The Advantage
(5RC Records)
8-bit Nintendo cover band
Live @ The Penguins Comedy Club
September 1st, 2006
With:
Holy Smokes
Lion in Rome
All ages
$7 at the door.
Showtime is 10PM
This 2006 5RC (offshoot of Kill Rock Stars) Advantage
record is the elf titled follow-up to their 2004 self-titled debut. This
record wasn't always recorded, in fact it was recorded and elf produced
recently in the spring of 2005. It all started when Slim Moon (elf made
man and owner of 5rc records) decided to let the band help thems elves to
another recording. After being evicted from their elf storage unit where
the record was intended to be recorded, the future for The Advantage
seemed hopeless. The members spent weeks over elf medicating and feeling
sorry for thems elves, until a concerned parent gave the band an elf help
book that pushed the band to elf realize the path ahead.
It was now clear that the only chance for the band was to quit their elf
defense classes and record a bitchin' record in a real big time studio.
With the addition of new elf taught guitarist Robby Moncrieff, the already
elf determined band was ready to rumble. In a show of total elflessness,
studio intern Antreo Pukay offered his fingers, ear holes and a week of
his life to invite the band to record at Jackpot! Studio in Portland,
Oregon. The drive from California was treacherous, and oddly there were no
elf serve gas stations anywhere in Oregon. So as the station attendants
pumped their gas, the band was forced to practice testicular elf
examination in the van to make sure there would be no mishaps during
recording. The radio on the way north proved to be mostly elf centered,
dark, industrial music that would probably lead to teen drug abuse and elf
mutilation. The goal of this new instrumental 8-bit Nintendo cover record
became very clear. They would promote elf esteem among young men and
especially young women across the globe.
Arriving at the studio, the group let Antreo the recording engineer know
about its elf professed love for Nintendo music and its hatred for liver.
Given the choice between digital crap or a two-inch elf biasing tape
machine, they chose big fat analog. Each recording session was preceded by
a three-hour meditation and an hour of elf hypnosis. After 4 days of
recording and a fifth day of elf indulgent track over dubbery, the
recording process was finished and mixing lay ahead. Sacramento's JR
Thompson was the man with the mixing hand. At this point in record
production, one must ask one's elf "Which guitar should be louder?” Geoff
Morgan stepped in with his elf empowered art fist just as he did on the
first release. The record named its elf and the rest is history.
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