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Earlier
Bands
this listing includes both commercially
released and unreleased material, excl. bootlegs
  
No Release was the name Brian
Fallon used to record 'The Coffeehouse Sessions' when he was fifteen.
Surrogate
McKenzie, Amping Copper, and Cincinnati Rail Tie are
three of Brian's bands prior to This Charming Man.
Benny was peviously in a band called
The
Low End Theory and, with Alex Rosamilia, in a band called The Killing
Gift.
The following is a relevant extract
from an interview with Bobby Gorman from ThePunkSite.com (8 April
2009):
Bobby: What do
you think when you hear about people tracking down your old bands like
This Charming Man, Brian Fallon And The Cincinnati Rail Ties, Killing Gift
or Low End Theory? Like when people go out of their ways to track down
old material.
Levine: Oh God.
Rosamilia: Don't! *laughs*
That's ridiculous. I don't know. The friends that I was in the band The
Killing Gift with would be upset because I've already kind of trashed talked
the Killing Gift once. But it's just weird. I mean, it's cool to think
that they're that interested in us that they want to go back further but
I don't think anyone's gonna really - at least the Killing Gift stuff -
nobody's gonna like. It's a totally different sound. Low End Theory I can
see people liking, This Charming Man stuff I can see people liking. That's
probably the easiest.
Levine: Oh yeah, at least
the closest.
Rosamilia: I don't know,
it's weird. Nobody liked us when we were around, now people like us because
we're in another band. That doesn't make sense.
Bobby: Well, like you said,
you gotta see where you came from.
Rosamilia: Yeah, I guess,
yeah. I did say that didn't I?
Levine: Evanescence rip-off.
*laughs*
Rosamilia: *laughing* It
was supposed to be Hub with female vocals, that's what it was supposed
to be. Not what it turned into. But it turned into Spiro Agnew, so I can't
complain.
Commercial
Releases
No Release
[Brian Fallon]
The Coffee House Sessions
(1997 - label: Mean Little Man Productions) [compact cassette only]
Technically, 'The Coffeehouse Sessions'
was a limited release demo (about 200 tapes). Chris Eissing played lead
guitar on a few tracks.
1. City Lights
2. C'mon Melinda
3. Always Something
4. Hello It's Me Again
5. My Girlfriend
6. Same Problem, New City
7. Somebody Died Tonight
8. Sister I Need Salvation
9. It's Me
10. Lipstick Candy
11. Rude Girl
12. Let Me Tell You 'Bout Heartbreak
13. At the Corner Round 9pm
14. Some Days it Fades
15. Where Do You Stay?
16. Auld Land Syne
This Charming
Man [incl.
Brian Fallon]
Every Little Secret (5 July 2005
- label: Xoxo)
1. Bleeder
2. There Is a Thunder (Out in the
Distance)
3. Sometime You Eat the Bar (Sometimes
the Bar Eats You)
4. Cut the Rope (Before It Hangs
Us Both)
5. Kiss Me, I'm a Pirate
6. Sweet Delta Blues
The
Low End Theory [incl.
Benny Horowitz]
see www.myspace.com/lowendtheory
The Low End Theory (14 December 1999
- label: Eulogy Recordings)
1. Ten Paces at a Time
2. Direction to Limitations
3. Afterglow
4. Landslide Perceptions
5. Celebrate Endings
6. Nighttime
Split (2000 - label: Ferret) [Ex
Number Five Vs. The Low End Theory]
[tracks 1-3 by Ex Number Five]
4. Patterns
5. Station Nine
6. Four O'Clock Closure
Doing Bad Things To Good People (2002
- label: Devildance Records)
1. Alan Steel as Hercules
2. Nice Guy, Kin of a Lose
3. Polyester Sweat Factory
4. To Good Food and Bad Fathers
5. ... The Cause and Solution To
All Of Life's Problems
The
Killing Gift [incl.
Alex Rosamilia & Benny Horowitz]
see www.myspace.com/thekillinggift
Who Watches the Watchmen? (13 July
2004 - label: Immigrant Sun Records)
1. Self Medicated
2. Ignorance
3. One Sided Love
4. Pink/Red
5. Where's the Goot?
6. Pardon Me
7. You Alone
8. We're No Pretty, But We're Pretty
Exciting
9. Curtain
10. Parking Lot Goodbye
11. Gray/Black
Unreleased Recordings
Surrogate
McKenzie
[incl. Brian
Fallon]
info
taken from the now defunct www.rothenbeck.net/music/music/surrogatemckenzie/index.html
Brian Rothenbeck writes:
I have no idea how this band started.
Okay... let me at least try. I met Brian Fallon at the Timestill Cafe when
I was 15. We both went to the open mic and played songs there. I think
he was playing all original material and I was just playing whatever cover
song I felt like doing at the time. I had no idea how to write a song,
I'd only thrown some terrible teen-angsty lyrics over a G-C-D-Em progression
and called it "expressing myself." Anyways... I started playing with Tommy
DuHamel in Atomic Peter, and we recorded with Brian on his 4-track in Brendan's
garage. So then AP broke up for some reason, and Brian commandeered Brendan
and I to play for him. The only thing was, he didn't have a bassist, and
he was already playing guitar. I figured, "Hey, fuck it" and decided I
would play bass. John Schuettler was in Nutshell, who broke up, and then
he joined to play second guitar. Brian got his girlfriend to be an "Oi!
