Dylan M. Blackthorn - Accordionista
Samantha X - piper on flute, clarinet, and jug
Brewski Salmineo - resonator guitar
Doktor Sick the fiddle killer
and friends.
Music, sideshow, circus acts included. Lowrent the Clown & the biggest mechanically produced D.I.Y. 50' fireball in town (texas-sized)!
You may also see some very interesting and talented Freaks performing now and again with THAT Damned Band - such as the Black Scorpion, Jackie the Tripod Girl, and more. Sideshow performers appear as well, such as the mistress of worms Rev. Flint Fancy, the Great Gozleone world famous sword swallower, and Katzen the tiger lady.
Influences
Friends, foes, and ghosts...
Our best wishes go out to those who inspire us, our dear friends:
Chains, Sean Lee the 1manbanjo, “Zombie” Dan Abbott, the Carousel
Cabaret, the White Ghost Shivers, Amy and the Places, Sour Mash Hug
Band, the Hobo Gobbelins, Ezmerelda Strange, March Fourth Marching
Band, Sick’s Pack, Below the Salt, the Day of
the Zombie, Phillip Roebuck the one man banjo, Chaneques Viajeros, Sonex,
Professor Inkwell’s Washrag Rythmn Makers: Kit “Stymie” Stovepipe,
“Washrag” Joe, and Willis, Caspian and Blackbird RAUM, Geoff, Amber
Amnesia, Susperia, and many more whom we've yet to meet, and also those which we have forgotten and will never remember.
More Recently, our Texas friends from Wax Museum Pandemonium, the Electric Mountain Rotten Apple Gang, Gadjo Disko, Blozn Tukes Marching Band, Eric BANG!, the Ratty Scurvics Singularity, Rev. Glass Eye & his Wooden Legs, Manny & the Brokeback Boys, Sick's Pack, Wino Vino, Bill Sweetland, Guy Forsyth, and Luna Tart.
Classical Influences: Bester Quartet (also known as Crakow Klezmer Band), Itzak Perlman (In the Fiddler's House), Wagner, Basil Poledouris, Motion Trio, Oystein Baadsvik (tuba master), Naftule Brandwein (King of the Klezmer Clarinet), Abe Schwartz, Edith Piaf, Andy Statman, and others lost to antiquity
Folk & Country Influences: Elizabeth Cotton, Woody Guthrie, Dock Boggs, Harry "Haywire Mac" MacClintock, Utah Phillips, Planxty, Leonard Cohen, Roy Rogers, Jimmie Rogers, Carter Family, Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt, . . .
Jazz & Blues Influences: Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Tom Waits, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, . . .
Lyrical Influences: Dylan Thomas, Tom Waits, W. B. Yeats, John Milton, Shel Silverstein, Lewis Carroll, William Blake, Edgar Allen Poe, Phillip K. Dick, Roald Dahl, H. P. Lovecraft, the Brothers Grimm, Maya Angelou . . .
Sounds Like
A circus train wreck't into a folk revival next to a hobo camp where wandering jews eastern europeans and other estranged folk have been learning Irish drinking songs from Tom Waits.
We are the Dark Carnival jug band that you brought home and kept you up all night playing music on your front porch and in your living room. You were so hung over that you missed work the next day, and didn't regret it one bit. As a matter of fact you quit your job and joined our dark caravan!
“The 999 eyes won my heart. Their fun and raucous show stays true to the carnival spirit.” Sansa Asylum, Yard dogs Road Show
"A delight to the ear, a remembrance of times gone by with a modern flare… a time when Freak Shows Graced the Midways." John Robinson, www.sideshowworld.com
THE BAND:
THAT Damned Band sounds like a circus train wreck into a hobo camp where some eastern europeans and jews are learning Irish drinking songs from Tom Waits. THAT Damned Band is an accordion driven group of multi-talented songsters, which pay musical tribute to eastern European, yiddish, and old-tyme vaudevillian era music and styles. THAT Damned Band features a unique arrangement that includes Accordion, Clarinet, Jug, flute, saw, Resonator Guitar, Washtub bass, Tuba, Drums, and washboard. An emotionally charged musical set is spiced up with gags and puppets by Lowrent the clown, and occasionally by REAL LIVING HUMAN ODDITIES.
