Ed Macy Lies:
Mike Musty - guitar, harmonica, vocals
Rich Pagen - guitar, drums, vocals
***Tell us about the band. Who are these guys?***
Mike Musty and Rich Pagen were friends in college at Notre Dame, both graduating in 1992. After not [+]Ed Macy Lies:
Mike Musty - guitar, harmonica, vocals
Rich Pagen - guitar, drums, vocals
***Tell us about the band. Who are these guys?***
Mike Musty and Rich Pagen were friends in college at Notre Dame, both graduating in 1992. After not seeing each other for a number of years, they were fortuitously reunited by bumping into one another at a Minneapolis bar called the Bryant Lake Bowl in 2001.
In the years since they had last seen one another, Mike had become a computer guy and had started an urbanism/architecture business with his brother in Minneapolis. Rich had become an environmental educator and ornithologist, most recently teaching marine biology on Catalina Island in California (where he met his girlfriend Kristin who, being originally from Minnesota, was a substantial part of the reason why he happened to be in that Minneapolis bar that fateful night in 2001).
Both had also been off on musical endeavors of all kinds during that near decade of near lost-contact. Mike had written scores of songs with acoustic guitar and harmonica, and had played solo at countless open mics, as well as with various other musicians in Minnesota and New Mexico. Rich, after playing drums and singing in bands in college (most notably Jasmine Groove), had gravitated more towards acoustic guitar and composing songs. He recorded two solo albums (Something from nothing (1995) and Fluid (1998)), and two albums with compadre Hayden Mattingly under the band name Raincrow (Between blue moons (1999) and A part of it (2001) (see www.richpagen.com/raincrow)), getting into playing various instruments (including bass and drums) on multi-track recordings. He also played out at coffee shops, bars, farmers markets and even a sushi bar/comedy club, some solo, some with Raincrow.
Rich continued to teach on Catalina Island, but was frequently back in Minneapolis for various amounts of time. Finally, between two shipboard seabird biologist jobs, Rich moved to Minneapolis in late winter of 2004, and it was at that time that Ed Macy Lies truly came alive. Mike and Rich each dug out countless songs from their respective vaults, and after considerable time and musical exploration, decided on the songs that best complemented one another. Soon, a studio was squeezed
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