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Loto Ball Show
Post punk / Grime / Nu-Jazz

Ahead of its Time, and Behind





Chicago and Los Angeles, Illinois
United States

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Member Since11/7/2003
Band Websitehttp://www.lotoballshow.com
Band Members

Chicago band

  • Loto Ball:Vocals, Trumpet, Keys
  • Taylor Hales: Bass
  • Maria Jenkins:Keys
  • Grace Kulp:Vocals
  • Clyde Rourke: Drums
  • Matt Schwarz: Guitar
  • BJ Doring:Guitar
  • David E. Smith: Saxes

Los Angeles band

  • Loto Ball:Vocals, Trumpet, Keys
  • Greg Gomberg:Bass
  • Dave Burk:Guitar
  • Quinn Brayton:Keyboard
  • Ritch Bitch:Drums
  • Influences General 400 blows, absurdist theater, ace, adbusters, albee, amelia earheart, anarchism, andrew s.a., appreciation, azita, balthus, basquiat, beckett, ben hirschkoff, beuys, bieno svengali, billie holiday, black flag, blind blake, blonde redhead, born against, boy scouts of annihilation, butthole surfers, butttoucher, captain beefheart, centimeters, chuckles the clown, circus ridiculous, comedy, crass, dadaism, david bowie, dead and gone, debord, design, dirt, egon schiele, emma goldman, erase errata, ethnomethodology, existentialism, experimental dental school, expressionism, flipper, flux information sciences, found items, found letters, found notes, francis bacon, fruitvale, futurism, germs, get hustle, graffitti, graphic design, grime, hopeless, insecta, jackson pollock, jazz, jenny holzer, jodorowski, jokes, leonard cohen, making people feel weird, manet, marinetti, marshall mcluhan, max beckmann, max ernst, mclelland, metaphysics, mike boner, minutemen, misfits, muhammad ali, musee mecanique, mysticism, new collapse, nick cave, nihilism, nina simone, no wave, oakland, oum kolthoum, outsider art, pcp roadblock, phantom limbs, phenomenology, point line plane, public enemy, punk, pussy chop banana, quintron, roberto matta, rudimentary peni, saccharine trust, satie, screamers, situationism, sixteens, slapstick, sleepytime gorilla museum, slug, social unrest, socialism, stiff little fingers, sun ra, surrealism, the birthday party, the holy kiss, the phantom limbs, the vanishing, throbbing gristle, tragedy, tuxedomoon, valley fever, velvet underground, vss, willem de kooning, zoogz rift Music no wave, blues, jazz, punk, metal, post-punk, post-blues, post-metal, post raisin bran Movies The Swimmer (1968) starring Burt Lancaster, A Clockwork Orange, Porcine Television M.A.S.H., The Saint with Roger Moore Books Dostoevsky, Bukowski, Camus, Celine, Hesse, Lynda Barry, -- please recommend or mail me books to 1103 N. California Ave., Chicago IL 60622 Heroes joseph beuys
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    Record LabelReversible Eye
    Type of LabelIndie


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       About Loto Ball Show

    "It's like removing a watermelon-size bowl of lard from my body, in less than two weeks. I'm going to tell everyone I know that this has really worked for me..." - Leslie, NM

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    Loto Ball is best known for his work singing and performing for San Francisco Bay Area death-punk band The Phantom Limbs. During his time with The Phantom Limbs (in which he was sometimes known as “Hopeless”), Loto Ball’s visceral expression of existential distress laced with black comedy, along with the hyper-charged and unusual compositions of keyboardist Stevenson Sedgwick helped earn his band the honor of No. 1 Indie Rock Band in San Francisco (S.F. Bay Guardian – Best of the Bay awards 2003) and the chance to record two albums with Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles record label. After 5 years and 220 performances with The Phantom Limbs, including 3 U.S. tours and 2 European tours, Loto Ball left the band in 2005 to move to Chicago and pursue other ventures. Loto Ball has spent his time in Chicago working with local artists on various projects, including founding an art gallery/music venue (Reversible Eye), collaborating on a 800 foot public mural (Bloomingdale Trail), personal masseuse for Mayor Richard Daley, performing with puppets (Scary Toesies), working as an activist for disability rights and quality of life issues, as well playing trumpet for a 30-person marching band (Mucca Pazza).

    Loto Ball created the Loto Ball Show in 2005. It has taken on many forms, such as incorporating absurdist puppet shows, hosting variety shows, and recording the soundtrack for a horror-comedy underground TV series. The Loto Ball Show has now evolved into an energetic rock band that screams out much of the same ferocity as The Phantom Limbs but brings in more variety in mood, more shifts in volume and pace, and more eclectic sounds. It is a driving key-board driven form of No-Wave post-punk with hints of jazz syncopation and Middle-Eastern scales.

