The first full-band album from Thunderegg--who up till now had only been the low-fi daydream of singer/guitarist Will Georgantas. Recorded in and around Hartford, CT, by Nathan Gohla on a shoestring budget, A VERY FINE SAMPLE OF WHAT'S AVAILABLE AT THE MINE features ten classic Egg tunes including the ever-popular “If I Went on a Diet” (chosen by JANE Magazine for the 2002 Reader-Produced CD). Guests include Connecticut keyboard virtuoso Jonathan Chatfield, trumpeter Tim Kane, Oregonian guitarist Tom Colligan, and Gohla himself. A very fun record. "It's records like this one that offer hope for Connecticut's original music scene." --Eric Danton, Hartford Courant About Thunderegg: Originally three-sixths of a rock group that went by the name of Larry and always had at least one more keg at the gig than the next band, the nucleus of Thunderegg (Will Georgantas, guitar/vocal; Jake Fournier, bass; Keith "Woodpile" Woodfin, drums) has been playing together since the fall of 1993, when practice space was free in cellars and activity rooms, the conga player didn't need to be miked at all, and, for optimum efficiency, the bass, rhythm guitar, and keyboards were all plugged into the same Peavey amp. After college, some geographical adjustments had to be made. Jimmy quit, Jody got married. Jake moved west to Portland, and in anticipation of a relocation, the band was renamed Thunderegg after the official state rock of Oregon. But then Will ended up staying in New York, where he wrote and home-recorded eight CDs' worth of demos, and by 1998 Jake was back just as everyone had hoped. Oregon's official state rock band now began making its nest in and around Hartford, Connecticut, Jake's hometown. Its central base of operations became the Shed, a studio built in nearby Manchester by friend and recording engineer Nathan Gohla. Since then, the reunited, incubating Egg has acquired some serious gear, played shows all over the East Coast, been lauded in the press and by mp3 bloggers, and recorded two full-band albums: A VERY FINE SAMPLE (2005) with Gohla, and THUNDEREGG II (fall 2007) with Gohla and Al Weatherhead, the engineer behind Sparklehorse, Cracker, Hotel Lights, and many more. In 2005 Thunderegg gained attention for its ambitious Song of the Week project: Every Monday, Will posted a new song (recorded to his trusty four-track cassette recorder) to the Thunderegg site. THIS WEEK, compiling the best of the project, was released in early 2007. To top it off, all of the early Thunderegg CDs, also four-tracked by Will, were released as mp3s on the massive OPEN BOOK anthology in January 2006. The anthology features nearly nine hours of newly mastered music on a data CD, an illustrated 108-page lyric booklet, bonus tracks, and liner notes by Drew Margolin.