The Life and Death of SadSadFun

Now that I’m a filmmaker I have often thought about making a film about the band I was in, sadsadfun, but you know what?  Rock and roll is pretty fucking boring if you’re not a big star.  And you can’t really capture the essence of rock in a movie. You know why?  Because rock and roll is about experiencing the profound density of sound amongst a group of people who are participating in the live musical moment. In other words, it’s all about the LIVE show baby! Have you ever played music in a live venue?  There is nothing like it, and it is hard to describe without sounding like a hippie.  But when the audience and you have mingled with each others ’space’ there is some tranferrence of energy between the musicians and the audience. IT’s life-affirming and addictive as well as potentially disasterous and nauseating. And when it’s over, when your rocking days are gone, it’s a bittersweet memory, and an envious one when you see others up on stage
instead of you.

I was in sadsadfun for, on and off, 5 years (we split up once but got back together a year or so later). We never went anywhere, at least in terms of the music business, besides getting a contract from MTV to have our music on their reality shows (woopee).  As a band and individuals we were so certain that someone would see our musical genius and give us a million dollars and a world tour that we didn’t even try to get attention. Instead we all crashed and burned in our own ways before I had decided that I had had enough and left for Berlin. (That’s another story in itself). With all the weepy stuff said I would like to present just three out of many many songs that my band put together. Check us out, the first is a studio song, the second a live song and the third is the first
song we ever wrote (it’s not bad…really). If you like what  you hear, some of the band continued as the Love X Nowhere and I still do stuff in NYC as the Fiery Trees and Pilot the Morning Fall.

Free downloads:
Fiery Trees : Phoenix Drifts
Fiery Trees : Honey Sweet
Fiery Trees : Valentine
Fiery Trees : untitled
Pilot the Morning Fall : December

Words by FJP