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Under The Radar Vol. 3: Live

by The Green Pajamas

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This is Volume Three of "A Bootleg History" of The Green Pajamas.

Sound quality is highly variable: live recordings are from various sources, including cassette tape recorder, soundboard, 4-track tape recorder and soundboard/room mix. Dropouts, tape noise or other irregularities may occur.

Some notes on this volume…

Another little joy I found while digging through the years of cassettes, DATs and CDRs for this project, was finding a few of these live gems. They’re not exactly polished gems, any of them, but gems nonetheless. I love hearing Scott going a bit mad, doing his Scott thing on ‘Ten Million Light Years Away,’ Laura’s high and mighty harmonies on ‘Wild Pony,’ Eric’s percussion/drum duet with Karl on ‘I Wish That It Was Christmas’ and Steven’s crazy lead guitar on ‘Dancing In The Jailhouse,’ where he, at least for that few moments, was happily showing off his rockabilly roots.

Once again, it’s fun to hear the ones where I’m on bass and Steven is on guitar but imagine my surprise coming across the rarity, ‘End of Love,’ which finds Steve, Joe, Karl and me, making such an ungodly noise over at the Mural Amphitheater back in 1990! I hadn’t remembered ever even playing that song except in Tom’s studio. I also had no recollection of the same line-up performing, ‘With A Flower In Her Hair,’ at the Crocodile Cafe in 1994! I do remember the gig itself, but mostly just that I had a conversation with Sky Saxon (of who’s band we were opening for), at one of the tables in the Crocodile’s front room. Sky wanted to talk about wolves. So we did…

We’re very much subjected to the sound mix here, I didn’t have a lot to work with in mastering this stuff: notice how Bruce is mostly missing in action on the 4-track recording of ‘Peppermint Stick’ or how the radio mix of ‘Murder Of Crows’ is mostly bass and vocals. So what I chose to share with this compilation was based on the performances themselves, over the fidelity or mix. With that performance of ‘Murder Of Crows,’ despite the inferior sound, one can still hear our enthusiasm burning through that performance.

In our last performance to date, in 2018, we were plagued with multiple problems, not least of which was poor on-stage sound. Still, we plowed on and things got going pretty good by the end and everyone ended up drunk and happy. I’m pleased, for the first time, to share 3 of the songs from our set that night here, including our reuniting with Karl Wilhelm, blowing shit up on ‘I Wish That It Was Christmas’ and Bruce Haedt, beating the tambourine and shouting out, ‘Higher Than I’ve Been,’ just like it was 1987 again! Joe sums it up at the end of his, ‘Graduation Day’: “That was fun!”

-Jeff Kelly

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released February 4, 2022

Performers: Bruce Haedt, Jeff Kelly, Steven Lawrence, Eric Lichter, Joe Ross, Laura Weller, Karl Wilhelm, Scott Vanderpool
See individual track info for detailed listing of performers. A two page jpeg of liner notes is also available as a download upon purchase of this album.

All tracks mastered by Jeff Kelly

Photography: Sunset Tavern, Seattle, 5/28/2004 by James Johnson

All songs written by Jeff Kelly except, 'Falling Through The Hole' and 'Ain't So Bad' by Steven Lawrence, 'Higher Than I've Been' by Bruce Haedt, 'Graduation Day' by Joe Ross, 'Dancing In The Jailhouse' by Kelly and Ross and 'A Murder of Crows' by Kelly, Ross and L. Wilhelm

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Find Jeff Kelly and Laura Weller's Goblin Market recordings here: thegoblinmarket.bandcamp.com/album/ghostland
There are many more Green Pajamas and Jeff Kelly releases available here: greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com

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