Mitcc Frister: Guitar, Keyboard and Singin' Mike Lang: Drummin', Father Figure Fletcher Nemeth: Bassin', Attemptin' Singin', Jumpin' Nathan Barsness: Guitarin', Singin', Dressin' Sharp and now featuring.... Joe Thompson: Keyboardin', Guitarin', Glockenspielin', and Eatin'
Influences
Among other things, The Kinks, The Beatles, The Breeders, The 13th Floor Elevators, Simply Saucer, Television, The Television Personalities, Elephant 6, Television, The Velvet Underground, Stereo Total, Wilco, Jim O'Rourke, Civil Unrest, Natural Disasters, Confusion, Flatt & Scruggs, J. S. Bach, Stone Temple Pilots, Metallica, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Flaming Lips, Wendy Carlos, The Who, The Dils, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, Of Montreal, Chopin, Mussorgsky, Cab Calloway, Esquivel, Edgard Varese, Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, Joy Division, New Order, Nekromantix, Misfits, Stray Cats, The Hatchet Wounds, Season of Nightmares, The Fitness, GravyTrain!!!, Spoon, Echo & the Bunnymen, Kraftwerk, Faust, NEU!, Einsturzende Neubauten, Can, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party
Musical Allies
The Bugs of Lightning, Miraflores, The Tasteful Nudes, The Velocipedes, Noise From the Sky, The Logs, Ruby Starfruit.
Sounds Like
a reletively modern take on 60's rock and roll, with harmonies, weirdness and tambourines, but no theremin (yet)
The Eyelids play “Indie-Pop”…well, sort of. If Pavement had a child with the Velvet Underground and that child was raised on the Zombies and the Kinks then he might sound something like the Eyelids.
The Eyelids have been together for about six months—keep reading. The band has developed from Mitch and Nathan meeting via the PDX POP mailing list—something about Of Montreal and “impressionist pop”—to a five piece wall of sound akin to a less druggy Brian Jonestown Massacre. Glockenspiels and tambourines abound in the Eyelid’s semi-mystical world of hearts you can drive, accident prone exhibitionists, love gone awry and psychic breakdowns...
4-song EP now available for $4. Inquire within.
I fovund this weCbsiOte that sho3ws who has a cruDsh on you and thMought i'd le0t you know that one of my friMends had oMne on you. You goftta tIry itw!
Hey - wanted to stop by and say thanks for being our friend! We thought you might be interested to know that our second album is finally done and available for pre-order, and that we've got the album cuts up for listening on Myspace. We'd love to hear what you think!
Hey brother how are you.haven't seen or heard from you in a bit,what you been up to.All is good on my end hope all is good on your's.So eny how get back to me oh allmost forgot,remember i told you i had a probelem whith the girl's because of the size of my you know what.bro i took this stuff i got at MESILE.COM cy you wouldent beleave how big i got in just two month's.I put on two an a half inches an it's still growing.you got to meet my new girl you'll drop guy,trust me. It's given me the confidence that i was lacking.Check it out bro. MESILE.COM
T55728643
Merry Christmas from Son of Rust! To celebrate we're offering free download of our pre-release version of "Vicious Cycles" for the next few days. Get it while it's hot. Hope you have a hard-wired holiday and receive many candy-cane and teddy bear shaped robot parts!
Fucking awesome show last Friday at your very own basement!!! We especially liked the "rock"
part of it all. Hope to see you'se guys at our show this Friday @ Urban Grind.
Hi there! I heard a song by you guys on my friend Eric's profile. I love it! I'm gonna try to grab some friends and come out to your gig next Wed. Your sound is the "so cool".. . *wink*
We loved your show!!!!!! You guys are amazing. Love the vocals especially!!! Can't wait til your next show. It would be fun to play with you guys again...
you guys ruled last night.
And just so you know although i was focused on the band during the performance I came early and looked at the pictures :)
and speaking of pictures, I have pictures i took at the show, if y'all are interested, hit me up.
i like the sounds, although the vocals are hard to hear.. i'm dying to know who put varese as an influence because he is a personal favourite of mine.. ps i am the winner. yeah.
theremins might make it better though.
tom schwartz would like to thank you for adding me as a friend, and would like to tell you that i havent cut my hair sence last time fletch saw me, but i have cut off my long hair...
