Mist and Mast

Jason Lakis started the band The Red Thread in 2002, put out 3 albums on Badman Recording Co., and disbanded in the summer of 07. He had been writing for his “solo project” since around the summer of 06, and a year later he found himself with an album’s worth of songs, which he dubbed Mist and Mast. He spent about a year writing and recording the album in his apartment in Oakland, CA. Most of the songs were written on acoustic guitar, and then built up from there using drums (and thick foam core on the windows so as not to upset the neighbors), organs (donated) bass and other percussive doo-dads. He sang and played all the instruments on the album. The debut album, which was self titled, came out in October of 2007 on the Oakland Petting Zoo label. The live band consists of any of these dudes who are available at the time...primarily Craig Adams, Mike Schmiedt, Tim Wright and Dan Martin.