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We played Pack out, Sole East, Street Food adn Navy Beach in that order.
We were booked at Sel Rose but the bartender was a douchebag so we walked out. enjoy
Mellish played Industry, November 18, 2023. 1 Long set, lots of great folks there for the event. We love this place! enjoy
Mellish played an intimate show in a garden in Water Mill, Long Island. The event was the wedding of John Vincent Degen. Johns home is a match for his uniqueness and we enjoyed meandering through garden paths with him that night enjoying cold drinks on a humid evening. A joy and honor to play. enjoy
Mellish played the 12th annual Montauk Music Festival in May of 2023. We played Friday and Saturday all in door gigs as the rain was steady and hard. Sel Rose, Montauket, Bounce and Gurneys.
All memorable gigs and a whole lot of fun. A big huge thanks to Kenny and Sue for putting these festivals together every year and to all the great folks that came out to support us and take in all the other great musicians on display. John Carey - Bass Guitar; Marc Hoffman - Drums, Guitar, Backing Vocals; Tim McAuley - Drums, Guitar, Backing Vocals; Frank Pipolo - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Chris Del Pilar - Guitar, effects. click links above to listen.
Grandview Music House Dec, 2022. First show Post-Pandemic with lots of energy from the boys and the folks in attendance. A nice cross section of songs with a pretty fun version of American Boy. John Carey - Bass Guitar; Marc Hoffman - Drums, Guitar, Backing Vocals; Tim McAuley - Drums, Guitar, Backing Vocals; Frank Pipolo - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica. Many thanks to Peg and Joe for hosting this huge bash every year. enjoy
On August 7, 2022 Mellish (the masons) played Industry in Huntington Village. Once again a fantastic crowd, great vibe, and all around a fun evening. Todd Gardella joined us on lead electric. John Carey - Bass Guitar; Marc Hoffman - Drums, Guitar, Backing Vocals; Tim McAuley - Drums, Guitar, Backing Vocals; Frank Pipolo - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica enjoy
Mellish played the 11th annual Montauk Music Festival in May of 2022. In addition to opening the Lighthouse Stage Saturday, we were fortunate to play Gurneys, Sole East, Shag Won and the Montauk Circle.
All memorable gigs and a whole lot of fun. A big huge thanks to Kenny and Sue for putting these festivals together every year and to all the great folks that came out to support us and take in all the other great musicians on display. John Carey - Bass Guitar; Marc Hoffman - Drums, Guitar, Backing Vocals; Tim McAuley - Drums, Guitar, Backing Vocals; Frank Pipolo - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, John Pinnella - Pedal Steel Guitar enjoy
Memorial Day 1999 - Mellish was invited to play the Smiths point State Park Memorial Day Concert. Line up - John Carey - Bass Guitar; Marc Hoffman - Drums, Guitar; Tim McAuley - Drums, Guitar, Backing Vocals; Frank Pipolo - Vocals, Harmonica. enjoy
Grandview Music House 2019 Christmas Party. Tim and Frank and a full house. A few new fun covers and some great sing-along. Many thanks to Peg and Joe for hosting this huge bash every year. enjoy
Many thanks to Peg and Joe for hosting this huge bash every year. enjoy
Montauket: enjoy / TAUK: enjoy / Swallow: enjoy
A collection of unprocessed, un-mastered, 1st takes from the dusty digital vault:
Find Your Way / Tired Heart / Water so Deep / Mother / Acumen /
See The Light / Look at you / Wake / This Way / Hear You Say
A way About Her / Road / Blue Bird / Wake
Springwood Session. Another tape from the below mentioned black plastic bag Marc recovered. This one had the ribbon split in half and dangling. Some scotch tape and we were back in business. Gotta love analog! This is an interesting snapshot of the creative process circa 97' / 98'. Usually involved finding a place to set up and having at it with words and riffs we'd accumulated. Recording at Springwood Lane, Huntington Village (Macs then girlfriend now wife condo). Place had a spacious basement and I can't recall their being a particular time we had to quit so it worked pretty well for us in those days. Theres a wonderful youthfulness and creative spirit in these simple recordings. A few tunes (Blood, I Love You) worked on for what appears to be the first time or at least 'works in process''. line up: Tim McAuley - guitar, drums; Marc Hoffman - guitar, drums; Frank Pipolo - vocals; Chris Hoffman - conga. enjoy
Phase 1: Marc was cleaning his garage and came across a wrinkled black plastic bag that contained this tape. Recorded off the sound board at Phase I studio in Farmingdale, NY sometime in the late 90's.
