103.7 The Mountain » John Fisher http://blogs.1037themountain.com Just another www.radio-blogs.net weblog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:39:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Quickpost http://blogs.1037themountain.com/johnfisher/2010/09/02/quickpost-1378/ http://blogs.1037themountain.com/johnfisher/2010/09/02/quickpost-1378/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:23:34 +0000 John Fisher http://blogs.1037themountain.com/johnfisher/2010/09/02/quickpost-1378/ Ex-Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page explains why he left the band — the true story on my blog.

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I thought it was so he’d have an excuse to come to Seattle, explain himself, and play stuff from his new solo album. Well, he did do all of that in the Carter Subaru Mountain Music Lounge (the video’s up on our homepage right now,) but here’s the real story of his departure from BNL:

steven page on BNL

His new solo album, Page One, is coming out at the end of September and a tour will follow, so I’m pretty sure he’ll be back.

Just to satisfy my own curiosity, I asked Steven about the background of one of my favorite BNL songs, One Week:

steven page on one week

And for old time’s sake, here’s a really cool acoustic version of that song, recorded in Ed Robertson’s bathroom:

Finally, this may or not be renowned actor Morgan Freeman covering One Week:




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Welcome to September!

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