and now… for your streaming and/or downloading pleasure, we present “When Baby Caught Fire,” a live track from Live from Armory Sound : Boston, a limited edition CD available with our pre-sale campaign. The studio version of this song is the lead track on 33.1/3.
When Baby Caught Fire (Live)
When we were planning our Northeast tour last year (or tourlette, as we like to call it), I contacted my friend Pete Weiss, owner of Verdant Studio in New Hampshire and member of the excellent instrumental band the Weisstronauts from Boston.
Pete suggested setting up a live in-studio recording session at Armory Sound in Somerville, Massachusetts, just outside Boston. They do a series there with small invited audiences on occasion. Sounded cool to us, so Pete pulled it together.
On Thursday, November 13, we met up with Pete and Armory engineer Jeff Gallagher and set up for the recording. While looking around the studio, which is located in the basement of a community center, I noticed an odd two-string bass hanging on the wall along with a few Morphine album covers.
After inquiring, we learned that Armory Sound was actually Morphine’s Hi-N-Dry Studio and still contained much of their equipment. It’s a very cool place with a great vibe and lots of groovy gear. Susan played through a tuck-and-roll Kustom amp that had belonged to late band-leader Mark Sandman (and was very similar to the Kustoms in Susan’s collection).
The Weisstronauts went on first and played a great set for the assembled guests. I’ve seen them a good many times over the years and always enjoy them. Unfortunately, it was the last time the ’nauts appeared with guitarist Kenny Lafler for a while, as Kenny broke his hand the following day playing basketball.
We took over and played a ten-song set that ranged from very old, somewhat old and brand new. Yes, we saw a dozen faces and we rocked them all. Jeff Gallagher captured it, and we brought the tracks back to Knoxville, where John Harvey and I mixed them at Top Hat Recording.
The Tim Lee 3’s “Live from Armory Sound: Boston” is now available as a limited-edition CD when you pre-order our new record “33-1/3”. Once we sell them, they will be gone, so order now.
But wait, there’s more … order now and you can still get the Bark EP as well!
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— TL