Cheer Up Poems

Bio:

1977 - Admires Fender guitars at Skalman's Music. 1983 - Everyone's reading No One Here Gets Out Alive. 1984 - Learns Asus2 chord instead of Am7. 1984 - Four Food Groups loses talent contest to peppy lip synching outfit. 1984 - Plateau discovered. 1985 - Fripp and Eno - No Pussyfooting lands on turntable. 1986 - First John Cage Indeterminancy House Party. 1988 - Dog Puca rehearses in St. Cloud in a really freaky basement. 1999 - Dog Puca becomes Dog Pookah. 2000's - Cheer Up Poems performs a few times, Dog Pookah performs many more times. 2000's - Cheer Up Poems and Dog Pookah record a roughly equivalent number of times. 2007 - Standard Bedside Lamp or Imitation performed by Zeitgeist Ensemble. 2007 - Bridget Riversmith makes a really cool video of Birds at Night. 2008 - Grand Valley State includes Hurry, Pt. 2 in their Free Play 10: Listening Chamber. 2009 - She Loved the Tiny Screen performed by Zeitgeist.

Member Since:

October 01, 2007

Influences:

Dream Syndicate, Three O'Clock, Fall, Pere Ubu, Can, Television, Harmonia, Cluster, Robert Fripp, ELO, Sweet, Little Feat, Kinks, Ted Nugent, Charlie Byrd, AC/DC, Rush, Giant Sand, Love - Forever Changes, Leo Kottke, John Fahey, Alice Cooper, Boston, Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Jonathan Richman, Modern Lovers, Meat Puppets, Mekons, X, Terry Riley, Brian Eno, Velvet Underground, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Richard Thompson, Moody Blues, Gary Wright, John Adams, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Henry Threadgill, Robyn Hitchcock, Aaron Copland, Robert Wyatt, Van Halen, John Dos Passos, Sinclair Lewis

Record Label:

Wire Heart