5 dudes, 5 very handsome dudes:
Donnie James Rio, Fred Zeppelin, Dan Halen, White Lionel, Lars Volta
Influences
Maybe if I erase this section full of bands we like we'll stop getting 30 requests a day from bands who don't give a fuck about us or our music and are just embarking on a misguided attempt at self promotion. Thanks anyway and best of luck with your spamming. No offense to bands that are honestly trying to make a connection, but I have a feeling that you are in the minority...and I'm feeling very crotchety today.
Press play to hear all the songs from 'the brown album'
To purchase a compact disc version of these songs hand assembled with the pretty custom rust metalic ink letter pressed card stock jackets and tyvek hand stamped sleeves and lyric/credit sheet and johnny dna go here: Electric Bastards Online Store.
...or you could be a hip young go getter running with the in crowd and just download this shit...
thee Electric Bastards -- 'the Brown Album' DOWNLOADS
320 kbps high res mp3's plus art; credits; lyrics; attitude. $5.Click the paypal button to go to the download page.
thee Electric Bastards -- Live! At Club Awesome DOWNLOADS
320 kbps high res mp3's plus DIY art vs. record label art; lyrics; self aggrandizement.
$5.Click the paypal button to go to the download page.
We would have loved to take you directly to paypal, but myspace bullshit won't allow. You're dead, Tom.
This is a video that appeared on Somerville Cable Access Television in 2006 (I think?) The first part is an actual rockumentary that was done by Dutch film maker Charlotte Goevert. Why she thought we'd be a good subject for a rockumentary, I have no idea. She was bass player Josh' room mate at the time and when she first told us about wanting to do it we were kind of dicks and pretty much just laughed at her. We felt suitably bad when we finally saw it and saw how professional and well done it actual was. Very well edited by Mike Hall, who on his website jokingly referred to feeling like he got to know us quite well do to going through some 10 hours of film of us in our (then) shitty practice space--poor bastard. The best part of it is Charlotte's rad accent, which makes the narration sound totally PBS. Plus, she always called us 'thee Electrical Bastards' which we thought was hilarious. So its about an hour, first you get the rockumentary, then an exceedingly awkward live performance in the SCAT studio--complete with camera operators in the shot and all the good stuff you want from a cable access show. If you've never had to record in a TV studio, have some sympathy for us...do you know how weird it is to try to put on a rock show with absolutely no one there but camera men? I tried to rock out a couple of times and you can immediately tell how dumb I felt..which just accents the overall uncomfortable feeling of it...which in retrospect is also pretty funny. Enjoy the video we came to refer to as "SCAT Bastards." (Also...really...SCAT? Your going to call your cable station SCAT? Maybe I'm immature..no definitely I'm immature...but that's unintentionally hilarious. "SCAT, huh? Must be really shitty TV!! Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck." Give 'er a minute to load up there, cowboy.
...and now back to the same 'bio' we've had on here since the year of ought three:
I think I understand the purpose this little blurb is supposed to serve. I write something that makes you say, "Hey! I think I'd like that!" and you come and see us and buy our album or you read this and say, "What an asshole" and that, I would guess, would be the end of that.
I've read quite a few of these things. They are at best boring and at worst pretentious-- usually filled out with the BAM and POW of tall claims of saving Rock and Roll or promises that, really, we sound like your favorite band-- I swear.
Rock and Roll, somewhere, is doing okay without any of us and I have no idea what your favorite band is.
I guess I could compare our band's musical output to feces. Yep, that's shit, pal. What I mean is that someone somewhere ate some Big Black, a bunch of old punk stuff, went on to eventually devour some 60's and 70's rock and psychedelic (or is it psychedelia?) and eventually sat on the porcelain and 'let loose the kraken' as we used to say on tour.
Of course, now you're going to listen to the record and say, "That sounds nothing like Big Black." Well, cake doesn't taste like baked eggs, but they're in there.
You'll like it. Or you won't. Take a listen. Come to a show. We're a band whose strong point is obviously not competent self-promotion. But we'd like to keep doing this and maybe get some people into it.
Featuring members of CLOUDS, OCTAVE MUSEUM, HYDRONAUT and PET GENIUS, and produced by Stephen Brodsky of CAVE IN and NEW IDEA SOCIETY, "Live! At Club Awesome" is a 11-song STUDIO recording of the band playing live at their rehearsal space.
Boston's Thee Electric Bastards, whose expansive psych-pop falls somewhere in among Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, the Zeppelin end of the White Stripes catalogue (but only if it was scored by an Elephant Six band), and Yoshimi-type Flaming Lips. And if that seems like an awful lot of territory, well, they cover a hell of a lot of it. With songs about futuristic life (Robots Do Not Rock) blatant machismo (The Peepin' Song, Play The Fool), alcoholism and mental health (Millennium Blues, Black Jets), The Bastards have allowed the listener a peek into their sordid little world, where society's ills and fears are celebrated. All of The Bastards songs are well crafted slices of weirdness, with compelling breaks in the music that are sometimes jarring in effect. It harkens back to the days when rock music was more experimental, and less formulaic.
Just thought I would stop by and send some luv, hugs, and Peace. I hope your summer is going great. You have truly amazing sounds. I hope to see you one day. Your friend Kristen
Nook in somerville! I have been to everyone gigs enough times to be considered a groupie, now it's time to show me some groupie love! Biva friday night, right next to redneck/bones, whatever it it is! I know you know what I am talking about in davis square. Bring your ladies for some drinks and don't fag out and go hide in some pabst/equipment/rock dungeon 4 at least 1 friday!
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