It’s 3 years in the making (or 45 years depending on your view point) but it’s finally out. Pictured on the left is the new Grand Trine - I Need You Baby/Say It 7” and on the right is the Bohemians - I Need You Baby/Say It 7 from 1967”. Both were pressed in runs of only 300. Less than 100 copies of the new GT one remain and can be ordered now via Almost Ready Records in Brooklyn or grabbed on Ebay. 

I’ve been telling the story til I’m blue in the face these past few years. So all I will say at this point is this is the only record I’ve ever played on that means anything at all or holds any weight for me personally. As a person with very few family ties, and a very minimal family spread thinly across the globe it acts as a thread between estranged kith and kin, the present and the past, and also the reasons I started making music at all when the first instrument was handed to me. We knew the group was dissolving before it was even released but it just seemed like an important record to exist. I want to thank Harry at the label for understanding that and being so enthusiastic about the project anyway. Thankfully they are almost sold-out so I am worrying less and enjoying it more.

As Shub and I enter different worlds lately touring with Dirty Beaches or Cosmetics, travelling around the world and doing things we’ve always wanted to do, I am so happy  our collaborative efforts of the past 4 years amounted to at least one 45RPM single that means something. I now feel like we did what we always wanted to do and we can finally move forward. Thank you! 

lntrn:

A Tip of the hat to GQ magazine for asking Alex (Dirty Beaches) to model for them. I picked this mag up at a Jersey Turnpike pit stop. The same one were Emily met Lady Gaga, perhaps fame visits said magic pit stop. 

Congrats Alex! I guess this means you’ve made it if I can find your picture at a pit stop!

:P

-Z