michael peffer - drums, vocals //
raymond piller - bass guitar //
ian smith - guitar, vocals //
kurt uchtman - guitar, soundscaping
Influences
Beatles, Hendrix, Cream, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, T. Rex, Fugazi, Allman Bros., DuValby Bros., Craw, Dirty Three, ianscreams, 100,000 Leagues Under My Nutsack, Stones, Neil Young, Who, Sabbath, Jesus Lizard, Melvins, King Crimson, King Diamond, King Cheetah, Celestine Ukwu, Hi-Life, Angola 60s, Big Milk, Tortoise, David Bowie, Tool, Fatso Jetson, Bob Marley, AC/DC, Peter Green, Miles Davis, Karp, Tenacious D, Ween, Shellac, Avail, PJ Harvey, A Tribe Called Quest, Derek & the Dominos, Black Flag, Firehose, Run D.M.C., Jaco Pastorius, Stevie Wonder, Slayer, 400 Blows, Hammerhead, Frank Zappa, Grant Green, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Devo, Kyuss, Queen, QOTSA, Art Blakey, The B-Sharps, The Cleveland Browns, The Cleveland Indians, The Cleveland Cavaliers, Eagles of Death Metal, M.O.D, Buena Vista Social Club, U2, Daniel Lanois, Weezer, Vivaldi, the Griffith Park Drum Circle, The Meters, Willie Nelson, Jeff Buckley, Slint, Robin Trower, Helmet, The Fat Boys, Television, Voivod, Soundgarden, OutKast, The Butthole Surfers, Blind Faith, Philo Beddow, Sepia Boy, The Grateful Dead, The Police, Ron Carter, Jane's Addiction, Tom Waits, Suzie Ibharra, Nirvana, Leon Redbone, El Camaron (de la Isla), Alice Coltrane, The Ohio State Buckeyes, Funkadelic, etc...
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As a reviewer for the local rock press, I have plenty of opportunities to size up a band's performance on a particular evening, or the tenor of an individual record. Defining a band's sound over the course of its career - trying to capture its very essence in a one-page biography - is another matter. Biblical Proof of UFOs is a three-piece. They are from Cleveland, Ohio. They play music.
How can I further elaborate on an ever-changing, organic thing? Well, for starters, even after numerous visits to the front row at their gigs, their performances continue to shock me. Like the bone-jarring jolt you receive after slamming a shovel into dirt and hitting bedrock instead, they are always a frequency or two heavier than I remembered...a decibel or two louder. They are excellent players who learned how to integrate their parts seamlessly after years of performing as an instrumental act inspired by the improvisational nature of jazz and fueled by a desire to explore and exhaust the boundaries of the jam. They got their shit down before they ever added vocals - and when they did - became an even better band, stripping away any vestiges of self-indulgence. Their songs these days are pure meat...not an ounce of fat.
Though they have an affinity for Hendrix, and have been compared to The Who and Queens of the Stone Age, they are not a caricature of any of their influences or contemporaries. Joey D. sings in a voice that is honest and unaffected, over a wall of brown chords and efficient guitar solos that can only be described as hard rock - always visceral - never succumbing to metal's over-processed thinness. Ray Piller tests the limits of what can be called bass, fuzzing and distorting his instrument to create a sound that is at once otherworldly and earthy. Drummer Mike Peffer lays the immutable foundation, careening around wild fills that decelerate like Bonham's - to the point where mere mortals would probably lose the groove - but he always comes back in on the one, nailing the beat to the microsecond. It's a nice combination.
-Liam Gowing
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Howdy, how, how, to you, Biblical Proof of UFOs! Panic Movement sends you a plethora of thanks, good blessings, greetings, hallucinations, and love! You’re a stupendous little specimen, aren’t you? My favorite book in the Bible is Proverbs. One of the most interesting words has to be “pulchritudinous,” don’t you agree? Local artist, Joe Lark, has asked art collectors worldwide to send him samples of their feces so he could put them in personalized tins. At any given time, I have strange secretions. We sure had some wild times, huh? Remember crashing through the double-paned window of our fourth-floor room and falling to the ground in our underwear? Being tethered to an oxygen tank isn’t all that bad. There are lots of perks. I am collecting paperclips now and I qualify for free mucous. Cars driven by amateur astronomers with prosthetic heads are essentially sailing over gravel and tar – clearly, a poor excuse for being indecisive. The meaning of life is to live it; and love God. From us to you - thank you, live life, and be happy. I drink your milkshake.
really wanted to come last night! got horrible food poisoning and was in fetal position on the floor. hope you had fun....i didn't. hope to come to the next show. post on FB, TOO.
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i listened to the baby blue one first! toledo is COLD. fly back to LA tomorrow for 3 weeks. would love to see another show as the first was thoroughly entertaining.
