Mount Saint Echo

Hi all - my band band I get to do with other people just dropped our first EP.
Go on, give a listen! Please and thank you

JFP ep, by JFP 4 track album

Oh my gah! I haven't done a g-damn thing in like 6 months! Not for lack of trying. But it is almost Christmas so jingle the dingles and give Santa a Fanta! Always remind the ones you love that they are special. You know... 😉
https://youtu.be/dQdLCyzq1kg

Mount Saint Echo - Merry Christmas, Darling (The Carpenters cover) Merry Christmas, Darling Written by Frank Pooler and Richard Carpenter (copyright 1970)(Published by Irving Music, BMI: 355698807)

Swag!

Perseids is coming!
“So keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars”

Perseids is coming!

The 'Best Meteor Shower Of The Year' Is Happening. Here's How You Can See It. The Perseids meteor shower has been called "The best meteor shower of the year." It peaks in mid-August.

Tracking guitars last night at home. Vocals are next, then off for mixing and mastering. First single should be premiering soon on all your favorite platforms.

Tracking some things at home for a first official single tonight, but was reminded that this oddball misfit is almost 10 years old. I wrote it in basement apartment in Shrewsbury between the hours of 1 am and 6 am after watching Repo Man (which is where my main band J Frank Parnell gets its moniker from).
https://youtu.be/tGha3gzFAi0

Insomnia [Draft] - J Vigeant All music written by Justin Vigeant (2020) (There are no words)

Happy to say some drum tracks were recorded today. As much as I am trying to do the “bedroom recording” thing, no amount of tricks can fool my ears into believing programmed midi vst drums could sound as good as the real thing. Thanks to Roger Lavallee for doing all the technical / engineering stuff and Greg “Artie” Olsen for hitting drums and cymbals with sticks.

It’s been a lot of years since I’ve performed in front of an audience, and somehow playing in front of people is much easier than playing in front of a camera in my room.
Anyway, trying to kick off the rust and get ready for the end of social distancing, so here’s me covering Buffalo Tom’s “Frozen Lake.”
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNJM6NMnyyw/?igshid=1vw55cw1721c0

Buffalo Tom cover

I had a virtual "drum" lesson yesterday with the indomitable and ever gracious Zach Lind from Jimmy Eat World. We talked about some drumming concepts, like how to push the song along with subtle changes to beats, as well as some cool home studio ideas for virtual kits to try in Logic. I'll be taking a few of my demo songs and deconstructing them until I have what I feel is a proper, listenable 4 song EP to share with the world (in the spirit of my favorite Revelation Records releases of the mid-90s).
We move at a snail's pace, but we keep moving. :)
For my drummer friends: Zach has been offering lessons online and his schedule seems pretty flexible. Dude is super knowledgeable and really down to earth. Follow him on Twitter or Insta if interested, as he announces when he has slots opening.
https://youtu.be/jkso-v1sh2g

Jimmy Eat World- Lucky Denver Mint (Live at iheartradio 1/13/17) Jimmy Eat World's live performance of "Lucky Denver Mint" from iheartradio on 1/13/17. All rights go to Jimmy Eat World.

>> markskinradio.com

Remember the 20-aughts? I try not to. Those were confusing times for me but I was lucky enough to be in a band with some very cool folks. Said band had a MySpace page and, well, we all know what happened with that. I caught wind of SpaceHey yesterday and decided to build a profile. In the era of social media 2.0, MySpace seemed so much simpler (or maybe I was just simpler). SpaceHey seems to try to recapture the early MySpace vibe, so in that spirit, I leave this here:
https://spacehey.com/mountsaintecho

Mount Saint Echo's Profile | SpaceHey.com SpaceHey.com — a space for friends. It's a friendly place to have fun, meet friends, and be creative!

New name, same game. I decided I felt awkward about self-promotion, so maybe if I went under a different moniker, it might feel less about "me"... the name alludes to a mass of equipment that used to reside in a practice space I habited with Burd and Asimilados and J Frank Parnell. One key facet of said pile was an old Roland Space Echo unit that I drooled at. Not deep, but with enough time I'm sure I could construct a better narrative.

Mount Saint Echo updated their website address.

I ascribe to the belief that art and music do not exist in a vacuum, but act upon and within a cultural, economic, and political ecosystem. Although I have written more politically charged songs in other projects, this project has been more introspective. Nevertheless, even introspection derives from worldview, inseparable from the collective anxieties of our friends and families.

This is an historical moment to be greatly celebrated.

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On 12/31/2010 I moved back home to MA after 9 years living outside of Atlanta (OTP). Over the past decade I've continued to write songs, play in bands, buy far too much gear, experiment with home recordings on Garageband, etc. I've had a handful of songs from this period that just kind of lived in silos on YouTube or an external hard drive collecting dust.
It took the pandemic to give me enough of an attention span to re-explore some of the ideas, as well as write some newer songs; some brand new, some based on an orphaned riff or two that opened up new ideas to follow. To kind of "centralize" it all and share, I figured a social media page would be of help. I also wanted to, as an act of superfluous catharsis, give a space to reflect on the past 10 years: the hope, pessimism, successes, failures, and everything in between. This is documentation of a decade peppered with so much movement and evolution that will certainly not cease anytime soon, but perhaps warranted a mile marker for keeping track.