'DUST OFF THE RACKS' (2024 Mix) is now on Bandcamp!

AVAILABLE FROM BARELY THERE STUDIO!

REDACTED FROM MEMORY, Vol. 2 [Coming 27 DEC from Barely There Studio]

Smash Addams Music 

PRESENTS

 REDACTED FROM MEMORY, vol, II

coming 27 DEC 2024

4 discs of previously unreleased remastered songs

57 tracks

DISC 1 - Absolute Resolution---

01. ...OFF THE WRIST 02:46

02. LIVE ABOVE HELL 02:28

03. SELF PORTRAIT 02:05

04. NON-SEQUITURS 02:51

05. WHEN YOU START TO LOSE FEELIN' 02:03

06. BURIED (Can You Hear) 01:53

07. JUST LIKE THE OTHERS 04:38

08. DEFENCES 04:27

09. MOLLY MY DEAR 04:16

10. OH PLEASE (What Did I Do) 05:14

11. I MISS THE LIGHT 03:17

12. SAD LAZARUS 06:00

13. THERE'S A STAR FOR YOU 04:54

DISC 2 - HAZEL 3:19*------------------

01 Forever in Your Eyes (2024 mix)+

02 Left to Destroy (2024 mix)+ [with LUCY DAWN]

03 Pull Me Through (2024 mix)+

04 Your Tears Ain't Enough (band version / 2024 mix)+

05 Words Unspoken [with LUCY DAWN]

06 Dime Store Hoods & Tirades (2024 mix)+

07 To See You (2021 mix) [with LUCY DAWN]

08 Playing God [with LUCY DAWN]

09 Late and Alone

10 Hazel 3:19+

DISC 3 - Revelations*--------------------

01 Settle Down [MANICS]

02 Meet Me Halfway (alt mix) [MANICS]

03 We Don't Live Here Anymore (piano / 2024 mix)+

04 I'm Not Down (band version / 2024 mix)+

05 Standing in the Rain (2024 mix)+

06 More Than That (2018 mix)

07 Doin' Myself In

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08 Never Apart (2024 mix)+ [STRANGE PARALLEL]

09 Make Believe (2024 mix)+

10 I Got Darkness

11 Giving Up on Someone

12 Nothing Means More to Me (Than You)

13 Revelation (2024 mix)+ [w/ LUCY DAWN]

14 Lucky Me (Live at The Redstone Room, 2011) [w/ LUCY DAWN]

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15 Maybe It's Me, Maybe It's You

16 Circumstances That Apply (2024 mix)+

17 Something to Live For (2024 mix)+

18 Drugstore Valentine

19 I Want to Show You (2024 Mix)+ [MANICS]

20 Light in the Sky

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DISC 4 - Goodnight and Goodluck*------------

01 What We're Fighting For

02 Living on A Shoestring [with LUCY DAWN]

03 Burn Memo (Lancer's Theme)

04 SHARTMKR

05 Pink Clouds Turn Grey [DEAD SEA SCRAWLS]

06 Groom Lake

07 Damage I've Done

08 Sometimes Nothing Lasts Forever [with LUCY DAWN]

09 Our Better Angles

10 Fortunate One?

11 Love Turns to Hate [with LUCY DAWN]

12 Everyone Inside of Me is Dead

13 Goodnight and Goodluck [DEAD SEA SCRAWLS]

14 Sweet Dreams (acoustic)

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[* = newly constructed album]

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Produced by Adam Gaither for BARELY THERE STUDIO, 2024

"What Would Neil Young Do?"

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'ALONE, TOGETHER' by Smash Addams and Lucy Dawn (Releases 20.09.2024)

                                                     PRE:ORDER HERE: 

IN ANOTHER PLACE / UNFORTUNATE WORLD / END SCENE / CURTAINS DRAWN AGAINST THE WORLD / WHAT IS WORSE? / STITCHES / SWEET DREAMS / IT WON'T BE LONG / TAKE THE WORLD FROM ME / REMAINS OF THE DAY / STAY / NOTHING IS REVEALED

Collections of songs written and produced by Smash Addams and Lucy Dawn alone and together between 2011-13. Remastered for 2024 by A.G.

RELEASES 20 SEPTEMBER 2024 on all formats from Barely There Studio.

