The Official History of Instant Dogma
(Woodrose, snakes & ladders, Freak Music,
Punk Rock Treehouse and everything else.)
1999
Come Out and Play
Spring/Summer
        Recording Come Out & Play with Charlie Kent. |
 This sonic masterpiece is available Greg and I wanted to move forward and record some of the material we gigged with Dean. We floundered through a couple of sessions before finally conscripting Peter Zolli to play bass and produce. We tried some new recording ideas and made the record known as Come Out And Play. In retrospect it was probably not the best course considering the tame sound and dissimilarity to the band on stage. The only track that retained it's steroid gusto was Candy (still one of my faves.) |
| Fall
Just as that project was nearing post-production, my then spouse, mentioned two musicians from work. One, Noah Dennis, was willing to play bass and the other was Dave Smith, a guitarist. We met, jammed and got on. It wasn't long before we were rehearsing and I was writing songs. By November we were ready to demo some new material. Up until then Dave had been making back channel grumblings about Noah's novice capabilities. My comeback was "let's give him a chance." After we finished the recording, Dave gave me an ultimatum - Noah or him. Since we were starting to connect creatively, I chose Noah. No regrets. With Greg we immediately began creating a band and a sound. |
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By May we had done a couple of open mic gigs, put together a set of material, and were ready to make a demo.  |
2000 The decision was made gig a bunch and field test our new songs. Holding off on making an album until the bugs were worked out. It was right about then we became acquainted with... Jim Cosgrove.  Jim was Access coordinator for Hopkinton Cable. He'd shown up at one of our gigs and after the show invited us to do an acoustic set on Hop-TV. Two things would emerge from this - A snakes and ladders feature length video, consisting of various public access appearances called (unironically) Public Access, and my very own cable show, Cheap-TV |
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