THE FREAKSHOW:
Freak: n.A human oddity that has chosen to share, celebrate and exploit his/her own genetic anomaly through performance.
THAT Damned Band provides the background music for the 999 EYES Authentic Freakshow – the last traveling freakshow in the United States focusing on REAL LIVING HUMAN ODDITES with MEDICAL ANOMALIES, and a MUSEUM OV MUTANTSTROSITIES. The 999 EYES freaks occasionally make cameo appearances with THAT Damned Band.
The 999 EYES is the Worlds last authentic traveling Freakshow featuring real living human oddities, the largest in over sixty years. The 999 EYES was featured on National Geographic’s Taboo on Nov 11 2007 and just finished filming for the Women’s Entertainment Television show Real lives of Women. The 999 EYES includes but is not limited to members such as the Human TRIPOD, the Dancing DWARF, the FLIPPER Man, the LOBSTER Girl, the LOBSTER Boy, the 27” SMALL WOMAN, Erik the Gentle GIANT, Katzen the TIGER LADY, Lowrent the CLOWN, The Great Gozleone, SWORD SWALLOWER extraordinaire, and has seen guest performers such Eak the GEEK, Danny the HALF-BOY, Guinness Record Holding sword swollower Dan Meyer. Complete with the attractive backdrop of original hand painted sideshow banners, the 999 EYES will transform any venue into a carnival midway. And don’t forget to check out the blow-off act, outside the venue and after the show… watch as Lowrent the Clown, our fire clown, sets off a fifty foot fireball!
AS SEEN ON TELEVISION:
Tonight Show with Jay Leno 4/22/2007, EL Paso News Channel 7 12/10/2006, Ripley’s Believe It or Not 2004, FOX morning news Austin 11/9/07, National Geographic’s Taboo 11/11/07, Ntv Moscow News 5/09/07.
PRINT MEDIA:
Portland Mercury (Portland, Oregon) 10/28/2005, North Coast Journal (Humboldt County, CA) 11/2/2006, Arcata Eye (Arcata, CA) 11/7/2006, LA Weekly (Los Angeles, CA) 11/17/2006, College Times (Phoenix, AZ) 11/22/2006, Phoenix New Times (Phoenix, AZ), El Paso Times (El Paso, TX) 12/6/2006, The Daily Texan (Austin, TX) 4/23/2007, San Francisco Weekly, Austin Chronicle (Austin, TX) 11/8/07, and Washington Chronicle.
RADIO:
University of Oregon KMVA U of O Radio 88.1 10/27/2006, 10/11/2005; Humboldt State University KHSU 90.5 FM 11/5/2006; Bisbee Free Radio 12/02/2006; KOOP 91.7 Austin Texas 5/31/2007;
INTERNET:
Show Revue by Walt Hudson , Music revue , and interviews by John Robinson at www.sideshowworld.com: Jackie the Human 3pod, Samantha X, Lobster Girl,& the Black Scorpion,
FOR MORE INFO DON’T FORGET TO CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITES
999 EYES FREAKSHOW and That Damned Band (from Austin, TX), Sansa Asylum, Esmerelda Strange, SHINE (from Boston, MA), Miss Salaneous, Secret Circus, and The Can-Cannibals Show starts at 8PM sharp and will be over by midnight One Night Only Don’t miss it! $7-10
Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane.To those who don't know me, I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio. Let me know if you like the new songs..be one of the first to hear, even before they are released!Thanks! new videos too! Ruby Jane
You guys still rock my everloving face off. I wish i had a tiny you to keep in my pocket for times that I'm bored, I'd take you out and play with you all day sometimes. Sam, you can comb the muscles out in my back anytime. I love you guys. Selah.
Dont miss TDBs last austin shows! Jun 11 2009 8:00P Monkey wrench books Jun 12 2009 10:00P flipnotics Jun 16 2009 10:00P The Parlor with the Black Death All Stars
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