Greg Szuba ~ guitar...
Mike Robertshaw ~ drums...
Joe Cieslak ~ saxophone...
Mark Waldinger ~ bass...
DJ G-spot ~ theremin, turntables, keyboards, samples, percussion...
Doogie MacGregor ~ vocals, saxophone...
Influences
Sonic Youth... YoLK... Lake Trout... Mr Bungle... the Pixies... Bruce Lee... Pavement... Schleigho... Cleopatra Jones... Frank Zappa... Charles Mingus... Radiohead... cheesy 50s sci-fi monster movies... Coltrane... Bootsie Collins... the Cramps... Star Wars... Thelonious Monk... the History Channel... Tenacious D... Queens of the Stone Age... Black Flag & Rollins Band... Jaco Pastorius... Public Enemy... Portishead... Clutch... Soulive... Bjork... PiL... Beastie Boys... the NFL Network... the Flaming Lips... Soundgarden... Cat Power... James Tiberius Kirk... PJ Harvey... Leon Theremin... NWA... the White Stripes... George Washington... the Happy Tree Friends... Soul Coughing... the Witching... RPGs... Medeski, Martin & Wood... Primus... Fishbone... Reverend Horton Heat... the Hives... the Clash... Cibo Matto... Jon Spencer Blues Explosion... Professor Small... Mike Patton... Johnny Cash... Dr Who... Nigel Tufnal, Derek Smalls & David St. Hubbins...
Sounds Like
hot sweaty orgasms played backwards during the psychotropic soundtrack of your nightmares...
"...you were awesome last night. I haven't been rocked like that in a long time. Hello Kitty is a good fun time..."
~ KIKI LA ROUGE
"...armed with the wizardry and artillery, Hello Kitty Death Squad leads the local music revolution..."
~ TANGENT MAGAZINE
"...During the first four minutes of Hello Kitty Death Squad, you could almost see the question marks hanging above everyones head. The questions: Is this for real? Where did these guys come from?...
HKDS was freaky, freaky in a good way. Soon after the crowd picked their jaws off the ground, HKDS delivered everything at full speed. They thrashed, they funked, they tripped, they grooved, they smashed, they screamed, they chilled, they fried, they squished, they sampled. Sometimes, all that packed into 30 seconds....
Somehow, HKDS took the experimentation and fun of Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E, tightened the hell out of it and pureed it with Radioheads Hail to the Thief. Thats the best comparison I can give, and it still comes out short. But in general, HKDS and their Basement Transmission Records label mates Pegasus Unicorn, werent afraid to bring something different..."
~ ROCKERIE.COM (Ten Minute Tangent ~ Review of HKDS at BotB 2006)
"...Hello Kitty Death Squad was an awesome mix of sounds, vocals, and musical instruments... Erie bands are for the most part good but these guys are great....
This band had IT, original music was Hello Kitty's bitch. The use of the Saxophone seemed strange at first glance but when used in their music it was phenomenal. Dude on the turntables was a little hard to see from the floor but he brought life to Sherlock's as he performed and sang great songs with melody and a sort of psychedelic super metal funk music...
I think I can safely say this band is a must see... I give the performance two thumbs up!...5 out of 5 on both Song Writing and Originality..."
~ ERIESCENE.COM
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I really enjoyed your set tonighta t Celebrate Erie. It was the first I got to see you live. You have a very unique sound that me and my son both like.
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