Tryptophan Music

Here we are with The Post Modern Folk Revolution, The Headlocks, Jaklyn Shaw, and Drew Wilkes playing out Halloween tribute to Pink Floyd. Here is a recording of the show, its a little lo-fi, but you know that already. Good times! http://www.divshare.com/playlist/429319-9d4 or [flickr album=72157608372479473 num=50]

Pay special attention to this one, it was mixed by our good buddy Alex Armitage, and it one of our better live recordings. The first tune is with our good pal David Selitto. This is a full multitrack recording and we play pretty good. Check it out! SPECIAL BONUS: Here is The Headlocks set from the show too!

On 9/27/2008, we played at Martini Red. 2 days later the stock market did in fact meltdown. A week after that, the Red was temporarily closed for alcohol sales, waiting for a renewed license...thanks for the memories! Photos By Ivy Mike

On 8/31/2008 bestinshowradio.com and hearustalk.com streamed a party and concert from my backyard. Listen to the talk show segment right here Best In Show 8/31/2008.  Or You can watch the talk show segment here Live TV by Ustream Here is what Keith from Best In Show had to say about the show: "When we streamed the non-Rock the Harbor Church of Manlove performance from Ron's house in the spring I got an idea to do a Hear Us Talk event with a live Best in Show and musical performances featuring some of the HUT show members. I never thought it would actually go down and work but it did. Robgigs was absolutely amazing from the early part of the day to late at night. Our friend Alex spent the day in the basement with a mixing board and some margaritas making sure the bands all had a great sound. Unfortunately, the Church of Manlove video is lost forever, which is a shame because it was by far the most fun I've ever had performing. Germ and Newstyle were great and so were the re...

"The History Of Music" is going to be my virtual online boxset, drawing from my archive of old musical projects. Staring with Cannibal Overdrive seems like an easy one. Cannibal Overdrive (1992-1995) was my first band that I would play shows with. The band was founded by Mike Runner and Dan Reitz, who drafted me, and then I drafted Alex Armitage, who was a frequent musical collaborator of mine. We were joined by vocalists Rebbecca Rupp and Eileen Donlon. The music heard here was recorded by Alex, on old school 24 track 2 inch tape, my last experience with that medium. We made demo tapes which we gave out to friends or sold at "Our Music Center", the finest record shop Staten Island ever had. The individual tapes were called "Eat" 1993 (the first 4 songs here) and "Your Friends" 1994 (the rest).

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First things first: Click on the image below to visit Tim Nolan's amazing Tryptophan environment. All the images are inspired by our music, and clicking on all the various objects unlocks rewarding and time wasting content. Hours of fun and mystery! Next up we feature a page devoted to our "January EXP", a spontaneous collection of tunes we mostly made up on the spot in January 2008. Tim shot some video of some of the sessions, and warped them into the page we present here. And here are 2 more videos assembled by Tim of our original tune "Hooka Brotha Up" and our cover of Madonnas "Like A Virgin". Creepy, yet triumphant.

The members of Tryptophan lead a busy life performing live music. I have recorded and posted a number of shows at my site over on Divshare. I would like to share shows in the ol' mp3 format with ya! Here is a playlist of many of our online shows going way back!

Philly, The Butthole Surfers & DEVO http://www.flickr.com/photos/ditko/sets/72157605892299997/ Day 1 Nadine, Tanya, Kat and I went to Philly, went to restaurant "Vietnam" drank flaming drinks from bowl. Met up with Mike Bianco and bros, Mcallen and Dan from Dog and Pony, went to Electric Factory to see The Butthole Surfers with the SOR kids. Walked a million miles in each direction. Had late night WAWA hogie festival. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Butthole Surfers, live in Philly, June 2008!"] [/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Devo live in Philly, June 2008."] [/caption] Day 2 saw Nadine and I eatting a great breakfast with all kinds of quaker touches, wandering around DT in 1000 degree heat, petting baby kitties, siting thru 5000 kid bands to eventually see Devo, who were one of the tightest bands we have ever seen. Perfect! Went out for ...