Girl" (yeah.. we were punk rock), and not to exclude Brendan's girlfriend,
had her do the same. Worst. Idea. Ever. We played a bunch of shows, recorded
one tape in Brendan's garage, and then Brendan's girlfriend went all Yoko
on us. We kicked her out, and Brendan followed. Oh young love... Brian
knew this guy Chad from Randolph who was a drummer, so he got him to replace
Brendan. And then everything changed. Chad wasn't into the same music as
us. While we were listening to the Queers and the Mr. T Experience, he
was listening to Sense Field and Shai Hulud and other bands that started
with the letter "S". Our style changed almost immediately. We taught Chad
the songs, but they didn't utilize his skills. He is an AMAZING drummer.
I can credit him as being my biggest influence in my drumming. You can
hear that a lot in Amping Copper. Anyways... It was a meeting of minds
between Chad and Johnny. They were into the same music, and could write
together amazingly. As Brian and my musical horizons expanded, we all fell
into step and began writing nonstop. We banged out two tapes and then went
to record a real CD! I had never been in a real studio beyond the one at
CCM where Mike Hemberger recorded us doing out old songs for his music
engineering project. To his credit, this guy was doing everything analog.
He didn't have Pro Tools or anything. The quality isn't worth the amount
we spent on recording it, but it was a great learning experience. Surrogate
McKenzie played a lot of shows in a lot of places, but I will always remember
Newark, Deleware as the place I quit the band. We were putting together
a show with Hot Water Music, (which they played without me -- also featuring
a band called Saves The Day) but I had been going through a bad time in
my life, and I just wasn't into it anymore. If I could go back in time,
I most certainly would have just stuck through it all, but at 20 years
old, I didn't have that kind of clarity. All in all, through that band,
I met a lot of friends both in an out of the music scene, many of whom
I still speak to. I have also stayed very good friends with both Brian
and Johnny. I haven't seen Chad in some years, but if I ever do, I'd like
to thank him for teaching me how to play drums just by watching.
Surrogate McKenzie
I'll Listen
Wadda Ya Know
Friday Night
24 Hours
Goody Girl
Saturday Night
A.A.C.P.
Two
Mickey
18 Once
Melt with You
Songs To Grow Up To
Letter to an Ex
Years Ago
It's a Book, I Read It
Life's Less Ordinary
Before You Leave
The Ballad of Jimmy & Maria
Catalogue
Heartattack lessons
Mary, I Never Told You
St Jennifer
Still Sixteen
Drowning Slowly
Buffy
The Six Degrees of Separation
Burn
Shoulda Tried Harder
Thoughts Keep Changing
To All My Friends Who Weren't There
All You Got
Switch
To You ...
One Fifteen
Take Too Long
Amping Cooper
[incl.
Brian Fallon]
info
taken from the now defunct www.rothenbeck.net/music/music/ampingcopper/index.html
Brian Rothenbeck writes:
Amping Copper started when I met
Anthony Iarossi at the Port Murray group home in 2001. He was my coworker's
boyfriend, and after finding out that I was a musician, mentioned that
he played guitar and wanted to start a band. I was fresh off the first
incarnation of The Great Divorce and was eager to get back into music,
so I was happy to give it a shot. What I didn't realize was what an awesome
dude Anthony was. We started off with a bassist that he brought from work,
I think his name might be Adam. Don't quote me on that. So it was just
the three of us, and we couldn't write a song for shit. That was when I
decided to bring in the big gun: Brian Fallon. Brian was fresh off a stint
with Lanemeyer and wanted to get away from the pop punk world (though that
is the world that gave him his lovely wife - you can thank NJxPP for something).
Adam was fired because he really wasn't a very good bassist for what we
were trying to do (read: he played funk and mall metal exclusively). Enter
once again, gun-for-hire Chris Shann. Amping Copper basically turned into
Surrogate McKenzie v2.0, but we ended on a strong note. We all came out
of it better musicians, myself especially. No hard feelings were had, we
all still talk and are friends, and now Brian's a rock star.
Bogey On My Six
Coordinates and A Country Song
Graduation Song
Past Participle, Present Tense
Perfect Blues
There She Blows
Brian Fallon
- Cincinnati Rail Tie
Apparently
Brian decided to record a 'solo' EP, but wanted it to still have a band
look/feel to it. He called in a friend of his from Lanemeyer to play drums,
while another friend of his, Mike Hemberger, played bass, sang backups
and produced the EP, which was to be called "The American Music EP". Brian's
old guitar teacher, Tim Fogerty, played guitar, incl. a solo, on two tracks,
and Brian's mother sang backups. Brian did everything else. He got
some good feedback on the EP and then formed a band after the fact.
They only played together for a little while, and the people that played
live didn't play on the EP.
The American
Music EP
Scene of the
Crime
The Blues
Five Year
Plan [aka: I Hope the Money Comes in Someday]
Look On The
Bright Side
[available
to listen to at jivetheuniversal.thestiz.com/discography/brian_fallon_of_the_gasligh/]
Occasional
Vocals
Lanemeyer
(songs
recorded with Brian Fallon on vocals)
see www.myspace.com/lanemeyer
- Brian played with Lanemeyer when they toured with Lawrence Arms
in 2000
Alarm [available
on 'Punk Rock Strike: Punk Rock Strikes Back, Vol. 2' (2001 - label: Springman
Records)]
Somebody to Shove (Soul Asylum cover)
[not
released commercially]
many of these unreleased recording
are available via the Dimestore Saints' 'audio
rips master list' |
