Eric Johnson\Fruit Bats - Criminally under appreciated. Sondre Lerche, Fishbone, NRBQ and Fruit Bats - AMAZING artists with spectacular song catalogs that just never get\got what they should if the world were just. I love the music. I get sad at the response in general to the artists aforementioned in general. Fruit Bats Gold Past Life by far the best album of 2019. Pet Parade also wonderful. Title track especially. I will be making the trip to Philly or Brooklyn in April to see Eric first hand.
(Mostly through another bottle of Jäger at dorm room party) Hey man, we should form a band. Yeah, great idea. What kind of music should we play? Ah...you know- neo soft rock and folksy shit, like all these bad, Millennial bands... Uh, ok...what should we call ourselves? How about...how about the Fruit Bats? Wow...you must've pulled that name out of a hat...