NewYorkDVD works with renowned instrumentalist/songwriter Mike Keneally on reissues of early recordings.
Acclaimed early Keneally CDs, entitled ‘hat’ and ‘Boil That Dust Speck’, are remastered and reissued with bonus DVDs co-produced by Brian Brodeur, founder of NewYorkDVD.
(Après dinner photo at NAMM07 in Anaheim CA. Form L to R: Scott Chatfield (flying), Brian Brodeur, anonymous marble white lion, Mike Keneally, Sarah, Bryan Beller, Rick Musallum, Dave Foster.)
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About the CD/DVDs from www.keneally.com:
Mike Keneally “Boil That Dust Speck” Special Edition (Remastered)
Released in 1994, re-released in 2007.
The Special Edition of ‘Boil That Dust Speck’ contains the remastered CD plus a region-free NTSC DVD featuring bonus tracks, rare studio footage, vintage live concert material, interviews with participants, and video from a 2006 reunion of the original core band (Mike Keneally, Doug Lunn and Toss Panos) performing songs from both albums. And of course, the first 3000 copies of each Special Edition will be personally signed and numbered by Mike. The Boil That Dust Speck DVD includes a 90-minute presentation of “The Making of Boil That Dust Speck,” featuring extensive video footage of 1994 album sessions, newly-shot interview footage, live-in-the-studio performances from Keneally, Doug Lunn and Toss Panos of “Weekend,” “The Desired Effect” and “Skunk,” and other vital tidbits, resulting in an exhaustive examination of Dust Speck which will thrill any Keneally enthusiast, music fan, or human. The DVD also features an audio archive, with more than 20 alternate mixes and unreleased tracks, including an unreleased recording session with Mike’s rarely documented band Drop Control, playing together for the last time.
Mike on 1994’s BTDS: “This was an album I very much needed to make– an album wrenched out of my darkest depths while in the throes of an exciting variety of emotional torment, this album is a lot less goofy than hat.” The result has been heralded as a masterpiece by critics and fans. Its songs have been a major part of Mike’s live sets for years and head-ripping live versions are featured his 2006 Guitar Therapy Live release. BTDS has been unavailable for eons, and collectors have paid exhorbitant prices for it.
Keneally’s entire Immune catalog from the 1990s is being remastered and reissued by Exowax. Boil That Dust Speck has been remastered with its original track order. Songs on the remastered Boil That Dust Speck CD are:
* Sooth
* ‘Cause Of Breakfast
* The Desired Effect
* Skunk
* I’m Glad There’s Lemon-Freshened Thorax In You
* Top Of Stove Melting
* Aglow
* Bryan Beller’s Favorite Song
* Deep-Fried Skinks Are Go!
* Good Morning, Sometime
* Them Dolphins Is Smart
* 1988 Was A Million Years Ago
* Yep, Them Dolphins Is Smart, Alright
* Bullys (sic)
* My Dilemma
* Helen Was Brash
* Weekend
* Land Of Broken Dreams
* Blameless (The Floating Face)
* That Claim-Jumping Swine, O’Bannon
* Faithful Axe
* Natty Trousers
* Scotch
* There Have Been Bad Moments
* Frang Tang, The Valentine Bear
* I Will
* In The Bone World
* The Old Boat Guy, Part One
* The Old Boat Guy, Part Two
* The Old Boat Guy, Part Three
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Mike Keneally “hat.” Special Edition (Expanded & Remastered)
Released in 1992, re-released in 2007.
In addition to the expanded and remastered CD, the hat. Special Edition also contains a region-free NTSC DVD featuring bonus tracks, rare studio footage, vintage live concert material, interviews with participants, and video from a 2006 reunion of the original core band (Mike Keneally, Doug Lunn and Toss Panos) performing songs from both albums. And of course, the first 3000 copies of each Special Edition will be personally signed and numbered by Mike.
The hat. DVD includes
* Footage from the 1992 recording sessions
* An entire concert from 1993– the first Mike Keneally show under his own name, featuring the live debut of many hat. classics
* A 2006 reunion session with Keneally, Doug Lunn and Toss Panos playing “Cheddar,” “Here Is Why” and “Here Is What I Dreamed”
* Interview footage with key album participants
* Other odds and ends, mostly odds
* The “hat salad” function, which allows you the choice of experiencing these items in random order, an unpredictable banquet of entertainment chunks much like the original album.
* Also– the DVD has an audio archive with nearly 30 additional tracks, including home demos, alternate mixes and the promo-only “Rosemary Girl” single mix
“This album is the sound of someone who can’t believe he’s finally being allowed to make a real live solo album. I was giddy while making this album,” Mike wrote of his 1992 debut, hat.. “One listen to this thing and you’ll know a lot about what makes me tick.” Out of print for years, hat. has been remastered and music previously cut to fit a 1992 CD has been restored. “You’ll now be able to hear ‘Lightnin’ Roy’ the way it was supposed to be heard,” explains Mike, “and songs like ‘Snowcow’ and ‘The Car Song’ will have their guitar solos reinstated to their full fullness. All-in-all we were able to add in another three minutes of music which you should have heard fourteen years ago, so I’m plenty jazzed.” All Music Guide gives hat. four-and-a-half stars out of five. Mike is supported on hat. by the likes of Doug Lunn, Scott Thunes, Toss Panos, Mark DeCerbo and Kevin Gilbert.
Here are the songs on the remastered hat. CD:
* Your Quimby Dollars At Work
* I Can’t Stop
* Ugly Town
* Open Up!
* Dhen Tin
* Spearmint Pup
* Fencing
* Always Man
* My Immense Superiority Over The Silverfish
* Eno And The Actor
* The Car Song
* Heaven Likes You/Apple Pie
* Backstage With Wilson Phillips
* Here Is What I Dreamed
* Here Is Why
* Performing Miracles
* Spoon Guy
* And That’s Why It’s Called Spunk
* Johnny One-Note/The Exciting New Toothpaste From Mars
* Day Of The Cow 1
* Snowcow
* Day Of The Cow 2
* We’re Rockin’ All Night With The Tangy Flavor Of Cheddar
* Rosemary Girl
* Lightnin’ Roy