{"id":2456984,"date":"2020-04-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=323835"},"modified":"2020-04-09T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T17:00:00","slug":"at-home-in-aspen-from-quarantine-musician-brad-manosevitz-releases-even-the-bad-days-are-pretty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/at-home-in-aspen-from-quarantine-musician-brad-manosevitz-releases-even-the-bad-days-are-pretty-good\/","title":{"rendered":"At home in Aspen: From quarantine, musician Brad Manosevitz releases \u2018Even the Bad Days (Are Pretty Good)\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/arts-atw-040920-1-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/arts-atw-040920-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/arts-atw-040920-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/arts-atw-040920-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/arts-atw-040920-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/arts-atw-040920-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>From the video for Brad Manosevitz&#8217;s &#8220;Even the Bad Days (Are Pretty Good).&#8221;<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the week after stay-home orders went into effect in the Aspen area in mid-March, the longtime local musician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/mountain-characters-a-one-man-band-of-many-talents\/\">Bradley \u201cBradman\u201d Manosevitz<\/a> was already writing and recording music to exorcize the fear and pain of the public health and economic crisis caused by novel coronavirus. And, perhaps, to offer some hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The brutal economic fallout of the crisis hit Manosevitz early and hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He was working as an audio-visual engineer at the Wheeler Opera House\u2019s presentation of \u201cMillion Dollar Quartet\u201d on March 6 when he got word that the South By Southwest festival in Austin had been canceled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Manosevitz had been booked for 13 full days of engineering work there and was due to fly to Austin the next morning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/at-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just that I was out of a job,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s something that I love to do and love to be a part of. It was pretty crushing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the weeks that followed, he lost all of his engineering work as the Wheeler shuttered, Aspen Shortsfest moved online, the Aspen Ideas Fest canceled and the apr\u00e8s-ski bars where he performed music all closed. Over the last two decades, he\u2019d carved out a career in music video production that often sent him on the road, playing live solo gigs himself here when he\u2019s home. But with no live events on the horizon here or anywhere else, it was soon evident he might not work for the rest of 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s a bummer, so I allowed myself to be bummed,\u201d he said of his initial reaction. \u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m going to take a couple days and drink and smoke and have a pity party. Then I\u2019m going to move on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And that\u2019s what he did. He couldn\u2019t ignore the disappointment, sadness and fear he was feeling. But knowing he had his health and shelter and clean water and food \u2013 more than many right now \u2013 he couldn\u2019t stay down too long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He got a text message from his friend Reed Lewis, of the Daly Bottle Shop, that asked simply, \u2018What kind of lemonade are you gonna make out of these lemons?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Manozevitz seized the sentiment as a statement of purpose for himself moving forward in the uncertain new landscape created by COVID-19 and as inspiration for a song he began writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A local friend also sent Manozevitz a voicemail the singer-songwriter himself left in early days of the public health crisis, in which he says with a glimmer of hope \u201cEven the bad days are pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He repurposed that as a lyric as well, for the chorus in what would become \u201cEven the Bad Days (Are Pretty Good),\u201d a call for facing the darkness and uncertainty of this historic moment and moving forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Manozevitz recorded the song one-man-band style at home, playing guitar, bass and drums while singing lead vocals and backing vocals as well, all of it layered together through the GarageBand. And he mounted cameras to film himself playing each part, cut it together into a music video, then released it into the virtual world where we\u2019re all living these days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The video, which Manosevitz uploaded to YouTube March 24 and which was broadcast in early April at the virtual Carbondale First Friday, opens with Manosevitz in his Missouri Heights home taking a sack of lemons out of his refrigerator and starting to make lemonade. Before the song kicks in, we hear the voicemail from which it took its title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The time-intensive project kept Manosevitz busy and also provided some catharsis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt was a lot of effort but it\u2019s certainly a great way to spend time and something I will return to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Otherwise, he said, he\u2019s been playing a lot of music by himself over the last few weeks. He\u2019s been learning new songs, new instruments and, like many musicians, playing all the John Prine songs he knows while wishing the hospitalized songwriting legend a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI want to be able to look back and feel like I did a good job of getting through a difficult time,\u201d he said. \u201cWas I prepared? Was I supportive of others? Did I use this time wisely? I want to look back and say that I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video, \u201cwritten, produced, performed, recorded, mixed, shot, edited, and inflicted upon you by The Bradman\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4MfoHr9jJuU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i>:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\"><a href=\"mailto:atravers@aspentimes.com\">atravers@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/weekly\/at-home-in-aspen-from-quarantine-musician-brad-manosevitz-releases-even-the-bad-days-are-pretty-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the video for Brad Manosevitz&#8217;s &#8220;Even the Bad Days (Are Pretty Good).&#8221;Courtesy photo In the week after stay-home orders went into effect in the Aspen area in mid-March, the longtime local musician Bradley \u201cBradman\u201d Manosevitz was already writing and recording music to exorcize the fear and pain of the public health and economic crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 05:11:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}