H-Beam Useful Box of Hair Now Available!. Album review by The Dune Review
"H-Beam is the Frank Zappa/Mike Patton fix that you’ve been needing for the past 5 years. Their music is spastic, eccentric, non-sensical, and terribly amusing to the point where you find yourself chuckling in your car-seat while on a business call. Their debut album, Useful Box Of Hair, has the Dune Review Seal-Of-Approval and is certainly something to check out. When I say its a mix between Zappa and Patton, I mean just that. But in NO way is that a bad thing in this situation. I’ve heard bands influenced by Zappa and Patton before, and it sounded like absolute garbage. When bands try to pull it off it sounds tried and unoriginal, but H-Beam pulls it off so well that it makes you wish Frank was still alive so that he and Patton could do a double-album together." -Dune Baydoun
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About H-Beam H-Beam's wild stage show pulls influences from a strong upbringing in the entertainment industry. By fusing aspects of theater and music, the band fathers a musical variety show resembling genes of Rocky Horror and Frank Zappa. Sweeping, psychedelic melodies and bizarre lyrical content propel their sets, as slews of props and masks add to their outrageous on-stage antics. With elaborate compositions pushed to the boundary by weird twisted humor, H-Beam captivates audiences by leaving them with a unique musical experience. With the power of sheer sensory overload, H-Beam imprints a lasting memory in the minds of those that dare to stray from the comforts of predictable rock formulas.
Over the last two years, H-Beam has performed nearly 175 shows traveling from Nashville to the Midwest, Northeast and all through the South. Showcasing their talent two years in a row at Next BIG Nashville and RedGorilla Music Fest during SXSW in Austin, TX, H-Beam has also performed at several festivals including the Terrapin Hill Festival, Rites of Spring, Waterfest, Vexfest, and more. H-Beam has shared the stage with artists such as, Benevento-Russo Duo, Keller Williams, Feist, Lil' Jon, Tea Leaf Green, Nappy Roots, Grace Potter, and The Samples. Along with their live performances H-Beam's music is also receiving airplay on stations such as Nashville's 102.9 The Buzz, WRVU 91.1, Knoxville's WUTK, Philly's Endless Boundaries Radio, Youngstown, Ohio's Rukus Radio, and is being broadcasted in the UK, Japan, and the Netherlands.
This movie above is probably one of the sickest creations I have seen in a long ass time. If the music player has ended above, press play on the movie screen and be prepared to say, "AWWWW HELL NO!"
Music
A wide variety... anything that stirs an emotion. The Grateful Dead, Aesop Rock, Clutch,*Cage the Elephant*, Johnny Cash, Atmosphere, Guns and Roses, TubRing, anything Moonshine produces,*TV on the Radio*, Mars Volta, Phish, Slum Village, the Beatles, *The Hollywood Kills*,MOS Def, Frank Zappa, Bob Marley, and You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead, Deftones,*Corleone* Jurassic 5, Old 97's, the Ramones, CKY, *Tegan and Sarah*, Tribe Called Quest, Cage the Elephant, Keller Williams, The Flying Machines, Sleeperstar, the Pixies, *HOBEX*, Queens of the Stone Age (and everything from the family tree~ i.e. Kyuss, Desert Sessions), NIN, Erikah Badu, *H-Beam*,CCR, Autolux,*Mile 8*, Beastie Boys, Ray LaMontagne,*Dubconscious*, Mason Jennings, Eminem, Downtempo is sick, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, *Bockman*, Year of the Rabbit, Jane's Addiction, *Spoonfed Tribe*,KRS One, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Police, *The Seth Yakovone Band (RIP)*, Led Zepplin, fukken Madonna, JT, Pink, Hi-Tek, *SeepeopleS*, Reverend Horton Heat, *Mystic WIP Hustler*, Tool, the list goes on and on and on and on...
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Wow... that is hard... well there is the obvious... Forrest Gump, of course. And who could forget about Wayne's World. Also, Fear and Loathing, Square One: Wide Awake Nightmare, Big Lebowski, A Christmas Story, Scarface, Shine 4, the Big Chill, Breakfast Club, Goonies, Rad, Clue, The Royal Tennenbaums(sp?), Usual Suspect, Pulp Fiction... (and I will say, Almost Famous)
Books
Easy... Illusions by Richard Bach and Go Ask Alice by Anonymous. I also still love A Separate Peace and To Kill a Mockingbird
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My Mom and Dad for still being so in love, Jerry Garcia for making himself immortal, all pedalbikers that strive to be the best, M.C. Escher for creating such insane artwork, Annie Liebowitz for capturing "real portraits", and Madonna for taking over the world just like she said she would back in the late 80's.
...Damn. Did I forget my girl OPRAH?!?! I'm sorry Oprah. You know I got mad p
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