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Why a live album?
Miss Massive Snowflake has always crafted their albums in the studio. Orchestrating, layering, and producing songs the way the band wanted to hear them, but live the band always quickened the pace and turned up the distortion. In Jacksonville on this recording you can hear de Leon yelling at the audience to “Come fight me!”. The band was just always a bit different then on record.
The Filling Station is a legendary Montana venue. Shane de Leon first remembers playing there in 1993 in his first band, Freak Seen. The current sound engineer, Pat Lokken, and radio impresario, Bob Wall, have created a great scene of live music and capturing that for the bands. Though Miss Massive Snowflake played The Filling Station three times in 2022, this live cassette is taken from only two, and draws half it’s material from Miss Massive Snowflake’s 2020 LP, Your Favorite band.
Miss Massive Snowflake has existed in many forms since 2004. There were the early solo years with an acoustic guitar and backing tracks (2003-2008), the five piece band (2008-2011) that crafted the acclaimed Songs About Music LP, the heavy touring years (2012-2017) with Jeanne on bass and Andy on drums, when Shane de Leon wasn’t performing 150+ solo shows a year in Europe and the USA. The past five years saw de Leon return to Montana and reinvent the live band with different players, using a stable of musicians around the Billings music scene.
We know it’s a bit raw, but captured well, and we wanted to share this facet of the band with our friends and the world.
Enjoy