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!"
Engage in DIY activity right fucking now!
Buy all of our crap JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN!
We naturally distrust humans, so we naturally distrust human-created corporate entities.
All Amino Acids merchandise is 100% garaunteed to be shipped to your residence or place of business from a real spare bedroom that's been converted to an office space - just like the records you loved to buy way back when!
What are our minions supposed to do all day if they're not constantly running to the post office?
Do your part for indie-rock nostalgia and spend your hard earned money on our incomparable poot!
JUST CLICK BELOW!
If you're in L.A. we have CD's available at:
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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From Nashville...Mellow Down Easy preforms a special acoustic happy hour set. That's Saturday June 27, 6:00 @ Culture Clash Records. www.thecultureclash.com
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
BLAST OFF! FESTIVAL 2009 9th, 10th and 11th of JULY NOTTINGHAM, UK
with:
THE GORIES THE OBLIVIANS THE GHASTLY ONES CHERRY OVERDRIVE COYOTE MEN ARMITAGE SHANKS DR. COMBOVER THE COSMIC VAMPIRES CAVESTOMPERS THE BRUTES LOS CHICOS THE EVILTONES TORPEDO MONKEYS LES BOF THE OTHERS LOS IMBASILS
+++ Insane International DJ's Frenzied Go-Go Dancers Rockin' Record Fair and Market Far Out Films and Art Eye-Popping Decor All Night Shakin'!
You guys need to hurry the fuck up and do another tour. I don't care if you don't have the money, there are ways around that i.e. selling drugs, robbing honest citizens, selling alcohol to minors who are just looking to have a good time.
You guys tore up the Comet Bar last night ... It was a great night seeing U.D.I, Zero Defex, and The Amino Acids ... Its always great to see Bands that do what they do like you!!! I love the Green Wax, and eing able to talk to you last night ... I hope to see you on the 23rd ... Loved Hearing " Lost Coordinates " Last Night ... Long Live The Amino Acids ...
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