Due to the response from the now infamous "CHUFFED" Tea Club ProgStock announcement video on social media (which you can watch HERE), Pat and Dan have put together another ...
2021-07-01 02:28:29 +0000 UTC View PostIn the summer of 2017, The Tea Club went in to Big Blue North Recording studios in Utica, NY for the first time to record demos for what would become our 5th album, If/When.
This is the demo version of “Say Yes“ from that recording session. It was recorded live with the instrument...
2021-06-29 19:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostWe are very excited to share this brand new Tea Club song with you all, our Beloved Patrons.
Pat had the structure of this song written on his acoustic 12 string right after our tour in late 2019. When we jammed on it with the band, it seemed to gel right away.
I took sort of a strang...
2021-05-26 16:23:29 +0000 UTC View Post
The very first recording of "The Way You Call" is very much like it appears on the album. Mostly me singing while playing an acoustic guitar. As we were preparing to record the album, we decided to try some different approaches to the songs just to see what we could come up with.
One of the...
2021-05-12 18:13:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Beloved Patrons. I apologize for the radio silence around here!
I am deeply ashamed.
I will now take this opportunity to tell you a little about my Patreon posting thought process....
2021-05-11 23:14:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Earlier this month, The Tea Club was honored to take part in the 2021-03-31 17:31:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrons!
We posted this image on the social medias recently, with only the cryptic caption "We've been busy. New music coming soon."
However, for you, our Beloved Patrons, we will give you a little bit more info about what we've been up to.
The band has not been physically in th...
2021-02-18 21:11:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Many of you know that I am a big fan of the Legend of Zelda video games, especially Majora's Mask for the Nintendo 64. In fact, I love it so much that I start a new file in the game every year on October 26th (the anniversary of its US release).
One of the things tha...
2021-02-10 23:42:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year, Beloved Patrons! Dan McGowan here, bringing you a special recording from the Tea Club archive.
In October of 2017, me and Pat made this demo of what would become The Tea Club song "Came At a Loss" on our album If/When. This demo just features Pat on...
2021-01-01 22:52:44 +0000 UTC View PostBeloved Patrons, The Tea Club’s own Patrick McGowan wrote this special New Year’s post on Proglodytes. Give it a read!
https://proglodytes.com/2020/12/31/wait-with-hope/
Happy New Year!
2020-12-31 23:37:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Beloved Patrons!
This is a song that was written at the time of "If/When" and was going to be included on the album, but we instead included it as a bonus track for those who preordered the album and to all of our Patrons.
This is a video of Dan McGowan from his first s...
2020-12-14 18:59:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrons! In honor of "Rabbit" turning 10 years old, me and Pat got together the other night to record ourselves on my phone talking about the album! It's a totally unprepared and only slightly edited video that is over an hour long. We go through every song on Rabbit and discuss our memories, sha...
2020-11-02 16:45:04 +0000 UTC View Post
It was a cold, rainy Saturday night in early November of 2007. I had attended a funeral earlier that day and the weather seemed an exact expression of what it feels like driving home from a graveyard. We had booked some studio time in Philadelphia and were in the middle of a multi day sessi...
2020-11-01 01:29:15 +0000 UTC View PostHere's some pictures of The Tea Club recording "Rabbit" at Big Blue Meenie Recording Studio in Jersey City waaaaaaaay back in 2010!
2020-10-28 14:10:50 +0000 UTC
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Back in 2016, as I was about to turn 30 years old, I made this video of “Royal Oil Can” and shared it on my own personal Facebook page. But I wanted to share it with you, dear Patrons, in honor of the 10 year anniversary of our album Rabbit, which this song appears on. Below is the t...
2020-10-28 00:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's hard to believe that it's been almost four years since we went on tour with Moon Tooth and Thank You Scientist! It's even harder to believe that our album Rabbit was released TEN YEARS AGO THIS MONTH! Here's a video of us playing "Simon Magus" live at House of Indep...