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Nay Nay and Kristin Took Pix. We had a lot of tents, beer, and food. Here are some links: Nadine's Pix: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ditko/sets/72157606025241939/ Kristin's Pix (with some Martini Red action too): http://www.flickr.com/photos/saintkristin/sets/72157606014627014/

Church Of Manlove Video, "Manwich: RTH Version" We Harbor No Ill Will direct downloads I figure I would put the direct links to the mp3s in case any of you negative freaks might want to put this on you ipod or related device. I heard these on some nice speakers today, and it actually sounds fairly huge/demented. THE CHURCH OF MANLOVE http://www.divshare.com/download/4751936-cf1 THE POST MODERN FOLK REVOLUTION http://www.divshare.com/download/4751627-059 THE HUMANS http://www.divshare.com/download/4751775-348 DAVE SELITTO'S SOUND CHECK http://www.divshare.com/download/4751346-dbf

We Harbor No Ill Will The show Dave Sellitto's Sound Check Dave is very talented guitarist and songwriter. All the music you hear here is freestyle, Dave is backed up here by Steven Pepe on Piano, Frank Cavallo on drums, Rob Carey on the harp, and myself on the bass. The Post Modern Folk Revolution Sorry only half the set, listen to the pandemonium as is starts to rain! This is a great group, they were battleing rain thier whole performance, and we screwed up and did not taple the second part! The Humans The Shurtman brothers are a very hard working and tuneful duo has made many cds and performed hundreds of show, as fixture in the NYC antifolk scene. The Chruch Of Manlove The brainchild of my future bro in law, Keith Carney, The Church of Manlove is a celebration of men for men. Features Keith, Chris Shavio on bass, Nick Putpura on gte, Steve Pepe on guitar, Frank on Drums, and me on guitar. Best in Show Radio http://bestinshowradio. com/sounds/BIS06-15-08. mp3 Nadines Pix http://...

We Harbor No Ill Will preview Current mood: hopeful Well, if your prone to belive everything Terrible Tim says, he calls this the "Ill Will" party, McAllan insists the true name is "The Revenge Show". I hear people over at "Rock The Harbor" are calling it the anti-show. I have gotten some flack, some jeers, proved to the world that the SI Advance will basicly publish anything. Many people have, quietly, approached me and egged me on. Say what ever you want, go wherever you have to be.  What started as a bitter little joke to Tim Duffy has now bloomed into a full day of music, and I keep adding artists who, previous to this were all people I was buddies with or had worked on music with in the past. Everyone truly needs to understand that I really harbor no ill will for RTH, sure I was sad, but when life hands you lemons, uh, yuck I hate lemons. I like cherries in my Diet Coke, The Shirley Hemple. Here is what you need to know: All Day "DJ Russy Berry...

After finding out about the festival today from Tim and Rory's posts and doing a little digging around, it seems that you you asked everyone else in town to play your festival but Tryptophan. My feelings are very hurt. I am writing this as I need an outlet to express my pain, and as we don't really know each other, please understand this is nothing personal. When I told David Elliot (who is playing) how upset i was to have been overlooked, he said its not like you ever play. I reminded him we have done 10 or 11 shows in the past 13 months, usually fairly well attended too, and we have been on a particular creative roll lately, with the addition of the visuals of Tim Nolan and Steve Pepe's guitar work (thanks again for the piece a few months back). These guys are both genius's at what they do, and have been lending their considerable talents to the team. They see something in what we do. And because of this we are better then we have ever been. So it a real letdown to me...

I love Diet Coke from a fountain, but hate getting it in a restaurant or diner, because of the dreaded lemon slice they put in it. It ruins it. So Nadine recently suggested that I ask for a cherry instead, and lo and behold, eureka, its the best drink ever. So I have been getting my Diet Coke with a cherry, and after one night of the big comic con, Nay and I decide to go get Indian food on 6th street. I order my new favorite drink, take a few sips, and we notice some weird shit floating around the glass. I try to spoon it out, and what I spoon out is a dish strainer from the bottom of a sink, complete with hunks of spinich and rice. I get up and start screaming, and we walk out. Fortunetly, we did not eat any food. So the other day Nadine and I are out for lunch at Taste of India here on SI, with Jason and Mary, and I get my new drink. Jason and Mary are also Diet Coke drinkers and it has their interest. They put the cherries on little plastic swords at this place. I blurt out ...