New Music from Seattle......The Walking Papers

Today I'm going to switch

things up a bit and talk about
some of the NEW music coming out of Seattle.

Today I'm going to share a bit about

The Walking Papers

There really is a lot of evolved music

STILL

coming out of Seattle...

I have to admit the first time I heard of

The Walking Papers was a few months ago.

Funny enough it was on Xana LaFuente's

website.

(our dearly departed Andrew Wood's fiance)

Then I started hearing more buzz about

them through other 10C fans.

When I finally pulled them up

I was pleasantly surprised.

They have been referred to as a 

"Supergroup"

The funny thing to me however is no one

made mention of the fact that

pretty much all of the band members are 

VERY well seasoned and well known musicians.

The chatter was just that they were this great new band...

not like they were trying to ride on

their past.

The fans seemed to not care about

where in musical history they came from.

Just that they were amazing and refreshing. 

Line up includes-

 Jeff Angell – lead vocals, guitar, piano

Duff McKagan – bass, backing vocals

Benjamin Anderson – keyboards, backing vocals

Barrett Martin – drums, percussion, upright bass, keyboards, backing vocals

Former members of great bands like

 Gun's and Roses

The Missionary Position

and

Screaming Trees

Mike McCready of Pearl Jam even made some contributions 

to the album.

Their album was mixed by Seattle legend Jack Endino

 and released in Oct. 2012

They recently played at great show at

Easy Street Records

alas - something was going

on with the mic and you really can't

hear the vocals much.

It was a great live performance though.

I decided instead to pull two songs to

show what I think represent the range

of 

The Walking Papers

The first I don't think you will expect from

a band with the members you just read.

It's haunting , beautiful, and a bit twisted ...

"The Butcher "

and now we will rock out

to

"The Whole World is Watching"

Pretty cool huh?

Not what you were expecting was it?!

Thanks to all the great bees who have been buzzing

about 

The Walking Papers!

P.S. - Just in case you did not know-

Duff McKagan is Seattle born and bred.

I'm going to get into a little bit of Duff's
 mad musical circles
from when he was a teenager
a little later on.

Have a Rockin' Monday guys!