Recorded by this guy alone in a room many years ago...recently discovered and now hidden bomb of the South Bay as Eddie plays the South Bay...Acoustic driven pop rock, great songs, lyrics to grab hold of.

15 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Acoustic, ROCK: Modern Rock



Details:
Back in the middle-age days of LA punk, new wave and mod rock: Eddie Clay, a Huntington Beach bodysurfer, real surfer wannabe, could be found playing with buds in a band called The Loose at various venues such as the Cuckoos Nest, Madamm Wong's Chinese Theatre, and Hong Kong Cafe...Eddie was a raw downstroker of a guitarist, attacked his fake telecaster like a jigsaw and often by the end of the show his strings, fingers and white t-shirts were a bloodied mess. People assumed it was cause he didn't know how to play. So he learned to wear dark green and black shirts.

The LA scene was surreal, the music powerful, and as paradigm shifting as anything but, unfortunately in the backyard of the Hollywood music industry, it was largely ignored. The Loose released some awesome recordings, and were on the verge of a mega deal, but that is another story which ended in implosion. Nobody heard from Eddie again.

Rumor had it he changed his name and became part of the establishment - got married, bought a house, got a dog, had kids...But apparently before he did all that...he had bought a Fostex 4 track recorder, and in the spring and summer of 1987, alone in his studio apartment, like the engineer he had become, he recorded the songs written by the wildcat he was. He put it all in a box with some notes and his intentions to do something with them "after my Honeymoon to Jamaica."

20 some years later Eddie Clay was found at an English pub performing in the South Bay Area. His recordings were resurrected and simply slapped onto CD in their raw state, with a little production, with the rough edges of a jigsaw cut, in some ways a bloody mess, but carefully covered with a green and black sleeve...Play loud and be careful - very addicting. (yeah, messed up the song order on cd cover, go to www.eddieclay.com for correct order and lyrics).