![]() ![]() Like, I know that it makes no sense to just drop an album online unless you’re Beyonce. In 1995, I would have gone toe to toe with anybody about what it takes to be in a band. I was in a band called Toy Boat, which is a remnant of the O Positive guys, and we released a record before Napster, iTunes, at the dawn of the internet. So Beth and I agreed to take a kindergartner approach in the studio, and the songs were going to be “Postcards from Kindergarten.” How long has it been since you’ve released music? How does this recording and release process compare to your past albums? No kindergarten kid ever goes back and fixes their finger painting. You could give a kindergarten kid any prompt on the planet, and they’ll just do it. That’s because I see songs like writing postcards: if you read a postcard, it doesn’t need to be “War and Peace.” In fact, if you think you’re going to create some epic work, you can give yourself quality paralysis.īut kindergartners can do anything. We had this agreement that the sessions were going to be just like hi-tech kindergarten-we’re just going to get together and have fun and see what we can do. In 2021, when people began getting vaccines and you could go out again, I visited my cousin Beth Burnett, who is also a producer, and she said I could come down to her home studio in Rhode Island to record some songs. I wrote about 60 songs during that period, not thinking I was going to do anything with them. I would just put on the voice memo app on my phone and grab my guitar and sing something, work on it, and then send an mp3 to my musician pals. Suddenly all the water around my boat was very calm. When COVID hit, I was stuck at home, I was always at point A. It might be there in the background, but then you get distracted-you have a class or work-and the fish is gone. ![]() I have this metaphor that a song idea is like a fish swimming around in this fishbowl in your skull. How did this EP come about?īefore the pandemic, I spent so much time traveling from point A to point B, from my house to school, so I never had time to write songs. recently caught up with Herlihy to talk about the new EP, his memories of O Positive and the Boston music scene, and the state of the music industry. Along with the release of the EP’s first single, “ The Invisible Girl,” Herlihy performed at The Burren in Somerville on Sept. 1,” an EP of tracks written and recorded during the pandemic. ![]() Now, roughly two decades since his last release, Herlihy is back with “Postcards From Kindergarten Vol. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern Universityīack in the day, the music video for “ Imagine That” was constantly playing in the Green Line Records office. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University David Herlihy, an instructor in the music department at Northeastern University. David Herlihy, an instructor in the music department at Northeastern University. More to the point, Herlihy is an embodiment of being great and getting paid in the music business: Before becoming a Northeastern instructor and entertainment lawyer, he was the frontman of O Positive, a mainstay of the Boston ’80s alt-rock scene. Students past or present in Northeastern’s music industry concentration are likely familiar with this mantra: “Be great, get paid.” That phrase is often said by program coordinator Dave Herlihy as a reminder that no matter what you do in the business-be an artist, work at a label, dive into ethnomusicology, and so on-you can make a living from your love for music with the right skills. ![]()
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