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|honoraryMembers = [[Bora Karaca]]: Bora Karaca | |honoraryMembers = [[Bora Karaca]]: Bora Karaca | ||
|touringMembers = [[Casey Shea]]: Guitar <br> [[Jeremy Kittel]]: Violin <br> [[Bora Karaca]]: Accordion, Keyboard, Guitar | |touringMembers = [[Casey Shea]]: Guitar <br> [[Jeremy Kittel]]: Violin <br> [[Bora Karaca]]: Accordion, Keyboard, Guitar | ||
|relatedActs = [[edu]]: Andrew's solo <br> [[ミラクルミュージカル]]: Joe's side project <br> [[Rob Cantor]]: Rob's solo <br> [[Joe Hawley]]: Joe's solo <br> [[Mr. F]]: Ross' DJ mash-ups | |relatedActs = [[edu]]: Andrew's solo project<br> [[ミラクルミュージカル]]: Joe's side project <br> [[Rob Cantor]]: Rob's solo <br> [[Joe Hawley]]: Joe's solo <br> [[Mr. F]]: Ross' DJ mash-ups | ||
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'''Tally Hall''' is an American rock band formed in December 2002 in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is often recognized by their trademark colored ties. They are currently signed to [[Needlejuice Records]] but have also been under the indie label [[Quack!]] Media in the past (2005-2007, 2011), as well as [[Atlantic Records]] (2007-2010) who helped finance and nationally re-distribute their studio debut album, [[Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Album)|Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum]]. | '''Tally Hall''' is an American rock band formed in December 2002 in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is often recognized by their trademark colored ties. They are currently signed to [[Needlejuice Records]] but have also been under the indie label [[Quack!]] Media in the past (2005-2007, 2011), as well as [[Atlantic Records]] (2007-2010) who helped finance and nationally re-distribute their studio debut album, [[Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Album)|Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum]]. | ||
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== History == | == History == | ||
====Early Years==== | |||
[[File:Tallyhall_logo_mid.png|thumb|right|Tally Hall Logo]] | [[File:Tallyhall_logo_mid.png|thumb|right|Tally Hall Logo]] | ||
[[Andrew Horowitz]], the only member not originally from Michigan, began writing songs when he was eight years old and eventually headed to the University of Michigan to study composition. There he met [[Rob Cantor]] and [[Zubin Sedghi]], who both attended the same high school and played in a band called [[listedBlack]]. | [[Andrew Horowitz]], the only member not originally from Michigan, began writing songs when he was eight years old and eventually headed to the University of Michigan to study composition. There he met [[Rob Cantor]] and [[Zubin Sedghi]], who both attended the same high school and played in a band called [[listedBlack]]. The three would form a band (name unknown) in December of 2002, and first played small shows around the University of Michigan dorms, where all 5 members went to school. Their first gig would be at the Frieze Building in Ann Arbor, Michigan. | ||
Rob met [[Joe Hawley]] on campus and as they began to become friendly, Rob learned of Joe's musical abilities and asked him and [[Steve Gallagher]] to join the band as lead guitarist and drummer respectively. Originally, they played a few gigs under the name '''Gallagher''' and then as '''540''', the address of their house at the time. By February 2003 however, the band name would be finalized as '''Tally Hall''', a suggestion by Joe inspired by an indoor shopping plaza/food court on Orchard Lake Road in Farmington Hills, Michigan. It was developed by Mel Rosenhaus (1925-2011) and, according to Mr. Rosenhaus' eulogy, was the first food court in Michigan. A wonderous arcade/museum of coin-op machines and oddities called [[Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Place)|Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum]], a popular establishment within Tally Hall and now all that remains after the Tally Hall complex was torn down. | |||
After a couple gigs, they began to record some demos in Joe's bedroom/attic and play small shows around the University of Michigan campus. An early mascot of theirs was a chinchilla, based on a pet they had. It featured as the cursor on their site and on a couple shirts. | |||
On November 9th 2003, Tally Hall would order their now iconic colored ties, first worn in combination with their white dress shirts around November 2003. | |||
In April 2004, they recorded their second EP, the [[Welcome To Tally Hall EP]]. However, a month later Steve Gallagher left the band due to commitment issues for touring, so they eventually recruited drummer [[Ross Federman]]. Federman went to high school with Joe and he remembered Ross being a drummer. 2004 also saw the release of [[Complete Demos]] in November, a compilation of the EPs they did over the past two years. This release would be sold at concerts and was available for purchase on [[tallyhall.com]] for about a year. The album was then considered out of print and hard to find until December 2015 when they uploaded it and made it available to purchase through Bandcamp. <ref>[https://tallyhall.bandcamp.com/album/complete-demos Tally Hall Complete Demos - bandcamp]</ref> | |||
===Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum=== | |||
====2005==== | |||
