WELCOME TO BUFFALO: aka duo w/Shelley Burgon -harp
ELECTRIC MASADA: John Zorn, Joey Baron, Marc Ribot, Cyro Baptista, Kenny Wollesen, Ikue Mori, Jamie Saft
TRIO-CONVULSANT: Mary Halvorson, Ches Smith
FANTOMAS: Mike Patton, Buzz Osborne, Dave Lombardo
NEW MELLOW EDWARDS: Curtis Hasselbring, Chris Speed, John Hollenbeck
MOONCHILD: Joey Baron, Mike Patton
ASMODEUS: Marc Ribot, G. Calvin Weston
PROOF READERS (music of Ornette Coleman): Darius Jones, Nate Wooley, Ryan Sawyer
MADLOVE (Sunny Kim, Hilmar Jensson, Ches Smith, Erik Deutsch)
Influences
Luis Buñuel, Morton Feldman, Olivier Messiaen, The Germs, Remedios Varo, Paul Klee, Edgar Allan Poe, Otto Dix, Fernando Grillo, Britney Spears, Antonin Artaud, Scott Lafaro, Charles Bukowski, David Lynch, Bohren and Der Club of Gore, Skip James, Brian Wilson, Anal Cunt, Erik Sanko, Maurice Ravel, Elia Kazan, Bernard Hermann, Ornette Coleman, Nathanael West, Charles Ives, rocking chairs, lesbian vampires, centipedes, platypuses
Sounds Like
...the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.... ----Beckett
1968: Born traversing a fine line between hippies and rednecks behind the Redwood Curtain; a curtain that encases an over-abundance of half-way houses, an over-consumption of Rolaids, a penchant for domestic violence and DUIs and a high rate of testicular cancer. There are also some lovely tide pools up near Trinidad. First musical affinities: The Beach Boys, Blondie, Cheap Trick, Kiss. First television: Ultraman, Speedracer, Bugs Bunny. First films: Over the Edge, The Mouse and His Child, Snoopy Come Home, Bedknobs & Broomsticks. First books: Zylpha Keatly Snyder's Witches of Worm, The Velvet Room and The Headless Cupid.
1977: began studies on clarinet
1981: began studies on electric bass and subsequently quit the clarinet as I realized that girls would now talk to me.
1986: The same year that Lynch's Blue Velvet and Slayer's Reign In Blood were released, graduated from EHS. The school's motto: "Pigs live in litter, loggers live in pride". In high school I rebeled from my peers by not drinking. Started a band called Mr. Bungle. Then I got a job at Shakey's Pizza. I shaved my head and all the heshers got pissed. Began classical technique studies on the contrabass.
1990: Graduated from Humboldt State University after studying the likes of Harry Partch, Iannis Xenakis, Alban Berg, Igor Stravinksy, Gustav Mahler, JS Bach, you know, all the cats.
1992: Moved in with the bass player of Eggley Bagelface in San Francisco. First MB record released on WB. The following 8 years included too many weddings & restaurant gigs and not enough playing with Graham Connah, Ben Goldberg, John Schott, Scott Amendola, Elliot Humberto Kavee, Phillip Greenlief, et al.
2000: Moved to Brooklyn
2001: Got mugged between Williamsburg & Bushwick
Currently doing the same shit I've always done: writing music, being anti-social, collecting records, watching the Twilight Zone.
I am listening to Mad Love at least 1 every 2 days. I enjoy it immensely. I used to listen to music constantly and then it kind of stopped for a while but I hope that Mad Love is the start of that love affair with music again. Oh and why wouldn't a Platypus be a inspiration for everyone ?
hey Trev! See, all those people (and more) are missing your q/a thing on your website! Please, bring it back. Make an automatic replay, but just let people let it all out! Also, yoga is good for you.
Could I request the pleasure of your company at my Annual Senior Prom ? I do hope that you'll accept my invitation to join me on this magical occasion! :
I was so excited with the rumour that Madlove would play twith FNM here in Chile :( too bad that it won't happen after all, but Madlove should come anyway, or Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant, or anything!!!! Trevor Dunn should come to Chile anyways :)
THE NEW MADLOVE ALBUM(opps! just showed my age) IS STELLAR!!!I AM TELLING EVERYONE TO CHECK IT OUT! I CAN'T GET THOSE TUNES OUT OF MY HEAD, BUT I DON'T MIND. I HOPE TO COME CHECK OUT SOME SHOWS....speaking of I REFUSE TO GIVE UP HOPE MR!(hint,hint) AND I'M PREPARED TO BEG (and I'm good at
Always loved your work and subsequent projects since I first saw Bungle in Detroit 92' or 91'. Now I am just down right envious. How does a bass player make a living without playing top 40 covers or clinging to a rich guitarist egomaniac with connections and delusions of Holdsworth? Tried different locations over the years....prog./jazz/rock/"genreless"....Day job denial sucking my soul....Green Day cookie cutter blues on the big screen. In the name of all that's Stump....heeeelp!
Hey! Finally got my MadLove copy in the mail the other day. Haven't been able to stop listening to it, it really is something astounding. Thankyou for making wonderful music, hope there's more to come. Good luck for all ambitions in the future :) Love from Australia. Much love, Leah xoxo
THE NEW MADLOVE ALBUM(opps! just showed my age) IS STELLAR!!!I AM TELLING EVERYONE TO CHECK IT OUT! I CAN'T GET THOSE TUNES OUT OF MY HEAD, BUT I DON'T MIND. I HOPE TO COME CHECK OUT SOME SHOWS....speaking of I REFUSE TO GIVE UP HOPE MR!(hint,hint) AND I'M PREPARED TO BEG (and I'm good at 
