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Mark Oesau was one of the first friends I made after high school. I met him once in late 2008, but I got to know him better starting in September 2009, after I found out he had taped my crummy 2009 feature set at the Queen Bean open mic. A fantastic pianist, artist, photographer, producer, engineer, and good egg to boot that knew a lot of people, which helped me open up gradually! Recognizing his ability with the piano, though, I tapped him for playing keyboards in the 2010 version of the Dan Vallerand Band, best known as Pocket Lint Persuasion. I have a strong feeling I nicked the title off of a Homestar Runner reference, but I just can't remember which cartoon has it.

PLP played a handful of shows and open mics in the summer of 2010, and by the end of it, Mark and Randy Franco, famed Riverbank drummer who's sat in for many local bands (including PLP) since the early 2000s, had begun jamming on their own more regularly and forming the nucleus of what would eventually become Myosin. PLP died as Myosin became a reality, with their buddy Kyle Penrose being brought in as guitarist/vocalist; they also got Casey Nevels in on it too for a brief period of time - namely this period. The Kyle-led "Spaceman" would become their debut single along with Mark's "Charges", the latter song having been demoed and worked off and on during the year, but the former wowed me immensely the first time I heard it! It was so aptly spacey and hooky that it stayed on my MP3 player for weeks! Still does, really.

As fate would have it, Kyle left the group in early 2011 to focus more on his electronic works, and eventually Jeff Goodman was brought in, himself having been also awed by "Spaceman" - especially and specifically by the bridge part, cuz I remember talking with him about that! The Jeff-version of the band went on to release another single and a full album, eventually growing to include Leonard Bowlin and his frontman sax powers, and eventually dissipated by 2013 due to various reasons. It was always "Spaceman", though, that I thought was mondo rad, and I asked Kyle if I could cover it sometime in '14. He shot me the chords and hey presto! This one was definitely the most complicated to mix... there are two seperate sections to it, the intro, and everything else. Like "Tell Me" from the previous installment, this is probably the most faithful-sounding arrangement because of the original piece's complexity.

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from Ready Or Not, Oh Brother Spaceman​.​.​. I'm Sorry the Cat Hates You, I'm Sorry We Hate Each Other, And I'm Sorry We Hate Ourselves, released January 17, 2017
Written by Kyle Penrose, Mark Oesau, Randy Franco, and Casey Nevels. Instruments used: Montana acoustic guitar, Yamaha bass, electric drumset using a prerecorded beat, keyboards, Ibanez electric guitar, Fender Modern Player Jaguar. Basic tracks recorded at the end of June 2014, touchups and mix finished all within the span of January 16th 2017.

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