FORMER & RECURRING COHORTS: Ross Johnson, Alex Chilton, Eric Hill, Rick Ivy, Vincent Wrenn, Ron Miller, Robert Palmer, Will Rigby, Peter Holsapple, Jim Duckworth, Jim Sclavunos, Cyd Fenwick, Cathy Johnson, Jim Dickinson, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Abe Young, Jim Harper, René Coman, George Reinecke, Ron Easley, Jimmy Ripp, Kai Eric, Barri Bob, Raymond Cavaioli, Jimmy Enck, Linda Heck, Mark Harrison, Doug Easley, Jim Spake, Doug Garrison, Lorette Velvette, Lisa McGaughran, Kurt Ruleman, Ben Cauley, Andrew Love, Amanda Jones, Kitty Fires I/Sue Easley, Diane Green, Kye Kennedy, Bob Fordyce, Donna Phillips, Christi Patterson, Misty White, Kristi White, Roy Brewer, Benny Carter, Brent Newman, Bill Brandt, Gianni Marcucci, Harris Scheuner, Alex Greene, John McClure, Roland Robinson, Teenie Hodges, Nokie Taylor, Randall Lyon, Vickie Loveland, Bob Marbach, Gabriele Kepplinger, Nina Tischler, Peter Dopita, Olivier Manoury, Perry Michael Allen, Tammo Lüers, Michael Hurt, Kitty Fires II/Claudine, Barbara Berndorf, Scott Bomar, David Headon, Jack Oblivian, Brendan Spengler, Peter Dark, Douglas Hodges, David Berger, Michael Lo, Jon Ramos, Little Victor, Orazio Brando, Katie Barbaree, Bobby McClellan, Pleasant Gehman, Cordell Jackson, Charlie Feathers, Erik Morse.
Influences
Howlin' Wolf, Booker White, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Houston Stackhouse, Bobby Rush, Pat Hare, The Cramps, Jessie Mae Hemphill, R.L. Burnside, Eric Dolphy, Othar Turner, (read more...) Charlie Feathers, Bobby Lee Trammell, Mudboy and the Neutrons, Tommy Tucker, Bobby Blue Bland, Roland Janes, The Insect Trust, Alex Chilton, Carlos DiSarli, Francesco Cannaro, Fred Buscagoni, Chet Baker, Alberto Castillo, The Righteous Brothers, Gene Pitney, Billy Joe Royal, Roy Orbison, Dion DiMucci, Tony Ciacci, Marty Robbins, Jimmy Rogers, Dean Martin, Junior Wells, Elmore James, Gatemouth Brown, JB Hutto & the Hawks, Jack Owens, PT Wheatstraw, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, Lester Young, Billy Holiday, Marlene Dietrich, The Doors, Slim Harpo, Jimmy Witherspoon, Skip James, Memphis Minnie, The Elysian Fields, Antony & the Johnsons, Z.Z. Hill, Yves Montand, Martin Denny, Intonarumori. Country blues, rockabilly, rock and roll, soul, country, r&b, tango argentino.
Sounds Like
"Berlin 1929. Almost as good as being in Transylvania" – W. Eggleston
*NOTE: We try to reserve the public comments area mostly for comments about or to the band, but we read and appreciate all comments. You can instead send messages about your page or "thanks for the add" comments privately to our inbox. We may delete comments with embedded HTML if they affect our layout or if we start to see infected html code. We're trying to prevent the front page from turning into a billboard.
Gas pump graphic from flyer by Le Journal du Mouvement Anti-Guerre. Buttons by Dok Lazlo. Front page photos: click each for more info & more pics. Contact table by Myspace Graphic Help.
Vocalist
Tav Falco started Tav Falco's Panther Burns "orchestra" in February
1979 with drummer Ross Johnson, guitarist Alex Chilton, and synth player
Eric Hill, in Memphis, (read more...)
