Dave Mortenson, Dawn Henschen, Matt Marti, Dave Keppel, Adam Bratman, Dave Voss, Doug Duboff, Andrew Linnemann.
Influences
Psilocybin, Funkadelic, Slayer, Celtic Frost (but only the early, non-gay stuff), Melvins, Black Flag's "My War", Melvins, Malfunkshun, Nirvana, Green River, Black Flag's "My War", Parliament, Al Green, Hendrix, Hendrix, Walkingseeds, Velvet Underground, Stooges, Rudimentary Peni, Wipers, Dead Moon, Tales of Terror, Seditionaries, Aspirin Feast, Unearth, Georgetown, Scott Schickler, The Purdins, our hatred of Willard, Television, Discharge, Tubeway Army, LSD, youthful enthusiasm, listening to records, Sonic Youth, Swans, bands who smoked pot from Bellingham, Volcano Suns.
Sounds Like
What it would sound like if you were trapped in a washing machine with about 35 shoes and several g-strings on a large amount of some mind-altering substance or another
Bone Cellar was formed in 1989 by three teenagers and one old fart 23-year old. The original members were Dave Mortenson (guitar/vocals), Dawn Henschen (fretless bass/vocals), Matt Marti (drums) and Dave Keppel (guitar/vocals). The band was comitted to a psychedelic vision of hard-hitting, metal influenced garage rock. Several legendary shows were played where the entirety of the audience was tripping along with the band. Sets were spontaneous, decided by all four members, and encompassed multiple genres, often to the frustration of audiences wanting to be entertained in a typical "rock" fashion. The band was instrumental in keeping a tiny, decrepit tavern called the Storeroom alive as a venue for free punk shows, which allowed for the revival of the Eastlake punk rock scene (in the old days, Seattle had multiple scenes in the U district, Capitol Hill, Eastlake and Downtown, to name a few). The band practiced as if their lives depended on it, not saving anything for the stage, playing for 4 or 5 hours at a time, exploring the possibilities of their own music. Matt and Dave K brought a suburban metal aesthetic to the table, and all four members discovered and explored 70's soul and black psychedelic music together, often listening to records for hours before actually practicing. Later on, Dawn quit several times, to be briefly replaced by Adam Bratman, later Dave Voss and eventually Doug Duboff, all on bass. The band essentially ended when Keppel, after a brief hospital stay, elected to pursue playing his new songs with another ensemble, the Delusions. (The Delusions first demo, with Keppel, Voss and Marti along with Jim Roth of Voodoo Gearshift, now of Built to Spill, was probably the best music Bone Cellar never made. Bug those guys to put that stuff out!) Essentially, Dave Mortenson shifted away from Bone Cellar to form the still extant band Happy Stars (Check out www.myspace/happystars.), and that was basically that. Recently, the fabulous magazine "Rumble Skunk" issued "Road to Paradise" from one of Bone Cellar's two Tombstone 7"ers on a compilation cd.
In reply to the comment below from Stenkin Jenkins, I still got the shirt for more fun. Got an ant on the back jerkin his gerkin with a gun while holdin a gun to his head. Good times.
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