Welcome New TFEW Club Members

The Tender Few has added a couple of crucial club members to the line up. Bradford Parker has agreed to an 8 month contract to play drums and Peter Dominguez has agreed to an open-ended contract to play lead rock guitar, however, he is on a 6 month probationary period. We all hope he makes it and, at this point it looks pretty good. Our main criteria for the open lead GTR position was that he or she must coordinate their sweat bands with their t-shirts. And as you can clearly see, Peter is a Viking at coordinating.


In other less important news, the TFEW record entitled “SEE ME SIGH, SEE ME CRY” has been remixed and is in the process of getting mastered. We had a few mixing issues regarding a pesky floor tom, but everything is sounding in order now so we’re good to go. My prediction for release date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008. I can hear you laughing, but seriously, I think this just might happen.

We are also looking to play our first show with the new line up (it’s risky, I know, with one club member still on probation) in august at a local bay area venue – someplace like the HP Pavilion or that place in Concord.

Two of The Tender Few (Nicole and Chip) will be sitting in with our other project, The Size Queens, to record a few tracks for the SQ masterpiece, Magic Dollar Shoppe. We will keep you posted on all the amazing studio goodness and magic that happens when Adam Klein and Michael Mullen get together. It is quite a treat for Nicole and I to witness such an event.

Love to you all.

The Tender Few

SEE THE FEW SIGH!

A decision is here. The upcoming Tender Few record will be named SEE ME SIGH, following the stirring -- and slurred -- testimonial from a certain 'Nikki Buttons.'

She wins a photo of this shirt.

The record will be released in mid September. Stay tuned for details on the first-ever Tender Few CD-release Festival.

--> Re-read Nikki's case, with joy:

I’m a little drunk. This is my argument, my thesis, for “See Me Sigh” as the title of this album. I understand that you can, in a way, SEE someone sigh, watch his/her chest inflate, deflate, watch his/her eyes widen, relax. But it is more likely that we are hearing or feeling someone sigh, and so this phrase—see me sigh—is really a synesthetic, which is both a neuroanatomical and literary term meaning “together/joined sensation.”

A very small number of people are synesthetes—people who, when stimulated in one sensory area, translate it into another. He/she might literally see a color when they hear F#, or taste chocolate when he/she sees a full moon. This is not explained by experiential association, but rather by an involuntary crossing in the brain. Nabokov was affected by synesthesia, and that is probably why he was such an incredible writer—he experienced the word exponentially, his 5 senses constantly rearranging themselves, letters becoming colors. And so when he writes, he translates these moments to us, and our worlds double, triple, deepen.

So wouldn’t The Tender Few fans appreciate a title with so much sense, literally? Maybe not? Maybe it’s too soft? Maybe Skittles brand candy took all of the feeling out of synesthesia when they whispered, “Taste the Rainbow.” But I like it, the way I am drawn to Nobokov’s colored letters, to the smell of Perkins-Gilman’s yellow wallpaper, and, yes, even to candy-coated Skittles.

Or we could just name the album Californication to see if we move more units that way just by confusing people and getting sued.

T-Few Fan Club Needs a Name

In these days of post-independence day ennui, and waiting (from afar) for the next Tender Few performance, it may be time to put up to a virtual suggestion box for NAMES FOR THE TENDER FEW FANCLUB. The group is growing -- soon 'dozens' will apply -- and a name is needed. We need help here.

Possible suggestions include:

* Wren Seed
* Magic Cabin Dwellers
* Fewrifics
* T-Few Fans
* Sir Isaac Fewtons
* Like a Turgeon (Club)

Note that 'Silver Bullet Gang' is taken for Seger already.