| Influences | Extended hospital stays, food, LA county, science and technology, my parents, chautauqua county ny, brooklyn, manhattan, the outdoors, WWII, vietnam, the global war on terror (WWIV)
oh but musically... I try not to copy Lee Ranaldo, Sterling Morrison, Mia Doi Todd, Ian MacKaye, Thurston Moore, Lou Barlow, Steve Malkmus, J Mascis, Tobin Sprout, Robert Quine, Bob Pollard, Elastica (1st band crush), New Order, A Certain Ratio, All of the Jamestown NY Bands that I learned from (summed up in the audience), Mom, Dad, Peter Gabriel, The The (J. Marr era, but really any of it), Clinic, Gang of Four, the Pixies, Ikue Mori, o.blaat, lloop, dj olive, djrupture, Bill Laswell, Mike Patton, Badawi, Jason Forrest, Jim O'Rourke, Dosh, Sleater-Kinney, Buddy Holly, Talking Heads, what's played on WFMU umm... yeah... this is really just name dropping, so I'll stop. :-)
MTV 1984-1997, in store radio, lapd helicopters, kids who had good CDs, tapes and vinyl to listen to. |
| Sounds Like | we've been told: sebadoh, dinosaur jr., the police, calexico
we think: FSOL, KMFDM, the KLF
but seriously, we just wanna sound like we care. 'cause we care a lot.
Seriously though, we sound like bass, drums, guitar, and spastic singing. |
