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Thunderegg is an American rock and roll band and recording project currently based in San Francisco, California, led by songwriter Will Georgantas (guitar, vocals) and including Reese Douglas (guitar), Alex Jimenez (bass, vocals), and James Sundquist (drums). Its earliest incarnation was the Yale University band Larry,〔("Don’t Break My Egg, My Achey Breaky Thunderegg," Yale Herald, March 31, 2006 )〕 formed in 1992 and featuring founding Thunderegg players Jake Fournier (bass) and Keith Woodfin (drums). Between 1995 and 2004, Georgantas recorded the first eight Thunderegg albums by himself to four-track cassette in various apartments in Brooklyn, New York, and his parents' house in Princeton, New Jersey. These albums, from 1995's ''Universal Nut'' through 2004's ''Sweetest One'', display increasingly elaborate lo-fi (or "bedroom music"〔(Ira Robbins, "Thunderegg," The Trouser Press )〕) arrangements, and reviewers have remarked on their high lyrical quality.〔("Thunderegg: Open Book," Music News (UK), March 21, 2006 )〕 In January 2006, all of these recordings were collected for the anthology ''Open Book: The Collected Thunderegg, 1995–2004.'' The independently produced ''Open Book'' featured 231 mp3s on a single data CD along with a 108-page illustrated lyric book. It enjoyed a positive reception〔(Eric Danton, "Thunder + Eggs = A Lot of Music," Hartford Courant, Jan. 24, 2006 )〕 both for its large scale〔("The Pleasures of Indulgence," The Stylus, Sept. 11, 2006 )〕 and its music,〔(Brian LaRue, "Crack That Egg: An Embarrassment of Pop Riches on Thunderegg's New Studio and Retrospective Albums," The New Haven Advocate, Feb. 2, 2006 )〕 which was likened to rock in the vein of Guided by Voices,〔("Sunday Cleaning, Volume 26," Chrome Waves, March 5, 2006 )〕 The Velvet Teen,〔("The Other Side of Mt. Thunderegg: CMG vs. Open Book," Coke Machine Glow, April 15, 2006 )〕 and The Mountain Goats.〔("Thunder and the Mountain," Southcoasting, Oct. 14, 2006 )〕 Thunderegg began playing and recording as a full band in 2000 after Fournier moved back east to Hartford, Connecticut, from Portland, Oregon. (The band was named after the thunderegg, the state rock of Oregon.) In 2002 a new full-band version of Georgantas's song "If I Went on a Diet" was selected for inclusion on a compilation CD produced by ''Jane'' magazine;〔"Maybelline and Jane Magazine Kick That 'American Idol' Off the Stage; Announcing Debut of Reader-Produced Compilation CD," Entertainment Wire, Sept. 16, 2002〕 in 2005 that song and nine others would comprise Thunderegg's first full-band album, ''A Very Fine Sample of What's Available at the Mine.'' Thunderegg's second full-band album, ''Line Line'', would be produced and mixed by Alan Weatherhead (Sparklehorse, Cracker) at Sound of Music Studios in Richmond, Virginia, and released independently in September 2011.〔("Thunderegg!," Kentucky Seven (Sweden), Sept. 19, 2011 )〕 A follow-up with Weatherhead, ''C'mon Thunder'', featuring Darren Jessee of Hotel Lights, was released on May 13, 2014,〔(Mike Ragogna, "The Force Empire: Chatting With NHRA Superstar John Force, Plus Thunderegg's 'Summer Kids' Exclusive," The Huffington Post, April 22, 2014 )〕 to positive critical reception.〔(Zaza Lipsoidiac, "Album Review: Thunderegg, C'mon Thunder," Speak into My Good Eye, May 2, 2014 )〕〔(Travis Boyer, "Thunderegg: C'mon Thunder," In Your Speakers, May 7, 2014 )〕〔(Justin Amidon, "Thunderegg - C'mon Thunder," Buffalo Blog, May 13, 2014 )〕〔(Greg Shaw, "Review: Thunderegg - C'mon Thunder," Nanobot Rock Reviews, July 26, 2014 )〕 A seven-inch single, to be released in 2015, was recorded with the California lineup in September 2014 at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco.