Name Neil Gust Education Hampshire College | Role Musician Music groups Heatmiser, No. 2 | |
Albums Mic City Sons, What Does Good Luck Bring?, Cop and Speeder, No Memory, Yellow No 5 Similar Tony Lash, Sam Coomes, Elliott Smith | ||
Neil Jacob Gust is an American musician. He is best known for co-founding Heatmiser with Elliott Smith in 1992.
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Music career
Gust and Smith first met in 1987 while the pair were attending Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Gust wrote songs for as well as played guitar and sang in the band. As Heatmiser was breaking up, Gust played on Smith's second solo album Elliott Smith, recording the electric guitar part for the song "Single File". Gust was also a founding member of the now-defunct band No. 2. No. 2 released two albums, No Memory and What Does Good Luck Bring?, and a seven-inch single, "Allistair Chestnut". In 2012, he posted 3 new songs on his SoundCloud account.
Design career
Gust designed the packaging for Heatmiser's albums Cop and Speeder and Mic City Sons and was art director for Yellow No. 5. Gust also created the album sleeves for the Elliott Smith albums Roman Candle and Elliott Smith as well as the layout for Either/Or. Gust worked as a lead creative at the Portland based design firm Johnson and Wolverton. Most recently, Gust was credited with layout on Stephen Malkmus's debut self-titled album.
He currently works as an editor at thelab, a media arts company.
Songs
Plainclothes Man
Busted Lip
Half Right
Bottle Rocket
See You Later
Practicing Your Moves
Parting Kiss
Just Answer the Man
Pop in a Minor
Pop in C
Move It Along
Nobody's Satisfied
Never Felt Better
Pop in G
Little Face
Allistair Chestnut [Bonus Track]
Rest My Head Against the Wall
Everybody Has It
Cruel Reminder
Eagle Eye
It's Not a Prop
Why Did I Decide to Stay?
Low-Flying Jets
The Corner Seat
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Powder Blue
The Fix Is In
Collect to NYC
Never Felt Better Demo
Critical Mass Demo
A Little Confusion
Practicing Your Moves Demo