Rev. Dave "Rat Bastard" Taylor - Owner and producer of Bowlophonic Recordings, equipment oversight, driver, decider on where to get breakfast, principal Subgenius liason
"El Presidente" COMMODORE CRUSH - Packaging and merchandise designer for Bowlophonic Recordings, tallness/cuteness, directional assistance, west coast affairs
Becki "Yarrr!" Carr - Hired public relations guru, national press mouthpiece, marketing advisor, undying loyalist
DEVO, dick dale, black sabbath, brainiac, big black, ventures, anthrax, rapeman, mummies, GWAR, plasmatics, the christ punchers, trans am, melt banana, adult., kraftwerk, shellac, man or astro-man?, butthole surfers, wall of voodoo, frank zappa, deadbolt, davey allen and the arrows, brian jonestown massacre, cannibal corpse, shuttlecock, bump n' uglies, the jollys, bang bang, atomic johnny, replicator, quatre tete, slacktone, calvinball, the casket bastards, DRI, unidentified drunken injury, swingin' love corpses, the ghastly ones, dusty watson, 3-D invisibles, black flag, fred schneider, jihad jerry and the evildoers, the wipeouters, aphex twin, yes me to death, mike bison, bitch!, spike jones, tortoise, mouse on mars, los lobos and fucking SLAYER.
plus, any and all bands who have the cajones to just "go instrumental."
The group of extraterrestrial parasites known as "The Amino Acids" crashed to Earth in 1962 (or 1965.) After a brief and unsuccessful attempt at securing human hosts - and some say a meeting with J.R. "Bob" Dobbs - they managed to just slack off and hiberntae for over thirty years, emerging finally sometime after "X-Day" in 1998. This time they succeeded in taking human host bodies but for some unknown reason they started an abrasive, instrumental surf-core band instead.
Little is known about what caused these (or any) paticular humans to be chosen for "duty" by alien beings. Inhabited human hosts enter a fugue-like state with extremely compulsive and impulsive tendencies which has be refered to as "Parasite-Induced-Somnambulistic-Trance" (or P.I.S.T.) and can be likened to sleepwalking, although sleepwalking with a purpose. They have a strict doctrine of not communicating verbally with humans under any circumstances, and should be considered very dangerous - they have said to have been able to exert an "influence" over humans around them. Why creatures from outer space would neglect all of the usual stereotypes of alien invasion behavior- i.e.- slaughtering the masses, enslaving humanity, breeding giant lobsters - only to merely play "punk rock" is not entirely understood.
BIO, FROM US:
The less you understand, the better we like it.
WHAT REV. IVAN STANG SAYS ABOUT OUR NEW ALBUM:
"The new Amino Acids album "Humanity Will Fall Like Pins" could be called "music to ride an experimental test rocket bareback directly into the Sun through a dense meteor shower while beating back attacking robodemons with bare fists by." One might alternatively term it SciFi Surf Punk Masked-Man SuperVillain Metal. Previous albums might have fit the "Superhero Metal" genre but this is definitely more Brainiac and The Joker than Batman or Superman. (But it's still KINDA Superman and a whole lot of Batman.) The Ennio Morricone of surf-rock!"
AMOEBA MUSIC,
6400 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
323-245-6400
as well as all over the Metro Detroit area.
Ask for it where you shop. If they say they're out,
just start choking people.
They'll call us really quickly and we'll get it over to them.
More merchandise items
(shirts, other cd's, dvd's, stickers, etc.)
as well as official
CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS ORDAINMENT KITS
are available wherever The Amino Acids are performing.
STUFF TO WATCH: LIVING PROOF!
THE AMINO ACIDS EXIST!
Click the face below to be amazed and terrified...
The FULL HD "Slak Removal Machine" video by Colin Duerr!
Shortened "promo" version here:
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"Lost Coordinate" video by John Schweitzer:
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"Orbital Velocity = $" live at the Magic Stick
2007 Detroit Subgenius Devival
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Promo for "PUNKS VS.CANCER" film by Colin Duerr
The Amino Acids with Rev Ivan Stang at
Cyclecide Bike Club party in San Francisco, Feb. 2008
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"Rocket to the Chest" live in Brooklyn, NY, April 2008
(Coach Gene Neilson, Esq. on drums)
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thats awsome you guys are coming down to la. ive been wating to see you guys live for such a long time now. ive been spreding the word around about you guys to my friends & they love your sound. see you then
A Saturday night w/ The Amino Acids @ one of the best beer bars in town ... either I've been a very good lil' hamburglar or the end of the world is upon us. Either way, I'm lookin forward to it.
Holy Shit. I loved you guys! What fun. I got an Amino Acids shirt for my kid so maybe he'll finally fit in at school. You rocked! I'd love to play a gig with you again. Lucy from the Truckstop Cobras
