GET HELP
Get Help started as a songwriting project by Tony Skalicky (THE BEATINGS) and Mike Ingenthron (STRIKES AGAIN!, MICRODOT), two friends taking a break from touring and recording with their own bands. After several months of exchanging ideas over email, they hosted their tracks on a blog they’d created to share random musical ideas, jokingly referring to themselves a “blog band”. But soon the songs took hold, and Get Help found they had a loyal following in NYC and Boston.
Encouraged by the response to their lark of a side-project, Ingenthron and Skalicky went into a Brooklyn studio and recorded their debut album, The End of the New Country. Upon its release, the response was positive. Get Help songs soon began appearing on ESPN, PBS Television, TNT and the National Geographic Channel.
Shortly after the release of the album, Get Help solidified its lineup with the addition of Gene D’Avolio on drums, and John Van Atta on bass. In early 2010 they went into the Liberty and Union Recording studio in Taunton, MA to record The Good Green Earth.
Directed by contrasting and complementary songwriting visions, The Good Green Earth is an album by two friends who realize that writing all the songs they wished were on the radio is the correct way to make music—as caretakers and curators of the great bands of our lifetimes who have propelled music forward. Tony and Mike still maintain their blog, posting demos, home recordings and outtakes.
