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A cult artist the likes of Captain Beefheart, the Fugs and the Godz, Minneapolis' Michael Yonkers has been toiling in obscurity since the late '60s. With a solid foundation of surf rock and garage, Yonkers pushes the limits of distortion with guitar and effects modifications, and a raw and blunt approach to underground rock & roll.Born in 1947, Yonkers began playing guitar in the early '60s. Raised on Link Wray and the Trashmen, he officially started his music career as the leader of Michael & the Mumbles who played proms and dances in the Twin Cities area. Constantly redefining and stretching the limits of their sound, the group eventually evolved into Michael Yonkers Band with Michael's brother Jim on drums and Tom Wallfred on bass.In 1967, Yonkers cut his Telecaster down to a plank and began the other modifications on his equipment that would solidify the band's unique approach. Soon, Minneapolis music impresario Peter Steinberg landed the band a contract with Sire Records -- not unusual for a time when major labels were combing the underground for bands like the Mothers of Invention.Microminiature Love was the group's first full-length and was intended to be released in 1968, but for reasons still unknown, the deal with Sire fell apart and the band broke up, their brilliant debut left languishing on a shelf.In 1971, Yonkers' back was broken in an on-the-job-accident at an electronics warehouse -- a twist of fate that led to years of exploratory surgery that only made matters worse, and an allergic reaction to X-ray dye that left the guitarist with a degenerative spinal cord condition. But Yonkers kept recording, and released three solo albums on his own label in 1974 -- Grimwood (recorded in 1969), Michael Lee Yonkers (recorded in 1972) and Goodby Sunball (recorded in 1973) -- as well as Borders of My Mind with Jim Woehrle. Thy Will Be Done followed in 1976 and then Yonkers was relatively unheard of for two decades.In 1997, Get Hip Records released a compilation of songs recorded at Richfield, Minnesota's Dove Studios called Free Flight: Unreleased Dove Recording Studio Cuts 1964-69 which contained two songs from Microminiature Love, "Puppeting" (which was mislabeled as "Microminiature Love") and the anti-Vietnam war song "Kill the Enemy." These stripped-down, seminal art rock tracks caught the attention of De Stijl's Clint Simonson, who spent over a year searching for Yonkers. Simonson released the virtually forgotten Minneapolis psychedelic-garage album Microminiature Love in 2002. The vinyl-only edition quickly became a record collector favorite, and in 2003 Sub Pop put out the CD of this strange, lost album complete with six bonus tracks recorded circa 1968.
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Preview for all tracks of my debut album Symbiosis of Contradictions are now available on my myspace page through zimbalam player. Mp3 release is now available in all the major stores worldwide.
Greetings from the snowy Moscow/Russia
/Ivan
Greetings,
Thanks for your friendship. Our only mission on My Space is for people to enjoy
what we've created. We have no expectations of ever being rock stars. We just
want to brighten up the corner where we live. Please let us know if our mission
has been accomplished.
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Recent interview to C.Cart from punk legends TOXIN III !!!
GEPOPEL “No one can stop advance” 7” B.F.E-01 From early to mid eighties Gepopel were doing noise for you amigo,,,much noise and very well done!.Now Noise and distortion records has release all their stuff so check it out. Anyway they have not include the first demo "No one can stop advance" that I consider also very great. In a different way the songs of the first demo were less fast hardcore and more lo-fi punk, similir to Urinals, some Chain gang.. Killed By Death , Messthetics compilations stuff ... "The day after" is a great lofi new wave punk song , and others like "Nato" or "Eenheidswors" could easily be done by the Pagans, but recording with 4-track of course! .... This is pure classic! conga conga!!
BURKA FOR EVERYBODY # 1 – Toy Love, United Mutation, Gepopel, Big Boys, Toxin III, Michael Yonkers…+ cd-r …. 4 euros.
Recent interview to C.Cart from punk legends TOXIN III !!!
GEPOPEL “No one can stop advance” 7” B.F.E-01
From early to mid eighties Gepopel were doing noise for you amigo,,,much noise and very well done!.Now Noise and distortion records has release all their stuff so check it out. Anyway they have not include the first demo "No one can stop advance" that I consider also very great. In a different way the songs of the first demo were less fast hardcore and more lo-fi punk, similir to Urinals, some Chain gang.. Killed By Death , Messthetics compilations stuff ... "The day after" is a great lofi new wave punk song , and others like "Nato" or "Eenheidswors" could easily be done by the Pagans, but recording with 4-track of course! .... This is pure classic! conga conga!! 6 songs from the demo.
Limited edition of 300 copies. SPLIT RELEASE WITH SPONTANEOUS RECORDS (Berlin-GER)
HELLO! Thank you for the Friendship. YEAH!! KILL THE ENEMY!!!! GREAT TUNES!! Rock SXSW 2009 "Doggy Style" with The Dogs!! The Dogs from Lansing/Detroit Rock City celebrate their 40th anniversary w/t 2 Disks, 25 tribute bands, 3 unreleased historic tracks from The Dogs from 1971 & 1976, 28 page booklet, liner notes by John Sinclair (MC5) and cover artwork by Rockin' Jellybean!!
ARTLESS CREATURE WAS MY STRIPPER NAME,,,THE OTHER DAY THIS STRANGE WOMAN WAS COMPLAINING SHE HAD NEVER BEEN AS DISGUSTED AND DISSAPOINTED IN HER LIFE,,I SAID 'HOW CAN THAT BE YOU NEVER EVEN SLEPT WITH ME',,,SO I GAVE HER MY NUMBER,,,HAHA,,,SHE NEVER CALLED,,,THANX 4 THE ADD U REALLY ROCK
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