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The first 13 tunes are the Brown Carpet Studios session, recorded during a break between semesters in Dec 1986 - Jan 1987. The Full Moon Studios session were the remaining 3 tunes, with some classic EBA recorded in their basement rehearsal space.

Both sessions were recorded with the guitar, bass, and drums recorded live and vocals, acoustic guitar, and lead guitar overdubbed. Andy engineered and produced the recordings with a TEAC 4-track reel-to-reel recorder and a rented mixing board.
Everything But Anchovies
Members: 
Jon Morse - drums
Tim Odell - bass, vocals
Andy Wyatt - vocals, guitars

Years of Activity:
1978-1995

Overview:
Started as Voyager in 1979. Briefly included Pete Downes as rhythm guitarist. Changed name to The Raid in 1981, and to Everything But Anchovies in 1986. Played about 85 gigs around Ithaca, NY and a few nearby towns between 1980-1989. Most were at The Nines (16), second-most at Oliver's (11), third-most at the Hidden Valley 4H camp (11), and fourth-most at T.J. Tuesday's (8). After the last gig, a live TV broadcast in November 1989, we didn't play again until 1991, when we got together for a reunion jam at Andy's new house (see Spreading More Jam). We did likewise at Jon's new house in 1993 for the first Voyager reunion, then in 1995 we started getting together for EBA improv sessions. This evolved into Killer Whirlpool by 1996.