Mr. Sam’s Vault vol. 1

Hello, readers!

I’m currently bored, and I figured I haven’t posted in a while, so I thought I’d make a post I’ve been considering for a while.
Welcome to the first edition of Mr. Sam’s Music Vault.

As some of you may know, I’m a rather big fan of a little-known Long Island pop/punk/emo band known as “Jesse T. Lacey and his Brand New Boys (Vin and Brian and Garrett)”. Because of this, I enjoy collecting semi-rare mp3s recorded by them. Today, I’m gonna share some of them with you.

The mp3s I’m gonna post this time aren’t technically “Brand New” songs however, but they are still appropriate. Don’t worry, I’ll explain.

The first song is Museum, by The Rookie Lot.

“But Sam,” you say “I thought you said these would be Brand New songs! THAT’S NOT BRAND NEW!”
Easy there, big fella. Give the song a listen.
You may recognize our good friends, Jesse Lacey, Garrett Tierney, and Brian Lane.
The Rookie Lot was active in the late 90s, and three of its members would obviously go on to create Brand New after The Rookie Lot disbanded.

HOWEVER, that is not before Mr. Lacey briefly followed a different path:

Recognize any of these guys?
Well, obviously one of them is Jesse.
Jesse was a member of Taking Back Sunday for an early self-titled EP they released.
And not only was he member, he was the bass player. Like, ew, amitire?
Anyway, here we have Summer Stars by Taking Back Sunday, featuring Jesse Lacey on backing vox.

Thankfully, Jesse left TBS for whatever reason, and went on to be the lead singer for the best band of all time (And that is a fact. Look it up.)
Oh, and at some point in between Jesse and co-TBS member, John Nolan, may or may not have had some sort of falling out.

But who knows anything about that…

*cough*

Well, I hope you enjoyed getting a rare look into the top secret CRAZY RARE (or not…) Mp3s that I’ve got.
Until next time,
-Mr. Sam

PS: I’m totally gonna get the “Brand New” in that tag cloud big enough to compete with the “Vampire Weekend” one…