2020-10-14 14:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post
It just occurred to me that some of you wonderful Patrons may not frequent YouTube or social media (if that's the case, GOOD FOR YOU! You are wise and healthy people)! Just in case, here is the live video that we recently posted of us playing "Creature" on our tour last year!
2020-10-09 18:44:57 +0000 UTC View Post
This recording is from the Big Blue Meenie demo sessions for "General Winter's Secret Museum" back in 2006. When we went to record General Winter's, our producer Tim Gilles told us to just play him everything we had. This was an instrumental song that we would o...
2020-09-01 21:59:05 +0000 UTC View PostWe posted a video of this song, "The Lunar Eclipse", a few months ago, immediately after it had been written. We recently did a "proper" demo recording of the song. While it is still incomplete, we wanted to share it with you, our beloved Patrons! Here it is, with lyrics included below.
Patrons! Here is another brand new song demo, since the last one I posted, "Quicksand", was so graciously well received by you! Like "Quicksand", I recorded this one by myself. I admittedly know very little about recording, but here it is, another “behind the curtain” look at some of what we'...
2020-07-30 03:10:36 +0000 UTC View PostPatrons, I present to you a demo of a brand new song that I wrote. I recorded this quickly, most of it in one or two takes. I don’t know anything about how to mix recordings, but I mixed it myself and I think it sounds good. This is an example of something still very embryonic that I’m sharin...
2020-06-30 23:06:09 +0000 UTC View Post
My Dad loves to tell the story about how he went to see Emerson Lake and Palmer when he was a teenager in the 70’s. He said that during a break between songs, Greg Lake out of nowhere belted out “Confusion, will be my epitaph” and sang the chorus of “Epitaph” acapella. He was greeted by...
2020-06-30 01:25:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt was 2007. I was 21 years old, and I was madly in love. I needed something great to give my girlfriend for her birthday. She loved the acoustic songs that I had written and would often play for her. These were the songs that were floating around that I didn’t know how to fit into The Tea Club...
2020-05-31 01:12:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Beloved Patrons! This is our new music video for ”If I Mean When”. We will be releasing this publicly on Saturday, but we wanted to share it a few days early with you, our faithful patrons.
It was directed by Adam Ped...
2020-05-21 19:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a video of us playing "Rivermen" from If/When from our tour last WInter with Bent Knee and Thank You Scientist! This is from when we played Columbia City Theatre in Seattle, WA on November 19, 2019!
The audio recording from our ZOOM recorder was unusable, so this is just the...
2020-04-29 17:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patrons!
In a previous post, I said that those who already pledge $5 or more monthly will automatically go from Tier 1 to Tier 2, but apparently I was wrong! This is from Patreon's FAQ page...
Patrons are never auto...
2020-03-29 19:48:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a video of me (Dan) explaining to you how to play the acoustic guitar part for our song "If I Mean When". As part of our new Tier 2 on Patreon, we'll be posting Tea Club Song Tutorials, where we'll teach you how to play our songs and show you just what goes into making them what they are. ...
2020-03-27 00:42:44 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re launching our 2nd Patreon Tier for our Patrons who pay $5 or more! Here’s the exciting rewards that are included in this new tier:
$5 MONTHLY (TIER 2)
Wow! We're at 60 PATRONS on this humble Patreon of ours! THANK YOU so much, all of you! It means the world to us that you're willing to spend your money to support our band on a monthly basis.
We hope that all of you are safe and sound during this COVID-19 outbreak. Times like these can be ...
2020-03-15 00:58:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the newest thing that we've ever dared post here on Patreon! While still a "work-in-progress", we are so pleased with how it's turning out and how quickly it's taking form that we decided to share it with YOU, our Patreon patrons ONLY! Our bassist Jamie Wolff wrote this s...
2020-02-27 21:38:41 +0000 UTC View Post