Boyd Dixon - Concussion
Aaron Bartz - Strum and Hum
Pat Ferguson - Trunk Bump
Darren Miller - Pick and Grin
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Influences
Segovia Objectivism Peer pressure Post Modernism History and histrionics The separation of science and religion The possibility of making a group of high school kids learn to play our songs.
Sounds Like
"Making independent music means saying Screw You! to everyone who is NOT in your band. If there had been a REAL punk movement that would have been the enduring message." -- David Thomas, Baconator Creator
From Zach Hunt at AustinSound.com:
While listening to Tame…Tame and Quiet’s debut LP... the Silver Jews... kept imagining beards necessarily having some part in the band and, sure enough, the beards are certainly there. Tame…Tame and Quiet feel comfortable...with precision...true melody...but also...the unexpected...distorted greatness and then sighs...throwing an unexpected element into TTaQ’s heavily rock influenced sound.
From the FW Weekly:
Tame..Tame and Quiet’s sonic fingerprint seems to be the willingness to change moods within each song. “Heroic As It Is” starts off with a background of nocturnal creature noises before detouring into a snappy pop beat; “Cursive or Worse” introduces the band as professional Steely Dan impersonators before wandering into Sonic Youth’s more mournful terrain. Everything’s bracketed by lovely, gently ringing guitar interludes.
From the Dallas Observer:
Fort Worth's Tame..Tame and Quiet['s] elaborate, playful style happily mines an era when bands like the Zombies and the Byrds knew how to drape great songwriting in melody-loving arrangements...TT&Q...apply a keen sense of melody to their Mission of Burma mindset and Slint-loving art-rock.
From weshotjr.com:
Tame..Tame and Quiet rock at such weird angles you'll have to cock your head to understand it. But it's a really enjoyable confusion.
From bigdlittled.com:
TT&Q is that rare, solid hard rock band around these parts steeped in the Our Band Could Be Your Life ethos. You have not seen TT&Q yet? Shame on you
weshotjr.com Review 08.26.06 The DoubleWide Dallas, TX: …Tame..Tame and Quiet came out and played such a strong set that they probably would have made even a really good band look silly in comparison. They play a very intricate brand of guitar based rock with 70's progressive undertones, and just about any serious music fan would have respected them for all that they accomplish in their brief set. The technically obsessed among us would have marveled at their chops and proficiency. Those who expect intensity at live shows would not have been disappointed by their forcefulness. Even songwriting fans would have been forced to wonder how they went about constructing the tunefulness of their mini-epics.
At their best, Tame...Tame and Quiet reminded me of so many parts of my favorite King Crimson songs, Polvo albums, and my absolute favorite: Polvo albums that ripped off King Crimson songs...they remind me of the better moments of the so called "math rock" era, when bands aspired to write impossibly complex songs that mixed melody, schizophrenic time signatures and guitar heroics, taking all of them to their logical extremes. When I heard Tame...Tame and Quiet, I realized how much I miss that time in music, or more specifically, the music itself. The band rocks in such a convincing manner that they blow the intellectual bullshit off of the chin- scratching facade that was so common in that genre. I hope more of you get a chance to see them, and I now know that I should have gone home the moment they exited the stage…
Nominated in 2008: Fort Worth Weekly
Best Rock Band
Nominated in 2007: Dallas Observer
Best New Act
Nominated in 2007: Fort Worth Weekly
Artist of the Year
New Artist
Rock Band
Rock Album ("Tin Can Communicate")
Rock Song ("Blank Checks On Clean Slates")
Nominated in 2006: Fort Worth Weekly
Best Avant Garde/Experimental
Band Bio:
Tame..Tame And Quiet formed over the summer of 2004 when Aaron, Boyd and Darren came together with the intention of creating music that was unique, both to their potential audience and to themselves, challenging them to expand past their previous bands' styles and limitations. In pursuit of this goal, however unintentional, they moved forward creating music that tackled a variety of moods sometimes within the same song. While labeled everything from "weird" to "angular" to "subversively melodic" to "indie jazz" they pursued their vision culminating in the release of their first full length album in 2007. Titled "Tin Can Communicate" the album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Matthew Barnhart at the Echo Lab in Argyle, Texas during 2006. In early 2008, TTXQ enlisted the bass mastery of Pat Ferguson (Deep Snapper, Raised By Tigers) to extend these initial ideas and push the sounds forward. Currently solidifying new material, TTXQ will be busy crafting a new album and dropping in on a venue near you.
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If assessing the significance of our local music media accolades, reading second-hand accounts of our perceived musical prowess, or perusing our recorded material available here seems insufficient, let us redeem ourselves to you by booking a live performance for your National Touring Band, bar/batmitzvah or hippie bonfire party by following the following instructions:
Please submit any booking requests to us here, or contact Aaron at: metrognome@sbcglobal.net. Thank you!
Thursday's Late Night Garage Rock Retrospectus was amazing. Kind of like Late Night Van Metal, only less mobile... and MORE metal, ironically. When did I leave? Furthermore, why?!
i voted.............and i got some other peeps to throw in.............yalls gonna get it.............to hell with them other bitches.......................tame tame in the '08!!!!!!!!!!!!!
