The Needy Visions / Aykroyd

12/12/2022

10/07/2021

08/28/2021

02/05/2021

You ever hear these tunes? The last ones Needy Visions ever released....

https://theneedyvisions.bandcamp.com/album/deuce-ep

3 track album

01/20/2021

Here's a recording of an early set of ours, acoustic NV stylee, w/ our original drummer Bill. This is like an extension of our shows @ the legendary Whitehaus around the same time, including a giant contingent of the Whitehaus gang in attendance, which you can definitely hear on the recording!
https://theneedyvisions.bandcamp.com/album/early-days-live-the-pierre-menard-gallery

5 track album

01/14/2021

I (Dan) am working on getting all of Needy Visions proper and otherwise recordings online. Here's an EP we made specifically for the longest tour we went on, to Texas and back.

https://theneedyvisions.bandcamp.com/album/eep-from-the-green-room

5 track album

10/21/2020

these bands are dead but they live on in the Boston Hassle...

07/16/2019

Dan from the Visions/Aykroyd has a new band and records solo @ times:
https://www.instagram.com/thighsboston/
weirdenergy1.bandcamp.com/releases
https://thecircuitousdanshea.bandcamp.com/

Sam from the Visions/Aykroyd has several new bands, but I'm not sure they all have links, this one does though: https://www.facebook.com/immiandthemahoots

Wes from Aykroyd has a new band:
https://www.instagram.com/lanemusicboston/

Nick from Aykroyd has a new band:
https://www.facebook.com/creativehealingband/

“ ...From Assam with love, ImmI brings you folk, pop, and traditional songs of Assam put to the Ma

07/11/2016

James Coarse wrote about the first Needy Visions record. It's weird. Cool.

Somewhere in the foggy recesses of reminiscent interactions with Dan “Dad” Shea, mixed influence & jittery cool, dark day summer afternoon grass stain long train ride but it doesn't matter cause it's better than sitting alone in your basement & cheeb is always higher in the sun. I&

12/24/2014

And here's SIDE B of NV's first tape THE DOOR's OPEN.
Band was Sam, Dan, and Shane-Don here. Cameo by Adam & Kate somewhere on the tape, though right now I I forget where exactly...

Side B of The Door's Open. Released on tape in 2010. Recorded by Dan, Sam, Foam and Shane Don @ The Whitehaus in 2009. Love Song The Lights Megan Sez Number of the Beast

12/24/2014

ALSO MERRY X-MAS, here's SIDE A of Needy Vision's first tape THE DOOR's OPEN.

Side A of The Door's Open. Released on tape in 2010. Recorded by Dan, Sam, Foam and Shane Don @ The Whitehaus in 2009. State I'm In Social Climber Endless Possibilities Mystery of the Year

12/24/2014

Remember Dan from NV/ Aykroyd???
He wrote this.

REINVIGORATING THE SOCIAL ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE IN BOSTON on Boston Hassle

10/24/2014

good review? Bad review? You be the judge.

This record looks kinda dumb, and musically it bears more resemblance to the sweating, desperate UFO conspiracist Dan Aykroyd than the one who saved NYC from the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man. And in ways...

05/15/2014

Just turned in all the final, mastered tracks to Peter Negroponte for the eventual tape release of my first (kinda) solo album. 20 tracks. Hope for you all to hear it soon. - Dan

04/25/2014

Cool little review by the esteemed Byron Coley of the AYKROYD - NARC DREAMS 7"!

01/31/2014

Thanks to Bill for the nice write up!

Coming some 3 years after the their “Not Titled” debut record on MOTORCYCLE FACE RECORDS, NEEDY VISIONS sophomore record DEUCE is poised to be released on 2/1 over in Cambridge @ Lilypad. NEEDY VISIONS features the songwriting of Dan Shea one of the founders of the Boston Hassle arts org, the folks…

01/30/2014

Looking forward to Saturday!!! Set sounds good! Can't wait to make this tape a reality!!!!

01/23/2014

Listen to a couple tracks off Needy Visions' album DEUCE be released by BUFU Records on 2/1 lilypad!!
C'mon now!

11 track album