Danny Phantom - Guitar/Bass (Soon to be Double Bass)
Nick Taylor - Guitar
Aza Atomic - Drums
Influences
The Shadows, Reverend Horton Heat, Tiger Army, Nekromantix, The Meteors, The Chantays, Agent Orange, Dick Dale, The Stray Cats, The Astounding Roy Gorbisons, Koffin Kats, Demented Are Go, Mad Sin, The Tornadoes, Man or Astroman?, The Clash.
Also: General Gore, Various Films, The Edge of a Cliff we Call Awesome. But Mainly a Certain Classic Sega Game Zombies Ate My Neighbours
We are a three-piece band from around the Pewsey area and have as of late been experimenting with Surf/Rockabilly/Punk. It all started when Daniel was invited to Aza's house for a Jam Session. With his own electric guitar broken, he had to make use of Aza's, and for the next four hours or so, played nothing but the surf songs he had learnt over the past few months...really loudly.
Before the next Jam Session, Daniel and Aza both asked Nick if he would like to come out and play, however down to some disorganisation on everyone's part, Nick was late, and both Daniel and Aza failed to send him any songs to practice. He managed to pick up Pipeline quite quickly (Go Nick!) and we played through that once or twice, until Daniel and Aza became tired and bored, wanting to do something else after having been playing for 3 hours.
At the moment we are still trying to figure out our "sound", but once we get down to it, we'll be practising over the summer, writing and just playing around with ideas for songs, to become probably the only SURF/PSYCHO band in the area. Daniel actually has a double bass now, but he needs time to practice :(
EMO sucks, end of.
If you wanna contact us email us at: thedirtyphantoms@hotmail.co.uk (Although we check this WAAAY more often).
Bear in mind, the band is pretty much still in its infancy, and we aren't really ready for proper gigs just yet although we're planning to steal Nick's new shiny microphones (when he gets them) soon and record a few proper tracks. proper awesome tracks :)
Dirty Phantoms, I'll be in London, DJing at the Dirty Water Club on Friday, October 5th. Then on Saturday afternoon, the 6th, it'll be a casual hangout at Honest Jon's Records (278 Portobello Road) from about 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. In the meantime, here's Teri Garr (lower right) leading the dancers on Shivaree (ABC-TV Studios, Los Feliz district, Hollywood). Dusty Springfield is the guest singer. -Domenic Priore
