Tad Doyle- Guitars Rhythm and Lead, Vocals, Bass, Keyboards, bowed cymbals on all recordings
Kurt Danielson- Bass, Backing Vocals on all recordings
Gary Thorstensen- Guitars and Lead Guitars on God’s Balls, Salt Lick, 8-Way
Santa, Inhaler, and Live Alien Broadcasts
Steve Weide- Drums on God’s Balls, Salt Lick, and 8-Way Santa
Reynolds Washam- Drums on tour one of the US tours and one of the European tours (we never recorded with Reynolds unfortunately)
Josh Sinder- Drums on Inhaler, Live Alien Broadcasts, Infrared Riding Hood and a US tour and a European tour
Mike Mongrain- Drums, on the last European tour and he is the drummer on the as of lately unreleased last TAD record, “The Last Recordings” that is ready to go and be released someday.
Influences
Killdozer,
Melvins,
Big Black,
Scratch Acid,
Butthole Surfers,
Killing Joke,
Melvins,
Black Flag,
Pussy Galore,
Black Sabbath,
Melvins,
ACDC,
Joy Division,
Led Zepplin,
Budgie,
Pink Floyd,
James Brown,
Sonic Youth,
Melvins,
James Earl Jones' voice,
Dio,
Judas Priest,
Rush,
Frank Zappa,
Head of David,
Hunter S. Thompson,
Phillip K. Dick,
J.R.R. Tolkien,
THIS IS THE OFFICIAL TAD MYSPACE SITE - - - - -
TAD is not reforming or making a comeback or any of that crap. This is simply a bio page for people who have enjoyed the band over the years and for others who never had the chance to see or hear this band.
TAD was formed when I had just quit playing drums for the band that I had moved to Seattle with from my home town of Boise Idaho in October of 1986 called H-HOUR. We were a really good band and were on a CZ records Compilation called ANOTHER PYRRHIC VICTORY released in early 1987. But that is another story.
I had bought a drum machine and a Fender Jazzmaster guitar and started playing songs by myself and a drum machine. I had a Fender Champ amplifier that I played the guitar through an old Sun Beta Bass amplifier that I would put the drum machine through. I slowly taught myself how to play guitar and had many friends who were great guitarists gave me tips along the way. I quickly put together a few songs and in my mind I could hear the finished product.
In June of 1987 I took my 1986 tax return refund of about $500.00 and bought time in a small 8 track studio (Reciprocal Studios) in Seattle’s Fremont/Ballard neighborhood with a friend named Jack Endino (Endino now the world renouned producer of a ton of great records including, http://www.endino.com/index.html ) I had put together 4 songs by myself and wanted to record the songs and hear it all put together. So, I went into the studio and recorded my drums and then laid down the guitar track and then the bass and then another guitar part and eventually the vocals. This became the first Sub Pop single entitled DAISY / RITUAL DEVICE. Another song TUNA CAR was later released on GOD’S BALLS in 1989 on Sub Pop records http://www.subpop.com/
Eventually I recruited some friends, Kurt Danielson- bass, Gary Thorstensen- guitar, and Steve Weide- drums and began to put together the second incarnation of the band. We released our first full length LP/CD in 1989 and Our friends from PUSSY GALORE http://www.grunnenrocks.nl/index.html?bands/p/pussygal.htm
Asked us to go out on tour with them. Actually we were afforded the privilidge of opening for Pussy Galore’s coming back to the US tour from Japan and we were on the tour with them because they were using our equipment. Pussy Galore was very kind to us and we became friends and we shared the same stages and the same floors of people putting us up on that tour.
We remained on tour in various places including the 3 full US tours, 2 full European tours, and 1 tour of Canada as well as smaller 2 week tours of the west coast of the US and a couple of east coast tours. We pretty much stayed out on tour on average for 6 to 9 months out of the year from 1989 to 1995.
More to come…………. Last updated 4/24/05
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