Pretty cool snapshot of us rehearsing for a gig. Some oldies on here (Tioga, No Direction, Row, and Hannah) line up: Tim McAuley - guitar, drums, backing vocal; Marc Hoffman - guitar, drums; Frank Pipolo - vocals; John Carey - Bass guitar; Rob Manaseri; Electric guitarist. enjoy
Bru na Bo anniversary show: The 10 year anniversary show at Bru na Bo - September 16, 2017. A great crowd of folks. Was nice to mix the new material in with the older tunes. All around a great night. A big thanks to Jack and Lauren for 10 years of great music and organizing these events. line up: Tim McAuley - guitar, drums, backing vocal; Marc Hoffman - guitar, drums, backing vocal, Frank Pipolo - vocals, guitar; John Carey - Bass guitar; John Pinnella - pedal steel guitar. enjoy
Grandview Music house, December 17, 2016. No Marc this year so we made it happen shorthanded with a little help from our friends. Special guests include Vito Monti on drums, Aaron Sobol freestyle.Line up: Tim McAuley - guitar, drums; Vito Monti - Drums, Frank Pipolo - vocals, guitar, harmonica; John Carey - Bass, vaporizer; John Pinnella - pedal steel guitar; Aaron Sobol - freestyle. enjoy
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Grandma's Songs for Taylor. Recorded November 1993 & July 1997. Line up: Grandma - vocals, tape recorder, Listen here & Listen here
Line up: Marc Hoffman - guitar, backing vocals, Conga/ Tim McAuley - guitar, backing vocals, conga/ John Carey - stand up bass - John Pinnella - Dobro/ Christina Ahlsen - cello/ Frank Pipolo - vocals, guitar, harmonica. enjoy
Live at Harvest: This is a series of tracks we recorded at Harvest during the the 4th Annual Montauk Music Festival in Montauk NY. They were recorded on an iPhone 5 using DAW multi-track. The quality is not bad.Our friends Brendan O'Shea and Michael Brunnock joined us for a few songs. John Pinnella accompanied us on pedal steel. John has a wonderfully delicate touch which adds a subtle but unmistakable texture to our music. All and all a very wonderful Friday and Saturday Night. There are plenty of tunes here so enjoy. Line up: Marc Hoffman - guitar, backing vocals, Conga/ Tim McAuley - guitar, backing vocals, conga/ John Pinnella - pedal steel guitar/ Frank Pipolo - vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica. (Michael Brunnock - guitar, vocal/ Brendan O'Shea - Guitar and vocal where indicated) enjoy
Grandview Music House: Recorded December 2012 and December 2010 at the Annual Grandview Street Christmas Party. Interesting people, plenty of food and spirits and genuine appreciation of our tunes. We'll take that mix any day of the week! Line up: Marc Hoffman - guitar, backing vocals, drums/ Tim McAuley - guitar, backing vocals, drums/ John Carey - bass - John Pinnella - pedal steel guitar/ Frank Pipolo - vocals, guitar, harmonica.
Montauk Sessions version 3: Each year Marc, Tim and I head to Montauk in the fall for a 2 day musical retreat of sorts. We approach these sessions pretty seriously as they represent the only significant stretch of time we have each year to create. Here is the latest installment completed in November of 2012. We're proud of these tracks - some are unlike anything we've done but all have that stripped down feel - acoustic guitars, a few well positioned mic's a great sounding room (thx Dan, Sue, Margaret, and Joe). Line up: Marc Hoffman - guitar, backing vocals/ Tim McAuley - guitar, backing vocals/ Frank Pipolo - vocals, guitar.
Montauk Sessions version 2: Here you will find Montauk Sessions 2010. Featured are some nice tracks and the first integration of an ebo on a mellish tune called 'Nothings New'. There are a few notable renditions of songs such as Neil Young s 'Birds' and a tuned called Gypsy written about a good friend of ours that passed away. Line up: Marc Hoffman - guitar, backing vocals/ Tim McAuley - guitar, backing vocals/ Frank Pipolo - vocals, guitar, Dobro harmonica. enjoy
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The Bayville Sessions: During the process of mixing Wiser Eye Tim and I headed out to Marc’s place in Bayville, NY a few times. One evening was especially productive and produced a few tracks that we liked so much we almost changed the Wiser Sessions mid-stream to incorporate them. Unfortunately that never happened and these tracks fell into obscurity – although we do play them from time to time. These are raw first takes but still nice. Line up: Marc Hoffman - guitar/ Tim McAuley - guitar/ Frank Pipolo - vocals, guitar. enjoy
ION deck transfer from analog tape: Preparing to record Chivatos we often rehearsed at Marc and Karyn's apartment on Old Country Road in Melville. During this period a clever gentlemen named John Heagle was part of mellish - an interesting guy and a great guitarist. Some of these feature Heagle some just the 4 of us. So A handful of tunes we were working on for the Chivatos album as well as a few numbers we often did live at that time. Line up: Marc Hoffman - guitar, drums/ Tim McAuley - guitar, drums/ John Carey - bass/ John Heagle - guitar/ Frank Pipolo - vocals. UPDATED 6/27
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Mellish: Although there was a compilation that circulated prior to this called ‘Help’, this is the first official album we cut - recorded in Deer Park at Yogi Studios with our friend Frank Belushi and released in 1999. The entire album was done in 2 afternoons. The recording was done on a reel-to-reel machine and then transferred to DAT. If I remember correctly John Carey brought along a friend who sat quietly in the corner listening. I remember wondering if she hated us because her expression was hard to read. Either way it served to motivate a good performance I suppose. Notable here are some early numbers like ‘Countryside’, ‘Breeze Way’, ‘Tioga’ and ‘Understand’. A baby Hannah Pipolo can be heard on 'Sunshine' unfolding a picture she drew for us. Enjoy. Line up: Marc Hoffman - guitar, drums/ Tim McAuley - guitar, drums/ John Carey - bass/ Rob Manaceri - guitar/ Frank Pipolo - vocals, harmonica. enjoy
ION deck transfer from analog tape: On occasion mellish would set up in Marty and Betty Diviney's den in their home in Huntington. A very nice couple and the parents of Peg, my sister (in law). Peg and Joe were living there as they saved for a home. Marty and Betty traveled quite a bit back then and it was on those occasions that mellish would be invited to come by. We'd fill the room with 20 or so friends and play all night. This is an analog recording of 4 tunes captured on a 4 track recorder. Its serves as a good snapshot of where we were at in 1998. Sound quality is not bad. Line up: Marc Hoffman - guitar, drums/ Tim McAuley - guitar, drums/ John Carey - bass/ Frank Pipolo - vocals. enjoy
ION deck transfer from analog tape: I Purchased an ION tape deck which transfers analog to digital for manipulation. Very useful tool for us as much of our earlier stuff is buried on old Maxell tapes. I recently resurrected the lone Maxell that features the origins of mellish. Most of these were done in the time period between 1995-1997. The track 'That's the way' represents the first time we played together. Tim had heard some stuff Marc and I had recorded on a primitive tape recorder and liked it. He asked us to come by one night -we did. A few notable tracks - Inspired, Guerrilla and Rasputin. All very raw material and sound quality is not the best. These were tunes we played regularly back in 97'. Now that we have the device I will attempt to resurrect some other worthy material - possibly some live stuff from Mercury etc...Enjoy. Line up: Marc Hoffman - guitar, drums/ Tim McAuley - guitar, drums/ John Carey - bass/ Frank Pipolo - vocals, harmonica/ (Jon Johnnnidis - guitar on 'Thats the Way'). enjoy
ION deck transfer from analog tape: As mentioned above the ION has proved useful. Here are some tracks that were buried on cassettes, stored in an old smelly gym bag (you'll get the symbolism once you hear them). Marc had taken the time to triage these way back about 8 years ago but we were never able to make sense of them till now. I've only listed stuff I feel is worthy of listening to - although this is subjective. When I have some time to burn i'll add some more. Line up: Marc Hoffman - guitar, drums/ Tim McAuley - guitar, drums/ John Carey - bass/ Frank Pipolo - vocals, harmonica. enjoy
A little about us
mellish has been making music for quite some time - originally forming in 1995. We evolved much the same way most bands do. We started out playing for friends and local parties and shortly graduated to paying gigs. Huntington Village gave way to New York City gigs which we enjoy very much. We've been fortunate to play The Mercury Lounge, Arlene Grocery, Meow Mix, Opium Den, The Bitter End and recently Rockwood Music Hall. The past few years we've played a lot less due to life's persistent calling. We like to think we make those infrequent gigs very special.
We've always meshed well. One of us always seems to have a response to where the other is attempting to go creatively. We're blessed in that music happens to us very naturally - Its unforced. There are definite influences to our sound. We like to think we are influenced by a lifetime of listening intently. We strive to keep the material fresh. Although we don’t get the opportunity to work as much as we'd like - there is a definite evolution that takes place. We're proud of what we've been able to create over the years. Thanks for listening!
Help with downloading. We've always meshed well. One of us always seems to have a response to where the other is attempting to go creatively. We're blessed in that music happens to us very naturally - Its unforced. There are definite influences to our sound. We like to think we are influenced by a lifetime of listening intently. We strive to keep the material fresh. Although we don’t get the opportunity to work as much as we'd like - there is a definite evolution that takes place. We're proud of what we've been able to create over the years. Thanks for listening!
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