The Mastermind: Billy Federer- Words, Guitar, TV Helmet, Recordings
The Live Army:
One show veteran: Grant Legg- Drums, Noises, arguing with me
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Hypothetically: KRS-10
Worth mentioning: Roy Woods- riffs, poor decisions
Former Tractor stars:
Joe Dio, Anna Banana, Lindsay, Stefano
Farm Team:
Jett, FeedJack, Elwood, Hannah DOOM,
Bing Loggin, The Dynamic Duo?
Influences
Music- Alice in Chains, Adam Sandler, AC DC, Black Sabbath, Beck, Beatles, Bad Religion, Bad Company, Bad Brains, Bad Medicine(by Bon Jovi) Clutch, COC, CCR, Dylan,Doors, Devo, Eagles of Death Metal, Elvis, Enya, Eminem, Failure, Fugazi, Fu Manchu, frogs, Guns n Roses,GWAR, Green Day, Helmet, Heart, Ice Cube, Jimi Hendrix, Jake Shimabukuro, Robert Johnson(King of the Delta Blues), Kyuss, Kiss, Lynyrd Skynrd, Led Zeppelin, L7, Morphine, Monster Magnet, Madonna, Metallica, Motorhead, Nirvana, NIN, NWA, Noodle Muffin, Napalm Death, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Orange Goblin, Primus, Pearl Jam, Presidents of the USA, QOTSA, Rage Against the Machine, Ravi Shankar, Ramones, Soundgarden, Sepultura, Sonic Youth, Sleep, Smithereens, Tom Waites, Tool, Type O Negative, Unida, U Can't Touch This, Violent Femmes, Ween, Weedeater, White Stripes, ZZ Top, Zamfir, and Zeppelin.___________________________
Books- 1984, Brave New World, Ender's Game, Cosmic Trigger, Illuminatus, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Mighty Atom, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do, Plato's Republic, Cosmos, Doors Of Perception, Fear and Loathing, Fear and Trembling, Time Enough for Love, Breakfast of Champions
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Films- Star Wars, Mad Max, Joe Dirt, Baraka, Supersize Me, Devil's Advocate, Fight Club, Matrix, Death toSmoochy, Lord of War______________________
Artists- Warhol, Van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Claus Oldenberg, Jasper Johns,
Alex Gray, Escher, Dali, Adam Jones(of Tool), Matt Groening,Stephen Pastis, Aaron McGruder, ________________________________________________
Life/Other- Captain Ozone,George Carlin, Hulk Hogan, Superman, Batman, Cosmic Consciousness, Sychronicity, Divine Providence, Indigo Children, Environmentalism, True Democracy, Morally responsible capitalism, Government Accountability,Clean Energy, Divergent Religions converging on ultimate truth and goodness, the desire to see the end of Poverty, Starvation, Violence, Suffering before I die, and hopefully very soon.
Other evils: nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, landmines, psyops, desensitization, torture, imperialism, Babylon, blaming a metaphorical Satan for man's transgressions
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Someone without "a sound". More like many sounds, but kinda, heavy, poppy, doomy, industrial, acoustic and electric space jugband blues punk metal, errr, or something.
Check out some reviews at
http://www.garageband.com/artist/floating_eyeball_of_doom
for "TERRORS of MARS" on 4/17/2006 in Experimental Rock.
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This one is for "1 BECAME 2" on January 15,2007, also in ExperiMental Rock.
Garageband, if you don't know, is a brutal free-for-all of musical competition, like an online Battle of the Bands, where no feelings are spared. I think SHINEDOWN got discovered there (Not that I'm a fan of Starin' down the barrel of a .45 or anything.) Anyway, it is thousands of independent bands and solo artists from arouynd the world submitting their best work, only to have their dreams crushed by crass musical has-beens with acid tongues. In other words, hilarious. But also, there is a lot of really cool and interesting independent music. Go check it out.
Billy is a human resident of Planet Earth. Billy believes all humans are due the rights of food, shelter, a clean environment, freedom from disease, and not to be killed. These seem like self- evident truths. Unfortunately, the evil; the metaphorical Satans of the world impede these truths for their own gain. Life is a movie, and this one won't have a disastrous ending. Moral Humanity will activate and prevail.
Billy makes many kinds of bizarre, paranoid, and sometimes harmonious sounds on a variety of instruments, in the hopes of painting a real picture of a flawed but inherently beautiful world.
Stay Tuned for the release of the full length CD.
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Billy currently plays Bass with I AM AHAB, as well as playing Lead Bass and singing for UNKLE SLAM(remnants of of BLACK MOUNTAIN aka CROSS EYED CATS, MULE FART, BPF)), as well as himself. And if you see his sister tell her to start jamming the TRACTORBEAM songs again.
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July 8 - CD Release - "Distilled" July 10 - Hot Topic Great Northern Mall 6pm July 10 - CD Release Party at Mac's Bad Art Bar - Mattydale, NY July 11 - Lucky's - Cortland, NY July 17 - Hot Topic Watertown Mall - Watertown, NY 6pm July 17 - Adams Hotel - Adams, NY July 23 - Looney Tunes CD Store - Long Island July 24 - Uncle Mike's - Manhattan July 25 - Uncle Mike's - Manhattan&l
Come out this Saturday, May 2nd, to The Sixpence Pub. Andy Tuck from the Greens will playing solo acoustic the front room. THC in the back room with a light show provided by DJ Nate Dog. Should be stellar night of music all around. See you there.
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