daylies music: You Crazy Dreamers

Thursday, March 12, 2009

You Crazy Dreamers

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 06:07 AM PDT

Don’t ya just hate it when you stumble across a band and find out that they broke up like years ago? Yeah, I know! First off you feel out of touch because you didn’t hear of them prior, then you feel bad as you are now living in someone else’s past. Listening to what once was you could say.

One such band is Oakland, California’s “The Red Thread” who disbanded in 2007. The band was formerly made up of Jason Lakis (guitars, vocals), Mike Schmiedt (bass), and Dan Martin (drums). They had 3 albums through out their 5 years of togetherness and the albums ranged from melancholy strumming to and Indie-pop Alt Country. That pretty much spans miles of musical highway, but from what I have heard they were not afraid to simply get out there and play music, to entertain. Well, too bad for all of us, as I am sure it would have been interesting to see where they would be now - I was seeing a bit of an Alt Pop Grandaddy (the band not your family member) scene starting in their latter days.

Well if you are lookin’ them up to say hi, you might look at Lakis’ new band called Mist and Mast (myspace) or visit Dan in This Isn’t It (myspace).

So listen and wonder along of what might have been.

The Red Thread
“Spread Thin” (mp3)
from “After The Last”
(Badman Recording Co)