The band began touring outside their general hometown area in 2005, and would sign under the [[Quack! Media]] label to professionally record an album titled after Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum. Joe stated they needed to partner with a label to progress as a band together and [[Al McWilliams]] happened to accept their request of a record deal.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS96m7T4yos Joe Hawley from Tally Hall on WXJR, 01/22/2009. YouTube.]</ref> The band would take 4 months to record and mix the album, and pre-orders would open on their website before the album's release. Tracks from it would be released on a radio promotional EP to hype fans up for the release in November of 2005. Their live concerts often featured a couple [[Cover Songs|cover songs]]. They're probably best known for their cover of Biz Markie's "[[Just A Friend]]", a fan favorite of their audience. | |||
A live version of Just a Friend can be found on [[The Pingry EP]] released in 2005. Later, in 2006, a studio version was recorded and shelved -- because the band was not happy with it -- but later was released as one of a few bonus songs provided by Atlantic Records for their 2008 re-release of MMMM. These bonus songs (Just A Friend, [[Mucka Blucka]], and [[Dream]]) were distributed via download codes handed out at live shows and through the [[Twitter]] account of [[Hidden In The Sand (Website)|hiddeninthesand.com]] (A.K.A. HITS). | |||
====2006==== | |||
Quack! Media re-released the album in September 2006 with more focused marketing behind it and a wider distribution plan. It helped get them into more stores and gained them more national attention, including impressing radio personality Mancow enough for him to recommend Craig Ferguson listen to the album. Soon after, on August 2, 2006, they were performing their song "Good Day" on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson. In September 2006, Tally Hall appeared in MTV's segment "You Hear It First." | |||
====2008==== | |||
After signing to Atlantic Records, the band released Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum for the 3rd time on April 1, 2008 with their new record label, but this time they were given the opportunity to re-record and re-mix parts they've never been quite satisfied with and allow a more experienced engineer to gear the songs in a radio-friendlier manner, though the songs did not gain much more radio airplay. In addition to the album, Atlantic Records produced [[Tally Hall's Internet Show]], which was intended to coincide with the release of the album but due to some musical licensing issues, there was a delay and the Internet Show didn't get started until September 2008. | |||
The band also appeared at a few South by Southwest Music Festivals and on August 3, 2008, Tally Hall was a performer on the BMI stage at Lollapalooza. | |||
Tally Hall was invited back by The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson on September 16, 2008 to help promote the launch of Tally Hall's Internet Show. They performed a "radio edit" version of "Welcome to Tally Hall" in newly donned black vests over top of their traditional colored ties, white shirts, and black pants. This was the first time the vests were worn. | |||
===Good & Evil=== | |||
The band worked on several projects after the completion of "Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum", including covering the song "Smile Like You Mean It" by The Killers for the sixth The O.C. soundtrack: Music from The OC: Mix 6. They also recorded a song in 2009 called [[Light And Night]] featuring [[Nellie McKay]] as a free download, distributed by Walmart, when people bought the book "The Magician's Elephant." | |||
In 2011, the band was released from [[Atlantic Records]] and went back to [[Quack! Media]] to release their 2nd full-length album, [[Good & Evil]]. Good & Evil was released on June 12, 2011<ref>[https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/good-evil/1111778836 Good & Evil - iTunes].</ref> | |||
===Post-Good & Evil=== | |||
Tally Hall went on hiatus in fall 2011 after the Good & Evil tour, but the band members have worked on other personal and musical endeavors. | |||
In March of 2012, Andrew Horowitz released [[sketches]] under the name [[edu]]. This album would be released only as a cassette tape until December of the same year, where it was released digitally. The album features Rob Cantor on [[HEY YOU!]]. Rob would also launch his website, robcantor.com, in the same year. The site contained demos and other work, like [[Cuckoo]], [[Country Good]] and some miscellaneous commercial work. | |||
On December 12th 2012, Joe Hawley, Ross Federman, and Bora Karaca released [[Hawaii: Part II]] under the name [[ミラクルミュージカル]] (Miracle Musical). This album features contributions from Zubin Sedghi and Rob Cantor, as well as Tally Hall songs that were never recorded by them. | |||
In 2014, Rob Cantor released his solo album [[Not A Trampoline]], and the now-famous [[Shia LaBeouf|Shia LaBeouf Live]] single and music video. Shia LaBeouf Live has since become a famous internet meme, and its music video features Shia LaBeouf himself at the end. | |||
In 2016, Joe Hawley would start a PledgeMusic project for funding a solo album. This would be released as [[Joe Hawley Joe Hawley]] in the same year. | |||
