Artist Bio
Influences: A lot of you wonderful Fawmers!
Eric Distad is a singer/songwriter from Oregon. By day, he is a mild-mannered IT Professional, but by night he is a not-quite-as-mild-mannered musician...
This is his NINETEENTH FAWM!
Again this year, we are publishing our Geeky tracks as collabs with our band account @thefaithfulsidekicks.
Looking for the Geeky combined talents of Eric and Jen - Head over to @thefaithfulsidekicks page. :)
BTW - The Faithful Sidekicks have four CDs out! The fourth one - Sales of Interest - dropped last September!!
https://thefaithfulsidekicks.bandcamp.com
Songs (19)
| #1 | Never Been Fed Forever @thefaithfulsidekicks |
24 Feb 2022 |
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| #2 | That Little Ice Voice |
23 Feb 2022 |
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| #3 | Wound Around |
9 Feb 2022 |
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| #4 | Why's There So Much Space @thefaithfulsidekicks |
9 Feb 2022 |
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| #5 | Civil War |
9 Feb 2022 |
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| #6 | Weirdo @thefaithfulsidekicks |
8 Feb 2022 |
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| #7 |  Taste of Giving Up @dasbinky
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18 Feb 2022 |
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| #8 | The Way Into My Heart @jmadison |
11 Feb 2022 |
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| #9 | Mt. Midas |
8 Feb 2022 |
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| #10 | The Box I Was Delivered In @jlampson |
9 Feb 2022 |
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| #11 | Do Not Reply To All @thefaithfulsidekicks |
7 Feb 2022 |
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| #12 | GNU @thefaithfulsidekicks |
10 Feb 2022 |
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| #13 | Ready To Leap @thefaithfulsidekicks |
7 Feb 2022 |
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| #14 | Extended Warranty @thefaithfulsidekicks
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10 Feb 2022 |
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| #15 | Breathe Out |
4 Feb 2022 |
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| #16 | Welcome to the Club @thefaithfulsidekicks
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5 Feb 2022 |
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| #17 | So Tired @thefaithfulsidekicks |
3 Feb 2022 |
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| #18 | That's Not How It Works! @thefaithfulsidekicks |
5 Feb 2022 |
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| #19 | Blow This Town @thefaithfulsidekicks |
4 Feb 2022 |
Soundboard
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@fireball Mar 2022
and congrats to you, too, mr. distad. i scanned the site throughout february, and even sampled a few songs. but i was pre-occupied up till march 9, the date of a big med school exam. i'll see if i can catch up and comment a bit for the rest of march.
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@frogspawn Mar 2022
@frogspawn thanks you for those nice comments on the @pointlessaccount/@frogspawn post-FAWM FAWM. And will ooze over @timfatchen to return the compliment, because he owes me for not taking over his mind for more than 24 hours.
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@burrsettles Mar 2022
19 for 19! congratulations!!!!!
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@carleybaer Mar 2022
Thanks for your comment on the sausage song! To answer your question, I stumbled upon a Bavarian section in the Apple Loops library (although they used a muted bass patch, which I obviously had to transpose an octave lower and give to the tuba).
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@wsharper69 Feb 2022
You are rocked it this year. Great job
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@infilktion Feb 2022
Yes, the Maple Syrup Heist is a true event :)
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@dasbinky Feb 2022
EZKeys... do it. You know you want to. ;)
Warning, it's a money pit, I'm constantly buying MIDI packs whenever they go on sale. -
@tuneslayer Feb 2022
Hey Eric, thank YOU for giving me the nudge to write "GNU Terry Pratchett"
My hope would be for people to pick this up and sing it at filk circles, folk get-togethers, Festivals of the Living Rooms and the like, with everybody adding a name we should remember as it goes around the circle. And if it got picked up to memorialize victims of institutional vionence, well that would be fine too. -
@cphaurckker Feb 2022
Thanks for the kind words on "90s", my friend! One of these days we'll end up at the same event!
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@thefifthsister Feb 2022
Thank you for your message, you wonderful human ️
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@infilktion Feb 2022
Sitting on a board game hoard is almost as fun as playing with the hoard!
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@ceilidh Feb 2022
Thank you for your kind comment on "Rhyme and Reason". Glad it's appealing to readers!
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@thefifthsister Feb 2022
Woohoo! Have a great FAWM
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@mikedebenham Feb 2022
G'day, Eric. May your FAWM be full of unicorns and candy.
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@autoclamp Feb 2022
Thank you for the greeting AND the Airplane! (1980) flashback.
I suppose we should write some songs now. It's really the only sensible thing to do. If it's done safely, therapeutically, there's no danger involved. -
@fantasywriter42 Feb 2022
Hey! Thanks for the welcome! I hope you have a great FAWM, as well! ^_^
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@honeybadgerfolk Feb 2022
Yay thanks! Have a great FAWM & thanks for all that you do :)
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@metricula Feb 2022
Happy to be back on FAWM, Eric!! Thanks for all the motivation!
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@toddnorem Jan 2022
Hi Eric! We have to have some kind of Pacific Northwest FAWM get together one of these days. Once that pesky pandemic passes through. Good to see you back for year 19. Damn.
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@tamsnumber4 Jan 2022
Happy FAWM Eric!
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@tspoon Jan 2022
yo! how is OR, USA?
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@jlampson Jan 2022
Stop.
Listen.
What's missing? Collaborate!
Yes, that's a very strong hint. Let's do this! -
@johncrossman Jan 2022
And the crowd chants Eric! Eric! Eric! in 3/4 time!
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@tcelliott Jan 2022
Thanks, Eric. Good to see you, too. I hope things are going well on the west side of the U.S.
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@dasbinky Jan 2022
Good day, kind sir! As with every FAWM, everybody in the whole cell block will be dancing to the Distad rock. I look forward to either said rock or said dancing.
May our writing paths cross again this year. Our fun and inessential contributions to the pantheon of rawk are excellent time fillers for yet another journey around the star we call our own. -
@nancyrost Jan 2022
You're in the Guinness Book of World Fawmers. 19th FAWM! May it be a great one.
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@metalfoot Jan 2022
I'm all ears whenever you want to tell me the 50/90 story! My DMs are always open to you :)
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@max Jan 2022
Big thank you to the founding FAWMers !
Have fun this year. -
@jmadison Jan 2022
Hmmm... So you are a piano and Jen is an electric bass? Random coincidence? I think not. :-)