Devo, Syd Barrett, Melt Banana, The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Shellac, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Gang of Four, Amazon Saliva, Flipper, Whitehouse, Zeni Geva, Ennio Morricone, John Zorn, Link Wray, 400 Blows, The Raincoats, Steve Reich, Victims Family, Subhumanz UK, The Vaselines, Sonic Youth, L7, Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno, Brian Wilson, Ass Baboons of Venus, No Means No, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Jeff Buckley, Robert Johnson, Captian Beefheart, The Ramones, The Pixies, Mudhoney, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Joy Division, Minute Men, Arthur Lee and Love, The Residents, Wesley Willis, The Wipers... having our teeth drilled and blissful walks through sakura... also visual and performance art, movies, dreams, nightmares... the list goes on... all that and making the most of being minimal, being passionate, and life experiences. Trying to connect on a human level about things we all share, going into outer space by looking inward. Oh, that and turning the amps up so loud they melt and mashing the drums to splinters.
Sounds Like
Noise Clinic! ...rhythm, melody, harmony, structure, timbre, dynamics and texture, consonance and dissonance, fugue, the invention, sonata-allegro, canon, strophic, theme and variations, rondo, monophony, heterophony, polyphony, homophony, monody and the complete destruction of these concepts.
New songs posted!! New Noise Clinic album, still yet to be named, is finished!! Recorded at Charlie's in Tokyo by Ayato, Tabata and Taito!! And Charlie.
ADD OUR NEW SONGS TO YOUR PLAYLIST!! IT'S FREE!!!
Check out Noise Clinic on the Watt From Pedro Show at these links (they do work!). Thanks Mike, you the man.
http://twfps. com/pages/show. php?sid=139
that show is July 10, 2007
and
http://twfps. com/pages/show. php?sid=142
For booking information anywhere in the world, please contact noiseclinic@yahoo.com or message us here at Myspace!
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
William S. Burroughs
- The short of it: Taito Reed, guitarist/vocalist from Junk Sick Dawn moved to Tokyo, Japan in 2005 after moe than 12 years of solid rock and rolling and touring the West Coast of the United States. Now, Taito plays with the amazing Ayato Kawakita of AKG (Ayato Kawakita Group) on drums, and the hard-rocking punk pioneer Tabata Mitsuru, founder member of The Boredoms and now of Zeni Geva, Amazon Saliva and Acid Mothers Temple on bass. Noise Clinic has finished their new album and it has yet to be released.
below is a video of Taito playing at The Smell in August of 2008 (Thanks Jintala and Eric!!) with Jintala doing some great Butoh dance and Jessie Deluxe and Taito doing an awesome duet of "Pablo Picasso" by The Modern Lovers (respect to Johnathan Richman!!) Enjoy.
****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** What some said: "Junk Sick Dawn de-constructs punk and rebuilds it with skewed pop and indie rock sensibilities soldered in... 'Headache', the trio's contribution to the Monkey Magnet compilation 'Santa Cruz Sucks' is a rollicking tune reminiscent of 30.06 and Slint." - (RM) Willamette Week, Portland Oregon.
"This is cognitive music that constantly cradles the boundaries between flashy entertainer and tortured soul." - (MK) - Metro Santa Cruz, Ca.
"Combining a healthy dose of punk aesthetic and aggression with poetic lyrics and catchy melodies, their sound was immediately recognizable in the Santa Cruz scene, and for that matter, anywhere else. For a general sense of their sonic soundscape,
imagine what The Pixies, Nirvana, Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd and the Sex Pistols might sound like blasting from the stereo of big red convertible barreling down a desert highway in the middle of bat country on the
way to Vegas." S. McCourt, 2003
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Born October 31 1965 in Kyoto. Begins playing seriously in 1982. In 1984 he joins NOIZUNZURIE who play their own interpretations of Japanese folk songs and noh music. In 1986 he founds the BOREDOMS with Yamatsuka EYE from Hanatarashi, but leaves the group after only appearing on their debut single. Forms Leningrad Blues Machine in 1987 - in spite of several periods of inactivity the group continues to exist. Joins ZENI GEVA in 1988, records and tours with them extensively over the following decade (the group's 2002 appearance at ATP was their last). In 2002 he plays live with Kawabata Makoto & Mothers of Invasion. This eventually leads to his joining ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO. In 2003 forms AMAZON SALIVA with Hide from Ultra Bide - the group is still in existence.
