Todd Parker - Guitars and Vocals
David Max - Bass
Nick Kramer - Guitars and Vocals
Adam Boyette - Drums;
Past Members and Guests:
Michael Kite Audino - Drums
Edward Odowd - Drums
Steve Savoca - Drums
Andrew Jackson Shapiro - Guitars
Jeff Passifiume - Lap Steel
Tony Mentzer - Vocals, Guitar
Influences
Butthole Surfers, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Jesus and Mary Chain, Flaming Lips, Spacemen 3, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine, Love, The Cure, Bauhaus, The Velvet Underground, Echo and the Bunnymen, New Order, Joy Division, The Stooges, the 13th Floor Elevators
Sounds Like
Butthole Surfers, Flaming Lips, My Bloody Valentine, Syd Barrett, Spacemen 3, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre
Tadpoles came together in New York City in 1990 when founder, Todd Parker (guitars, vocals), formed the live group with drummer, Michael Kite Audino, after a few years of self-releasing homemade cassette albums, culminating with 1990's "William's Doll." After completing the lineup by adding NYU students, David Max (bass), Nick Kramer (guitar, effects, vocals) and Andrew Jackson (guitars), the group played many club shows in Manhattan, refining their neopsychedelic sound and light show while struggling to find an audience.
Their performance at the 1993 NYU Independent Music Festival led to the recording of their first album, He Fell Into The Sky (1994) with underground producer, Kramer of Shimmy Disc / Bongwater notoriety. The album was recorded and mixed in two days at Kramer's Noise New Jersey studio.
However, Michael and Andrew left the band following the recording sessions for He Fell IntoThe Sky and by the time of its release in 1994, only Todd, David & Nick remained. Todd relocated to Hoboken, NJ and formed Bakery Records in order to release the album. Following the great response to the album, the band decided to release all of their future music on their own label.
The trio recorded their second studio album (with two guest drummers), Far Out (1996) again with Kramer as producer; and, it gained a surprising amount of national recognition upon release. Jim DeRogatis, then senior editor at Rolling Stone, gave Far Out a coveted 4-star review in the May 30th 1996 issue; and, the group found themselves with a small, cultish international following. The album received much college radio airplay and rave reviews. The success of Far Out pushed the group to find a permanent drummer in order to play more shows; and, they found Adam Boyette to complete the group late in 1996.
The group performed at the first Terrastock festival in April 1997 and their aggressively psychedelic set won them many new fans and led to a West Coast Tour in November of 1997 with fellow Terrastock veterans, Cul de Sac. Windy and Carl and the legendary John Fahey also appeared on some of the bills. The group released the Know Your Ghosts E.P. (1997) for the tour.
In 1998, Tadpoles returned to Kramer's Noise New Jersey studio to record their third studio album, Smoke Ghost (1998). On this album, Nick shared the songwriting duties equally with Todd to establish himself as a driving force behind the Tadpoles' sound. The album was released simultaneously with Destroy Terrastock Live (1998) a terrific live recording of the Tadpoles' Terrastock set.
The Tadpoles' fourth and last studio album, Whirlaway, was released in 1999 to critical rave reviews on Australia's Camera Obscura Records. In February of 2000, Tadpoles performed their final live show, a sold-out bill featuring Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Half Japanese, at Maxwells in Hoboken, NJ. In May of 2000, Todd Parker announced that the group was disbanding and going on a hiatus of indefinite length. A 17 track "best of" compilation CD, Use With Headphones Late At Night, was released on Bakery Records in 2001.
Where are they now?: Following the disbanding of the Tadpoles, David Max, Nick Kramer and Adam Boyette went on to reform "Hit" with David going back to guitar playing and singing (along with Nick) and Adam taking up the bass. Hit released a 4 song vinyl E.P. "Quosibility" in 2002 and will release a full length album titled "See It Majestic" sometime in 2006. David Max also joined the seminal psych group, Psychic TV, as their guitar player and has been touring the world with them. In 2004, Nick and Dave built a recording studio in Jersey City (in an old Bakery!) and have been recording projects there, including the new Psychic TV album. And, Todd Parker, retired from the music scene and moved to Northern California.
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CYNew Music presents:
Magic Zorillo live at Public Assembly, Brooklyn NY
04/26/2009 08:00 PM - Public Assembly
70 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, New York 11211
US
Cost:$10
Description: Zilmrah /o.., Agents of Karma, Magic Zorillo, Nattahnam, Model Cities
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Bakery Records will be doing an internet-only downloadable release of a new album called "All My Ugly Children - A Tribute to Tony Mentzer" sometime later this year. It`s anybody/everybody doing covers of my material and should be pretty interesting considering a few of the submissions we`ve received so far. So far, it`s been pretty much Acid Loops weirdo stuff (similar to my own style), but any genre of music is encouraged. Inspiration/material can be gleaned from:
