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Engineered by Vince Perri. Performed by Vasas, Andy Bechtel and Matt Mepham.Just a bunch of fun in the basement, right?
The City
Mike Vasas
May, 2004
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01. The City
02. Drowning of Aaron Corpis
03. Mayor Shrub
04. Bus Stop Change
05. Tax-Return Girl
06. I Never Meant To Do You Harm
07. It’s The Single
08. Desire and The Urge
09. If You Wanna Be a Sunflower
10. Did You Really Expect a Smile?
11. The Bee
Acoustic guitar and vocals recorded one day in the Fall of 2003 in Kalamazoo while I was mixing/tracking other records.
Collection on Desktops
Folksongs by Mike Vasas
November, 2003
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01. It Aint Your Business
02. The Tale of a Woman Knitting a Skirt
03. I’m the One
04. This is The Feeling
05. New York Times
06. Father America Blues
07. Crashing Down
08. Let’s Go For a Ride
09. True Love
10. Hand Made Paper
11. Gratuitous
12. Amanda
This record should have been released about 9 months earlier but Vince Perri and myself couldn’t let it go…it finally came out with a tiny bit of fanfare…mostly because everyone on Kalamazoo’s campus was forced to listen to me play these songs…Tom Wilson, Vince Perri and Amanda Bechtel sang backup.
Bad Luck
Mike Vasas
May, 2003
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01. My Door
02. Vampire Seeking Female
03. A College Saturday Night
04. A Marble Fountain
05. Be Prepared For Anything
06. Pop At Its Best
07. Basically Trying
08. Watch The Lovers Dance
09. Lovedune
10. The Rise and The Fall of The Audience
11. In The Sky (Not Yours Anymore)
12. Everything’s Fine in Kalamazoo
13. To Patricia From Phillip
Mr. Fusion was my first rock band…we played two shows in the same day and rehearsed just about as much…featuring some guitar playing by future Beast of Burden Brian Slagle, bass by Kristian Bjornard, and drums by the great Will Miller. I covered Bob Dyland and Wyclef Jean, too.
A College Saturday Night
Mr. Fusion with Mike Vasas
November, 2002
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01. Gratutitous
02. Flags Everywhere
03. A Marble Fountain
04. True Love
05. Gone ‘Til November
06. Everything’s Fine in Kalamazoo
07. Lovedune
08. My Door
09. If You Wanna Be a Sunflower
10. Pop At Its Best
11. Drowning of Aaron Corpis
12. Leopard-Skin Pill Box Hat
13. In The Sky
14. The Lessons We Have Learned
15. Vampire Seeking Female
16. Be Prepared for Anything
17. A College Saturday Night
Dave Poytinger and I were two RAs in Crissey Hall at Kalamazoo College in 2001-2002 and felt that the world (but specifically K-College) was in a funk and needed songs about vampires, armadillos, bears, mice, hamsters, news reporters, flower people and incest to get the good vibes pumping.
Chris Jackson recorded the album, and then I mastered it and assembled it on two CDs. It was our last show for the year and we intended to end it with a bang. We had advertised for weeks. Street chalking, stickers, and flyers that included us and the president of the school, Jim Jones. We sent personal invitations to faculty.
Listening to it now, it’s great to think we had as wonderful of a time performing as it seemed the audience did listening and singing along. We were like two brothers messing around in front of our parents on “performance night” at home. There was no malice in our performance, no rage, no witty smug indie pessimism. It was upbeat. I miss that. Throughout this recording you can hear us laughing at some of the situations we’d gotten ourselves into. I miss these shows and having fun with Dave. Maybe we’ll do it again soon!
Mike And Dave: Live and Acoustic
David Poytinger and Mike Vasas
May, 2002
Based on Ray Bradury’s 1953 novel, the album was a co-production between my long-time collaborator Matt Mepham and myself. It was delayed a few weeks because of the 9-11 attacks. Possibly the only record to be previewed at an IMAX theater. Certainly not the only progressive rock record to feature a fairly lengthy final track. Tom Wilson guests as the voice of Guy Montag.
451
Matt Mepham and Mike Vasas
September, 2001
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01. Tomorrow?
02. Burn
03. Goodnight
04. Clarisse
05. Jet Plane
06. Match
07. Changing Face
08. Turning Point
09. Doctor
10. My House
11. The Chase
12. Transients
13. War in an Instant
14. 451
An instrumental record that I guess you could call Rompler Synth music. It was made basically with a Roland XP-10, Fruity Loops, and the de-stress time from mixing 451.
July Songs
Mike Vasas
September, 2001
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01. Sunrise
02. Rollout
03. In The Routine
04. Again
05. Hands In The Air
06. Return (Telephone)
07. Sunset
My first solo record, released in January of 2001, this record featured a lot of material right around the time of the “Pendulum” years…still in high school. This record marked the first of many records where the recording process was assisted by Mr. Vince Perri.
The Lessons We Have Learned
Mike Vasas
January, 2001
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01. The Lessons We Have Learned
02. Grandiose Blues
03. Magic Girl
04. What You Were Expecting
05. Ballad 98123
06. Return to Wonderland
07. One Song
08. Greatest Thing
09. Answering Machine
10. Military Action
11. Footsteps
12. Arbeit Macht Frei
13. News Reporters
14. Advances in Humanity
15. The Drowning of Aaron Corpis
16. 3 Cheers for Modern Music
17. As You Go
All the tracks were recorded on a Gateway 2000 that was old, even at the time. It had 1.2 gigs of hard drive space, which included all operating files. We ended up having about 600 megs of space to work with. Because we wanted to save space (and we didn’t know any better), we recorded all this stuff at 22khz as opposed to the 44.1 khz ( CD standard). This meant the quality was awful! As inexperienced 16-17 year olds, Matt and I thought it was awesome. Ready for radio.
A lot of the material was written when I was 15 and 16…a creative document of a time in my life. Anybody can listen to these records and be escorted back to the time of grunge and immature radio angst. But we did these records our selves. Engineered, performed, burned the CDs, designed and printed labels and inserts. At the time, kids in high school were pretty impressed…we were right at the front end of D-I-Y.
The 6-Track EP
Pendulum
March, 1999
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Alice in Wonderland: The Official Theatrical Score
Matt Mepham and Mike Vasas
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Pendulum
December, 1999
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