Bedazzled!

Lakeside Lounge Birthday Gig

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone that made it down to the show, everyone who left a comment, here and on my Myspace page, and thanks to my band, who were phenomenal.Thanks!

Please come and help me celebrate my Birthday Tonight, Thursday March 23 at the Lakeside Lounge in NYC. I'll be playing with an amazing band:
Chris Erikson and Adam Roth on Guitars, Mark Spencer on Lap Steel, C.P. Roth on Bass, Nancy Polstein on Drums, & Eddy Zweiback on Percussion
Hope to see you there!
Thursday March 23
Party @ 8:00/Performance @ 9:30
Lakeside Lounge
162 Avenue B (between 10th & 11th Streets) New York, New York 212.529.8463
My Website SpikePriggen.com
My Myspace page
Spike Priggen @ Allmusic Guide

My Space

I finally succumbed to the peer pressure and now have a myspace page. It's currently the only place you can hear the 1st song completed for my next CD (working title 'There's No Sound In Flutes!"). It's a little Nilsson/Bacharach/Carpenters homage/rip-off I wrote called "Little Star", recorded and mixed by Adam Lasus (of "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!" fame). It's the only song I've ever recorded with NO GUITARS. Check it out and add me to your friends list if you wanna. See Also: Spike Priggen "Stars After Stars After Stars" for more about my 27 year "career" in music.

Crossroads 1982

Crossroads 1982
Wilbur Cross High School
New Haven, Connecticut

Stand-ins for deciBels-Tribute to the dB's

The Paisley Pop label has released Stand-ins for deciBels- A Tribute to the dB's including tracks by Matt Keating, Bobby Sutliff and Tim Lee (Both ex-Windbreakers), Don Dixon, Steve Almaas and Ali Smith and many more including me doing my favourite dB's tune (their 1st single, when it was just a 3 piece, before Holsapple). The dB's were one of my favourite groups growing up and I've been lucky enough to work with both Will Rigby (he played drums in my band-I played bass on some recordings of his) and Peter Holsapple (he produced the Pussywillows-I played bass). You can buy it from Amazon here.

Spike Priggen- "If And When".mp3
Spike Priggen- Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Jon Graboff- Guitars
Brian Doherty- Drums
Recorded and mixed by Adam Lasus at Fireproof Recording, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY (in about 5 hours.)

She Used To Be My Baby

This has top be one of my favorite reviews of my first solo album. It really makes me sound insane.

"Next time I'm getting over a terrorizing, head-over-heels heartbreak, The Very Thing That You Treasure will be in the driver's seat, helping me cry myself into the nearest telephone pole. Until then, this unbelievably depressing CD will be sitting on my shelf, safe from unsuspecting ears that can't deal with its gut-wrenching power.

Priggen definitely has issues with chicks, as several tunes (including "Every Broken Heart" and "She Used To Be My Baby") highlight a borderline obsessive-compulsive singer-songwriter bloodletting his emotions onto a recorded medium. Priggen has a way with words, and his exceptional lyrics weave intricate tales of desperation and loss that somehow, by the disc's end, inspire a sense of hope and yearning.

Nonetheless, this potent collection of tear jerking, honky-tonk pop tunes is a marvelous expression of calculated emotional outbursts. Medical authorities should be contacted immediately, as this CD should only be allowed into your CD player with a prescription from your local psychiatrist."

Andrew Magilow
Splendid E-zine

Spike Priggen-She Used To Be My Baby.mp3
Buy 'The Very Thing That You Treasure" and "Stars After Stars After Stars" By Spike Priggen

Listen To "The Very Thing That You Treasure"

My entire 1st solo LP in RealPlayer files. Originally released in 2001. All songs by Spike Priggen.
01 Every Broken Heart.rm
02 Alright.rm
03 She Used To Be My Baby.rm
04 Yesterday.rm
05 The Right Thing.rm
06 Outtasight.rm
07 What Yer Missing.rm
08 Listening To Me.rm
09 Nothing.rm
10 Look It Up.rm
11 I'm In Love.rm
12 So Good To See You.rm
Buy The Very Thing That You Treasure
Also available through iTunes & most music download services.

I'm In Love

I saw these photos on flickr and it reminded me of a song. I'm In Love-Spike Priggen.mp3 From "The Very Thing That You Treasure". You can hear the rest of it here. Buy it here.