Jeremy & I moved to New York around the same time in 2010.
I was so excited when I found out he was moving from Atlanta to the big pineapple. Jeremy worked on the 2nd Gasoline Heart album "Nostalgia aint what it used to be"
He recorded my vocals and handled some of the tracking on that album but when we ended up living in the same city he was like "dude we gotta do a real record"
We ended up making a real record. We did the album "Thanks for everything"
This was a true Gasoline Heart record.
Recorded live
no click
no bells and whistles
we left everything in
full band yada yada
if the guitar was hitting the wrong note "thats the take"
If my face wasn't turning RED "thats not the take"

We released the album and....nothing happened
I think I got drunk and released it for free while on tour in Ohio
Ive never been much of a business man when it comes to music.
I wanna make it, I want to perform it but selling it
i just don't know how to do it.

I probably fucked that album over
after a few tours the band finally started to fizzle out
so many line up changes
Ive been in bands since 1996
always had some sort of album in the works or a tour
(Dear Ephesus, Tenderfoot,The Kick)
I officially retired in 2005

No more music

then in 2006 Gasoline Heart started
am I rambling? Yes I am rambling
it all comes back to me in waves

Allergic to wood
what even is this album?
ill move forward
stop distracting me

Where was I?
Band fizzled
drunkenly released the album
did tons of solo tours
accidentally found my niche and started a moving company
its not that long of a story

Jeremy was moving from Bushwick to Clinton Hill over here in Brooklyn.
"Hey Lou if you move me....ill record a few songs for you as a trade but not a band thing just me and you"

I thought that kinda sounds fun
I moved Jeremy, I pretend the move is much harder then it really is because Hell he's giving me free studio time

We recorded 3 songs
Love let me go
Life Ain't My fate
Three friends

I think we did it in one day? maybe two
it was really fun playing bass
I love playing bass

I think it was 2011 when we started
Jeremy moved a few more times
i kept earning more studio time
until he decided to move to Florida

I was crushed
one of my best friends in town
is heading back to the sunshine state
who else am I gonna go get Gin & tonics with at Pine Box
who else am I gonna play corn hole with?
Jeremy was my guy
so bummed he's leaving town

He starts a studio
I end up having twins
he ends up having a kid
life's moving

We text often

One days he's like
"Lou, we never finished that record"

Fuck it

I have no songs but lets do it
I head out to Printup's studio (2017)
the new digs
salvaged up a few songs
scored a sketchy air b n b
Id love to brag about how we went to work
but we really didn't
unless he's just that fucking good and makes work not seem like work
or maybe the album is total trash and you can tell that for the most part we were talking about Star Wars, drinking Gin & watching clips of Boogie Nights on You Tube.

It weird
when I went out there
i was really hoping the session would suck
ya know I played music for a shit ton of years
had a little bit of success but not much
I'm not one of those bitter dudes
i had a lot of fun and did everything I could
ok off track
when we started recording I was like

"shit....I'm still kinda good at this"

now I'm 43
I cant really imagine going on tour again
playing to 20 people
doors at midnight
covered in tequila and bar food
maybe sneak a few cigs
sounds terrible huh?

Now I'm getting ancy
Juices are flowing

"Allergic to wood"
took forever to make
but not really

I dig it
i hope you do to

It was really hard to call this a Gasoline Heart record since its just me and Jer with a little help from a few friends (John Ralston & Brian Murphy)

I got the blessing from the other members (theres so many of them but the most important one is obviously John Fortson)
so I went with it
Gasoline Heart it is...
the only stipulation was that we get the original band together to do something....

So get ready for another Gasoline Heart record this summer
two in one year?
stupid right?
its actually already recorded

fuck it!

Any and all money we make from this will go straight into recording or maybe a few shows. I can not do the Kickstarter thing
I am sorry
I just cant

prove me wrong
buy a shit ton of these
or prove me right that only a few people really remember

Later dudes

-Lou