90s Nostalgia: A remastered version of Eleventh Dream Day's Lived To Tell?

Seems like Eleventh Dream Day's 1991 album Lived To Tell is way overdue for a properly remastered vinyl reissue.

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The resurrection of Lived To Tell (originally titled Trips We Lived To Tell, dumbed down at the suggestion of Atlantic Records) truly beggars belief (in that your belief goes broke trying to believe the story). For many years, the band groused about the mastering of the original Atlantic release - not the recording, not the mix - the mastering. Page even got involved at one point reaching out to former EDD/Atlantic publicist Tim Sommer as to the possible whereabouts of the original tapes. A response was not forthcoming. Then one day, random fellow Fred G notifies us that he recently purchased the contents of a storage locker in California that had belonged to the late recording engineer Paul McKenna. Inside, he informed us, were a bunch of DATs from the Lived To Tell sessions. An insane bolt from the blue? Is your belief beggared? 

Fast forward to 2026, and the good people of Comedy Minus One Records (check out their entire Eleventh Dream Day product line right here) have liberated the original majesty of one of the Dream Day's very best records. Listen here to the ripened guitar interplay, the luxurious low end, the hectoring of a menacing Rizzo impossibly sweetened by Bean accompaniment. And of course the whole pulverizing attack. Am I chalking it up to the remastering? Honestly Page is not 100% clear what "remastering" means, and is easily swayed by the power of suggestion. Maybe CMO or Rick can offer the sonic context. Short of that, listen here...

90s Nostalgia: Eleventh Dream Day

Since it's the 35th anniversary of Eleventh Dream Day's Beet album (produced by Gary Waleik), here are a few vintage clips. 

Eleventh Dream Day returns with Since Grazed double album

After hearing Eleventh Dream Day's well-crafted Since Grazed recording, it seems like it was worth the five year wait.  

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It’s been a good five years since Eleventh Dream Day released their last record, Works For Tomorrow, and while good may be the wrong adjective to describe the time that has passed, tomorrow has indeed arrived with their new double album, Since Grazed (Comedy Minus One) out digitally today (Friday, April 2) with a gatefold double vinyl version due August 7th. Get a copy via Bandcamp right here.  

Where the last decade of EDD music has been defined by the work of a band honing their live roar in the studio, Since Grazed contemplates what isn’t there, and builds the songs from the bottom up, relying on long-lived friendships and trust. While Works barreled down the highway, conscious of and trying to outrace the past, Since Grazed takes the long way home, spacing out a bit, and reveling in the journey, celebrating those along for the ride. Not all have made it, but this is not a record about what is lost, it is about what is still there, however grazed it may be. 

You know the story by now. Boy meets girl in 1983 Louisville, Kentucky punk rock house rendezvous, start band, learn how to play on the fly, find like-minded types to make noise and follow the Econoline dream. An EP and Prairie School Freakout record on Amoeba Records get the word out, and next thing you know it’s Atlantic Records time times three with the orange, green, and white label spinning and the band on the run to every corner of the rock club universe. Band burns out, but doesn’t fade away. Why stop now? It’s too much fun. Put records out every once in a while as Freakwater and Tortoise forge new territory. 

And that’s the way it’s gone. 

Fourteen or sixteen records so far depending on how you count them. 

Watch Grant Nickson's bunny-enhanced animated clip for "Since Grazed" below.

The line-up for Since Grazed is now intact for consecutive albums, featuring Janet Bean (drums, vocals), Rick Rizzo (guitars, vocals), Douglas McCombs (acoustic and electric bass), Mark Greenberg (piano, organ, synthesizers, vocals, studio wizardry), and James Elkington (guitars, piano, synthesizers). 

With Nick Macri (bowed bass) and Peggy Rizzo (flute). 

Recorded and produced by Mark Greenberg at The Loft, Chicago.

Featuring members of Tortoise, Brokeback, Freakwater, The Coctails, Archer Prewitt, The Zincs, and Steve Gunn. 

Eleventh Dream Day – Since Grazed 

Side A

Since Grazed

Cracks in My Smile

Just Got Home (in Time to Say Goodbye)

Side B

Tyrian Purple

Yves Klein Blues

Nothing’s Ever Lost

Side C

Take Care

Matter

Look Out Below

Side D

A Case to Carry On

Wish Too Far

Every Time This Day It Rains

Eleventh Dream Day & Green on Dutch TV 1990