The Motel Beds

Bio:

The song­writ­ing duo of PJ Paslosky and Tommy Cooper, along with drum­mer Ian Kaplan (for­merly of Lab Part­ners) and bassist/vocalist John Lakes (for­merly of Mouth of the Archi­tect, Cap­tain of Indus­try) recorded their first EP Hasta Mañana in 2003 which made it’s rounds in the bud­ding blo­gos­phere world and was well-received, even­tu­ally selected by David Poe to be included on the com­pi­la­tion, Artist’s Den Vol­ume 1 (a new music series that has fea­tured acts like Heart­less Bas­tards and
The Secret Machines),

After record­ing and ditch­ing an album’s worth of mate­r­ial with producer/guitarist Patrick Himes (Ryan Adams, Zela­zowa) in 2005, the band dis­solved. Cooper played gui­tar with orig­i­nal Guided By Voices gui­tar player, Mitch Mitchell and later joined long-time friends in Cap­tain Of Indus­try. PJ col­lab­o­rated with sev­eral local musi­cians includ­ing vet­eran producer/guitarist, Dar­ryl Rob­bins. In 2009 the band reemerged, recruit­ing afore­men­tioned Dar­ryl Rob­bins who quickly went to work sort­ing, re-recording and pro­duc­ing the band’s large and unre­leased back cat­a­log along with a grow­ing batch of new material.

Rob­bins’ new role as engi­neer has led to fury of new releases includ­ing the Go For A Dive EP in 2009 and Moon­dazed (over an hour of low to mid to high-fi gems stiched together from years of home record­ings and stu­dio demos) in early 2010.

The band then spent the fol­low­ing months holed up in their rehearsal space record­ing and pro­duc­ing their first full-length stu­dio album, Feel­ings, a dynamic col­lec­tion of songs show­cas­ing the bands’ col­lec­tive and diverse influ­ences. While wait­ing for the pro­duc­tion of the album to com­plete the band started work on two more full length albums, already com­plet­ing one by the time Feel­ings saw it’s actual release.

The band has reemerged with a greater sense of urgency and cre­ative prowess and finally deliv­er­ing on their pro­lific nature. In addi­tion to the non­stop writ­ing and record­ing the band keeps busy by a num­ber of projects includ­ing Rob­bins’ recent gig in Robert Pollard’s cur­rent project Milko Waif & The Bug-Eyed Mums. Track the band down now and try to keep up.

Band Mem­bers:

Paul John Paslosky — Vocals
Tommy Cooper — Gui­tar
Ian Kaplan — Drums
Dar­ryl Rob­bins — Gui­tar
Tod Wei­d­ner — Bass

Music:

West­ern Son

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Discog­ra­phy:

Hasta Mañana EP (Team Evil, 2004)
Go For A Dive EP (Fic­tion­band Mechan­ics, 2009)
Moon­dazed (Fic­tion­band Mechan­ics, 2010)
Feel­ings (Fic­tion­band Mechan­ics, 2010)
Sun­fried Dreams (self released, 2011)

Links:

Band Web­site
MySpace
Band­Camp