Name: No More Free Lunches
Duration: P00H07M26S
Description: A semi-autobiographical track, written while I was "working as a lowly guard" shortly after graduating from UConn with a B.S.E.E. This song appeared on The Bud Collins Trio fall 1988 release 'Watching Channel Zero'. The riff sections were inspired by "Three Friends" by Gentle Giant, a band I had recently discovered.

No More Free Lunches

from Your Favorite Spoon by Tony Castellano

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A semi-autobiographical track, written while I was "working as a lowly guard" shortly after graduating from UConn with a B.S.E.E. This song appeared on The Bud Collins Trio fall 1988 release 'Watching Channel Zero'. The riff sections were inspired by "Three Friends" by Gentle Giant, a band I had recently discovered.

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It's time to leave the fair you've had plenty of time to prepare in school you had it made now you've got to work to get paid you seem to be caught off guard well this is where life gets hard one thing must be made clear there'll be no more free lunches 'round here no more big checks from home gotta pay off that student loan gotta pay the bills and the rent wonder where your childhood went that degree's just a paper card working as a lowly guard never seem to have enough money welcome to the real world sonny a pile of clothes on the floor the stove doesn't work anymore a mound of dishes in the sink the trash is beginning to stink so we desperately dream of success to pull us all out of this mess if it wasn't for practice each week the future would look pretty bleak

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from Your Favorite Spoon, released January 1, 1999
Chris Weinland: drums and percussion
Pat Guiney: guitar solos
TC: everything else

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Tony Castellano East Hartford, Connecticut

Progressive-rock-influenced multi-instrumentalist and singer who has played with many different bands, including The Bud Collins Trio, Holding Pattern, Ludent Tremmel's Gno, The Realm, and Magnetar, on either bass or bass and keyboards. In recent years he has been playing mostly drums, for several different recording projects and also as a member of his sister's band, Anne Castellano & The Smoke. ... more

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