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MP3 Flight of Mavis - ROCK: Modern Rock

Melodic CMJ-styled guitar pop originally released in 1989 and often referenced to the Replacements, Buffalo Tom, and NRBQ.

15 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Modern Rock, POP: Power Pop



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FLIGHT OF MAVIS

Frank Brown-Guitar,Vocal
Dave McElroy-Bass
Ken Buono-Drums

Produced by Al Fichera

In 1988,Flight of Mavis was three twenty year old kids who lived on the same street in a suburban Phila-
delphia https://www.tradebit.comy were friends since the second https://www.tradebit.comy grew up on Kiss and Cheap Trick and loved the https://www.tradebit.comy wrote a song about the Loch Ness https://www.tradebit.comy were together for less than a year and had played only a gig or two when they recorded their
first record in the summer of https://www.tradebit.com was released early in 1989 on vinyl and is issued here on compact disc for the first https://www.tradebit.com ten songs that made up that
original album were recorded in about 40 studio hours,
mostly on ''first takes''.With little experience,lots of raw
https://www.tradebit.com the good instincts to stay out of their own way,Flight of Mavis made this very cool little record.

"This friends,is the living embodiment of
the Amerindie spirit...Today,Flight of Mavis is
my favorite band."
Joe Williams
Cash Box Magazine
7/15/89

The record served them https://www.tradebit.comy recieved heavy rotation on many college radio https://www.tradebit.comy made it
to number one at WEGL at the University of Auburn in https://www.tradebit.comy got help booking tours from Ian Copeland''s Frontier Booking Agency (REM) .They did shows with Sqeeze,the Bodeans and Uncle https://www.tradebit.comy toured with Sinead O''Connor at outdoor sheds during the height of her popularity in the summer of https://www.tradebit.comt little record went a long way.

"With little production beyond what''s needed
to realize the songs,Flight of Mavis,the band''s debut
album,glows with honest love for the whole wide
world of rock and roll."
Tom Moon
Philadelphia Inquirer
2/12/89

There are five bonus tracks included in this https://www.tradebit.comy were recorded in 1990 at Water Music in Hoboken,NJ by John Siket and produced by Gene Holder(DB''s).Four of the tracks have never been issued before and one was issued on their ''Spools'' CD in a different version.

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