| Band Members | Brendan Apy (vocals, inspirado)
Dan Piro (guitar, tuba, backing vocals)
Ben Reed (vocals, guitar, anything else available)
Daniel Soto (vocals, guitar, crude racist jabbering)
+ frequent guests:
Paul Rosa (sax, drums, keys sometimes)
Max Manuel (our long-lost bro)
Isaac Sharp (a man among plants)
Marty Busch (drumzzzz)
Rudy, the lovable young harlequin baby |
| Influences | Brendan Apy: Children of Bodom, Black Dahlia Murder, Cannibal Corpse, Pantera, The Misfits, Black Sabbath, Iggy Pop, Captain Beefheart
Dan Piro: Rancid, The Ramones, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Gorilla Biscuits, The Clash, The Unseen, U.S. Bombs, Aus Rotten, The Hives, Violent Femmes, Primus, Fall Out Boy
Ben Reed: The Beatles, They Might Be Giants, The Dead Milkmen, Ween, The Residents, Melvins, Frank Black, Rocket From the Crypt, Wax Mannequin, Unwound, Nick Drake, Sebadoh, Aphex Twin, Radiohead, The Kinks, Beck, Uncle Lou Reed, Gyorgy Ligeti, Andy Kaufman, The Shaggs, REM, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Dr. Demento, David Lynch, psychedelia, 80s hardcore/indie rock, stoner metal, shoegazer music, early prog rock, dada
Daniel Soto: Bob Dylan, Daniel Johnston, Ween, Butthole Surfers, The Residents, Pixies, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, The Beatles, Syd Barrett, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Beck, Ken Kesey, PQ and the Babies, Flaming Lips, Meat Puppets, Scratch Acid, Candy Cane Vomit Train, Velvet Underground, Cream, The Books, ZZ Top, The Kinks, King Crimson, Pere Ubu, Talking Heads, Bob Apy, Hunter S. Thompson, John Malkovich, Jungle Rot, Hatebeak
collective inspirations:
The Aquabats,
Screamin' Jay Hawkins,
Second to One,
Tenacious D,
J.D. Hill,
Wesley Willis (R.I.P.) |
