On The Avenue, by The Potatomen

On The Avenue

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1.	On The Avenue 04:24	buy track
2.	Punk Rock Boy 02:51	buy track
3.	Ontario 02:35	buy track
4.	Gone Away 02:59	buy track

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In 1993, Patrick Hynes, who played such memorable bass lines on the early Potatomen material, decided to take up the guitar. Within months, his skills developed to the point where it would have been a shame not to use them. So the Potatomen sound began to shift quite a bit, especially in that we began using electric instruments and started, at least part of the time, playing on stage. Although we didn’t get the Bob Dylan treatment (someone in the crowd shouting “Judas!”), we lost some old fans and gained some new ones. For this recording and the one afterward, Patrick played both bass and lead guitar, and with the help of engineer-producer Andy “Andro” Ernst, we experimented with techniques and styles that would have been difficult to imagine in our playing on the streets with a cardboard box for a drum set days. The title song, “On The Avenue,” deals with the often illusory, sometimes seductive, and occasionally deadly charms of Telegraph Avenue, which played a central role in the lives of many of us who lived in Berkeley.

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released August 17, 1994

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The Potatomen Berkeley, California

Indie rock band from Berkeley, CA, formed in 1992. The group was initially made up of what was then the staff of Lookout Records, Lawrence Livermore (guitar and vocals), Patrick Hynes (bass) and Christopher Appelgren (drums). The band released 2 LPs and several EPs. Appelgren departed after the first LP, after which Hynes moved to guitar and the band cycled through several rhythm sections. ... more

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