Dad (A Band Called Bud album)

Dad
Studio album by A Band Called Bud
Released	1989
Recorded	1989, Scott Taylor's Basement & Easley McCain Recording, Memphis, Tennessee
Genre	Indie Rock
Length	55:05 (Cassette)
Label	Doink Records
Producer	A Band Called Bud
A Band Called Bud chronology
Dad (1989) Disfigurehead (1990)

Dad is a 1989 studio album by the indie rock act A Band Called Bud, later known as the Grifters.

Background

One year before taking on a real drummer and the name the Grifters, Tripp Lamkins, David Shouse and Scott Taylor played and performed under the name 'A Band Called Bud'. Because no one who answered the ad Shouse had placed in the then fledgling Memphis Flyer was found to fit their sound, Shouse resigned himself to the position of playing rudimentary beats on an upright cocktail drum kit, while writing many of the band's songs and splitting vocals duties with Taylor. Dad was the only album recorded under the name, even though the same line-up performs on the first two Grifters EPs (though Stan Gallimore appears briefly on the latter EP). The only other release under this name was a split flexi-disc with John T. Baker's The Martini Age. The split single featured the A Band Called Bud single, "Shark". and was included in a 1989 issue of Kreature Comforts, a Memphis magazine distributed by Shangri-La Records.

Recording

Dad was recorded in Taylor's basement and in Doug Easley's "backhouse studio", which would eventually lead to a new location under the name "Easley's" and eventually Easley McCain Recording.

From the liner notes:

"This is our first recording. Aside from several rhythm tracks and the final mixing, everything was done in Scott's basement on a dying 4-track machine. We make no apologies for quality."

Songs

Many of the songs that appear on Dad would later be rerecorded by the four-piece Grifters. The exceptions being "Nothing At All", "Dad", "Just One Of Those Things", "Hey Jack", "Let's Go To Bed" and "Box Lunch". Another version of "Nothing At All" would appear on Scott Taylor's first solo album under the Hot Monkey moniker, Lion. Others would later appear in Grifters' sets, such as the occasional rare performance of the stripped down. "Hey Jack"[1]

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Nothing At All" - 5:00 (vocals Taylor)
2. "Dad" - 3:26 (vocals Taylor)
3. "Black Fuel Incinerator" - 4:45 (vocals Shouse)
4. "Under The Ground" - 4:41 (vocals Shouse)
5. "Just One Of Those Things" - 4:09 (vocals Taylor)
6. "Shark" - 4:46 (vocals Taylor)
7. "Hey Jack" - 4:10 (vocals Shouse)

Side 2

1. "The Want" - 4:36 (vocals Shouse)
2. "Let's Go To Bed" - 3:34 (vocals Taylor)
3. "Box Lunch" - 3:38 (vocals Shouse)
4. "Daydream Riot" - 4:50 (vocals Shouse)
5. "I'm Drunk" - 2:25 (vocals Taylor)
6. "Thumbnail Sketch - 5:25 (vocals Shouse)

Personnel

A Band Called Bud

• Tripp Lamkins - Bass
• David Shouse - Vocals & Drums, Guitar on Hey Jack
• Scott Taylor - Vocals & Guitar

Trivia

Alt.country band, Blue Mountain sang an ode to their former gig mates [2], A Band Called Bud on their 1995 album, Dog Days. Cary Hudson sings of a band that plays guitars strung with barbed wire:

"There was a band called 'Bud'/they made electric mud/rode around town in a beat up van/smokin' marijuana like every other man" - opening lyrics to the song A Band Called Bud