Tee Pee Annex

Township - Live At Mad Oak StudiosDecember 17, 2020

Tee Pee Annex is proud to offer Township - Live At Mad Oak Studios on all digital service providers. Boston’s hard rock heroes’ live show was the stuff of legend, turn it up!

LIVE AT MAD OAK STUDIOS: 2010 would prove to be a very rewarding, but also very trying and tumultuous year for the band, ultimately leading toward a near break-up and subsequent member exit. At the beginning of the year the band was still breaking-in Alex, releasing Vol.1 through King Yum, and getting ready to undertake a 5-week tour that would go down as easily their craziest. The running joke was that the band went on tour to promote an unreleased album, and that proves accurate. Township saw the LIVE AT MAD OAK STUDIOS opportunity as a chance to get down the LIFE STARTS TONIGHT songs with Alejandro on them (not on the studio version and had added quite a lot to them), hype up the Greatest Hits album, and show others (and ourselves) that we were ready to enter a new, take-no-prisoners phase. Shortly after that destructive March tour, Alex, John, and Marc spent countless nights working up new material while Greg was sidelined with knee and back injuries. When the trio finally had the songs for what would be ONE MORE SUMMER, all thoughts of Life Starts Tonight seemed to fade in the broken taillights. Upon rediscovery of this live set – masterfully engineered and mixed on the fly by Grammy-winning Benny Grotto, its seriousness is palpable. The band worked exceptionally hard in 2010 and by that fall were a force to be reckoned with (*find 9/10/10 Middle East Downstairs show on YouTube), but were also at a serious crossroads. And as stated before, by the end of that year, this chapter in Township history would be over. This live album is the perfect, exciting apex to the LIFE STARTS TONIGHT journey; the last chapter in the first volume of Township history.


LIVE AT MAD OAK STUDIOS
Publishing: RUNNER’S HIGH MUSIC, ASCAP / JOHN SHEERAN MUSIC, ASCAP
Engineering, Mixing: Benny Grotto
Mastering: Jeff Lipton, Peerless Mastering
Recorded, mixed at: Mad Oak Studios, Allston, MA, February 10, 2010
Album cover: Photo: Jillian Santella, Direction: Marc Pinansky, Layout: Alejandro Necochea