"Springtime in February" demo cassette
self-released Sept. 1997

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"Springtime in February" b/w "Go Outside"

Dan Sheehan - guitar, bass and vocals
Joe Smith - drums and vocals

Produced by Dan Sheehan and Joe Smith. Recorded and mixed by Stu Covington at Powerhouse Studio, Ayer, MA

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The "Springtime in February," single was recorded as a demo cassette by the duo of Sheehan and Smith while they were looking for a new bass player during the fall of 1997. The music to the A side was written by Dan and Jeff G. Dan had written the lyrics after a highly unusual 70 degree day in the middle of February in Massachusetts. The characters in the song are based on regulars in Dan's neighborhood of Central Square, Cambridge. The "cafe underground," was the Liberty Cafe which soon after closed down. The grungy B side of the tape, "Go Outside," is about people who take an unfortunate passive stance in life. This tape gave life to a fictitious band member, Vince Fontana, credited as the bassist although Dan played all the bass. Fontana would go on to have a Dr. Who-like existence in the band, being portrayed by various touring and session bass players, and would even be used as a psuedonym for Dan's op-ed letters to newspapers.

This tape got BANTER its first "song of the month," honor in NOISE magazine's "Audiodoodah," review column for the A side, which placed at number 12 on the column's Top 20 of the year chart.

Both songs were played as guest entrance and exit music on New England Cable News' The Mike Adams Sports Hour.

The cover photo is of Joe's father, with friend.