Abandoned Pools' Tommy Walter chats it up
Tommy Walter, formerly of the Eels, left that band to write and record his own material before the Eels even finished a second record. Walters, whose new band is called Abandoned Pools, recorded the material on Humanistic in his South Pasadena apartment and took the bare tracks to Boston's Q Division studio, where he worked with producers Paul Q. Koderie and Sean Slade. Abandoned Pools issued Humanistic in September of 2001. The News-Letter's own Brian Udoff caught up with Walter at the end of the Flickerstick/Abandoned Pools tour in Old Bridge, N.J. on Feb. 26.