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11.22.09100 Questions: BOBBY ROGAN (Fig Mints of Your Imagination)Here's Bobby... 1 You can take one record to a desert island for the rest of your life - what would it be? Probably Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand. Never get sick of it. Continue Reading...
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04.02.09Review: FIG MINTS (OF YOUR IMAGINATION) – Excercises In FutilityThe boundaries of home recording equipment have been removed for quite some time. Long gone are the days of four-track cassette machines and bouncing; the art of scotch-tape over the protection tabs on Michael Bolton tapes given as gifts from far removed relatives because the store was closed seems almost lost. Digital interface, non-destructive editing, primitive pitch correction, and a galaxy of on-board effects at "reasonably affordable" prices makes analog craft boxes seem archaic and knucklish. The mix tape is gone, the mp3 era as arrived, and the wake created a great wind that set the lo-fi ...
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09.03.08Biography: Fig Mints (Of Your Imagination)FIG MINTS (OF YOUR IMAGINATION)Fig Mints is the brainchild of Bobby Rogan (real name "Pinky"), a band name that he flippantly coined to make fun of himself recording without a band, and he's been reluctantly stuck with ever since ("I had this idea to mix instrumental versions of my songs and do a self-styled karaoke with each "band member" having a part in the act that was prerecorded and very self-deprecating"). Unofficially coming into existence in the Spring of 2004 after moving into the actual Cozy Home on Henry Street, Utica NY - Bobby was inspired by the music and madness of that ...
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08.29.08Bobby On “The Passionate Misunderstanding”"The Passionate Misunderstanding" That's what I should have called "Hugs and Smiles". It was a phrase uttered by my good friend Alan while talking indirectly about a situation that was happening in my life at the time, the gory details of which I have only shared with one other person. This situation was well documented in, though at times obscured by the language of the lyrics in most of the songs on "Hugs and Smiles". I was too chickenshit to call that album "The Passionate Misunderstanding". I though that the person that I wrote most of the songs about would find ...