A WORD FROM TIM MCDERMOTT

Hello, ladies and gentlemen...

Tim here. I just felt that you people would be the most interested group in this new project.

ANNOUNCING! The 50 O' Clock Anthology Double CD!!!

No, you're not dyslexic. You read that right. Jim and I are going to distribute a limited edition double CD of our very very old band 50 O' Clock. Here's our official biography:

Jim and I officially began recording in 1996. We were both friends for, like, ever, and when I recieved a guitar for Christmas and Jim revealed that he was a whiz and playing drums, we began recording things like "Secret Agent Man". You know, things which require little to no talent. We used his karoke machine.

As I progressed at guitar, and Jim somewhat figured out how to use his reel-to-reel four-track recorder, we started thinking of forming a band. We recruited one of our friends, J.D., to play bass for us. We began recording an EP of mostly (horrid) Beatles covers in January 1997. Sometime during March, "Live At Strawberry Fields" was released under the band name "The Beards". It featured the perennial favorite, and our big hit song, "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?", and the favorite among our peers, "Listerine", parody of the Bush song "Glycerine". We made about 20 copies of it, all of which quickly disappeared into the hands of our friends. Demand was so great that we, ourselves, don't have copies of it. We don't even know the correct tracklist.

Listening to the album now, it still amazes us that people wanted copies of it. It sounds bad. Really bad.

We decided to start recording a new album in 1998. Still working on mainly Beatles covers, we broadened our horizons by experimenting with backwards sounds, guitar solos, and using more of my ever-cracking voice. We also changed our name from The Beards to 50 O' Clock, an unfunny inside joke. This period also was a turning point for the band. We kicked J.D. out of the band for reasons beyond our control, and began using a more compact, regular audio tape four-track recorder. Jim embarked on writing original material while I struggled to perfect my unique, puberty-stricken vocal stylings.

Once we figured out how to use the new recorder, things got really intense. We went into a recording frenzy, recording at least 3 songs every weekend. We spent many Fridays and Saturdays recoding all day, sometimes until 11 at night, drank many root beers, ate lots of pretzels, and went through many band names. More than I can type here. Although we recorded so many songs, a second EP of this material was never released, and the songs soon disappeared into obscurity and somewhere in Jim's front room.

It was during this time I met Garrett Gilchrist. Garrett owns a huge-ass Monty Python website(http://www.pythonet.org). That is how I met him. As we got to know each other better, he told me about a small public access TV show he makes. I told him I had a band. We exchanged tapes of things we've done, and when Garrett said he really liked what we sounded like, God knows why, he decided to use our music in his show. This was like starring in a Hollywood movie for us. We had a fan! A fan who used our music in a show that other people we didn't even know watched! By this time, Jim and I had put recording new things on the backburner. It almost seemed like 50 O' Clock was dead, and it's soul was only alive on a pubic access show. What the hell am I talking about?

Then came a revelation. Jim bought a DIGITAL four-track recorder. This was the raddest thing we had ever seen. Now, if we ever started recording again, we would have professionally-sounding recordings. No hiss. We could also record as many instruments as we wanted because we could condense three tracks into two with losing quality. I consider this period the point where 50 O' Clock became legit. Garrett began giving us assignments to make background music for his movies, each with a unique twist. Much of these recordings can be downloaded at Garrett's page he made for us(http://www.pythonet.org/fred2/50oclock.html).

High school. Jim and I were barely in any classes together. The only time we'd see each other would be at lunch and maybe after school. We both formed different bands, without each other. The only time we ever recorded together was when Garrett asked us to. 50 O' Clock seemed to be just a side project. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I really can't see 50 O' Clock ever performing live, since it's been Jim and me for so long. It probably just wouldn't work with more people.

That pretty brings us up to now. We're both in different bands, and still occaisionally record when Garrett summons us. Recently, we recorded a Bonzo Dog Band cover of "Equestrian Statue" for Garrett's latest move-in-production, "Excaliburger". We have to record it again since, according to Garrett, it's "not medieval enough".

So, now that you know our hystory, be sure to check out The 50 O' Clock Anthology when it's made avalible. Trust me, it'll be well-worth the money. Chock-full of ravishingly mediocre Beatles covers, hilarious outtakes, and (probably) 900+ non-sequiturs, inside running jokes, and ramblings from Jim, Tim(me), J.D., and everyone else who has ever been with us during recording. When this double CD is made avalible, you will all recieve a notice. If you know anyone who might be interested in this, tell them about it!! Thank you very much, for reading this, and stay cool.

Tim
50 O' Clock vocalist/guitarist/pianist since 1996



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