''Complete Demos'' is the compendium of

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's first two EP disks, ''Welcome to Tally Hall'' and ''Party Boobytrap'', both of which were recorded in Joe Hawley's attic. " Good Day" won Andrew Horowitz $10,000 in the 2004

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/ref> In addition to ''Welcome to Tally Hall'' and ''Party Boobytrap'', Tally Hall recorded '' the Pingry EP'' demo disk which primarily consisted of acoustic one-take demos. Several songs from the ''Pingry'' disk were re-recorded in addition to songs from ''Complete Demos'' and others to form ''

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Track listing

Personnel

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– vocals, guitar, songwriting *Joe Hawley – vocals, guitar, songwriting *Zubin Sedghi – bass, vocals, co-songwriting (3) * Andrew Horowitz – keyboards, percussion, vocals, songwriting *Steve Gallagher – drums * Ross Federman, though credited as the drummer, does not play on this release, as he had joined after the songs were recorded.

Additional musicians

*Brian Kaufman - tuba (3) *Alaina Alster - trombone (3) *Adam Dixon - trumpet (3)

Technical personnel

*Tally Hall - producer *Joe Hawley - engineer (1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9), album design, photography *Rob Cantor - engineer (4, 5, 6) *Zubin Sedghi - engineer (5) *Steve Gallagher - engineer (5) *Ashley Hurst - photography

References

2004 albums Tally Hall albums {{2004-rock-album-stub