Double-secret songs

This page is a collection of unreleased, live or hard-to-find tracks from the Trip Shakespeare tree...

I've tried not to include anything that is generally commercially available today.

Contents include:

  • The Love Monsters
  • E Brown
  • The Crachett Family
  • Trip Shakespeare
  • Elaine Harris
    • John Casey
    • Cathy Braaten
    • Robin H.Farren
    • Buddha Bunny
    • Lori Winslow
  • Matt Wilson
  • The Flops

Thanks to the artists, and thanks to those to recorded this stuff/tracked this stuff down and forwarded it my way.

 

By the way, have you heard of Pillaging Matt?

 

Support these artists!

Run out and buy the following albums:

Album

Artist

Year
"Black Beauty" The Twilight Hours 2016

"Dan and Matt Wilson Minneapolis 2010"

 Dan and Matt Wilson 2010
"Stereo Night" The Twilight Hours 2009
"Ohh La La" The Flops 2003
"Burnt, White and Blue" Matt Wilson 1998
"Volt" Trip Shakespeare 1992
"Lulu" Trip Shakespeare 1991
"Across the Universe" Trip Shakespeare 1990
"Are You Shakespearienced" Trip Shakespeare 1988
"Applehead Man" Trip Shakespeare 1986

The Love Monsters

"The Love Monsters" was Matt and Dan's band at Harvard. They won a contest, put out an EP and dissolved in a pool of beer.

E Brown

"E Brown" was a band in the early 80's that included, among others, John Munson and Matt Wilson (Matt joined for the second album). They released two albums, both included below.

"Recreation" - 1982

James Harry (vocals, guitar), John Munson (bass, guitar), Dave Pinsky (keyboards), Dan Picasso (drums)

"The Annunciation"

James Harry (vocals, guitar), John Munson (bass, guitar), Dave Pinsky (keyboards), Matt Wilson (vocals, drums)

The Cratchet Family

"The Cratchet Family" was the true precursor to Trip Shakespeare.  Based in Boston, it included Matt (guitar and vocals), Elaine Harris (drums), Jason Ravitz (drums), Abby McGanney (drums) and Tom Copperthwaite (bass).  Yes, that's three drummers.  You may recognize the names of some of these songs from "The Cratchet Family Album".

And yes, that's how you spell it.

Trip Shakespeare

Various Tracks

Live in St. Cloud (1988, just before release of "Are You Shakespearienced?"

Live at the Bottleneck in Kansas City (just before release of "Across the Universe")

Elaine Harris

Elaine left for the homeland about 2 years after the fall of Trip Shakespeare.  Here are some bands she recorded with before and after leaving for the homeland:

John Casey - Hannah Rose Suite

Elaine is on drums here.  Other musicians include John Casey, Eric Christopher, John Hartley, Greg Traxler, Jim Anton, John Einweck and Dana Thompson. Here is a track from the album: Waitress

Cathy Braaten - Ride the Fader

Elaine on drums again, and this is an album you could listen to unknowingly and think to yourself, "That's Elaine!".  Snippets of all the songs are avaiable here: Ride the Fader

Robin H. Farren - Charmed Existence

More to come

Buddha Bunny

Elaine rocks the drums in this project from 1993.  Here are some selections from their album.

Lori Winslow & other stories

More to come

Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson and the Playmates - Live from 1993

The "Descender" Tape - 1994

Main Output & Misc

The Flops

The 2003 Reunion

In December of 2003, Matt, Dan and John reunited for two shows at First Avenue. Here are the shows in their entirety.

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