〔(John B. Moore, "That Summer Feeling: Thunderegg," Blurt Online, July 21, 2014 )〕 Georgantas continues to record at home on a 424 Portastudio:〔("Not What I Meant" video, June 3, 2012 )〕 In 2005 he posted a new song every week〔("At the End of the Day, We’re All Buddies," You Ain't No Picasso, June 21, 2005 )〕 to Thunderegg's website, the best of which were collected for the CD ''This Week'', which was self-released in early 2007. Outtakes from that project were released as ''Where Are the Cars'' in 2008. ''Platinum'', recorded from 2007 to 2009, collects covers and originals. ''Gazillion'' comprises most of the material Georgantas wrote and recorded in his final apartment in Brooklyn in 2010 and 2011. The electronic files of the download-only compilation ''Thunderegg History Unit Volume One'' include embedded stories about each song, written while Georgantas was a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.〔(Album notes to ''Thunderegg History Unit'', March 6, 2012 )〕 ''Not What I Meant'', Thunderegg's first San Francisco album,〔("Review: Thunderegg, Not What I Meant," Nanobot Rock Reviews, April 24, 2013 )〕 was recommended for fans of "The Eels, Ween, The Flaming Lips, and Pulp"〔("Thunderegg—Not What I Meant," The Orange Press, March 19, 2013 )〕 and features guest appearances by local musicians Josh Johnson, Pieces, David Colón, Mario DiSandro, and Liz O, as well as Reese Douglas, who would later join the band full-time. The album's closing track, "The Guest Star of the Rest Stop," was initially commissioned by author T Cooper for a CD accompanying his 2012 book ''Real Man Adventures''.〔("Real Man Adventures #3: 'The Guest Star of the Rest Stop,'" The Rumpus, December 28, 2012 )〕 By December 2013, Georgantas had 267 songs credited to his name.〔(BMI Repertoire, "Songwriter/Composer, Georgantas Will" )〕 To provide an easier point of entry to the extensive Thunderegg catalog, that month marked the release of a 90-minute best-of compilation, ''He's Actually Pretty Cool Once You Get to Know Him: A Thunderegg Sampler, 1995-2012'', packaged as both digital download and double-length cassette.〔("Thunderegg: 'He's Actually Pretty Cool Once You Get to Know Him," Cassette Gods, March 17, 2014 )〕 The collection eschews the full-band, snippet, and outtake albums to focus on Thunderegg's better-known four-track-cassette songs.〔("Exclusive! Thunderegg Intv!," Officially a Yuppie, May 11, 2014 )〕 Thunderegg toured Germany in the summer of 2013 with a lineup that included Georgantas, Fournier, Moon, and Ken Matsuda (violin).〔("Thunderegg, 'I Turn Automatic'—Püttlingen, Germany 7/5/13," official tour video, Oct. 15, 2013 )〕 ==Discography== * ''Larry'' (May 1994) * ''Universal Nut'' (Nov. 1995) * ''New England Music'' (May 1996) * ''Personnel Envelo-file'' (Feb. 1997) * ''Thunderegg'' (Nov. 1997) * ''Powder to the People'' (Aug. 1998) * ''Spent Butane: Cassette Outtakes, 1995-1998'' (Sept. 1999) * ''In Yanistin'' (Sept. 2000) * ''The Envelope Pushes Back'' (Oct. 2000) * ''Sweetest One'' (Oct. 2004) * ''A Very Fine Sample of What's Available at the Mine'' (June 2005) * ''Open Book: The Collected Thunderegg, 1995–2004'' (Jan. 2006) * ''This Week'' (Feb. 2007) * ''Where Are the Cars'' (Feb. 2008) * ''Platinum'' (Sept. 2009) * ''Gazillion'' (March 2011) * ''Line Line'' (Sept. 2011) * ''Thunderegg History Unit Volume One'' (March 2012) * ''Not What I Meant'' (Dec. 2012) * ''He's Actually Pretty Cool Once You Get to Know Him: A Thunderegg Sampler, 1995-2012'' (Dec. 2013) * ''C'mon Thunder'' (May 2014) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thunderegg (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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