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    Jungle Crow

    Jungle Crow



    Nov 10 2009 2:03 PM

    New Jungle Crow songs are up!
    The new STARBURST EP is up for free download at:
    http://www.last.fm/music/Jungle+Crow/Starburst+EP
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    Lucky 17 Screen Printing



    Nov 6 2009 12:19 AM

    thanks for rocking with us! need free guitar picks?
    Klocko

    Klocko Peacocko



    Nov 5 2009 3:33 PM

    Thanks for the call! Sorry that I had to run out so quickly. Hopefully we'll meet again soon. xo
    Sophia St. James

    Sophia St. James



    Oct 24 2009 4:55 AM

    Happy Birthday!!
    concubine Incredulous

     concubine  Incredulous



    Oct 23 2009 1:13 AM

    love
    Dickie Productions

    Dickie Productions



    Oct 20 2009 6:28 PM

    Thanks for the Add!!

    Dickie Productions
    MODERNLESS

    MODERNLESS



    Oct 17 2009 1:27 AM

    nice to meet you.
    Touch The Spider!

    Touch The Spider!



    Sep 23 2009 5:26 PM

    Thanx for the friendship !!!!!//////////Hey, danke fürs Freundsein ! Gibt auch einen neuen Clip ( über Liebeskummer )...






    SUBsoundz(new trax/novas malhas)

    SUBsoundz(new trax/novas malhas)



    Sep 18 2009 2:46 AM

    thanx 4d add!
    stevo

    stevo



    Sep 14 2009 6:22 AM

    some bizzare
    Monkey Bucket

    Monkey Bucket



    Sep 10 2009 6:19 PM

    I'm doing well. Hope all is well with you. I like the CD by the way.




    MB
    ReDeMeR

    ReDeMeR



    Sep 5 2009 2:31 AM

    Love these tunes yall
    Lost In Pangaea

    Lost In Pangaea



    Sep 4 2009 10:26 AM

    THX for the ADD !

    Regards from Pangaea*
    Heavy Load

    Heavy Load



    Aug 8 2009 7:23 AM

    Hi
    Thanks for being a friend of the Wild Things
    Join the disabled underground and get the album at
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    And don't forget the second volume is out soon and sounding amazing
    (contact us through our website for more details)
    Wild Things - sounds of the disabled underground

    Wild Things - sounds of the disabled underground



    Aug 7 2009 8:48 PM

    Hi
    Thanks for being a friend of the Wild Things
    Join the disabled underground and get the album at
    www.heavyload.org
    And don't forget the second volume is out soon and sounding amazing
    (contact us through our website for more details)
    Nyghtowll

    Nyghtowll



    Jul 9 2009 2:01 AM

    Thank you for the friendship!
    DalyCityRecords

    DalyCityRecords



    Jul 9 2009 7:46 PM

    Daly City Loves YOU!

    Don't forget US! <3
    ReDeMeR

    ReDeMeR



    Jun 13 2009 1:27 PM

    Metal shaker show on monday...yep eee
    Sarah Nowicki

    Sarah Nowicki



    Jun 11 2009 6:47 PM

    Thanks for comming to Cleveland btw, you guys played an awesome show! mathew and i are movin to nyc (nihla), you will have to come and visit :>
    Terrificolor

    Terrificolor



    Jun 7 2009 11:47 AM

    Merci
    Sader

    Sader



    Jun 3 2009 9:11 PM

    Have a Teeth Sinking Week'!!!
    SJC Custom Drums

    SJC Custom Drums



    May 29 2009 2:11 PM

    Thanks for adding SJC Custom Drums on Myspace!!

    You can reach Bryan via a myspace message. You can also email us at info@sjcdrums.com or bryan@sjcdrums.com for all questions, price quotes, or more info on endorsements / artist discounts.

    Also, be sure to check our "Virtual Kit Designer" to design your dream kit! You can find the link on at SJC Drums website, www.sjcdrums.com.

    Thanks! We're looking forward to hearing from you!!

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    The Fuxedos

    The Fuxedos



    May 28 2009 5:55 AM

    Fuxshitup, Loto Ball!
    Lightning Fingers

    Steve Barrett



    May 26 2009 1:48 AM

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    $6 / 9PM


    LOTO BALL SHOW (x-Phantom Limbs, from Chicago)
    CATERPILLAR TRACKS (Phratry Records, from Cincinnati)
    HUGS AND KISSES (electro wackiness from Columbus)


    LOTO BALL SHOW:
    www.lotoballshow.com
    www.myspace.com/lotoballshow
    www.facebook.com/pages/Loto-Ball-Show/9545187646
    www.last.fm/music/Loto+Ball+Show
    www.reverbnation.com/lotoballshow
    www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Loto+Ball+Show


    CATERPILLAR TRACKS:
    www.myspace.com/caterpillartracks
    www.phratryrecords.com/bands/band_04.html
    www.last.fm/music/Caterpillar+Tracks
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxdRpxzHUcw


    HUGS AND KISSES:
    www.myspace.com/hugsandkissesyou
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