Nothing Painted Blue - Placeholders (1994) [Scat Records, SCAT37]

Nothing Painted Blue - Placeholders (1994) [Scat Records, SCAT37, CD]

Tracklist:

1. Couldn't Be Simpler
2. Weak
3. Drinking Game
4. Career Day
5. Spread Your Poison
6. In May
7. Masonic Eye
8. Ballwalker
9. Travel Well
10. Rightful Heir
11. Houseguest
12. Kissing Booth
13. Can't f(x)

From the booklet:

Kyle Brodie: drums, percussion, backing vocals, ice
Franklin Bruno: guitar, piano, Prophet 5, vocals, backing vocals
Peter Hughes: bass, backing vocals

with:
Jim Brodie, Dean of Discipline: congas
Bob Durkee: guitar on "ballwalker"
Margie Keith: violin
Single Variable Chorus: backing vocals on "can't f(x)"

Produced by Martin Brumbach and ØPB
Engineered by Martin Brumbach, Chrissa Sadd and Richard Ornstein
Recorded at Piercing Sound, Brentwood, CA, Spring 1994
Mastered by John Golden at John Golden Mastering, Newbury Park, CA
Illustrations: Victor Gastelum
Band photo: Laura Crosta
Design: ØPB and Griffin

Thanks to: Robert Griffin, Rael Lewis, Joey Burns (whose original bass parts on
"drinking game," "weak," "travel well," "masonic eye," and "in may" Peter
borrowed from liberally on these recordings), Nathan Wilson, Kevin Hughes,
Bob Durkee, Dan Seta, Marty, Jeff Martin, Brian MacPherson, Alicia Brodie,
Gloria Putnam, Margie Keith, Dixie Lass, Simple Machines, Anyway Records,
David Rothblatt, and Robert Vodicka.
Thanks in advance: Mike Neelon.

All songs by ØPB, © 1994 Stopgap Measures (BMI)

Contact the band at P.O. Box 1243, Upland, CA 91785-1243.
Send stamps or SASE for lyrics.

"Masonic Eye" can be heard in solo Franklin form as "Lifetime Seance" on Shrimper 7" compilation Ghost Of A Rollercoaster.

"Can't f(x)" has its pronunciation given ("can't function") in the chorus. Franklin has a B.A. in mathematics, in addition to the Ph.D in philosophy (q.v. notes on Swivelchair) you may have heard about. The math thing may have been obvious if you know the Ø in frequent-abbreviation ØPB is notation for the empty set.

Finding out Bob Durkee played guitar on "Ballwalker" makes sense, if you've heard his work with Shoeface.

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