Major works :
*Hoyo / NOIZUNZURIE (1985 Telegraph Records)
*Anal By Anal / BOREDOMS (1986 Trans Records)
*Freedom Bondage / ZENIGEVA (1995 Alternative Tentacles Records)
*10,000 Light Years / ZENIGEVA (2001 Neurot Records)
*Yaje / LENINGRAD BLUES MACHINE (2005 Gyuun Records)
*Iao Chant from The Cosmic Inferno / ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO (2005 Ace Fu Records)
*Starless and Bible Black Sabbath / ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO (2006 Alien 8 Records)
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- The long of it: In the summer of 1993, Taito and his good friend and drummer Graham decided to make a band that could play out in clubs. They found a bass player, James, and Junk Sick Dawn was born (the name is from "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs). Their plan was to destroy all rational thought, to build songs with texture and mood as well as volume, feedback. They began to record and play the hell out of Santa Cruz and the surrounding areas from El Cahoun, California to as far a Vancouver, Canada. There were some great and terrible times on the road, like playing teenage punk rock freakouts in Seattle (Uncle Rocky's!!!) and Portland (watching a standoff between groups of punks and greasers like it was The Outsiders or something), that time they rocked 3rd Street Basement to the ground to name just a few epic sagas. There were many shows in front of 300-plus people, playing huge heavy-metal nightmare venues, in basements and 24-hour Technicolor house parties. Graham, James and Taito worked with IUMA in the early stone age of the Internet to eventually end up working with (name deleted as per attorney) of the P*** Spectre camp and released two singles, "California" and "Bag of Brown" through Offline Records on a compilation called "Crunchy Smacks". The song "California" was very well received and is also featured on the amazing surf video "Monster Mavericks" (still available through the good people at obsurf shop, http://www.obsurfshop.com - thanks to Mark Matovich!). They recorded a 12" record called "Hasta Que La Muerte", which features such classics as "Dip pid", "These Days", "Barfly" and "Monkey". Also a few singles were recorded, including "Headache" and "Not Friends" which along with "Hasta Que La Muerte" hit Number One on the local KZSC college radio station for a time.
In all of that, there were some lineup changes - James had to split after his hands got messed up making it painful for him to continue the steady touring schedule, taking his place was Russ from the Santa Cruz band Poppy, Graham had left and Mike Mechanic, the Monkey Magnet guru, took his place, and after that another Mike, Michael Shapiro, took Mechanic's place. Then Taito moved to San Francisco to be closer to Russ and Shapiro, and had a studio space in this giant place that was so big it must have had about half the SF music scene in it. Junk Sick Dawn toured and played wild local shows, even one from on top of a high-rise downtown building with a 1100-watt P.A. system that interrupted a Giants baseball game at Monster Park (then named Pac-Bell Park), a re-enactment of a hanging/gallows scene from Naked Lunch in the middle of Northbeach, SF, and aboard a yacht in SF bay cruising and terrorizing all with loud rock and roll like the pirates they were. They also got a few spots on The WB News and local radio.
Junk Sick Dawn played with everyone from Skin Yard, Granite Path, Ruins, Chokebore, Exploding Crustaceans, Good Riddance, Depth Charge Revolt, Brian Kenny Fresno, Captured! By Robots, Oliver Brown, Headcase-O-Matic, The Fucking Champs, E is for Elephant, Bastinado, Wash Me, Zeek Sheck, Lo-Fi Neisans, Three Day Stubble, Tanner, Schloss, Slow Gherkin, The Ugly Janitors of America, Tsunami Bomb, a gang-like chorus line of strippers, and The Gorehounds to Ass Baboons of Venus.
Junk Sick Dawn was recording at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco and, poised on a breakthrough. Well it all stopped rather quickly when drummer Mike Shapiro died in a car accident in Costa Rica while on a surfing vacation along with two of his friends that were in the car with him. He will always be missed, he was a good friend and a fantastic drummer - one of the best around. Junk Sick Dawn never recovered from the loss. Junk Sick Dawn is now in a hiatus of an unknown period of time.
Through all of this, Tait had again connected with James, the original JSD bass player, and formed, along with Tom Hale ..s and Mike Silva from Assyst on drums, Noise Clinic. The idea originally was as a side project when JSD was looking for the replacement for Mike Mechanic (yes, it's confusing - many Mikes). Then later the band became a platform for Tait to play solo.
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