If you love me as much as I love you and we agree that our general goal is the same, for the best possible thing to happen at any moment, then my faith in you and your methods is beyond question. ---------------------------------------------------- ACTIVE MEMBERS: Zack Davis, Martin Cartagena, Chris Parachini, Will Bates, Brandon Hoy, Robert Bryn (Bronco) MEMBERS IN GOOD STANDING: Jeremy Stenger, Jeremy Konner, Jason Ritter, Louie S, Noah Gershman, Mark Schoenecker LOST BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Dan Scinta, Dave Treut
Influences
Greg Votruba, 80's/90's Bay Area Punk, Jacy Macintosh, Tom Kerkes, Lightning Bolt, Grateful Dead, Violent Femmes, Please Kill Me, Siren Six, Elvis Costello, Billy Bragg, The Band, Chief, Modern Lovers, John Fogerty, Daniel Johnston, Tom Waits, Japanther, No Age, Black Lips, King Khan, Show Tunes, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Bruce Springsteen, Will Oldham, City Living, Wreckless Eric, Man Man, Sam Cooke, James Brown, O'Death, Matt and Kim, Bruhder, Black Flag
A thought I've really been enjoying these days is the absurdity inevitability inherent in linear time, like, fate. Like, there's a dinosaur chewing on a leaf and that dumb, majestic beast, leathery right, a strange, alien, lizard, and he has no way to imagine that this moment, the one you're living in right now, reading this, was coming. Dinosaur chewing a leave and then all the crazy shit that happened in between and now, right now. Totally inevitable and inavoidable but constructed entirely of an infinite number of cosmic concidences. An infinite number of rolls of the cosmic dice and here we are._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________)_______________*-_*****______________________________In that spirit I wanted to get in of the earlier moments in the band bio. I'm probably somewhere around seven or eight years old. Which would make my brother twelve or thirteen, maybe he was fourteen and I was nine. Anyway, our mom is having new counter tops put in in the kitchen. One of the guys on the crew, a dude that in retrospect was probably in his early twenties, long, blondish hair, sees the silver, shiny electric guitar that belongs to my brother but that he rarely plays and the guy asks about it. Picks it up, strums it a bit, they talk about guitars. It turns out that he has a book or something, a folded up piece of paper, don't remember, something that has tablature chord diagrams on it, and he gives it to my brother. Thereafter Chris is playing the guitar pretty regularly. He's playing it through mom's component stereo system that I think came from Sears. The stereo that feels like when I think about it, the stereo of my whole life. Who knows what would be if that man with the long hair hadn't come to replace our kitchen counters? Would there be a Wild Yaks? Just wanted to say thank you to that guy and to ask him, that if we get on David Letterman next year like I've been saying we were going to, if he happens to catch it, like, he's staying up extra late that night or something, laying in bed with his old lady, watching the tube and then Dave introduces us and then there we are playing that music, probably River May Come or Tomahawk or some song we haven't written yet, and there at home is the guy in bed and I'm just asking him to look at us and somehow recognize my brother and remember that day that he showed him a thing or two on that shiny, silver electric guitar.
Thought about the Wild Yaks at 6pm (9pm pour vous) whilst in California on Friday... Sent every possible positive brain wave to y'all. I'm sure you were radical. Your Wild success in inevitable. Of this I know.
Yes I know about the feeling of 2 lives. I live in a constant state of panic, always wary that the night time monster will erupt during the day and vice-versa. Therefore I can not make any meaningful bonds with anyone except for the WILD YAKS and Betty Ross.
We are recording a LIVE ALBUM this week at The Trash Bar with 16 bands! Be There!
On June 14th DJ Mojo & BREAKTHRURADIO. COM present the first in an ongoing series of live shows intended to epitomize the podcast station's mandate to bring to the public the best,most innovative and exciting music being made today. The bands below will give the audience an experience of good music, great fun and fantastic entertainment!
june 14 - $8 +++++++ BELL HOLLOW-10 CRUEL BLACK DOVE-11 APPOMATTOX-12 DESIRE LINES-9 LUDLOW LIONS-8
AND *DJ MOJO'S BIRTHDAY BASH - July 2 featuring Gary Lucas' Gods and Monsters* Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart) Billy Ficca (Television) Ernie Brooks (Jonathan Richmond & The Modern Lovers) Jason Candler (Hungry March Band) Joe Hendel (The Latest Show on Earth)
JOCK-8 WILD YAKS-11 TELENOVELA STAR-10 GARY LUCAS' GODS AND MONSTERS-12 RENMINBI-9
