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source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagpole_Sitta

Track listing

1. “Carlotta Valdez” – 2:44 — reference to Vertigo
2. “Flagpole Sitta” – 3:35
3. “Woolly Muffler” – 4:30
4. “Private Helicopter” – 3:31
5. “Problems and Bigger Ones” – 5:41
6. “Jack the Lion” – 5:30
7. “Old Hat” – 3:48
8. “Terminal Annex” – 3:43
9. “Wrecking Ball” – 4:39
10. “Radio Silence” – 5:15
11. “Hidden Track” – partial recording of “Carjack Fever”, from “Fuel” compilation CD.

The track is played backwards.

Personnel

• Aaron Huffman – Bass guitar, cover design
• Jeff J. Lin – Guitar, organ, violin, backing vocals
• Sean Nelson – Vocals
• Evan Sult – drums
• Abby Grush – Backing vocals
• John Goodmanson – Production, engineering, mixing
• Harvey Danger – Production
• Greg Calbi – Mastering
• Chuck Robertson – Photography

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Have_All_the_Merrymakers_Gone%3F

Track listing

1. “Carlotta Valdez” – 2:44 — reference to Vertigo
2. “Flagpole Sitta” – 3:35
3. “Woolly Muffler” – 4:30
4. “Private Helicopter” – 3:31
5. “Problems and Bigger Ones” – 5:41
6. “Jack the Lion” – 5:30
7. “Old Hat” – 3:48
8. “Terminal Annex” – 3:43
9. “Wrecking Ball” – 4:39
10. “Radio Silence” – 5:15
11. “Hidden Track” – partial recording of “Carjack Fever”, from “Fuel” compilation CD.

The track is played backwards.

Personnel

• Aaron Huffman – Bass guitar, cover design
• Jeff J. Lin – Guitar, organ, violin, backing vocals
• Sean Nelson – Vocals
• Evan Sult – drums
• Abby Grush – Backing vocals
• John Goodmanson – Production, engineering, mixing
• Harvey Danger – Production
• Greg Calbi – Mastering
• Chuck Robertson – Photography

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Have_All_the_Merrymakers_Gone%3F

Track listing

1. “Carlotta Valdez” – 2:44 — reference to Vertigo
2. “Flagpole Sitta” – 3:35
3. “Woolly Muffler” – 4:30
4. “Private Helicopter” – 3:31
5. “Problems and Bigger Ones” – 5:41
6. “Jack the Lion” – 5:30
7. “Old Hat” – 3:48
8. “Terminal Annex” – 3:43
9. “Wrecking Ball” – 4:39
10. “Radio Silence” – 5:15
11. “Hidden Track” – partial recording of “Carjack Fever”, from “Fuel” compilation CD.

The track is played backwards.

Personnel

• Aaron Huffman – Bass guitar, cover design
• Jeff J. Lin – Guitar, organ, violin, backing vocals
• Sean Nelson – Vocals
• Evan Sult – drums
• Abby Grush – Backing vocals
• John Goodmanson – Production, engineering, mixing
• Harvey Danger – Production
• Greg Calbi – Mastering
• Chuck Robertson – Photography

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Have_All_the_Merrymakers_Gone%3F

Aside from Harvey Danger, Nelson has also provided vocals to albums by Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Robyn Hitchcock, The Minus 5, Nada Surf and The Long Winters. He also wrote a column for Seattle, Washington alternative weekly The Stranger. In 2007, his book about Joni Mitchell’s album Court and Spark was published as part of the 33 1/3 series. For a few years Sean co-hosted Audioasis on KEXP.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Nelson

Harvey Danger is a rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1992, and rose to prominence in 1998 with the single “Flagpole Sitta.”

On May 28, 2009, the band announced, “After 15 years, three albums, hundreds of shows, and far more twists and turns than we ever imagined possible, we’ve decided to put Harvey Danger to rest. The decision is totally mutual and utterly amicable.” The band plans to play four farewell shows in August, the last of them on August 29th at The Crocodile in Seattle.

Members:

• Sean Nelson – vocals (1993 – present)
• Jeff J. Lin – guitar, piano, violin (1992 – present)
• Aaron Huffman – bass, guitar (1992 – present)
• Evan Sult – drums (1993 – 2001)
• Michael Welke – drums (2004 – present)
• Rob Knop – keyboards (2005 – present)

History:

(1992–1996) Early years

Harvey Danger began in 1992 with University of Washington classmates Lin and Huffman deciding “it might be fun to start a band.” Taking their name from a phrase graffitied onto the wall of the UW student newspaper office, the duo played house parties and bars as they were until the following year, when they invited Evan Sult to be their drummer. Despite his complete lack of drumming experience, Sult agreed, bringing along his own similarly-inexperienced classmate Sean Nelson.

The foursome played their first show on April 21, 1994 at the now-defunct Lake Union Pub; Sult and Nelson, both under 21, were only permitted entry during the set. That summer, the band moved into Nelson’s student house together and began holding band practices in the basement. The band had little money and their drum set for their first few shows consisted of nothing more than a laundry bucket, 3 hubcaps, and a jar of pickles. More shows at the Lake Union Pub and other low-rent Seattle clubs followed, leading to exposure in The Seattle Times.

As the band began playing more shows at increasingly reputable venues, their songwriting gained momentum. In 1995, the band produced a six-song demo tape, sold at shows for $3. When three-quarters of the group became unemployed in 1996, they decided to devote yet more attention to the band, moving to another house and renting a rehearsal space. Their shows continued to improve, to the point of becoming regular weekend performers at the Crocodile Cafe.

