A Thousand Times

Good evening,

Here's another track taken from The Screaming Paisleys "EXIT" LP.  "A Thousand Times" was another 4-track tune that I wrote...about a girl.  Tony's fretless bass is fantastic and beats the bass bends I had done on the original 4-track version.  Dave's drums follows nearly the same pattern as the 4-track version, but Dave's drum skills beat my programming any day of the week.

My "wall of sound" guitar sound was a part of what The Screaming Paisleys were about (during the recording of this track with Bart Thurber at House of Faith Recording), but as we began to gig more and more my sound became a little less ambient and a little clearer.

Anyhow, hope you enjoy the track, drop me a line and take care.

Mark Harvey

The Screaming Paisleys on bandcamp

Well...after a little blog silence I've decided to get with the program again and get something written here. I do plan on writing the account of my 40th birthday weekend (mainly for my own historical record...I'm getting old, ya know), but tonight I decided to announce the digital availability of The Screaming Paisleys "EXIT" LP (found here). It is available to listen to as well as to download. It is a fairly good quality rip, not the best...

For those who have not read the account of the band, keep reading...

The Screaming Paisleys started out as Rhythm and Rhyme - a band thrown together for a Battle of the Bands contest at Sequoia High School in Redwood City, CA. Soon after that "gig" we changed our name to The Screaming Paisleys, played for a little while and then broke up. Some where out there is a demo we recorded at a friend's house, but I've not come across it yet.
At that point I began recording on my Tascam 4-track and I called my solo project mopehead. At a party at my buddy Scott Rehlaender's house, Dave Ayer (The Screaming Paisleys' drummer) heard some of the tracks I had recorded and thought it would be cool to get together. We reenlisted Brent Willson (bass) and began practicing, but soon stopped playing together again. I started looking for a bass player to fill Brent's spot.
One night while working at Gelb Music in Redwood City, CA (click here to visit their website) Tony Iuppa saw the flier pinned to the wall and approached me asking if he could "try out" for the band. So Dave, Tony and I began practicing. The Screaming Paisleys were together again.
Once we had a number of tunes ready we decided to record an LP. EXIT was recorded with Bart Thurber at the original House Of Faith (click here to visit website) recording studio (then in Bart's Palo Alto house). Bart was amazing and taught all of us a lot during the process. I had been going to recording college so working with Bart was great to hone my production skills.

EXIT was released in 1988. The Screaming Paisleys played lots of gigs. Our LP charted on many college radio stations nationwide. It was a good run. We ended up breaking up when Dave decided to go on tour with SAMIAM (one of many bands that Dave was playing in). Tony and I would get together and record strange songs on the 4-track, but the band would never get together again. Tony's friend, Shane created a website (click here to visit) for The Screaming Paisleys (a page for stuff that doesn't have a page).

I've now ripped the entire LP so here is a digital version of EXIT. I hope you enjoy the tracks.

Mark Harvey - Acoustic & Electric Guitars/Vocals
Click here if you can't figure out where you're supposed to click to listen to "EXIT".

Scalp Massage - a Screaming Paisleys' FREE MP3

Here's another track from The Screaming Paisleys. This free MP3 is called "Scalp Massage" (download here) (link disabled)and is taken from The Screaming Paisleys' EXIT LP (released in 1988). It has some really nice bass work by Tony Iuppa (bass solo included!), some interesting harmonics flowing from my guitar and Dave Ayer grooves pretty tough on this track. All in all I'd say I get a kick listening to this old LP.

For a Screaming Paisley's history lesson click here.

Mark Harvey
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"Morning Dew" by The Screaming Paisleys

Here's another track from my teenage years (1988 to be precise). This is also the track I mentioned in my last entry - the track that made my wife so mad. I guess my only comment would be that you may not want to wake up to this, but I like waking up to this so...I dunno....whatever. Here is a FREE MP3 download of "Morning Dew" (download here) (link disabled) taken from The Screaming Paisleys' EXIT LP. Originally recorded on my 4-track, Morning Dew was rerecorded by the band I was in - The Screaming Paisleys for our EXIT LP. So here's the history lesson for those who missed it the last time:

The Screaming Paisleys started out as Rhythm and Rhyme - a band thrown together for a Battle of the Bands contest at Sequoia High School. Soon after that "gig" we changed our name to The Screaming Paisleys, played for a little while and then broke up. At that point I began recording on my Tascam 4-track and I called my solo project mopehead. At a party at my buddy Scott Rehlaender's house Dave Ayer (The Screaming Paisleys' drummer) heard some of the tracks I had recorded and thought it would be cool to get together. We reenlisted Brent Willson (bass) and began practicing, but soon stopped playing together again. I started looking for a bass player to fill Brent's spot. One night while working at Gelb Music (click here to visit their website) Tony Iuppa saw the flier pinned to the wall and approached me asking if he could "try out" for the band. So Dave, Tony and I began practicing. The Screaming Paisleys were together again.

Once we had a number of tunes ready we decided to record an LP. EXIT was recorded with Bart Thurber at the original House Of Faith (click here to visit website) recording studio (then in Bart's Palo Alto house). Bart was amazing and taught all of us a lot during the process. I had also been going to recording college so working with Bart was great to hone my production skills.

EXIT was released in 1988. The Screaming Paisleys played lots of gigs. Our LP charted on many college radio stations nationwide. It was a good run. We ended up breaking up when Dave decided to go our tour with SAMIAM (one of many bands that Dave was playing in). Tony and I would get together and record strange songs on the 4-track, but the band would never get together again.Tony's friend, Shane created a website (click here to visit) for The Screaming Paisleys (a page for stuff that doesn't have a page).I've now ripped the entire LP onto my computer so I have a digital version of EXIT. If anyone is interested in the digital version, comment...if you'd like for me to post more tracks from EXIT, comment...how about just comment.As usual I plan to add more early Rain Station, mopehead and maybe Screaming Paisleys tracks in the coming months.

Enjoy!

Mark Harvey - Acoustic & Electric Guitars/Vocals

Click here if you can't figure out where you're supposed to click to download the song.

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Stop The Blood

This track goes way way back to my teenage years (1988 to be precise). Here is a FREE MP3 download of Stop The Blood taken from The Screaming Paisleys' EXIT LP . Originally recorded on my 4-track, Stop The Blood was rerecorded by the band I was in - The Screaming Paisleys for our EXIT LP. Yep, that's right, LP - vinyl

The Screaming Paisleys started out as Rhythm and Rhyme - a band thrown together for a Battle of the Bands contest at Sequoia High School. Soon after that "gig" we changed our name to The Screaming Paisleys, played for a little while and then broke up. At that point I began recording on my Tascam 4-track and I called my solo project mopehead. At a party at my buddy Scott Rehlaender's house Dave Ayer (The Screaming Paisleys' drummer) heard some of the tracks I had recorded and thought it would be cool to get together. We reenlisted Brent Willson (bass) and began practicing, but soon stopped playing together again. I started looking for a bass player to fill Brent's spot. One night while working at Gelb Music (click here to visit their website) Tony Iuppa saw the flier pinned to the wall and approached me asking if he could "try out" for the band. So Dave, Tony and I began practicing. The Screaming Paisleys were together again.
Once we had a number of tunes ready we decided to record an LP. EXIT was recorded with Bart Thurber at the original House Of Faith (click here to visit website) recording studio (then in Bart's Palo Alto house). Bart was amazing and taught all of us a lot during the process. I had also been going to recording college so working with Bart was great to hone my production skills.
EXIT was released in 1988. The Screaming Paisleys played lots of gigs. Our LP charted on many college radio stations nationwide. It was a good run. We ended up breaking up when Dave decided to go our tour with SAMIAM (one of many bands that Dave was playing in). Tony and I would get together and record strange songs on the 4-track, but the band would never get together again.

Tony's friend, Shane created a website (click here to visit) for The Screaming Paisleys (a page for stuff that doesn't have a page).

I've now ripped the entire LP onto my computer so I have a digital version of EXIT. If anyone is interested in the digital version, comment...if you'd like for me to post more tracks from EXIT, comment...how about just comment.

As usual I plan to add more early Rain Station, mopehead and maybe Screaming Paisleys tracks in the coming months.

Enjoy!













Mark Harvey - Acoustic & Electric Guitars/Vocals
Click here if you can't figure out where you're supposed to click to download the song.
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