Open Letter to the UAlbany Administration RE: WCDB
To whom it may concern: I’m a UAlbany alum and local resident with strong ties to WCDB Albany. I was a station member as a student in the 1990s, and I have served as a community member DJ since...
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Let’s Give it Up for Chuck
One of my great musical joys is playing with Sevendys. It’s a dream lineup – Jerry Marotta, Chuck Rainey, Avi Buffalo, and Sheridan Riley – on a crazy musical adventure. But Sevendys has been out of...
View ArticleQuickies 5.10.12
I’ll be returning to the WCDB airwaves on the morning of Sunday, May 20. My new timeslot: 10am-noon Sundays! I hope you’ll join me… I love sharing music, even when I didn’t write it. Still no word on...
View ArticleThe Value of Music
Many of my Facebook friends are semipro singer-songwriters. We tend to attract each other. As such, I see lots of bitter status updates about the Internet’s “devaluing” of music. I never comment; I...
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I got the finished master of my new record two days ago. I drove around listening to it for a few hours, then listened a few more at home. I uploaded it to my music site for you to hear on July 7, and...
View ArticleSmall Sacrifices Must Be Made!
Small Sacrifices Must Be Made! by Jed Davis Small Sacrifices Must Be Made! is my new record. You can download it now, or order a physical copy on CD. (Vinyl is coming with the official street date,...
View ArticleThe Other Day
This happened the other day: I was in a public bathroom. I peed. I washed my hands. I walked over to the paper towel dispenser, which already had a sheet hanging from it. I tore off the sheet and began...
View ArticleAfter the End
I wrote something like this about “American music” back when we were putting Sevendys together. Once something’s over and safely in the past, you can start looking at the whole of it, and the context....
View ArticleSkyscape in 2013
Dom and I started writing music together in Mrs. Swenson’s 12th grade journalism class. Our first collaboration was something called “Yeah, That’s Stupid”. This eventually morphed into “Clouds”: Clouds...
View ArticleAdios Amigo
I understand: shit ain’t fair. But come on. Arturo Vega is gone. I don’t know anybody who did more for so many. If you own a Ramones shirt, his art is in your home. If you are part of a musical act...
View ArticleWhat About Collider?
The catalog may not show it, but 2013 has been a very productive year. One day I’ll tell you about the nine-month runaway roller coaster that was my quest for Jobriath master tapes and you’ll...
View ArticleLooking Up At 2014
Happy New Year! As 2014 begins, here’s what I’m working on. Rise And Shine It’s weird doing this without Arturo. Arty was always tweaking the story, for better or worse, adding characters and...
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Zetacarnosa: 10. Buffalo Head
Jed: I discovered the joy of sequencing while Skyscape recorded "Conform" and "Get Your Car Out of My Ear" in Amherst, MA. Left alone with Sean's Korg O1-W, I did quite a bit of arranging that week....
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Zetacarnosa: 9. Mall
Of course I'm gonna write a song about a mall. I'm from Long Island. Rob Throb looked at the lyric before I put it to music (I wrote it in a class we had together) and said it was the stupidest thing...
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Zetacarnosa: 8. Clouds
Jed: The first song Dom and I wrote together, and the first song Skyscape ever played live. Dom turned to me one afternoon in Ms. Swenson's journalism class (from which Dom was ultimately expelled for...
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Zetacarnosa: 7. House Of Wax
Jed:"House of Wax" is the last song Dom and I completed before Dom took a hiatus from Skyscape in early 1995. Ironically, Skyscape never performed the song with Dom - we didn't add it to the set until...
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Zetacarnosa: 6. Hump The Banker
Dom: In a way I knew the Green Lantern was a Caribbean man. Every singer is entitled a dinner in honor of a song that could have been yesterday's lunch napkins. I'm not spoiled. Sometime in this little...
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Zetacarnosa: 5. Autumn Punkfest
Four children pass me on the sidewalk One witch, two mummies, and a ghost The crisp North wind blows autumn leaves That crunch like bones into cider air Jack o'Lanterns grin from every porch And as the...
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Zetacarnosa: 4. Esau And His Lentils
Almost skinny as a corkscrew Your vacation's just some cornmeal That's collected in your bag Getting checkered for the evening Ducking phone booths without doors Waiting are the jockeys from the...
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Zetacarnosa: 3. Break Your Fuckin Balls
Your shoe kicked Sunday chores Six-pack snores Think my time is yours? Showering with my crew In my suit They take a bath with you Rub-a-dub my spleen Salmonella in my coffee pot Your coddled laxity...
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