For more information about the band and these songs, read The Road to Mercy Music: The Oral History of Absent Minded, Lydia Vance and Deadhand. This is their story, as told by Jarred Cooper (Lydia Vance, Deadhand, Mercy Music),  Adam Fisher (Absent Minded), Rye Martin (Mercy Music), Travis Naegle (Absent Minded), Rocko (Absent Minded), Brendan Scholz (Absent Minded, Lydia Vance, Deadhand, Mercy Music) and Aaron Weislogel (Lydia Vance, Deadhand), as well as other musicians and friends who knew the band. ...

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Thursday, April 4 was what I’ve come to find is a pretty standard night at Favorites. Sets by Success, Poke da Squid, TheCore. and Deadhand were punctuated (and often accompanied by) the antics of one overly drunk helmet-wearing, gymnastically-inclined bar patron who spent the evening dancing onto stage barefoot, only to fall backward and be picked up by a like-minded man equipped with a far too dangerous laser pointer. So that sets the stage, right? ...

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