Week Days, Weak Knees
recorded at Jason's Apartment, Boston, MA in Fall 2001
Released Spring 2002

Syd - guitars, vocals
Jason Gardner - drums, vocals
Tom Bianchi - bass

When I returned to Emerson College in the fall of 2001 I met a drummer named Jason Gardner at a show in the basement of my dorm, a place I played probably once a month with other Emerson bands like Eric Hutchinson, Parker House & Theory and Leah Siegel.

Jason was a bit older than me and was playing drums for someone at one of those basement shows. He'd been in and out of a bunch of bands, produced singer songwriters and had a bunch of musician friends. I gave him a CD with a bunch of demos I was working on. Surprisingly, he called me back and we started talking about the songs and where to go with them. For about a month, without much pre-production or...thought, we started recording the tracks in his apartment outside the city.

One of the things that really stands out listening to this record so many years later is Jason's drumming. Listening to a track like "Impossible" where he's just flying all over the drumset, it was a lot of fun playing with him. We did a couple of overdubs, like harmonies and a guitar part on "Picking Up", but it was mostly a straight-up kind of record--guitar, bass, drums and vocals. We spent a while getting sounds for "Summer", the closer for the record, and a song that I think probably holds up best of anything I did in those earlier years--we played that song as late as 2005/2006.

Of course, the surprise from this record was "Here's a Love Song" a song we still play almost every night and seems to have reached many people over the years.