna, Gordon Lightfoot, Velvet Underground, Liz Phair, Bevis Frond, East River Pipe, Bryan Ferry, Stones, Doug Sahm, Gerry Rafferty, Wipers, Beach Boys, Minutemen, R.E.M., Mobb Deep, Pavement, the 3-2-1 Contact theme song
Sounds Like
"Just listen to the first song and you'll buy in. Thunderegg's lyrics express the humor of real life situations, new-found love, bad baseball announcers, and daily life in simple songs with sweet melodies." —My Old Kentucky Home
"The songs are smart, playful, melodic, and masterfully crafted.... Thunderegg is everything indie was meant to be." —4F
"[Open Book is] probably one of the most essential music items so far (so-fa) in the 21st century." —Southcoasting
"We should all leave a legacy on this world so impressive." —Chromewaves
"Four chords and nice lyrics." —Will's mom
SEVERAL EGG SONGS NOW UP ON YOUTUBE!
THUNDEREGG ON JAWBONE RADIO'S MONSTER BY MAIL PROJECT! (The song is "I Died Today [for Just a Minute]," from 1997's Thunderegg.)
NOW FOR DOWNLOAD: TWO TRACKS FROM THE SOUND OF MUSIC ALBUM. The next full-band Thunderegg album, recorded with Alan Weatherhead (Sparklehorse, Hotel Lights, Mascott, Jason Molina) down at Sound of Music Studios in Richmond, will be released when the time is right. In the meantime, we've upped two of its ten tracks, the morning-after anthem "Glass of Water" and the catchy "I Died Today (for Just a Minute)." By popular request, we've also posted "If I Went on a Diet," as recorded by Nathan Gohla in Manchester, CT, and the much-loved four-track-cassette duet with Mascott's Kendall Meade, "Say We Did" (which is available on the This Week CD). The other songs will be rotating wild cards: brash, unpredictable, surely underrated, and possibly written by Bob Seger. Get it while you can.
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And if it makes you sad that there's only a few songs here, visit our official download page and fret no more!
Order the super-limited-edition CD version of This Week, 15 songs for 10 bucks, postpaid, at either CD Baby or our official paypal page...or download it from iTunes.
Do it today! Only 42 copies left!
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"The best songs don't get recorded, the best recordings don't get released, and the best releases don't get played." -- Jim Dickinson
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Thunderegg is a rock band that has literally hundreds of good songs. Never well-known but capable of inspiring fanatical devotion in a select few, the Egg is 33.3 percent based in New York City (Will & Keith) and 66.6 percent based in various towns in Connecticut (Jake from Hartford, Bob from Windsor, Tim and Ken from New Haven). Everybody has day jobs and most have kids, mortgages, and unironic facial hair. None of the members have tattoos. Well, maybe Ken. The live band has a friendly, melodic, and mellifluous sound, featuring pedal steel, brass, and keyboards in addition to the usual guitarbassdrums, and has played all around the northeast. Sometimes Bob plays lead guitar and melts everybody's brains.
The Egg's debut full-band CD, A Very Fine Sample of What's Available at the Mine, came out in June 2005; meanwhile that year Will recorded and posted a new Thunderegg song to the band's web site every week. The best of these 52 songs are collected on the CD This Week. Then January 2006 saw the monumental release of Open Book, a 108-page illustrated lyric book that includes a CD-ROM that compiles the Egg's first eight albums (recorded by Will to four-track from 1995 to 2004). That's 231 songs, nearly nine hours of music, signed and numbered. It has been praised far and wide by discerning people.
In February Thunderegg finished its second full-band album--the eleventh overall--half recorded with Nathan Gohla up in Manchester, CT, and half recorded with Al Weatherhead (Sparklehorse, Cracker, the Comas, Hotel Lights) at Sound of Music Studios in Richmond. Al also handled all the mixing. The new CD is the best Egg yet, lush and sweetly orchestral. It was mastered at the esteemed Kitchen Studios in Carrboro, NC, and will be released when the time is right. We're not really sure exactly when that is yet. But if you get in touch, we will keep you apprised.
Happy Holidays! And remember, '...There's a World Outside Your Window......Feed The World....Let Them Know It's Christmastime...Throw Your Arms Around the World at Christmas...'
Eggers, really nice rendition of "Behind..." - I didn't realize you guys could be so bluesy. Excellent. Have a nice holiday season and a Happy New Year.
Am I the only person to notice the similarity between Cliff, Marc's new boyfriend, as played by David Blue in the hit series Ugly Betty, and our beloved William Thunder of Egg?
And the original 1960s David Blue was a singer-songwriter.
In order to post a comment, i had to sign up for a myspace page and make a profile and then make egg my friend. and i did all that. i did. and now i forget what i was gonna say. but it was most likely gonna be something that would have made members of t.egg feel good inside and feel proud and say (perhaps just to themselfs): thanks, dawg. and other people would read it and think, yeah right on bro... i agree, but i only wish i could have expressed myself thusly. Extrapolate "you rock" and the golden girls theme song into something more flowery and profound and you might approximate what i had in mind.
For those of you still waiting for that catchy feel good summertime anthem look no further. The Triggermen's new single release "It's Summertime and I'm Sleazy" is the picnic banger of 2007. Now available for preview/purchase on myspace.
