Dan Murphy new album 2021

[SoulPuppy]

Hey, guys. I know it's old news but I don't know why Dan left SA. Can someone fill me in?

[EyeSeeYou]

Hey, guys. I know it's old news but I don't know why Dan left SA. Can someone fill me in?

He was sick and tired of the way the music biz is nowadays. I'd assume he refered to how listeners now don't appreaciate albums, they prefer scattered songs instead; piracy also impacting bands' economies in such a way that they can't live of records sales but rather from endlessly touring or selling merch.

[EyeSeeYou]

Has anyone heard his new work?

[EyeSeeYou]

From this interview, Dave and Dan don't seem to be on good terms:

https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/sou ... versation/

[EyeSeeYou]

Full Length LP “Hope’s Eternal”
Dropping on 3/24/23

[Closer]

From this interview, Dave and Dan don't seem to be on good terms:

https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/sou ... versation/

That's too bad.

[Closer]

Hey, guys. I know it's old news but I don't know why Dan left SA. Can someone fill me in?

Don't know if this was posted before, but this is an interesting and candid interview with Dan where he talks about the band and why he left.

https://www.furious.com/perfect/soulasy ... rview.html

https://www.furious.com/perfect/soulasy ... view2.html


PSF: What ultimately caused your departure?

DM: I wasn't happy with the records we were making, and I didn't connect with Dave anymore. I kind of felt like... I can be really candid. This is weird, but I remember we were recording the last record I played, and I can't remember the name of it. It's called...


PSF: Delayed Reaction (429).

DM: Yeah, yeah, okay, so I played on that. And everybody at that point, Tommy [Stinson, bassist, also of The Replacements] had his own studio. He was doing stuff in Philadelphia. Dave had a place in New Orleans. I was going to this place in Minneapolis, and Michael was kind of... you know, so everybody was playing their own parts. Mailing this shit around, MP3 files, I was like, "Holy shit." So I was in the studio trying to make sense of a song that I really love, called "By the Way," which actually came out okay on the record.

I was trying to struggle with us, and there was like 58 or 72 tracks of shit that everybody recorded, not listening to what anybody else had played. Like Tommy said, "Oh, I didn't even have your guitar line when I was playing bass." I was like, "Well that fucking note Rob, it doesn't work at all." You know, I said to the engineer, "What happens if you put on all 70 tracks of this shit at the same time?" And it sounded like fucking Captain Beefheart on crack, it was so bad. I was like, "I can't do this."

The thing I loved about being in a band is having some kind of ensemble feel. You react to what happens in the room. That's what I loved about Golden Smog. You don't have a super set... you know the chord changes, but someone might come in, "Hey, we got a piano player," like someone was going to play this, and he plays stuff that's beautiful. As a guitar player you say, "Oh God, I could fucking do this on that," and then you get this whole ensemble feel.

In that era of solo town, it was just like, everybody just was like, "Oh, I'll just cut the bass in my studio," and no one was even in the same room. I was like, "This is not a record, don't even put my name on it." I wasn't into it at all. It's really... kind of like a non-circular way to make a record.

Yeah but for me, I was like, having the engineer put on what everybody thought would be a good thing to put on this track at the same time. When you put it on, there was no direction, there was no... there was not anything to be proud of. I was like, "Wow, that hurts," you know?

But I just think that ship lost its rudder, and it just got to be really shit show. I don't know. I haven't talked to Dave in a really long time. I think he's an amazingly talented person, and he was really charismatic, but I don't think he was a very good advocate of his talents, and his contribution to music. I think he kind of gets portrayed as someone that's kind of off the fucking hook, because he is, and that's sad. Maybe he's a real original. Maybe he's a real... I don't know. But it's frustrating after a while, for me to just be around someone that's unhinged that much of the time, and that sad, and that angry. It's just like, "fucking A, man. You had it all. Why so blue?"

[EyeSeeYou]

Thanks for sharin'.

The very last paragraph you posted had me a bit baffled. What was he actually referring to?

[Closer]

Thanks for sharin'.

The very last paragraph you posted had me a bit baffled. What was he actually referring to?

I think he is just giving his opinion about Dave and that he didn't like him being so unhinged.