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Librarian Play Video

Librarian

www.hauntedlove.co.nz Our first video. Camera work by Claudia Babirat, direction and editing/effects by Donald Ferns. Starring Haunted Love (Rainy McMaster and Geva Downey) and Henri Davidson. Download this video (for...

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My Morning Jacket - Librarian

My Morning Jacket - Librarian When the album came to this song, I just thought it was so lovely. I decided to put it up here without a video really since the song wasn't posted yet so others could hear it.

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The Librarian Song

Song from the Joe Uveges-When Freedom Calls concert on November 2, 2007 in Colorado Springs

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Librarian's Blues

This is a blues song about . . . well, listen to the lyrics. As a lark I wrote this song about overdue library books. Maybe only librarians can relate. Written, performed, sung, and played by Keith Johnson. But don't...

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Laura Jane Scott - The Librarian

Laura Jane Scott - The Librarian. Heard it on Castle. Please buy the album.

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The Librarians Biography

The Librarians were a power pop band from Berkeley, California who formed in 1999 by Damon Larson and Ryan Gan. They released one album, The Pathetic Aesthetic, in 2002, which received 4/5 stars from Allmusic.

The group was famous mostly for their raucous live act:
But (Ryan) Gan, the anti-frontperson frontperson of the Librarians, isn't even fazed. Though on the record, Gan's job is limited to backup vocals and tambourine for vocalist-guitarist Damon Larson, he explodes into his full potential onstage with spastic tambourine beating and poster-worthy one-hand-on-the-hip-the-other-thrust-skyward poses. His performance is truly horrifying in its cheesiness, and yet it's unnervingly mesmerizing. It's a kind of innocence-lost scenario: everyone reaches the same guilty conclusion, "Christ, why don't more bands do this?" [http://www.sfbg.com/37/46/art_music_librarians.html]


Ryan Gan received his Master's in Library and Information Science in 2006 and is now employed as a librarian in Orange, California. Prior to this and the formation of the band, Gan played the euphonium at Magnolia High School in Anaheim, California between 1990 and 1994. Gan has since picked up the euphonium again and is playing in a band. Since leaving the Librarians, Damon Larson has continued his musical career. His newest band, the Paranoids, is a fixture on the San Francisco music scene.

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The Librarians Discography

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  • The Pathetic Asthetic - (Pandacide Records/US)

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