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Tape Deck Mountain formed in San Diego in 2008, when the BlackBerry was the phone of choice and scrappy punk-pop duos like No Age and Wavves were all the rage. The mantra then, remembers singer-songwriter-guitarist Travis Trevisan with a laugh: âWho needs a bassist when youâve got a Line 6 Delay Modeler?â
That was the blueprint Trevisan followed on
Ghost, Tape Deck Mountainâs â09 debut with original drummer Paul Remund. âI was just writing lyrics in a journal, waiting around for the guy from [San Diego club] The Casbah to leave a message on the answering machine at my parentsâ house telling me he got my demo,â he tells me. Heâs taking a break from doing yard work at his place in South Inglewood â thatâs East Nashville, not Los Angeles â on a recent Sunday afternoon.
Safety Net and Tape Deck Mountain Stream On at The 5 Spot Made-in-Nashville post-punk and shoegaze made for two excellent nights of streams from the East Side bar and venue Tweet
Safety Net
An abbreviated, irreverent cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up,” played at double the speed of the original, was one of many surprises in
Safety Net’s performance, streamed Friday from
The 5 Spot via StageIt. The trio gained its sea legs in the months before COVID, supporting similarly minded locals Faux Ferocious, Goner Records no-wave heroines Nots and a reconstituted version of ’70s proto-punks Simply Saucer. But until putting the four-song