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Eric Jerardi gets accidental album
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By Don Thrasher,
Contributing Writer
5:04 PM Thursday, February 25, 2010
Most bands spend countless hours fretting over the completion of a new album, and Eric Jerardi has experienced that himself. However, the smoking new live CD, “Waukesha Blues Festival 2009,” was a pleasant but unexpected surprise for the local blues rocker.
“When you go in the studio you have to be on,” said manager Allen Farst, who has worked with Jerardi since 1996. “When the red light goes on it’s time to record and you have to magically cut something. This was special because it wasn’t like, ‘Dude, this is it. We have to play our best.’ They had been recording a lot of shows, so they knew it was being recorded, but there was no pressure.”
Drummer Joe Prescott had been recording the trio’s shows with his portable digital recorder for archival purposes. On the ride back from Wisconsin, Jerardi, Prescott and bass player Jon Arnold listened to the recording and discovered they had stumbled upon an accidental album.
“Sonically, it’s not the greatest recording, but Al and I decided to release it was because it captured the performance and the experience of the whole thing,” Jerardi said. “It was worth a little sonic sacrifice, and quite frankly the people I’ve talked to thus far say it sounds unbelievable.”
Jerardi and his bandmates certainly played their collective tails off that day, but the album is further enhanced by the guitarist’s unusually talkative nature, which found him touching on everything from a recent run-in with his ex-wife’s brother to tales of his female stalker.
“I don’t know where that came from,” Jerardi said. “I had no idea what the hell I was talking about. The radio said the heat index was 130 degrees. We were inside a giant circus tent absorbing more heat. I had a pretty irreverent attitude, which you hear on there. I was just saying this crazy stuff.
“A lot of it was because I was trying to tune and figure out what’s going on, so I figured I might as well talk about something. I took my time because I had the crowd, and I felt like I could do anything I wanted.”
Jerardi celebrates the release of the new CD at Oregon Express on Friday, Feb. 26.
“This album is a snapshot of the band on that day, and it’s me being about as bluesy as I can stand,” he said. “If you want to know what I’ve been doing for the last three or so years, this is it.”
Contact contributing arts and music writer Don Thrasher at donaldthrasher8@aol.com.
How to go
Who: Eric Jerardi Band
Where: Oregon Express, 336 E. Fifth St., Dayton
When: 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26
Cost: $5
More info: (937) 223-9205 or www.myspace.com/oregonexpress
Artist info: www.ericjerardi.com.
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