My experience with Jim Jim revolved around music. As teens we were both enraptured with pop music which couldn’t be found on the radio – at least no radio we ever heard. We wanted to hear what was playing in London and New York, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, the Ramones, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, Television, Tom Verlaine, and in Portland, the Neo Boys and the Wipers.
So I knew music was an essential feature to Alien Boy. Brian set the theme for the production – get people I liked to work with. So the choice for a person to wrangle the sound was obvious – Charlie Campbell.
Charlie’s been making music since the early 90s and it really just gets better with each piece. With Chris Brady and Dave Triebwasser, Charlie’s band Pond toured the world on the alt college charts for most of the decade with three CDs (they were called LPs back the, kiddies), Pond, The Practice of Joy Before Death for Sub Pop, and Rock Collection for the Sony label Work. Even better were the leftovers from Pond, which Charlie created into Goldcard, on Off Records.
I’m very proud to have Charlie on the team. He created our web site, which looks terrific. I am looking forward to his continued creativity creating and shaping the sounds for Alien Boy.
