...i think i hallucinated this scene at Terrastock 7...
Influences
13th Floor Elevators, After Bathing at Baxter's, Amon Düül (early German version), Amon Düül II, Syd Barrett, Capt. Beefheart, Glenn Branca, Richard Brautigan, Byrds, Kwai-Chang Caine, Can, Jack Casady, Aleister Crowley, Lauri des Marais, Creed Dew, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Electric Prunes, Eno, Evol, Fabulous Furry Freak Bros., Faust, Xeth Feinberg, Fifty Foot Hose, Flying Saucer Attack, Alastair Galbraith, Gerald Gardner, Ghost, Godz, Grace/Great Society, hormones, hunger, Ken Kesey & his bus, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jack Kirby, Mayan cosmogenesis, Patrick McGoohan, Terence McKenna, Alan Moore, New Age with teeth, Pauline Oliveros, Augustus Stanley Owsley III, Parable of Arable Land, early Floyd, Plasticland, Popol Vuh, Quicksilver M.S.'s Happy Trails, Red Crayola, Mister Rogers, Alex Sanders, Shocking Blue, Six Organs Of Admittance, Patti Smith (whose Radio Ethiopia opened a unique portal from my suburban high school existence), "Some Velvet Morning", "classic Trek", Dr. Strange, Sun Ra, Swamp Thing, Television Personalities, thirst, Bobb Trimble, Hermes Trismestigus, Underdog, United States Of America (the band)
here lie some sounds that float me the right way
really diggin right now: Religious Knives, Mammatus, Bobby Beausoleil & the Freedom Orchestra, Bo Hansson, Bobb Trimble, Ananda Shankar, Blues Control
below: from the Prefab Messiahs/Bobb Trimble set at the Wormtown 30th Anniversary Bash, May 3, 2008, Worcester MA (l-r: Bobb Trimble, Ned Egg, me; not pic'd: Gary War)
Abunai! is doing some new recording this fall! -- Brendan will fly in from London in late Sept. to help get the ball rolling.
I'm playing bass in a new band, "Bobb Trimble's Flying Spiders". Along for the ride (besides me and Bobb) are Nick Branigan, Karina Dacosta, Joe Mahoney, and Gary War.
The Prefab Messiahs will have a 12" LP version of the Devolver album out next year on a new label, Plain Text Records. The label's first release will consist of Monochrome Set demos!
The Lothars will begin work on some new recordings soon.
I assisted in the production of legal reissues of Bobb Trimble's two original early-80s LPs (with 3 bonus tracks ea., mmm). They're out now! on Secretly Canadian Records -- you can read about them and order them here!
