My buddy Ben that helps out here at Good Land came up with a great idea when the Shades were in California doing those Soul Asylum shows…and that was for Limbeck to get our shit together and do a very Limbeck Christmas celebration. Patrick and I were very into the idea. So much that we brought it up to Robb and Justin. Soon as we knew it we were all taking off of work, and starting to book dates. We’ve been meaning to release a couple of songs we had laying around. So, I approached Johnny B. at SideOneDummy about doing a 7″ together, and he couldn’t have been more excited. With Dan The Man on organ and Justin Perkins on the switches, the songs really came out sounding great. Side A is called “already gone” which was a song we wrote and recorded in a day during our session doing the Limbeck s/t record. We were shooting for a Gary Glitter “Rock n Roll Part 1 & 2” kind of vibe. Side b is a cover of “skyway” by the Replacements. It was tracked live originally to be released as a split 7″ with Lucero. We were going to do a Mats’ cover 7″ but it never ended up happening. Wonder if they ever recorded a Mats’ cover that we don’t know about??? Good Land is helping with the 7″ so expect seeing it in our web store in late December. Hope to see some old friends, and make some new ones while we’re out there.
P.S.- The Shades are opening all the shows with Limbeck as well.
P.S.S.- The Shades are going to be doing 10 dates with the Wallflowers in the Midwest and Canada starting Oct. 25th!!