House Guests
A Collecton Of Underground Music From Central Maine


Tracks:

1) Opium Poet "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" 2) Madcap "BlockHead" 3) Spork "Ex-Cop" 4) Samsara "The Cause" 5) Brownhornet "You Tried" 6) Nobody "Two Wires And A Coffee Stain" 7) Twelve "When One Remains" 8) Foamcore "Hoofenmouth" 9) Criing "Headcase" 10) Uncle Mad "Instrumental (With Words)" 11) No Comply "Draining" 12) The Great American Pinkos (POA) "Spock's Glock" 13) Dugan "Apex" 14) Inside Strike "Dyslexic Virgin"


The Sound House was a small club in Old Town, Maine. Operating as the Penny Post in the early '90 and later as Heavy's, the club reopened as The Sound House in July of 1996. Due to a number of circumstances, the club closed in February of 1997. This CD was produced to compensate for the fact that there was no place that would play underground music in central and northern Maine anymore. It has a number of bands on it that stopped by, hung out, and played every weekend at the small club.

The funniest thing about the Sound House is the fact that I am still recognized for it. It's weird that I'm "that guy that ran the Sound House" even five years after it closed.

Looking back on this release, I have no regrets that I did it. I think that the Sound House had a huge effect on everyone that was involved with it. Just about every band on here has since broken up, but a surprising number of them are still involved in some way: the singer for Dugan went on to study music in college, Doug (who did the Nobody song here) is playing in Confusatron with Adam from POA, Brian from POA is playing with A Global Threat, members of Mapcap went on to form Donnybrook, and Barry from Foamcore started The Entertainment Experiment with me and his wife. Even the bouncers that worked free of charge so they could get into the shows ended up choosing careers in security.

... and now The Entertainment Experiment has the remaining copies of this album. We will be selling it cheap because it was made cheap. I think it's great. It really captured the spirit of what the Sound House was all about. If you buy it, I hope you like it too.

You might reminisce a little, or you might discover something new that you never knew you liked. Have fun with it.

- Ed Porter
September 2002