Previous Members:
David Clem - roadie 2009
Chris Ubick - bass 2009
Franco Ortega - roadie, projection, lights 2009
David Wolf - drums 2008-2009
Casey Costello - bass 2008-2009
Stephanie Lemieux- roadie, projection 2008
Justin Fowler - roadie, projection, tambourine 2008
Jack Pineda - guitar 2008
Devon Tincknell - roadie, projection 2007-2008
Mikhail Amartseff - drums 2006-2007
Nicole Lovitt - bass 2006-2007 Todd Flanagan - bass 2002-2006
Dana Valatka - drums 2005
Marcelo Spina - bass 2005
Joey Stockdale - guitar 2005
Mason Conley - bass 2005
Christopher Jones - guitar 2005
Harry Stewart - drums, guitar, roadie 2001-2005
Mike Stewart - drums, guitar 2001-2004
R.C. - drums, acoustic bass 2003-2005
Alan Kasameyer - guitar, bass, keyboards 2001-2003
Yonathan Kifle - guitar, bass, keyboards, therimon 2001-2003
Clay Parton - drums, acoustic guitar 2003
Matty Luv - guitar 2002
Morgan Stickrod - guitar, vocals 2002
James LaVigna - bass 2002
Jason Clark - drums 2002
Tomek - guitar 2002
Lawrence Van Bishop - bass, guitar, vocals 2001
Jason Burke - drums 2001-2004
Becky Lampkin - bass, vocals 2001
Jay Thomas - drums, guitar 2001
Alan Davis - bass, vocals 2000
DuWayne Anderson - guitar 2000
Jerry Anderson - drums 2000
Rick Silvestri - guitar 1999 - 2000
Colin - drums 1998
Jenn Wheeler - bass, vocals, clarinet 1998-2000
Studio and One Time Rockers!
Stephanie Lemieux - Vocals on Sand - 2008 / back up vocals on Under Palms and Welcome Home - 2009
Justin Fowler - Chord Organ on Seasons and Just Lighten Up - 2009
Paul Seely - Trumpet on So Old So New - 2009
Brett Hilberg - bass recorded on end of Living in Comfortable - 2007
Matt Mitchell - acoustic guitar recorded on end of Under Palms - 2007
Keith Adams - Live drums in San Jose CA at The Gingerbread House 2006
Zack Evans - bass recorded on Being Human 2005, worst roadie ever 2004
Scott Jones - Live acoustic guitar Portland OR 2003
Ben Clapp - drums recorded on Conundrum and Repartee 2001, Live Trombone NJ 2004
Tony Assimos - back up vocals on Blue Hawaiian Nomad 2001
Moez Solis - hand claps on Living Dead on the Moon - 2001
Lulu Martinez - violin on Secret Admirer and Postdate with an Ultimate - 2000
Influences
NoMeansNo, Spiritualized, Nick Cave, Les Paul, T-Rex, Pink Floyd, Terry Jacks, Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra, Worker Bee, Ugly Winner, Johnny Cash, Brightblack, Komeda, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Neutral Milk Hotel, Plaid Retna, Patsy Cline, Erase Erata, Mustaphamond, Settler, The Electric Witch, Tommy James and the Shondells, Beirut, Claudine Lounget, Schlong, Animal Collective, Magnetic Fields, Clutch, Nina Nastasia, Firewater, Shellac, Blonde Redhead, Fugazi, Federation X, The Narrows, Hickey, Yogurt, Modest Mouse, Blatz, James Brown, The Drunk Injuns, The Descendents, Steel Pole Bathtub, Grandaddy, The Monorchid, TSOL, Cop Shoot Cop, The Dead Milkmen, Hissanol, Palace and others.
2009 News!
Dec 2nd I will be playing solo at Ella St. in Portland OR with Travis Wiggins. The Unit Breed will be on hiatus and possibly re-locating after this. I am also finishing up a new album. Take a listen above to the un-mastered test mixes.
New podcast up. We went on air with Radio Noir in St. Paul MN on our most recent tour. All songs can be downloaded individually, and the whole show is streamable.
Check out our photos on this here myspace site as well!
Video bloggin' update of random randoms to a live song we recorded with Vale on KDHX "Trip Inside this House" in St. Louis. The video footage is random wacky tour diary including Shasta lake CA, Todd Flanagan of San Jose CA, Casa De Fruita CA, JR of Apple Valley CA, Tombstone AZ and the desert and ghost town outside of Bisbee AZ, Record shop in Las Cruces NM, Stanley Marsh the 3rd's Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo TX, Magic Mark's and Tulsa OK, Paul Mcloud and his Graceland Too, Jennifer Petro and Pezz of Memphis TN, Street Sweeper and City Museum of St. Louis MO, Wizard Park and the Carbondale IL Lovelies of Lost Cross, Glensheen Mansion and Lake Superior in Duluth MN, the road to Bismarck ND!
We just made this video on the road with some beautiful wonders in Carbondale IL wizard park, southern Arizona, and Amarillo TX Cadillac Ranch!
We will have our new album "Always Distance the Lonely" available with us on our Sep 10 - Oct 10th 2009 Tour. Our new album comes with a 12" x 12" art book in CD and LP format.
Always Distance the Lonely CD/LP 2009
Pre-order Now!
For the last ten years Joseph Demaree and The Unit Breed have been hard at work. Constantly touring, recording, damaging ear drums and expanding minds across the US and Japan. They have a strong DIY ethic, producing a prolific amount of homemade visuals, music videos, paintings, and 6 full length home recorded albums. Taking influence from the taste of trees, unyielding light, tigers bellies, desert mountains, upside down submarines, and the ghosts of martyrs; The Unit Breed has created an unique surreal experience which bends reality, sight and sound.
Press:
New Disorder Records / http://www.newdisorder.com
"Lost Eyes is a double disc CD / DVD extravaganza. This is the 5th album by The Unit Breed, and it showcases the bizarre brilliance of the band. This is 55 minutes of unsettling, dark music. The DVD contains a movie version of the CD. This is the work of unacknowledged genius, and and has moments reminiscent of Sonic Youth or Fugazi, but remains unique and uncategorizable." -New Disorder
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Looks like we have two songs from our "Lost Eyes" album on a French TV show called "Ben et Thomas", a teenage skateboarding show. Being Human is in episode 5, Lost Eyes on episode 2,5,7. For more info check out
Ben et Thomas
Other news:
I competed in Portland OR, San Francisco CA, Phoenix AZ, and Las Vegas in the US Air Guitar Championships and managed to never place 1st. Take a look if you get a chance.
Father Captain Nowhere
You can now order The Unit Breed's new CD/DVD "Lost Eyes" from New Disorder Records! 11 song CD with DVD containing an animated movie of the album plus slide shows of artwork and photos. Take a look and listen to one of the songs below.
When everything is going wrong does anybody ever focus on the things that look the least wrong?
You can now order The Long Long Everlasting on 12" from Limbless Records!. This is a limited run of 300 12' vinyl records, each come with a poster of Joseph Demarees artwork and homemade covers.
Discography:
Always Distance the Lonely CD/LP - 2009 on Idiomism.
Lost Eyes CD/DVD - 2007 on New Disorder.
The Long Long Everlasting LP - 2006 on Limbless.
Walking the Death Watch CD - 2003 on Suburban Justice.
I Can't Sleep and I'm Never Awake CD - 2001 on Nothing Ent.
A Proxy of Noise CD - 1999 on Nothing Ent.
A Childhood Celebration 7" EP - 1998 on Nothing Ent.
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