Lovesick

Fred Thomas - Drums and Vocals Michael Troutman - Guitar Nikkie Margosian - Bass Guitar

Discography: Lovesick 12" (APS, 8/00); Lovesick/This Robot Kills split 12" (All Star, 6/99); 0 to 60 in 73 Bands compilation (NO! NO! Recordings); Collateral compilation CD (Utilitarian, 2/99); Quarters Lovesick/Small Brown Bike/Quixote/Keleton DMD comp 7" (Salinger Press, 4/00) Lovesick/Emergency split 7" (Archigramophone, 4/99) - Lovesick 7" (20-12 Recordings, 2/00); demo cassette (westsideaudio 3,98)

One of the biggest problems I have with house shows is the tendency for audiences to be groups of friends who will just as easily slip into a bedroom upstairs as watch the band that can't figure out how to turn on the P.A. In the basement of one such house there is a heart spraypainted on the wall behind a square of carpet where the drumset is generally located, with the effect being the drummer's head framed by this heart. The first time I saw lovesick I drove an hour either way in order to see this ex-Chore manifestation. It seemed like a lot of the people at the show spent the evening sitting on the porch as it was one of the first nice evenings in the Ohio springtime. Lovesick played like children who are old enough to know what something is supposed to look like but not old enough to draw it. Although I can't actually remember a single instance of any of them dropping their instruments, I have this sense that they were constantly falling. It is of course this attempt that ultimately is much more beautiful than the drawing that looks like real life. As their drummer/singer threw his head from left to right and yelled he never once escaped the heart-frame. After the band had finished, several of the people who had stayed outside for their set made their way inside and eventually asked what the band had done. I kept saying "they played like they meant it" and most people didn't understand. I have no way of describing their music except that they play terribly well and are as earnest as a band could be. Two months later, I drove nine hours in order to see lovesick again. Now almost a year later, and on an opposite side of the country, I regret all of the lovesick shows I missed while I was near enough to make it to them, and consider myself very lucky to be a part of this record. Thank you.

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