TRANSISTOR Biography

Playlist includes b-sides and demos

TRANSISTOR
The longest album to date, Transistor holds 22 tracks. The band recorded 30 tracks during this album’s tracking.

311 brought in their friend Eric Bobo from Cypress Hill to play extra percussion on the songs Running, Strangers, and Stealing Happy Hours.

RADIO SINGLES / MUSIC VIDEOS:

Directed by Jay Papke in Los Feliz, CA. July 1997.

Directed by Dante Ariola and Jay Papke in Los Angeles, CA at a meat packing warehouse. Aug 1997.

Features live clips from a performance in New Orleans, LA. Directed by Carter B. Smith. November 1997.

B-SIDES:
Transistor held many b-sides, the majority remained unreleased until Archive was released in 2015.

Old Funk
Space Funk
Writers Block Party
Lemming
Everything
Earth People
The Quickening
Grifter (demo later turned into Long For The Flowers on Don’t Tread On Me)

ALTERNATE COVERS:
Various mock-ups for the album cover that didn’t make the final cut.