On December 13th, 2018, as part of ミラクルミュージカル's Reddit AMA, when asked whether Tally Hall is still around, Ross answered: <i>"Tally Hall still exists. Touring isn't possible at this very moment. That's about the only update".</i><ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a5ouhk/we_are_joe_hawley_ross_federman_and_bora_karaca/ebo82aa/ ミラクルミュージカル's Reddit AMA. Ross saying Tally Hall still exists.]</ref> | |||
On May 30, 2019, Andrew Horowitz would start a Kickstarter to produce vinyl and CDs of his album sketches. However, sketches would be remixed, remastered, and retitled to [[sketches 3d]]. On June 30, 2019, he hit his Kickstarter goal.<ref> [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sketches/edu-sketches-3d-on-vinyl-and-digital/posts Sketches 3d Kickstarter page] </ref> On July 26, 2019 Andrew released sketches 3d digitally and would start to ship out backers physical copies. CDs and vinyl would later be listed on Andrew's store as he had some left over. | |||
On November 6th, 2019, the official Tally Hall Twitter announced that their songs would be available on AMI digital jukeboxes. <ref> [https://twitter.com/TallyHall/status/1192231937940819972/ Tally Hall's twitter post.] </ref> | |||
Sometime in late 2020, the band would sign with [[Needlejuice Records]], who would announce and open pre-orders for a reissue of Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum in early 2021. The pre-orders opening would crash their website and prevent some from pre-ordering the album. [[Just a Friend (EP)|A EP]] combining Just a Friend and some bonus tracks would be announced as well and released alongside the reissue. | |||
Good & Evil is currently planned to be reissued before the end of 2022, but there are no set-in-stone dates for when this will be. The album will be released alongside a EP of Good & Evil-era non-album tracks like Light and Night. | |||
On April 1st 2022, Tally Hall's Twitter account would announce a new merch store and re-issue of the "Shirt Shirt" design. This was met with much praise from the Tally Hall fanbase and is seemingly a success.<ref>[https://twitter.com/TallyHall/status/1509986852647976963?s=20&t=Id9d12MgEX4bS2kVuYq3GQ Tally Hall Shop announcement Twitter post]</ref> | |||
==Old Website Biographies== | |||
On the Tally Hall website, there have been two biographies posted; one in 2006<ref name=bio2006>[https://skyetheguy.com/DoubleOOP/bio.html Tally Hall 2006 bio, archived at: skyetheguy.com]</ref> | On the Tally Hall website, there have been two biographies posted; one in 2006<ref name=bio2006>[https://skyetheguy.com/DoubleOOP/bio.html Tally Hall 2006 bio, archived at: skyetheguy.com]</ref> | ||
and one in 2008, the latter of which is written by friend of the band [[Bernie J. Michael]], who is not fictitious.<ref name=bio2008>[http://skyetheguy.com/DoubleOOP/about.php Tally Hall 2008 bio, archived at: skyetheguy.com]</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/hiddeninthesand/status/1141897457011437568 Hidden In The Sand Twitter, confirming that Bernie Michael is a real person.]</ref> | and one in 2008, the latter of which is written by friend of the band [[Bernie J. Michael]], who is not fictitious.<ref name=bio2008>[http://skyetheguy.com/DoubleOOP/about.php Tally Hall 2008 bio, archived at: skyetheguy.com]</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/hiddeninthesand/status/1141897457011437568 Hidden In The Sand Twitter, confirming that Bernie Michael is a real person.]</ref> | ||
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== Discography == | == Discography == | ||
=== LPs === | === LPs === | ||
* [[Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Album)|Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum]] | * [[Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Album)|Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum]] | ||
* [[Good & Evil]] | * [[Good & Evil]] | ||
=== EPs === | === EPs === | ||
* [[Party Boobytrap]] | * [[Party Boobytrap]] | ||
* [[Welcome To Tally Hall (EP)|Welcome To Tally Hall]] | * [[Welcome To Tally Hall (EP)|Welcome To Tally Hall]] | ||
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=== Compilations === | === Compilations === | ||
* [[Complete Demos]] | * [[Complete Demos]] | ||
* Songs From The O.C. Mix 6 | * Songs From The O.C. Mix 6 | ||
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=== Singles === | === Singles === | ||
* [[Good Day]] | * [[Good Day]] | ||
* [[Welcome To Tally Hall]] | * [[Welcome To Tally Hall]] | ||
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=== Promotional CDs === | === Promotional CDs === | ||
* [[2006 Residency Tour EP]] | * [[2006 Residency Tour EP]] | ||
* [[Good & Evil Advance CD]] | * [[Good & Evil Advance CD]] | ||
=== Miscellaneous Collections Of Songs === | === Miscellaneous Collections Of Songs === | ||
* [[Songs Played Live & Never Recorded]] | * [[Songs Played Live & Never Recorded]] | ||
* [[Songs Demo'd But Never Released]] | * [[Songs Demo'd But Never Released]] | ||
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=== Side Projects, Solo Albums, & Old Bands === | === Side Projects, Solo Albums, & Old Bands === | ||
* [[ミラクルミュージカル]] (Miracle Musical) | * [[ミラクルミュージカル]] (Miracle Musical) | ||
* [[Tally Hall's Internet Show]] | * [[Tally Hall's Internet Show]] | ||