Old Man

Believing that two heads are indeed better than one, college friends Paul Brown and Neil Norman, both talented songwriters in their own right, formed Old Man in 2001 as a way to showcase their respective collections of songs (and after deciding that Lesser Apes would be a band name they would quickly be ashamed of). Instantly, they found that their own unique approaches to guitar and melody were simpatico, creating a sound informed by their largely overlapping, yet divergent album collections (You remember albums, don't you? Before iTunes? Cohesive collections of 10-12 songs by a single artist?) Paul had a taste for late 80s-early 90s college rock: Blur, Pulp, The The, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins; Neil had a soft spot for The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Husker Dü, Joe Pernice, XTC; both loved R.E.M., The Smiths, Billy Bragg, New Order, Radiohead. Old Man sounds... nothing like any of those bands, or perhaps like all of them played at the same time.

Knowing that two heads, regardless of how good they are together, can't play drums, Brown and Norman brought PJ Knight on board, and with her came her love of Big Star and Teenage Fanclub. Since then, they've done what any young band with stars in its eyes does - play shows in and around Louisville, KY (it's a music mecca, you know), practice when the demands of home ownership, school and work don't get in the way, record songs on ProTools, only to lose all of the original files somewhere, record most of those songs again with someone that actually knows what they're doing and can make it sound like it was recorded somewhere nicer than a basement (like a carriage house, for instance), and continue to write songs that sound like Old Man.

2007 finds Old Man returning from a brief public performance hiatus, looking for a good way to get the aforementioned recordings out into the world, and still looking for a bass player.