great drummers and rhythm sections, great songs, great films & scores, expansive vistas, children's art, fucked up blues, insane classical, old school r'n'b and country...the list goes on and on
Lucio Menegon, aka the Rev Screaming Fingers, is a guitarist, composer, improviser and lives for the gig be it stage or studio. He excels at providing magic to other people's songs, has a minor career performing crazy-ass free improvisational and soundtrack music and likes to play in bands that write, sweat, fight, sink or swim together. He absolutely loves to tour.
A few songwriters/composers Lucio has worked with include Val Esway, Joe Rut, Edith Frost, Anton Barbeau, Mark Growden, Gunnar Madsen, Danielle French, Dylan Champagne, Joni Davis, Mark De gli Antoni, Heather Combs, Phantom Drummer, Scott Pinkmountain.
Improv collaborators include Myles Boisen, Carla Kihlstedt, Wil Hendricks, Amy DeNio, Moe! Staiano, Laurie Amat, Jon Brumit, John Hanes, Matt Davignon, Devin Hoff, Ross Hammond, Motoko Honda, Emily Hay, Gino Robair, John Shiurba, Morgan Guberman, Tokyo Nammi, Scrote, Bruce Anderson, Jonathan Segel, David Slusser, Allen Whitman, Seth Ford Young.
Latest projects include Prehistoric Horse - a modern improvised music/noise trio with David Grollman, Valerie Kuehne, The Bodice Rippers, a fantastic bluespunksoulcabaret band and LUMEN (instrumental rock/film soundtrack music). He was a founding member of the bands Zebu, Ramona the Pest and the HO!.
Latest CD is Sonic Demons - a dark sonic tale for dark times with a story line that follows the plight of a broken down Lucifer, an over-eager Alchemist, a Faustian bargain, a fantastical steam-punk miracle machine, a deadly molecule, a scheming Vulcan and the very heavy Saturn. Sonic Demons features Lucio's signature guitar and electronic sounds in solo and collaborative compositions and improvisations with Jon Brumit, Wayne Grim, Suki O'Kane, Jeff Hobbs, Jonathan Segel (Camper Van Beethoven), Laurie Amat (The Residents), David Grollman, Rob Price and Valerie Kuehne.
Recorded: live on March 16, 2003 at the Beta Lounge in San Francisco
In 1967, San Francisco’s Fifty Foot Hose were certainly one of the innovators of a sound that took Psychedelia to new heights and was captured on the band’s one record, Cauldron. They are a totally unique hybrid—on one hand pulsating bay area acid rock, on the other, fractured electronic freakery, becoming one whole cohesive being. The sci-fi-ish video game-like artwork hinted at the sounds within, as did the Limelight label’s pedigree for truly progressive sounds. Band leader, Cork Marcheschi, used homemade electronic devices to create crude and experimental soundscapes and instrumental compositions that were sprinkled throughout the album.
Often starting shows with a swelling rumble that exploded into the first song, they soon developed a rabid following on the SF scene, though there was the occasional totally wrong gig, like when a very-pregnant Nancy had to perform at a Catholic Girls’ school! Still, the group wowed the crowds, performing with greats like Chuck Berry and Fairport Convention.
hey Lucio! Europe was great. pretty quick run. already looking to return in the Spring, of course. i'll be in SF the week of Thanksgiving. you around then? anything going on?
That is a new song.....thank you for the nice words...and no..I wish we owned that Airstream, but it belonged to my friend, Wendy, who restores them out in Marin Co. Not sure how if she is still doing it, but she had some amazing trailers out there. Please come visit Austin whenever you want! xo Noëlle
Aw, hi Lucio!! Thanks for saying hi! I hope I get a chance to meet you one of these days when Jamie and I come back to visit the bay. :) And good luck with all those shows you have coming up -- awesome!
Hey Lucio, good to hear from ye. That OD Loop track is a monster, great work fella. Anyways, I'm gonna be in LA in November and thnking of a trip up north to SF sometime btn 16-23rd. You about? best ink
Dude, I think you are one of my favorite people. Ahead of you are my wife, Thelonious, Bruiser Brody and a few others. But you are definitely in the top 5 or 6....Let's play some more weird music, dammit. RH
