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Tape Deck Mountain formed in San Diego in 2008, when the BlackBerry was the phone of choice and scrappy punk-pop duos like No Age and Wavves were all the rage. The mantra then, remembers singer-songwriter-guitarist Travis Trevisan with a laugh: âWho needs a bassist when youâve got a Line 6 Delay Modeler?â
That was the blueprint Trevisan followed on
Ghost, Tape Deck Mountainâs â09 debut with original drummer Paul Remund. âI was just writing lyrics in a journal, waiting around for the guy from [San Diego club] The Casbah to leave a message on the answering machine at my parentsâ house telling me he got my demo,â he tells me. Heâs taking a break from doing yard work at his place in South Inglewood â thatâs East Nashville, not Los Angeles â on a recent Sunday afternoon.