The band recorded a three-track demo tape with producer John Goodmanson, a demo tape which drew attention from some generally uninterested major labels and the very interested Greg Glover, a London Records intern who ran his own small label, the Arena Rock Recording Co.. Glover expressed interest in releasing a 7″ single, and Harvey Danger provided him with an additional three songs—including “Flagpole Sitta”—also recorded with Goodmanson. On the strength of these, Glover agreed to bankroll a full-length album.

(1997–1998) Success

Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? was released in July 1997 to local critical acclaim. The record performed well on college radio charts, and sold steadily in Seattle and New York, among other cities. By the end of the year, however, the band felt as though the record had lost its momentum and the group began to contemplate breaking up. Shortly before taking January 1998 off to contemplate their future, Nelson gave a copy of Merrymakers to a KNDD DJ. Within weeks, “Flagpole Sitta” had become KNDD’s most-requested song.

Influential L.A. radio station KROQ picked the track up, and stations across the country shortly followed suit. When Greg Glover of Arena Rock Recording Co. was hired at Slash/London Records, Harvey Danger were signed to the label. “Flagpole Sitta” made Billboard magazine’s Top 40, and appeared in a number of films and television shows. Its video got heavy rotation on MTV and VH1. The song also became famous globally as one of the most memorable songs on the soundtrack for the film American Pie, despite not being on the official soundtrack sold in stores. It also appeared in the movie Disturbing Behavior and its trailer. More recently, the song was used as the opening theme to the British sitcom “Peep Show” for the second season and onwards.

The band toured extensively from March through December 1998, playing headlining and support gigs with some of the most popular artists of the year, and appearing at many radio festivals. Merrymakers’s second single, “Private Helicopter,” was released in the fall of 1998 to lukewarm reception, and in December, Harvey Danger began writing songs for their follow-up album.

(1999–2001) Commercial decline

Harvey Danger began production of their second album in March 1999 at Bearsville Studios, near Woodstock, New York. Slash/London was unusually uninvolved in the recording process, a harbinger of what was to come. After three weeks of recording at Bearsville and several more weeks of recording and mixing in Seattle and Los Angeles, the band submitted the record, King James Version, to their label, and waited. What the band refers to as “elaborate corporate reshuffling” began almost immediately after they finished their album: mergers and acquisitions among record labels left them and their record in limbo for over a year, not knowing to whom they were signed, nor when KJV would be released.

Attempts to release the album on then-fledgling indie label Barsuk Records fell through due to legal complications, a tour with The Pretenders fell through due to lack of label support, and, just when the band was about to give up, newly-reorganized London/Sire Records released King James Version on September 12, 2000. Reviews were strong, but buzz was almost nonexistent: sales of the album were slow, and the single “Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo” performed poorly on radio and MTV.

Harvey Danger played their final show in Portland on April 21, 2001, seven years to the day after their first show, and quietly disbanded for an indefinite period.

(2001–2003) Hiatus

During the hiatus Jeff Lin returned to school, Evan Sult relocated to Chicago and joined the band Bound Stems and Aaron Huffman formed the group Love Hotel. Sean Nelson recorded and toured with The Long Winters and worked on solo material, sometimes with Lin and Huffman (actually recording several unreleased songs, among them covers of songs written by Harry Nilsson for a future release entitled Nelson Sings Nilsson). He wrote for the weekly alternative Seattle newspaper, The Stranger; Nelson also became a partner in Barsuk Records and a DJ for Seattle’s KEXP. The idea of reforming Harvey Danger was raised several times, but rejected.

(2004–2005) Reunion

Nelson, Huffman, and Lin entered a studio together for the first time in three years to record two new song ideas, with Nada Surf’s Ira Elliot accompanying on drums. The session went so well that the trio agreed to begin writing music together—with “no strings attached”. Sult, busy in Chicago, was unable to return, but sent his blessing for Harvey Danger’s reincarnation.

April 21, 2004 saw both the 10th anniversary of Harvey Danger and their first show since 2001. With Nada Surf opening and Elliot again filling in on drums, the band played Seattle’s Crocodile Cafe to a rapturous audience. Die-hard fans and long time message board members flew cross-country, from as far away as Middletown, NY, Cleveland, Florida and Baltimore to witness the long awaited reunion. The show also previewed songs that would be part of the new album; “Moral Centralia”, “Wine, Women and Song” and “War Buddies’. More live shows followed, including appearances at the Sasquatch Festival and Bumbershoot.

Free of pressure, expectations, and a major label, the band found themselves renewed and rededicated to making music. They recruited Seattle-based drummer Michael Welke, formalized their return as a band, and performed with their new lineup at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle in the summer of 2004. The year ended with the self-release of a five-song EP, Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas (Sometimes) and another sold-out show at the Crocodile.

In February 2005, Harvey Danger entered Robert Lang Studios to record their third album. Joining them again was Goodmanson, accompanied by Steve Fisk. The recording process ran smoothly, and Little By Little… was released on September 13, 2005, five years and one day after King James Version.

(2006) Little by Little… Lives On

On July 25, 2006, Olympia-based label Kill Rock Stars rereleased Little by Little… with a slightly altered track listing (songs on the bonus disc and main album swapped places). This release of the album was much more widely available.

On October 10, 2006, Barsuk Records released “Little Round Mirrors” as a maxi-single/EP with four B-sides.

(2009) Breakup

On May 28, 2009, the band announced on its website, “After 15 years, three albums, hundreds of shows, and far more twists and turns than we ever imagined possible, we’ve decided to put Harvey Danger to rest. The decision is totally mutual and utterly amicable.” The band plans to play four farewell shows in August, the last of them on August 29th at The Crocodile.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Danger