My Music

• 1987, Wellington, New Zealand
• 1990, Auckalnd, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, New Zealand
• 1993, Seattle, Minneapolis, Boston, Dallas, New Orleans, USA
• 1996, Valencia and Barcelona, Spain, Padova and Venice Italy, and London
• 1999, Lower Hutt, New Zealand and Egypt*
• 2000, Seattle and Port Townsend, Washington, USA
• 2002, Galway Country and County Claire, Ireland
• 2006, Hutt Valley, New Zealand

*False

Sadly, we have lost all our prized possessions: our early demo tape, our second release ("Not This Side"), and a legendary written document entitled Bungling in Wellingtton [sic]. We do have a couple more recent recordings, like Tune-up, Kevin's Couch, The Whistle Ducks, How to Teach Children What's on the End of Most Arms. Hopefully more will turn up, and we're at work on some new material via internet. We also have lots of funny pictures somewhere. If I find them, you'll see them here first.

cl8n8 (June-July 2008)

I and Dobro-player/vocalist Clayton Carden went through the entire process of having a band in record time: we formed, wrote songs, debuted, rocked the house, recorded, played our final gigs, and broke up in record time. Performing with us on occasion were bassist Joey McGill and vocalist Catherine Naiser. Our five-song e.p. is on its way—check back soon for some links! (No pun intended.)

UPDATE 9/14/08: Well heck, we got back together.

Here's how, in the words of Sir Paul McCartney, we must have been feeling about our breakup:

"Whatever happened to the life that we once knew,

Can we really live without each other?

Where did we lose the touch that used to mean so much

You always made me feel so free..."

Please check out some of the rough mixes from the forthcoming EP on my Myspace page.

UPDATE: 1/17/09: Had a great gig in Frankfort, which prompted us to break up again instantly. All members of band feel overwhelming sense of freedom.

Nate Link and the World Champions (2003-2005)
A fun and ambitious musical project at Yale. Variously an eight- to ten-piece ensemble, consisting mainly of graduate students in the Yale music program. Along with my original material, we performed a number of pieces from Latin America, as well as a handful of funk and pop covers. Collectively, we liked Everbody (my first foray into the adult-contemporary genre), our versions of Albert & Me (not yet mixed) and Boat Race (not quite mixed yet) best. I liked Different Shapes & Sizes, too.

Ripple (1997-1999)

Really a very good band, with Jonathan Wynne-Rose (then known as Jonathan Woolverton) on vocals and guitar and Peter Thermos on drums. I sang and played bass. Most of my best songs so far are from the Ripple era. It truly seemed at times like we were going to make it somewhere. Blown Away and The Meanest Girl I Ever Knew even got Seattle airplay. Albert & Me is without question top-ten hit material. We had some good gigs at good places. We had managers (albeit incompetent ones). Our engineer, Steve Feasley was the best in town. What happened? Not sure. Maybe it was my unconscious resentment that Peter wouldn't let us play Back to Life, one of my favorite original songs. (So I recorded it on my own, in the version you hear here.)

The Stinkees (dates unclear/unknown)

It's hard to know how to describe the Stinkees. I suppose at the very least, one could accurately call the group a duo. I sang and played various things, mostly guitar, and "Dirty" Dave Duhig played bass, sang, and did all sorts of other things I still don't understand. I think we were somehow Irish-themed. We recorded four albums, mostly unreleased--literally: we recorded and mixed them, made cover art, slapped labels on the CDs, and left it at that, not distributing them to anyone. For our own safety, I think. The material we did release fared surprisingly poorly. For reasons we cannot comprehend, no one much seemed to like Bangers & Mash, Taco del Marco, My Girlfriend is a Slut, Dick Butkus, I'm a Zerg, of Goodmns, nor a bunch of other ones that got us banned from pretty much anyplace you could be banned from, so I won't put 'em up here. Clean Little Sparkly Dave is full of charm, and still, no one that I can recall has even confessed to liking that one. And can someone please explain what has kept The Jackal off the charts, still to this day? What gives? I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist, but something smells fishy here... (And I haven't even mentioned Shoeshine Charlie)

Halibujenkins (1991-1994)
A strange and eclectic group. I sang and played guitar, Nate Shaw played keyboards, Alex Nyhan played bass, and Jamie Morris played drums. Our adventures included two east-coast tours under dangerous conditions, with unreliable transportation, and living on a fixed "per diem" of $7.00. Apparently some of our tracks have been digitized. I'm waiting for them to show up in my inbox. At this point, I can offer only Beata's Blues and Truck Drivin'.