As I have mentioned before, in the late 90s and early 2000s, I would hang out with Dave Cuzner (aka Moodswing 9) a lot. He had a car and we'd drive around to different record stores around the Bay Area. There are several clips on Left Handed Straw that I recorded in the back seat of Dave’s car. Dave was pretty savvy at the non-job having side hustles. He was telling me about barcode scanners for rare books way before everyone had an iPhone and the internet in their pocket. At one point, I believe he was driving around and getting paid to help map traffic patterns. He also knew how to find stuff and flip it. I learned a lot about records from him. One time, He jokingly said that you should buy any record with an egg on the cover. It’s actually a fairly solid metric if you’re talking about 60s and 70s records.
I remember Nate Price and I loving this EP when it came out. I was super blown away by how complete it sounded (or song like) and Bully definitely had the slick packaging going. I loved and still love the song/video for Tired, it felt so mature and sentimental, which was not what most of us were striving to make at the time. Even watching it again after all these years I still have the same ah I had when I first saw it. Like damn, I’m never going to be as good as Tommy.
I remember very fondly coming over to your crib in SF a few times and you playing us (me, Nate and Om) some of the tunes you were working on. I think at that time it was the Expansion EP and Shades of a Former You, literally sent Nate and I home with a lot of inspiration.
Dave Cuzner was such a cool nonchalant mentor when it came to digging and talking shop about beat making. I can totally picture him saying “If you make a record called Egg, It’s gotta be good”. He was also super cool when anyone would find a dope rare record at a spot he would take you too. Instead of most others (not going to mention names) getting jealous and bitter. Such a blessing to have been around to witness these little happenings of the late 90s early 2000s.
Thoroughly enjoying all your sharing as of late here on Substsack!
I always felt that Tired was the best of the “producers making a full song with vocals “ thing that was the new shit back then.
Lemme tell you it’s harder than it seems to get vocals from a completely different song to fit in pitch and key. Especially in the early 2000s
I remember Nate Price and I loving this EP when it came out. I was super blown away by how complete it sounded (or song like) and Bully definitely had the slick packaging going. I loved and still love the song/video for Tired, it felt so mature and sentimental, which was not what most of us were striving to make at the time. Even watching it again after all these years I still have the same ah I had when I first saw it. Like damn, I’m never going to be as good as Tommy.
I remember very fondly coming over to your crib in SF a few times and you playing us (me, Nate and Om) some of the tunes you were working on. I think at that time it was the Expansion EP and Shades of a Former You, literally sent Nate and I home with a lot of inspiration.
Dave Cuzner was such a cool nonchalant mentor when it came to digging and talking shop about beat making. I can totally picture him saying “If you make a record called Egg, It’s gotta be good”. He was also super cool when anyone would find a dope rare record at a spot he would take you too. Instead of most others (not going to mention names) getting jealous and bitter. Such a blessing to have been around to witness these little happenings of the late 90s early 2000s.
Thoroughly enjoying all your sharing as of late here on Substsack!