ARTIST: The Inactivists
TITLE: Love Songs and other songs about love
LABEL:
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 199kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 58min total
RELEASE DATE: 2009-00-00
RIP DATE: 2009-10-17
Track List:
1. What What I Want Wants 2:55
2. Tell Me So 3:20
3. Why (Aren't You (In Love (With 4:17
Me)))?
4. Song for Gary Glitter 2:34
5. Woe 4:31
6. Taxi Cab 3:37
7. Lock Jah 4:44
8. WTF? 4:38
9. I Have Moved On 5:06
10.The UNI Fight Song 4:08
11.You Can't Hurt Me 4:03
12.Take Me Back 4:49
13.You Loved Me Too 5:17
14.The Last Song 3:04
15.The Bonus Track 1:12
This is a love story.
Sort of.
Six years ago, Matt Sumner answered an on-line ad, and couple of days later met
up with a strange man at My BrotherÆs Bar. This was the beginning of a strange
yet beautiful long-term relationship. You see, the ad was placed on
musicmates.com (this was in the pre-CraigsList days) and the man he met was
guitarist and ukulele-player Scot Livingston. As a bassist, Matt had looked at
ScotÆs rather long ad searching for musicians for quite some time before
actually getting drunk enough to respond. Not that Matt disagreed with anything
in ScotÆs diatribe, he just figured that anyone that verbose would be a
controlling pain in the ass to work with. He was only half-right. Matt and Scot
met at My BrotherÆs Bar (now the traditional InactivistsÆ meeting spot) and
exchanged CDs of half-finished song ideas and other demos. A week later Matt and
Scot met up again where the were now about half-dozen newly written songs. Which
is a good thing, since Scot had gotten frustrated with the solo
singer-songwriter doing acoustic numbers at the coffee shop open mics and decide
to start to booking shows as a band under the name The Inactivists in the
delusional hope that someday a band would form around him. Luckily, Matt already
knew a saxophonist and drummer who he thought would be interested in this
project. Unfortunately the only day they had to practice (October 19, 2003) was
the day before the next show that Scot had booked at Pink-EÆs. So a dozen
original tunes were practiced real fast and the next day, played pretty well
given how talented and game the musicians were. Without time for another
rehearsal, there was another show booked two nights later. Matt mentioned that
he had been corresponding with a theremin player who also might be interested.
Her name was Victoria Lundy and she walked onto the stag of the Blue Mule having
no idea what the band sounded like or even what they looked like. But it worked.
Sure there have been the usual band personnel shifts while looking for the right
combination of talent and interest, but now the Inactivists have finally found
their penultimate line-up. The drummer wasnÆt too hard to find, since he ended
up marrying ScotÆs cousin, while saxophonist and accordion player, Pattie Melt
was actually a refugee from an unfortunately aborted Surf-Tiki-Lounge project
where she played with Victoria.
In the last five years the Inactivsts have drunk countless pitchers of hard
cider at My BrotherÆs Bar, recorded four albums (five if you count the Xmas
album) and are nearly done with the next one; they have played over 103 shows;
opened for acts as diverse as the Red Elvises, Golden Arm Trio, Cecil ôP-Nutö
Daniels, and Captured! By Robots; they have yelled at the Hobby Lobby in Arvada
and have serenaded protestor at the DNC on the 16th Street Mall; they have
staged the only performance of the rock opera ôJahoprah & The Golden Guitarö
with a cast of dozens; they have helped promote the Art Rock community in Denver
by joining and helping organize the D.A.R.C.; they have had their theremin
enshrined in the Aurora Natural History Museum, and smashed an acoustic bass
guitar at the D-Note,; they have been joined on-stage by such luminaries as
Little Fyodor & Babushka, Abbie Norm, and Tim from Yerkish; they have received
dozens of glowing articles, even once being compared to ôwatching the Muppet
Show in prisonö; enduring thousands of questions from people unfamiliar with
their instrumentation; but most importantly the Inactivists have had a good time
while making good, strange music.
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