The Flying Mollusks
Todd Slater, Ned Berry and I did our first tape together under the name Ralph and the Dry Heaves, but a lot of the stuff we were doing at that time morphed into what we started to call Flying Mollusks material, an idea whose genesis I no longer recall other than I'd like to blame it on Ned. I used to blame everything on him, but he's bigger than me now so I don't do it as often anymore.
The Flying Mollusks never made it out of the basement so to speak, and we never made an official "album" to mark the time we spent working on stuff together, but years later (in 2000) Ned was over and we put together a bunch of the stuff on a CD and called it The Posthumous Save the Mollusks.
There are a bunch of classics on this CD (which really feels thrown together at times). I made a couple of them into videos using some material I taped off of late night TV at the time. I really liked how Time Flies matched up with this video sequence so I'll link that below.
Track 3 - Time Flies
Drop of Sand was the big Flying Mollusks hit. I wrote most of the lyrics (with Todd's help) and if I find time I'll scan the page in from my notebook and post it here because it also has the tabs for Todd's guitar chords which I still love, especially the chorus. Todd knew how to write a hook and a good bridge, something I still can't do well.
Track 10 - Drop of Sand
We had a great time writing and playing all the tunes on this one. One day over the summer when Todd was working at Shoreham Beach in the "shack" Ned and I showed up to play and lounge out on the "green monster" which was a huge cushy couch in the beach shack there. We recorded a bunch of strange tunes there of which Endless Loop was one.
Track 19 - Endless Loop
Our friend Seth wrote The Summoning which I won't post here since I'm pretty sure it can have the stated effect. Great song but fairly demonic.
01-We Are Mollusks 02-What with this "46" Bullshit? 03-Time Flies 04-Unconnected Noise 05-Earth Power 06-Delay Jam 07-Scuds Over Riyadh 08-Ripping 09-Purple Sunset 10-Drop Of Sand 11-Pothead 12-Green Monster 13-The Dirge 14-Say Somethin 15-Step By Step 16-Grave Robbing 17-The Summoning 18-Spaced 19-Endless Loop 20-Flypaper 21-Pothole 22-We're Mollusks
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Nate's Music - An Overview
What are these music pages about?
YouTube and Twitch
Music videos I've posted on social media2019
Thus Sang the Bard at Beltaine
tunes I wanted to bring to Bardic Circle but never got good recordings for with the group2013
Bardic Circle - Samhain, MMXI
Sport and Cate Moran help me carry on without Tim2011
TdB Bardic Circle Podcast
All that is left of the podcast which I used to run in iTunes where I posted spippets of practice sessions or other funny stuff2010
Bardic Circle - Samhain, MMVIII
more musicians and more merry music making in the medieval inspired genre2008
Momus and the Fomorians - Samhain MMVI
More originals by Tim rounded out with lots more Irish and English folk2006
Comyn's Bardic Closet - Beltaine, MMVI
Irish and medieval inspired folk tunes with several originals by Tim2006
NRN - Mostly Covers
Mostly inspired by Rob, we worked up a lot of actual recognizable covers for a couple summers2000
Looking For Me
I'm done screaming1998
Uruk Hai - Angel of Mercy
An eclectic miscellany1993
LVC Sessions
an EP of sorts produced by Todd of a few songs Ned and I had worked up1993
PREY
an EP recorded by John in his basement1991
The Flying Mollusks
some more original trip-metal meat puppets inspired material1991
In the daze of Ralph
Ned, Todd, and I collaborate. Todd was a large influence here as he had been writing longer.1991
Identity Crisis
more attempts at writing songs but perhaps a little angrier1991
Introspection
My first attempts at writing songs1990
Chipmunks on Acid
A very silly set of songs inspired mainly by my friend John1989
Me, Him, and the Other Ones
Merry antics and deep lyrics by Morgan, great guitar work by Erik1984