Anchovies - The Party (21 December 1989)

  1. Chatter (1) [2:24] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21
  2. Anchovy Rock (2) [3:13] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21
  3. Chatter (2) [2:12] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21
  4. Fish Time (1) [4:39] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21
  5. Chatter (3) [0:43] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21
  6. How Ya Is'n (1) [4:42] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21
  7. Chatter (4) [1:05] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21
  8. All Blues (1) [4:12] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21
  9. Chatter (5) [0:44] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21
  10. Canon (1) [4:31] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21
  11. Chatter (6) [0:17] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21
  12. Christmas in Cancun (1) [5:28] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21
  13. Chatter (7) [0:51] 1989-12-21 - 1989-12-21

After six months of pizza, patience, and practice, the Master Anchovies were finally ready to start playing for other people. We barraged our families, friends, and parties with the "interesting" sounds of our jazz/rock group.

Yes, that's right, we actually played some parties. We recorded the second one with Jon's 4-track.

I'm not sure who played drums for each song. Anand and Allen used to rotate. I don't know what they did while the other was playing. So anyway, I'm having to guess as to the instrumentation.

There were about 10-20 people in the room. This was the biggest audience we ever had. In fact, except for the first party it was the only audience we ever had.

We had hopes of someday playing Battle of the Bands. These parties were supposed to be our warm-up.

We recorded with Jon's 4-track. We used one mic (and no direct inputs) to preserve the "live" feel. When Jon copied the recording onto tape, he accidentally set the 4-track's speed slower than it was during the concert, so I had to speed it back up later. The sound quality isn't very good, but this is as close as it comes to sounding like you're in the same room as us. What a priviledge!