Joshua David Thayer
@joshuadavidthayer.bsky.social
A musician for 35 years, primarily as a bass player for bands including Fancy Trash, Hadley Transfer Station, Slumberland, and Love Minus Zero. Now flying solo and releasing music as myself! Check out my debut solo album ‘It Will Still Keep Feeling Rough.’
Are you listening?
April 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Are you listening?
April 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Played some bass last night — tone rolled back, palm muted, with a pick. Not my usual methods, but it was what this particular music needed.
#joshuadavidthayer
#makingmusic
#makingsongs
#joshuadavidthayer
#makingmusic
#makingsongs
April 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Played some bass last night — tone rolled back, palm muted, with a pick. Not my usual methods, but it was what this particular music needed.
#joshuadavidthayer
#makingmusic
#makingsongs
#joshuadavidthayer
#makingmusic
#makingsongs
#flashback: Playing Tir na Nog in Union Square, Somerville, MA, way back in 2006. This gig was the first time anyone ever captured live footage of the band I was in at the time … and then loaded it onto a relatively new website called YouTube!
March 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
#flashback: Playing Tir na Nog in Union Square, Somerville, MA, way back in 2006. This gig was the first time anyone ever captured live footage of the band I was in at the time … and then loaded it onto a relatively new website called YouTube!
Spy Pond, my now routine Saturday morning review spot.
#joshuadavidthayer
#makingmusic
#makingsongs
#musiclistening
#thecreativeact
#joshuadavidthayer
#makingmusic
#makingsongs
#musiclistening
#thecreativeact
March 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Spy Pond, my now routine Saturday morning review spot.
#joshuadavidthayer
#makingmusic
#makingsongs
#musiclistening
#thecreativeact
#joshuadavidthayer
#makingmusic
#makingsongs
#musiclistening
#thecreativeact
Two days ago: “Everything I’ve done sucks. Everything I will do will suck. Nothing I do is worthwhile, all my ideas are boring.”
Yesterday: “I’m in a magical bubble where everything I make is incredible.”
Today: TBD
#joshuadavidthayer
#makingmusic
#makingsongs
#diy
Yesterday: “I’m in a magical bubble where everything I make is incredible.”
Today: TBD
#joshuadavidthayer
#makingmusic
#makingsongs
#diy
March 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Two days ago: “Everything I’ve done sucks. Everything I will do will suck. Nothing I do is worthwhile, all my ideas are boring.”
Yesterday: “I’m in a magical bubble where everything I make is incredible.”
Today: TBD
#joshuadavidthayer
#makingmusic
#makingsongs
#diy
Yesterday: “I’m in a magical bubble where everything I make is incredible.”
Today: TBD
#joshuadavidthayer
#makingmusic
#makingsongs
#diy
Out for a night to see Peter Buzzelle at Village Social Club — with Ken Rothman joining on electric.
March 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Out for a night to see Peter Buzzelle at Village Social Club — with Ken Rothman joining on electric.
February 15, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Unearthing some old 4-track experiments from 1999-ish. Adding to the nostalgia, these were archived in CD-R by my friend Jim Smola, who I shared a basement recording space with. Seeing his writing on the disc brought me right back.
#joshuadavidthayer
#fourtrack
#tascamportastudio
#diy
#joshuadavidthayer
#fourtrack
#tascamportastudio
#diy
February 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Unearthing some old 4-track experiments from 1999-ish. Adding to the nostalgia, these were archived in CD-R by my friend Jim Smola, who I shared a basement recording space with. Seeing his writing on the disc brought me right back.
#joshuadavidthayer
#fourtrack
#tascamportastudio
#diy
#joshuadavidthayer
#fourtrack
#tascamportastudio
#diy
#nothingtopost so here’s what I see when I spin my chair around. A bunch of guitars waiting to be played.
January 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
#nothingtopost so here’s what I see when I spin my chair around. A bunch of guitars waiting to be played.
I put a playlist together off ALL THE TUNES I've put out so far — this single, my album 'It Will Still Keep Feeling Rough' and my very first song from a year ago, "Bird Children."
Put it on loop and shuffle and enjoy for hours and hours. Thanks in advance.
open.spotify.com/playlist/04J...
Put it on loop and shuffle and enjoy for hours and hours. Thanks in advance.
open.spotify.com/playlist/04J...
This is Joshua David Thayer
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open.spotify.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I put a playlist together off ALL THE TUNES I've put out so far — this single, my album 'It Will Still Keep Feeling Rough' and my very first song from a year ago, "Bird Children."
Put it on loop and shuffle and enjoy for hours and hours. Thanks in advance.
open.spotify.com/playlist/04J...
Put it on loop and shuffle and enjoy for hours and hours. Thanks in advance.
open.spotify.com/playlist/04J...
For those fresh followers, I released my first solo record back in November. Its titled “It Will Still Keep Feeling Rough” and came from a period of music exploration after the passing of my father.
joshuadavidthayer.bandcamp.com/album/it-wil...
joshuadavidthayer.bandcamp.com/album/it-wil...
It Will Still Keep Feeling Rough, by Joshua David Thayer
12 track album
joshuadavidthayer.bandcamp.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
For those fresh followers, I released my first solo record back in November. Its titled “It Will Still Keep Feeling Rough” and came from a period of music exploration after the passing of my father.
joshuadavidthayer.bandcamp.com/album/it-wil...
joshuadavidthayer.bandcamp.com/album/it-wil...
January 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Now I’m beginning to see the ducks.
January 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Now I’m beginning to see the ducks.
Quite a messy desk while recording some glockenspiel for something totally different. The pawn shop find finally makes its way onto a track. #experimenting #newthings #makingmusic #glockenspiel #collab
January 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Quite a messy desk while recording some glockenspiel for something totally different. The pawn shop find finally makes its way onto a track. #experimenting #newthings #makingmusic #glockenspiel #collab
#newsingle out yesterday! "Beginning To See The Dark" was originally planned to be released as part of my album It Will Still Keep Feeling Rough. However, it never sat in the sequence quite right no matter how I moved things around. Once I pulled it, the album settled into itself.
January 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
#newsingle out yesterday! "Beginning To See The Dark" was originally planned to be released as part of my album It Will Still Keep Feeling Rough. However, it never sat in the sequence quite right no matter how I moved things around. Once I pulled it, the album settled into itself.
January 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
On location, night three (non-consecutive). My phone said it was 28 degrees but the wind made it feel like 10. I say that was true. #joshuadavidthayer #makingmusic #makingvideo #independentmusic #diy #doityourself #doitallyourself
January 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
On location, night three (non-consecutive). My phone said it was 28 degrees but the wind made it feel like 10. I say that was true. #joshuadavidthayer #makingmusic #makingvideo #independentmusic #diy #doityourself #doitallyourself
I am here. Here I am.
January 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I am here. Here I am.