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Owner/operator: Eric Eaglstun. Songwriter, lead vocals, guitar — and the hand on most of the other machines too. Based in Boise, Idaho. Files everything under his own rig.

The % is the badge: two circles, one slash. Owner over operator. You own the thing, you operate the thing, nobody hands you the keys. /%eric is just that applied to one person.

§1 — WHAT HE DOES

Writes the songs. Sings them in a voice that lands somewhere between confession and weather report. Plays the guitar, the synths, the bass — whatever the take needs that isn’t a drum. Builds the record in the same room he answers email in.

A guitar line will arrive late and apologize for nothing. That’s usually him.

Hear one: Echoes and Static — the first single, from LOSS LEADER LP.

§2 — DAY JOB, NIGHT FREIGHT

Full-stack web developer by daylight — TypeScript, React, Node, going on fifteen years of making complicated systems feel simple. Came up through character animation and fine art before the code, which is why he cares how a thing feels and not just whether it compiles.

Built a guitar wired to a Teensy so every string becomes MIDI. Owns the instrument. Operates the instrument. Rewires the instrument when it won’t say what he means. Same move, every layer down.

§3 — THE TRUCK

A 2006 Chevy Suburban, blue with a green-purple shift in raking light, wearing an Idaho plate that reads DEVO. The name is borrowed from the long-haul kind of owner/operator — the ones who own the rig they drive, moving tons of steel across a hostile landscape. No song is literally about trucking. The highway is the metaphor. The freight is emotional.

We are all DEVO. He just has the plate to prove it.

§4 — CURRENT STATUS

Hauling a recording rig into the mountains. Loft becomes a tracking room; the lake happens in the other half of the house. The goal is keepers — scratch takes, room tone, a chorus sung wrong on purpose and kept that way.

The loose plan and the haul list: the haul →

Make something honest before you make something good.

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— operating out of Boise · published under Rack & Pinecone LLC