JEZEBEL MUSIC FEATURE

Falcon (pictured) is Jezebel Music’s Feature Artist for January 2009. With openers Worst Case Ontario, Spanish Prisoners, and No Eye Contact, Falcon will headline the January Feature Show at Union Pool on Thursday, January 29.

Last week we told you that although Falcon is not a cover band, “Not one of the songs Falcon has recorded or performs live was written by a member of the band.” And we lied. Well, exaggerated is more like it.

It is true that the songs you will hear Falcon perform live and those on their self-titled EP were all written in 1987 by a teenage boy named Jared Falcon, with whom two members of the band attended junior high school. But it is also true that the members of Falcon wrote four songs to “accompany” a book, O Great Rosenfeld (by Daniel Wallace).

Check it out!

To be continued next Wednesday…

JEZEBEL MUSIC FEATURE
Falcon

Falcon (pictured) is Jezebel Music’s Feature Artist for January 2009. With openers Worst Case Ontario, Spanish Prisoners, and No Eye Contact, Falcon will headline the January Feature Show at Union Pool on Thursday, January 29.

Few bands have a more unique back-story than Falcon. Note several facts about the band:

[1] Not one of the songs Falcon has recorded or performs live was written by a member of the band.
[2] Another Falcon song cannot be written. The band’s repertoire will inevitably one day be exhausted.
[3] Falcon is not a cover band.

Quite the conundrum, no? Here are some answers:

[1] All of Falcon’s material was written by a teenage boy, named Jared Falcon, in the later part of the 80’s and archived on a Fisher Price tape recorder.
[2] Jared wrote and recorded close to a song a day for an entire year, until he was institutionalized in February 1988. He is no longer alive.
[3] Wikipedia says a cover song is a “new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.” If someone were to stumble upon 300-plus songs written by a songwriting prodigy in the 80’s and flesh the songs out with a full band two decades later, this does not by definition a cover make. (You can’t accurately call Falcon a “tribute band” either – a band paying tribute to a passed musical friend is more like it.)

To be continued next Wednesday…