Lack of Talent (LOT): Andrew, Mike, session players
The LOTTO (LOT Twosome/Threesome Orchestra): Heather, Mike, and Gabor
Illegal Operation: Mike, Gabor
Pap Culture: Mike
Influences
Genres: Lo-fi, indie rock, experimental, lounge jazz, post-punk, punk rock, alternative, nursery rhymes, folk-pop, post-rock, death metal, post-alternative, post-grape-nuts, post-cynical, post-et-cetera.
Sounds Like
Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Dead Meadow, Interpol, Mogwai, Pavement, Archers of Loaf, Polyphonic Spree, Queens of the Stone Age, The Wrens, Neutral Milk Hotel, and MORE!
These tracks are windows upon Lack of Talent's essence -- an improvised, collaborative, lo-fi musical journey. LOT's an unholy, unstructured union with a spirit not unlike those of Josh Homme's Desert Sessions or the early Velvet Underground. Musicians who have contributed to Lack of Talent are listed to the left.
Q: What is Lack of Talent (LOT)?
A: Lack of Talent isn't a band as much as a concept, nowadays. Originally coined and conceived in 1998 by Mr. Chicken, Lack of Talent was to be the finest rock-metal-opera-nursery-rhyme band in rural Fall Creek, Oregon. After some petty name theft by yours truly, Lack of Talent has come to embody a virtual collective of musicians who collaborate on sonic ideas. Most of the time, at least when I am involved, the process morphs into drawn-out, droney jam sessions, but it's all in good fun. -- Mike (AKA "MiK")
A: Very funny, MiK. I think I'll take this opportunity to explain what really happened. It was the summer of 1998 and MiK was living down the road from me in Fall Creek, OR, where I grew up. I remember the moment LOT was conceived vividly: It was in the wee hours of the night. The caffeine buzz we were on in combination with the sleep deprivation created a dissociative, psychedelic mood. MiK played "Yellow Ledbetter" for the millionth time, and then tore into "Undertow" for the billionth time. I played the one chord I knew repeatedly. I was madly reading nursery rhymes and yelling at a cow I'd brought in the house from the pasture next door. It was a surefire formula for brilliance. We blacked out. The next we knew, MiK was playing the most innovative riff since the riff used in "Hot Cross Buns" (though markedly heavier) and I was jumping up and down screaming "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
So. been gettin into you tunes more each time I hear em'- if you get time I recorded a couple of tunes too- one new one called 'balloon' all instrumental- take care.
It's been a rock'n'roll year so far with The Jaw-Line of Julianne Moore....
How has your year been?
Cheers!
Captain Ants
Theremin Player and Laptop Synth noises for The Jaw-Line of Julianne Moore
P.S. Didn't win the Pork Pie competition I entered in December....Tried growing a beard over winter for a beard growing competition that was held at the end of last month,....and guess what? I didn't win that either, lost to a lame goatie beard :(
Ah well it's the taking part that counts I suppose.... :D
they call THAT a fucking season finale????
I'm disappointed all around.... I'm disappointed in Italians... I'm disappoonted in Jersey...
Someone better get whacked at your wedding!!! :)
so...how's aboot a LOT / bxpx split. i need some motivation to get shit done. it's been almost a year since i've recorded an album (minus the covers album). i promise i'll be nice as long as i don't have to do any visuals.
write a song about this... and i'll get all sappy & weepy again.
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.
wow, it's good to see that you are one of your own best friends. sometimes i find that i am the hardest person for me to be nice to. ;) and thank the hoff for me, he is so sweet!
How can you A-Holes call yourself a band? Bald Puppies and Rainbows!?! Is this some cryptic anthem supporting man-boy love? You should all be ashamed of yourselves. ASHAMED. ASHAMED!!!!
