Brent Rickles - guitar, bass, voice, samples, and random noises that sounds like something he would do
Jason Whisman - drums, guitar
Jim Dinan - bass
Tom Miles - guitar
Dan Strack - guitar, voice, bass, drums, samples
Nick Yates - bass, voice
Ben Taylor - keyboards
Mason Dixon - video
Mark Salemi - video
Corndog - video
Influences
politics, sex & the elimination of violence ... and Arundhati Roy.
http://www.soaw.org
http://www.inthesetimes.com
http://www.hrc.org/
http://www.beyondmedia.org/
http://mpp.org
http://www.radioonechicago.com
Sounds Like
more songs and a live radio performance available at http://polyfidelic.com/rlb.html
The Genealogy of the Bastards: Following the First World War, the Allies occupying the German Rhine River Valley sub-contracted various militia groups, primarily from North and West Africa, to do much of the actual occupying. This led to a great number of instances of African troops fathering children with the maidens of the valley. In a country already swirling in a sea of racial hatred, these children came to be known as the Rhineland Bastards. In most cases, the children were taken to hospitals and sterilized, but of course, many were exterminated as well. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
In 2001, when Brent Rickles (MarvelKind/OX), along with fellow I, Rowboat bandmate Dan Strack (Fruit Bats/Factums), and Jason Whisman, decided to name the band they were forming after this little known footnote of European history, it was perhaps more appropriate than they knew at the time. Sex, violence, and politics seem to be the essential ingredients in the Bastards’ music. You kind of have to dig for it, since most of it’s instrumental. Sure, occasionally there’s an incomprehensible, strangulated shout trying to dig its way from underneath the layers of fuzz. But you can feel it, squirming around in there. Sex, violence and politics, that is.
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Since the band's debut album, "No Safe Place," the original three-piece has expanded to include Tom Miles (Mezodigm), Jim Dinan, Nick Yates, and Ben Taylor (Half Visconte), and have released an EP, "Rocked & Bottled" and "Registered Trademarks, Patents & Keys," a single available on 10" vinyl only (sorry, digital lovers). And they continue their reputation for ear-bleedingly-loud shows that feature multimedia galore (provided by video virtuosos Mason Dixon, CornDog, & Marc Salemi, depending on which show you're seeing), pulsing images on screens: politics, porn, shit blowing up, and general sweatiness. It’s the kind of experimental heavy-ass pop that fans of Bardo Pond, Kinski, and High Rise might dig. Songs? Kind of. Beautiful epic guitar riffs and heavy metal drumbeats that just keep going and going as layers of feedback swirl and build until the walls start shaking? Straight up, my friend. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Feel free to contact them through MySpace.
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hey guys!
thank you so much for finding me! im so glad that you did! i love your music!!! sorry i dint add you guys sooner, ive been busy with loads of band promos and stuffers! thanx for being so patient!!! you guys rock! come to cali and play sf!
mucho luv-o
jackie
