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TINTED WINDOWS - THE NEW SUPERGROUP
What do you get when you combine former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos, Hanson’s Taylor Hanson, and Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger? A new supergroup called Tinted Windows who has just finished recording their first album in NYC set to release this spring. They will play their first show on March 20th at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. If anyone is going to SxSW, report back to me about this project if you get to see them live … I’m highly curious and pretty damn excited. Adam Schlesinger is a great songwriter - he’s the mastermind behind the insanely catchy song “That Thing You Do”, the title track to the 1997 Tom Hanks movie of the same name. Not only one of my favorite movies, but one of my favorite songs of the 90s. I met Adam Schlesinger after a Fountains of Wayne concert in 2005. I scared him off after repeatedly announcing that “he’s the dude who wrote ‘That Thing You Do’!” and proclaiming him a genius to everyone in the vicinity. True story.
And Taylor Hanson is a highly underrated songwriter and musician. Everybody and their brother assumes Hanson faded somewhere around 2001, but they’ve matured into a pretty damn good band with two high quality releases over the last few years, 2004’s Underneath and 2007’s The Walk. Proof:
Tinted Window’s MySpace page doesn’t have any music up yet - we’ll be waiting…
