![]() Major General was made in six days, after two rehearsals with the band, a chaotic show at DIY promoter Todd P's Death By Audio warehouse space, and three days of tracking, drinking, and feasting with James Frazee (The Hold Steady). Major General is a record about the difference between melodrama and real drama, that borderline between the private and the public, whether the step is over the doorstep on the way to work or over the footlights on the way to the stage and the ways you protect that border, the ways it gets blurred, and whether the cheers and jeers stick to the man or the empty suit." ![]() Why? It's like stepping into the phone booth and putting on the superhero outfit: everyone who's ever stepped on a stage creates a character first, a fictionalized version of themselves that can take the cheers or the heat or be the star you may or may not be in the rest of your life. With the most famous mustache in rock since Frank Zappa and a look that is reminiscent of a silent film villain, NICOLAY discusses the difference between the man and the music, saying, "About a half-hour before the show, it's time to change: the day suit for the show suit, the casual hat for the show hat. ![]() On his debut solo album, Major General, he steps up to the spotlight with a melodramatic grab-bag of full-throated songs, stories, and days of wine & roses shamelessly strident, stentorian and more than a little sentimental. FRANZ NICOLAY is that dapper, mustachioed multi-instrumentalist and man-about-town you've seen with such groups as The Hold Steady and World/Inferno Friendship Society. ![]()
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