Bass player spreads wings, falls flat on his face. No one around to pick up pieces.

Pierce Edens and the Dirty Work bass player, one-man marketing department, and the self proclaimed “only band member who has his shit together”, recently broke out of his bass player mold to become the front man for the one man band “Gamelan” with their/his first solo, a self-named single, Gamelan. Not knowing any other instruments (or any instrument according to multi-instrumentalist Matthew “Beany Maters” Smith), Michael relied on the tools in his computer geek arsenal, including Final Cut, Garage Band, and his uncanny sense of bad rhythm. He also spent 15 minutes searching the internet to try and find more useless instruments, but then something shiny distracted him.
Although he is part of a band that has received several wonderful accolades from the adoring press and music industry, as with almost every single solo project, his music sucks. Thinking the project a joke, best friend and clothing expert Galen Holland laughed in his face. Pierce told him to quit his job. And leave town. His loving pregnant wife told him never to play that racket around their child or she would leave him. He couldn’t tell if she was serious.
After a brief run on Casey Kasem’s American Top 40, the song is now only available as a bootleg from Japan or on the Pierce Edens and the Dirty Work website. LISTEN TO THE TRACK HERE. Really.