Tobin Samuel Summerfield- Guitars, Basses. Also many many buttons at the feet.
Influences
in no particular order. Capitan Beefheart, Gorecki, Patrick Farrell, Joanna Newsom, Matt Bauder, Matt Lux, Albert Ayler, John Fahey, Joshua W Tillinghast, Be Hussy Miriam Cabrerra and Morsel, JAKS, Polvo, Robert Fripp, Fred Frith, Brian Eno, Bill Brovold, Shumit Dasgupta, Duck Dunn, Led Zeppelin, Jacob Kart, Brian Hacker, Christopher J Salmon, Jaimie Branch, Brian Lipson, Tim Brown, Tim Strand, Tim Haldeman, Tim Daisy, Frank Rosaly, Miles, Mingus, Fugazi, Elvis Costello, Tim Berne, Colin Stetson, Aram Shelton, Stuart Bogie, Eric Perney, Andrew Kitchen, Daniel W Bennett, Nick Collins, Dan Sylvester, Fred Thomas, Kevin W Davis, Joel Robbins, Kendall Babl, John Maloney, Jason Ajemian, Nathaniel Braddock, Dina Maccabee, Amy Cimini, Brian Dibblee, Steve Osburn, Bill Frisell, Gary Peacock, Bill Evans, 'trane, Nels Cline, Derek Bailey, John Mclaughlin, Sonny Sharrock, Marc Ribot, Mr Bungle, Zorn, Tortoise, Nobukazu Takemura, Husker Du, Elias Reitz, Ian Williams, Pinback, Jim O'rourke, Codeine, Low, Sonic Youth, Rhys Chatham.
It starts with my sister, Susan, setting me down the path to ruin. Putting her headphones on me, making me listen to "the hungry wolf," "hungry like the wolf," and "don't you want me baby." Then, I saw Back to the Future, and played guitar on any sticklike apparatus I could find, broomsticks, gigantic tinkertoys. Then, for my 8th birthday, I got a guitar. And I guess at that point, I decided to be a musician.
I really liked the Police, and Bon Jovi. And NWA and Ice-T and Third Bass, and Weird Al. And then, Susan again, gives me a tape of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "bat chain puller." More Runiation. I might've just like what was on the radio... I could've been a contender.
There was an article I read about chapel hill that forced me to buy a polvo record. I was officially Issued the first MR Bungle record at 13, as all male children I knew were. Sean Westergard made me listen to Naked City, and Jimi Hendrix, and suggested I buy the john coltrane record "meditations."
At 15 I started to play Electric, and then shortly after Double Bass. Pat Farrell really helped me figure some shit out. Zach Wallace too.
In january of 1996 I played my first real, offical rock show, with Poignant Plecostomus. And it's all downhill from there. I met Bill Brovold, and joined Larval in 1998. I met Brian Lipson, and Tim Brown, and started Hearing from the Gap in 1999/2000. Also, met brian, chris and jacob and started crush kill destroy in '99 as well. In 2001 I moved, with ckd, to chicago. I continue to live in chicago, and try to write music, and ride my bicyle and be happy.
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you totally got the guy. there was this one moment at heaven, where in the middle of conducting you took a second and tousled colin's hair. people ask me about the shows and I try to describe it--the music and all the fine folks involved--but i don't have the right vocabulary. then I tell them about that gesture and they kinda sparkle and sigh with understanding. ahh. there are so many more guys to get. we gotta get you a bigger van.
o.k. fine. it's true i can't read. but, who needs to read these days anyways. i think it's some kind of conspiracy dealing with the misconstruddled amplitudes of verification. o.k. fine.
the letter c is like being the first person in prospect park after the very first real winter storm that drops 10 inches of beauty. it's what you hear when you surrender, fall back and disappear into it, offering angels.
"Never Enough Hope". is brilliant. Toby used to pick me up and hold me over his head. I was going to try to turn that into a metaphor, but, you know, whatever. I just really like the song.
toby is also an excellent teacher, and laura only wishes that she could continue her lessons with him, but moving from guitar to toning...a full -half- hour of toning with toby would be quite transcendental, she is sure.
