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

Pagen Valentine - New Song Posted

Good Day Dear Reader,

A new song, PAGAN VALENTINE, has been brought to the digital surface for your scrutiny. Now, you may be asking, "what is PAGAN VALENTINE about and shouldn't you have have released it, oh, about two weeks ago, to ride the pink holiday's coat tails"? uhmm.. yeah. we probably should have.

Did you ever watch ONE DAY AT A TIME? Well, this song kind of sums up what a lot of us were feeling around the time that show was made.
PV will be coming out on the full length LP - SEE ME SIGH - in April on Almost Died Records and Tapes. Like Rob mentioned before, we are postponing our release to allow plenty of room for REM's new effort coming out in March. Peter Buck and the TFEW have an agreement about overlapping releases within 3 tuesdays of one another. He also tried to pull that with the Minus Three, but ultimately he knew better.

Tfew BACK in the Studio!?

NEW SESSION VIDEO
While the TFew's first CD See Me Sigh is a couple months from release -- the date has been pushed to April so as not to collide with the release of REM's new album in March -- the three-standing TFew members hit the four-track studios of San Francisco's EastCha district, near SoCha (South of Caesar Chavez), to begin work on a new conceptual track, "San Francisco Sensation."

"It's nearly done," says bassist Nicole Brodsky, who filmed the video session shown below. "It's loose and organic -- something we feel good about." The lyrical concept is a merger of Patty Hearst and the ill will generated with the forcible removal of former TFew keyboardist Rich Trott, who now leads rival band Palace Family Steakhouse. Brodsky replaced Trott.

Enjoy video footage of session:

TFew schedules Video Shoot

After huge and enormous positive feedback following the Tender Few's first video -- the controversial 'Charmed & Dangerous' (see YouTube.com) -- another shoot is planned for January 29.

Bass player Nicole B, who is considering a new hairstyle for the video (modeled), will decide which track will be featured.

Pumped for Grass Valley Talent Show

We've been invited to attend a talent show in Grass Valley, California.  We have lots and lots of talent; however, we sometimes don't know how to show it.  So, Nicole and I have been burning the midnight candles (all three of them) to get ready for the show.  Guitars, samples, loops and hot vox will be used to create an experience so wholesome and enjoyable we just might place in the top 10 of the competition.   Here's a sneak peek at our future award winning set list.

1. Sculler Rally (Conference Committee Version)

2. I'm Not Brian Ferry, or Roxy Music

3. What's Your State Bird?

4. Laughing at Billboards

5. Another Cold Shoulder Around the Corner

Tfew NEWSLOG VI

THIS WEEK IN TFEW NEWS

Two of the three surviving members of the Tender Few have discussed an idea of a 'bonus track' for the upcoming CD See Me Sigh that will 'up the ante' on Radiohead's free download concept. 'It's a hidden track like no other -- NO ONE has ever done anything like this on an album,' said bassist Nicole Brodsky in a prepared statement. 'And certainly it's not something that the Palace Family Steakhouse have ever mustered, even in brainstorming sessions.'

In other news, the album is being mastered this weekend.

Tfew NEWSLOG V

TFEW RELEASES 'SOFT' ALTERNATE SONG

Before the dozen-tracked See Me Sigh -- Tfew's long-awaited debut record -- comes out soon, you can download an otherwise-unavailable B-side 'You Can't Kill Love Softly', an alternate version of the album-closing 'You Can't Kill Love.'

Tfew has no comment on the potentially ambiguous meaning of the song title. 'It's just something we feel good about,' explained bass player Nicole Brodsky in a prepared statement.

Click the link below:

YOU CAN'T KILL LOVE SOFTLY