DackAttac on purevolume™

Rock / Powerpop

Singer/songwriter and one-man-band raised in Albany, NY and living in Boston, MA, who plays those songs that you just so happen to like.

November 12

If you're gonna sell out, check out this blog (Non-sellouts can read it, too.)

Every time I go to the movies I vow to save myself hassle, money and anguish by foregoing the snack line and every time I leave the theatre with an empty wallet and a stomachache, so you'll have to forgive me as I write this blog entry through a peanut butter M&M hangover.

I realize it's in poor taste to release a lead single with no details on its album's release, but I feel I've withheld new material from you all for far too long. So, here's everything I can tell you.

The song's called "Cracklegs", and as you may have now noticed, it's streaming on this page. It'll be the first single off the tentative EP "Bathrooms Are For Paying Customers Only", which has no solid release date at the moment, but I'm really gunning for January 2007.

If you like what you hear, tell a friend. Maybe more than one. Depends on the musical tastes of the company you keep. Either way, drop me a line. I'd like to hear what you guys think. After I get to sleep while my stomach acids attempt to dissolve the peanut-buttery-choclately mass that sits in my digestive track like a rock in a quarry.

Remind me to just get a popcorn next time. A small popcorn.

Peace, love and power chords,
Dack

Prelude To Progress

I never know how to start these things. And that's why I never had. Until now, assuming I don't chicken out before I hit submit.

I suppose a good place to start is my personal life. Earlier today, a spokesman for my cable/internet provider passed me on a Segway and a ridiculous hat, and handed me a humorously oversized pen.

Okay. Take two. Action.

I suppose a good place to start is the music I've been working on. It's dawned on me that although I've been writing songs like a fiend, I've had precious little to offer here since I threw up a rough demo of That's Just Me, complete with the semi-tacky drum machine. This is simply not how I prefer to operate. My drum machines of choice are totally tacky, mind-blowingly synthesized and so cheesy you could use them to feed a family of four for a month on an all-quesadilla diet.

Take three.

Three of the songs I've posted--"That's Just Me", "Shoot Me Down" and "As Fast As God Will Allow"-- are meant for my debut full-length, tentatively titled "1 in 3 Chance of Beating the Odds". Getting the songs written out and copyrighted can be a real chore, though, so in order to distract myself, I started filling out some loose ideas and resurrecting forgotten pieces of music from the annuls of my notebook. ...I know you just snickered at the word "annuls". Don't deny it. I know you did.

Dammit. Take four.

Tying these odds and ends together will result in a four-song EP, "Bathrooms Are For Paying Customers Only". You can thank my friend Shiro for the ridiculous title.

Tracklistings for the albums are as follows:

BATHROOMS ARE FOR PAYING CUSTOMERS ONLY - EP:
1. High Fives & Backhands
2. Cracklegs
3. My Captain
4. Growing On It

1 IN 3 CHANCE OF BEATING THE ODDS:
1. Shoot Me Down*
2. Rock Bottom
3. Angela
4. Spectacle
5. That's Just Me**
6. Bloody Knuckles
7. Always Exes
8. North For The Winter
9. As Fast As God Will Allow**
10. Next Stop Life

(The versions I've posted here remain demos, simply because Shoot Me Down was recorded with musicians under the premise the finished product would be used simply for fun, not for profit. Wouldn't be very nice of me to make money on them behind their back, would it? And the others were done so haphazardly for class-related deadlines I compromised too much to be happy with them. And my voice. Yow. Rest assured, I've improved, ever-so-slightly.)

If you want release dates, I can only apologetically offer nothing concrete at the present time. All I know is I'm aiming for a January 2007 date for the EP (I had originally typed in '07, but then remembered that whole Y2K debacle), and the LP hinges on how much my academic workload permits me to accomplish in the meantime. But take solace in the fact that I'm already halfway through with writing the music on it out on paper for copyright.

I'd also like to apologize for the generic lack of live shows. When your genre is multi-instrumental pop music, doing open mics takes a lot out of it. If I ever get a band together, though, you'll be the first to know.

Alrighty. This is the Attac, signing off; over and out. And for those about to rock, I definitely salute you.

~Dack

P.S. - I wasn't kidding about the Segway thing. I kept the pen.