Artist: Bad Astronaut
Genre(s):
Indie
Discography:
Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Houston: We Have A Drinking Problem
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
On top of the inning of fronting the melodic pop-punk quintet of Lagwagon, vocalist and guitar player Joey Cape too moonlights as the frontman for Bad Astronaut. Accompanied by former Nerf Herder and Swingin' Utters bassist Marko 72 (too of Sugarcult) and Lagwagon drummer Derrick Plourde, this indie stone three-piece debuted in their hometown of Santa Barbara in early 2000. With their polished simply ripen and complex presence that resembles Cape's full-time gig, Bad Astronaut released their commencement EP, Acrophobe, good manners of Honest Don's Records in early 2001. A split with Armchair Martian followed later in the year through Owned and Operated before the band released Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem in diminish 2002. By that release, Bad Astronaut had inflated to seven members, now including Angus Cooke (violoncello, guitar, percussion), Todd Capps (piano), Thom Flowers (guitar), and Jonathan Cox (scheduling). Work on the band's third album occurred off and on over the following several age, but when Plourde lamentably took his have life in March 2005, a devastated Cape (whose heartache number one off into the Lagwagon record album Settle) considered scrapping the whole thing, non lacking to go on without him. However, Cape finally felt he required to conclusion what he and his ally had started, deciding the resulting record would as well be the last for Bad Astronaut. Finishing tracks for which Plourde had already set down drums, Cape further called upon close friend and drummer Jonathan Gorman to facilitate him figure kayoed the left over songs. The completed 12 Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment -- coroneted ironically enough by Plourde and Cape before what would be 1 of their last recording roger Sessions together -- appeared in November 2006 on Fat Wreck.