"Curtains Drawn Against the World"; "In Another Place", "Remains of the Day", "Stay", and "Unfortunate World"

(written by Adam and Lucy Gaither, ©2011; ©2013 BARELY THERE STUDIO)

"Stitches"; "It Won't Be Long", "Take the World From Me"; "What is Worse?", and "End Scene"

(written by Lucy Gaither, ©2011; ©2012; ©2013 BARELY THERE STUDIO)

"Sweet Dreams" and "Nothing is Revealed"

(written by Adam Gaither, ©2012 BARELY THERE STUDIO)

In Memoriam of Smash Addams (2004-2024)

 The singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist that called himself Smash Addams (other people have called him 'the worst', a 'vindictive narcissist', and 'probably my favourite asshole') has LEFT THE BUILDING. During his time, he felt a lot shit and wrote it down and sang it in hopes that just maybe the person he wrote it for would someday hear and hopefully NOT take it as a passive-aggressive dig, hahaha. Your results may vary! He was also sometimes known to be a problem drinker or Scottish-American haberdasher.

He was first inspired to join a band in junior high with some older 'cool guys' that played across the street. Barely knowing two songs on a bass-guitar he got---he somehow 'made it work' without having his own amplifier! Though this group never really wrote any proper songs, it did give rise to AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL. One of the most little known mythical first NIRVANA cover bands with a singing drummer! There was also something about PHANTOM 309. I heard the guy that used to conduct that 'freight carrier' before he got dropped on his head one drunken night by his fellow constituents. He is now a stay-at-home-Politician. Lateral moves, fellas. 

"I never really had a career except for being the inspiration for 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon'. Yeah, that was actually ME....only I've never met Kevin Bacon. I'm sure he's a great fuckin' guy." - Smash Addams (a quote) 

There was a band called MANICS that was a big inspiration to him from Memphis a long time ago. Some of those guys went on to be in cooler bands with Tyler Keith, Redondo Beat, Johnny Valiant, etc. 

"I never felt I had the chops to be comfortable enough on stage to hang with those guys--but I sure tried anyway, haha. Ironically, I never drank or smoked anything before going on because I was so uptight about my voice...geez, later on it was my autistic guitar solos, hahaha. Stage fright just was always there no matter how 'cool' I make it look, hahaha. Did I mention, I joke a lot? I eventually learned to play proper guitar and even the drums, before I died." 

Better late than never, I guess.

STRANGE PARALLEL (an alt-rock-soul quartet from 2007-2010) introduced the world to LUCY DAWN. The love of his life and the woman that probably saved him from his self, am I right?  I do hope you pay attention to the new music she's got under construction. There's another StarsNeverSleep album under construction which features Smash Addams's last completed work, including two last songs "Can We Still Be Heroes?" and "I Need Her Love to Get By"---the latter song will be on the next single by the band. 

Smash Addams announced he was finishing out his 'life's work' with his 23rd album, 'DUST OFF THE RACKS' in Sept. 2023. His music is available on the streaming services, BandCamp, and Soundcloud. We hope you remember him for the good stuff (*and fuck what ya heard*). 

The family asks that you do nothing and pretend this never ever happened. Smash Addams wanted to thank the following people for their support, inspiration and kindness over the years:

My mother and father.

My wife and children.

My sons, Calvin, Crosby and Hobbes.

My cousin; my old bandmates (that weren't mediocre and you know who you were*); every person that ever said I couldn't do anything I put my mind to---thanks for making me prove you all wrong.

"And I want to forgive everyone that has wronged me. Especially the ONES I let in and they didn't know that I knew what they did to me. Well, I DID. And I always have. The memory of Smash Addams lives on and there's no amount of Control Alt Delete to erase what already is / was / and cannot be changed. Some numbers are just infinite. If you don't know your fractions, I'm already ahead of you." 

We thank you for your support and hope you remember what it was and how it was always supposed to be---but "I love youuuu, even if you don't..."  

Time of departure:

5:00 am 7 AUG 2024

" A variant of Niall, the name O'neal translates to "champion" in Irish, and, with any luck, it'll be baby's best-kept secret to success."

SMASH ADDAMS on Spotify!

LATEST ALBUM by my other musical project with my wife, LUCY DAWN

LUCY DAWN, 'Lost Thoughts in Every Direction' [re-imagined LP]

Newly remastered tracks from the original 2016 album 'WRONG IN EVERY DIRECTION' with selections from the 2017 album, 'LOST THOUGHTS'; plus the 2021 single, "Step One" (featuring drums by Uncle Pain). Written, produced, engineered and mixed by Lucy Dawn.

