The Space Madness Demos

Space Madness	Lost Highway If I Had A Reason Snowflakes Dancing Lonesomeville Fifth Of Liquor Zebra Room Found A Job Today Hazel Country Scarecrow Gold Stratocaster Industry Town Poor Southern Girl
March 1994
The Space Madness Demos
Credits:
Space Madness was: Ryan Adams (guitar, vocals, drums); Tristan Andreas (guitar, drums, vocals); Thompson King (bass).
Ryan sings lead vocal on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, & 10. Tristan Andreas sings lead vocal, with Ryan on drums, on tracks 3, 6, & 7. Track 11 features only Ryan, on vocals & guitar. This track is also featured on Here: A Fort Hazel Magic Compilation.
Notes:
*Tristan Andreas to AnsweringBell.com: "In 1994, before moving to Idaho, I lived with Ryan at 607 E. Franklin St. in Raleigh NC. I met Ryan in 1993 at the Fallout Shelter. Soon he was playing drums (temporarily) in my band Spawn. PDS was still active. Soon Spawn and PDS both broke up. Ryan and I goofed around with a 4 track, recording many songs under the band name "Space Madness." This was with Thompson King on bass. We played one show as Space Madness, an outdoor concert in the parking lot behind Sadlack's Deli. Ryan and I would switch back and forth between vox/gtr and drums. I think it was around March 1994 that Thompson moved to Colorado, so Ryan and I started jamming with our friend Caspar Lee on drums . . . . Ryan called it "the skylarks" 'cuz that's the car that his girlfriend drove. Don't ask me about her, I just want to set the record straight about the bands and songs. Skylarks played a couple of shows, including one at the Brewery. In between all this Ryan recorded a few solo songs on my 4 track. I still have all the masters from this era. They have not been officially released but it's been an idea for years here at Fort Hazel. Here is a list of songs from that era: Space Madness (Ryan: gtr/vox, Thompson: bass, Tristan: drums): Fifth of Liquor Found a Job Today Hazel Country Scarecrow If I Had A Reason Industry Town Lost Highway Memphis Tennessee Lonesomeville Skylarks (Ryan: gtr/vox, Tristan: bass, Caspar: drums): Death on the Road Public Static Lucky Star & Texas Solo Ryan (Ryan: gtr/bass/drums/vox): Black Jacket Woman Bottle of Gin Cars And Trains Cigarette King Downtown Easily Amused Fix It Up Hot Rod Car/ New Pair of Shoes Instrumental (untitled) Last Night Old Blues for New Orleans Please Don't Fill the Grave Queen of the South South of North Street Ghost Texas The other songs you have listed under "Space Madness Demos" were sung by me and I'm not particularly proud of my singing from that era. (eek!) I've seen Ryan a few times since then, and in fact he's recorded a few songs at my studio in Boise: Midnight Moonlight Walker Revolution You Shoulda Seen He is certainly the most amazing and prolific songwriter I've ever known. Thanks for listening! . . . . I have no idea how that stuff got anywhere beyond my studio . . . . The track on HERE is called Poor Southern Girl, although it sounds like he could just as easily be singing porcelain girl. This is the lowest* fidelity recording I have of Ryan, and it was just him on gtr and vox. The Skylarks recordings were done 5/2/94 and include only 4 songs: public static, lucky star, texas, death on the road . . . . Today, I run Fort Hazel, which is a 24track recording studio and really small indie label. Also I play keyboards in a cartoon jazz band called Lowbelly. I would love to put out the early Ryan stuff, but I want to do it right. I'd probably keep it to one disc. Ryan did give the OK at one point in time . . . . [I'm] proud of [my] involvement with Ryan and we'd love other people to hear the music, but at the same time we don't want to appear to be "riding any coat-tails." I'll keep you posted whenever we move forward on our ryan project."