Gene Tangren - former guitarist/bassist/vocalist for the Amphetamine Reptile bands Vertigo and Silver Salute. Also played with and was featured in such Minneapolis/Paris-based bands as Vector, Tin Foot Dog, Technique Niquee and the Mr. Syd Blues Band.
Mike Nehl - former child. Would have liked to have been in bands such as Panda Lou, Debt Monger and Chimney Goat if they had ever existed…
Life-long friends, Gene and Mike became neighbors in their grade school years and grew up trying to out-do each other in all things imaginable. The tradition continues to this day with the Grackle sound.
Influences
Syd Barrett (Solo and early Pink Floyd years), Charlie Parker, Bugskull, Muddy Waters, Huayucaltia, Sonic Youth, Big Bill Broonzy, Gang of Four, Kinks, Cows, The Fall, The Yardbirds, Traffic, Les Paul, The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Be Bop music…
Sounds Like
This Is Not Your Mother's Psychedelia!!!
Grackle combines traditional rock instruments such as eclectic guitar, vase and percolators. And, from there it only gets more interesting. Animal voices mingling with industrial clatter, weird percussion joined by red-shift ukulele and alien horns.
Following are quotes from a few Grackle fans:
“Grackle merges the sounds of Nature and Mankind, each trying to out-compete the other for the listener’s attention.”
“Holly cow!! You guys are way weird!”
“I wouldn’t necessarily call it music; it's more like sound art.”
“Here’s your CD back, I don’t want people to think that I listen to such strange stuff.”
Grackle is excited to announce that they HAVE re-released their first two CDs, Number One and Second Effort as of April 26th, 2007!! Never available in great numbers, now you too can own the companion works to Third I in the Grackle trilogy.
You can find these epic works (as well as Third I) available for purchase at CD Baby. !!NOW ONLY $9.99!! Please click on the icons below:
Or you can download Grackle tunes from multiple sites such as iTunes, Rhapsody and Audio Lunchbox (or see our SnoCap Store directly above!).
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How are you, Grackle? Haven't checked in on you lately, so I swung by to wish you a happy September & hope you are feeling well! Listen, I have another track up on my page, "Attack Of The Mushroom People." You can Hear it right Now, if you'd like at: www.myspace.com/psychedelicpablo adios for now! Pablo
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SENDELICA
NEW ALBUM OUT ON RAIG RECORDS APRIL 24TH
“THE GIRL FROM THE FUTURE WHO LIT UP THE SKY WITH GOLDEN WORDS”
TWO TEASER TRACKS UP ON OUR MYSPACE PAGE NOW!!
GO AND LISTEN… J
FULL T/L:
STANDING ON THE EDGE – MANHOLE OF THE UNIVERSE – HAZELNUT – DARK DISKO – THE GIRL FROM THE FUTURE – GLORY BEE – SEVERAL SPECIES OF FURRY HUMANS GATHERED TOGETHER IN A CAVE GROVING LIKE GROOVY PICTS.
Also will be available as a limited edition (100 copies) which come as a collectable CD+DVD edition with the "SleepWalker Fever" movie by Grant Wakefield. DVD: 8 tracks - 51 min.