SMASH ADDAMS '24

 

20TH ANNIVERSARY

Compilation of tracks recorded between 2004 and 2020 / Remastered in 2024

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01 - All That's Golden is Gone
02 - Lonely Nights Multiplied by the Blues  [STRANGE PARALLEL]
(bass - Michael Grant / drums - P.J. Gosa)  Recorded circa 2008 live to 8-track with ODs / Previously released by Quantum Records-US on the 2009 E.P., Music of the Gods 

03 - Golden Frown   Recorded circa 2008 with ODs added in late 2011 / Previously released on the 2015 compilation 25 Songs Redacted From Memory

04 - We Don't Live Here Anymore
(bgv - Lita Williams / engineer - Leo Goff, III / Rec. Nov. 2004 at Nu-Star Studio, Memphis, TN) Taken from the 2020 album Sitcom Formula

05 - Whatever You Want*
(drums - Uncle PAIN / rhythm guitar - Tom Allen / bass, engineer - Evan Murphy / Rec. 2006 at County Line Studio, North MS; OD by Uncle PAIN, 2021)

06 - Formula (Cry on Command)  Recorded late 2008 / Previously released on 2009 album, Brilliantly Deranged

07 - Afraid of What I Don't See*
(bass, tambourine, bgv - Lucy Dawn)  Recorded to 8-track circa 2014

08 - I Lied  Recorded circa 2007 / Previously released on the 2008 album, Detriment

09 - Drink Myself to Sleep* [MANICS]
(bass, lead guitar - V.T. / drums - Matt Tamke)  Recorded circa 2010 live to 8-track with ODs

10 - 5th Beetle at The Last Supper Recorded summer 2018 / Previously released on Zero Chance Left For the Infinite Room

11 - Sure Enough [THE BLAYLOCKS]
(drums, outro guitar, engineer - Bill Komulainen / Rec. 2005 at stableunelement, Memphis, TN) Taken from the 2007 album Leaving It All Behind

12 - Pretty Please Kill Me  Recorded early 2020 / Previously released on ¡ALRIGHT, ALREADY!

13 - Look on the Bright Side, Suicide  Recorded to 4-track, fall 2006 / Previously released on the 2020 compilation, The Low-Down 4-Track Sounds

14 - It's True*
(drums - Uncle PAIN / rhythm guitar - Tom Allen / engineer - Evan Murphy / Rec. 2006 at County Line Studio, North MS; OD by Uncle PAIN, 2021)

15 - Since I Found You [MANICS]
(drums, guitar, bass - V.T.)  Recorded live to 8-track with ODS, circa 2010 / Taken from Correcting the Manics

16 - Do You Feel the Same Way? [THE CREDENTIALS]
(bgv, organ, 2nd bass - Lucy Dawn)  Recorded late 2012 / Taken from the 2015 compilation, You Can't Prove That

17 - Oh Well [STRANGE PARALLEL]
(drums - Ken Savage / acoustic guitar - Cliff Haskins / bgv - Lucy Dawn)  Recorded live to 8-track with ODs, circa 2010 / Taken from the 2015 compilation, 25 Songs Redacted From Memory

18 - Sunday Morning is Getting Harder to Find  Recorded circa 2007 / Taken from the 2008 album, Detriment

19 - Anything, Anymore [THE BLAYLOCKS]
(electric guitar solo, engineer - Bill Komulainen / harmony - Annie Freres / Rec. 2005 at stableunelement, Memphis, TN) Taken from the 2020 album, Sitcom Formula

20 - I Found Out About You [MANICS]
(lead guitar, bass - V.T. / drums - Matt Tamke)  Recorded live to 8-track with ODS, circa 2010 / Taken from Correcting the Manics

21 - I Don't Need to Be Saved [THE PAINTERS, live on WREG, 2014]
(bass, bgv - Lucy Dawn / lead guitar - Wyn Dawson / drums - Vince McLemore / Rec. at WREG-TV, Memphis, TN)   Taken from the 2020 album, Sitcom Formula

22 - Waiting
(keys, bgv - Lucy Dawn) Recorded early 2020 / Previously released on ¡ALRIGHT, ALREADY!

credits

released March 1, 2024

Produced by Adam Gaither
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All songs ©2024 SMASH ADDAMS MUSIC