b'weekend, they turned the house into a makeshiftIll always have a special place in my heart for thatthe Summershine label in Australia: Square World studio, with Thom Monahan (who had recordedsong because Joe wrote it about me, says Bob.b/w In Plain Sight, both of which were recorded Dance the Night Away for the Scud MountainEarlier in my life I was in bands and wrote songs.with the same personnel in an actual studio, Boys) setting up a control room in the basement.But then I got a job. I became a career guy. I onlySlaughterhouse, in Hadley, Massachusetts. They tracked four songs altogether, including oneplayed music in a very spare part of my time, and called Monkey Suit. Joe had written it aboutI was happy with that. So I listen to that song nowTogether, these four songs represented a step Bobs fancy new engineering job, lambastingmostly with delight but also with the tiniest bit ofin the right direction, but they were still not quite him for giving up music for a nine-to-five. Its notchagrin. what Joe had in mindtoo much rock in the music, mean-spirited, more like a bit of brotherly proddingnot enough pop refinement and absolutely no disguising his fear of losing Bob as a friend andThe song was raw and jangly, sketched out but notoboe.influence. See myself off in my monkey suit eachyet filled in. Still, it was fitting that this bit of sibling day / Then I walk the slow fish ladder, made ofprovocation became the B side of the Pernice concrete and the bones of people, Joe sings.Brothers first official release, a 7-inch single with Dont let me disappear inside this monkey suitJimmy Coma as the A side. Just a few months Im wearin. later, the band released a second 7-inch through'