Suitcase

Shortly after releasing their debut CD, Peter Buck (R.E.M.) saw Suitcase play at the Crocodile. He approached Don after the set and bought a CD. Several months later, during and interview for The Big Takeover magazine, this is what he said:

"That's the thing. You can always find great stuff, but it just seems like it's fewer and farther between. Just in the last year I've seen THE VERVE, SPIRITUALIZED, RADIOHEAD, all relatively young bands that I thought were amazing. But then I probably see maybe 20 bands in a 30-day period around home. I'm the oldest guy in the room, but I can't tell you how many of them...well, I like one song, maybe. I just saw this band in Seattle called SUITCASE. I'd never heard of them. They were really good-kind of art-rock, but poppy art-rock. I went up to them afterwards and said, 'Geez, I haven't seen a band that was unheralded in a long time that I liked'. There's so few, generally somebody else will tell you"

Lisabeula was produced wayyyy back in 2001. It was recorded on 8-track ADAT and then dumped into a lame Pro Tools rig. Don spent countless hours pouring over tracks and over-thinking everything! Despite his maniacal tinkering, it didn't turn out half bad.