Pink Floyd, Ween, Rush, The Police, Jane's Addiction, The Grateful Dead, Phish, Led Zeppelin, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Hawkwind (well, sort of...), Yes, King Crimson, and many many more...
Alientar first congealed at a remote canyon trailer deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains during the Summer of 1999, and has been famously described as “Aldous Huxley and Isaac Asimov jamming at Pompeii” – encompassing a sonic mash that lurches from unabashed psychedelic space epics to psychobilly rutting soundtracks, playing whatever they feel like and leaving their audience to sort out the details.
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Alientar has played some of the Bay Area’s finest and worst venues –
from the legendary Fillmore, Golden Gate Park, and Frost Amphitheatre to urine soaked biker bars and lush divorcee watering holes. Despite their fickle fortunes,
Alientar keeps stepping into the ring like a brain damaged prize fighter
looking for glory. Push them too far, however, and they’ll unleash
their sonic fury on the audience like a water cannon at a WTO demonstration.
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HISTORY
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Guitarists Forest Coe and Jeremy Lathrop had been jamming and writing with bass player Derk Hagedorn since 1994, but it wasn’t until they were introduced to drummer Jason Deppong that they got off their collective asses and decided to “share” their particular musical vision with more than the annoyed neighbors. Keyboardist Joseph Lemmer joined the band a few months later and Alientar seeped out of its trailer and onto stages around the area.
Following the exhuming of human remains behind the trailer, the band moved its headquarters to a nondescript townhouse in Santa Cruz proper, where a new generation of neighbors would soon be introduced to strange noises emanating from the garage. After several live and demo CD compilations, Alientar released its first album on the Alien Slut label in 2005. After five years of collaboration and madness, Joseph Lemmer came to his senses in early 2006 and left the band to pursue other interests, but not before engineering the recordings for Alientar’s next release, "Martian Terrain". After "Martian Terrain", Alientar worked on new material at a feverish pace, returning to the Catalyst with video projections and mace.
Unfortunately, in November 2007, Alientar crash landed. Nothing new has been heard since. Dedicated Tards visit here occasionally to hear aural remnants of Alientar that continue to drift through the ether and upload spontaneously to this website. R.I.P.
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For more information, studio and new live mp3s, video, art, gig dates, etc.-------
GO TO: HTTP://WWW.ALIENTAR.COM
***We update myspace and alientar.com with current live and rehearsal mp3s weekly.
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Just wanted to tell you guys how AWESOME you are!! I wish we could come hang out like we used to back in the good ol' days, but we live in crazy kid land now!! Tell everyone hi for us, and don't forget we will ALWAYS be your #1 fans :)
Greetings myspace friend. Can't get to Ben Lomond fri but next time your down around Santa Cruz I'll be there. & a big hello to Forest, I just started playing for Solaren, hope to see you soon.
awesome we will stop by Friday to check you guys out.....etizor and the drool pigs aka Acoustic Shadows ....we're featured on the Idle hands show in Santa Cruz and should be driving back around the time you guys go on.....Erik
Hey Folks, We are going to be headlining at The Catalyst on the 4th of august. It is a free show and we will be releasing the cd there. Check out the new songs and give us your opinion. They are already up. We should arrange a show (s) together. All the best, Michael/Solaren
We will most definetly rock in space and elsewhere together! Look for all the comicnauts to get together for a San Francisco space rock festival sometime in the next few months--our 12 Galaxies parties have been a a good foundation. Though foundations are pretty useless in space!
just got back from a brewery tour with the dogs....1800 miles through the north west coast....and many awesome brews....havin some beer tasting tomorrow night ....fly on by ...erik
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