as of recent:
JASON BERRY - electric soprano, alto & baritone saxophones, bass clarinet, piano, fender rhodes, megaphones, drum kit, the steinberger bass, sythesizers, guitar, tapes, computer, conduction, tibetan bells, knob twiddledge, metal and plastic buckets, drum pad, wooden dowels, piano guts, rototoms, allsorts & whatnots, tonemeister
MICHAEL DE LA CUESTA -6, 12 & baritone electric guitars, electric pocket trumpet, vibraphone, bass guitar, fender rhodes, sitar & electric sitar, upright bass, c-melody saxophone, ring modulation, marimba, steel drums, tibetan gongs, trombone, banjo, recorder, electric violin
TOM CORBOLINE -bass guitar, flamenco guitar, midi bass, harmonica, welps
CHARLES LLOYD -electric guitar, lap steel, electric sitar, bass guitar, piano, recording, hella drumming, happy fun time falseto
JUSTIN MARKOVITS -drum kit, percussion, tamboura, plumbing, springs, and "pods"
JOHN MERRILL - congas, bells, gongs, claves, quica, castanetts, the uterus computerus
RICH CORNY -electric guitar, bass guitar, tamboura, recording
MOE! STAIANO -drum kit, percussion, metals, anything in sight that makes a sound, 154, blood, chewing gum
MIKE ROGNLIE -bass guitar, harmonium, envelope filters, cat food
MICAH MCCAIN -drum kit, tablas
SARAH MCKINNEY -vocals, wailing ephemera
KAREN DE LA CUESTA - roadie, merch, photography
SYLVIA GORDON - amazing vocals
LUCY FOLEY - amazing vocals
TIM BYRNES - trumpet
KEITH ABRAMS - drum kit, metals, percussion
ROSS BONADONNA - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, superb engineering
RICHARD E. BARBER -bassoon, bass clarinet, alto clarinet, Eb & Bb clarinets, mellotron, tympani, theremin, harp, marimba, tenor saxopone, celeste, orchestra bells, wine glasses
moog, buchla & arp synthesizers, piano, "tapes"
影響
stravinsky, zappa, black flag, sun ra, sabbath, the residents (pre-'85), vilayat khan, 8-eyed spy, bartok, etc... and also.... Rabih Abou-Khalil, art bears, albert ayler, bad brains (first 2 albums), balinese gamelan, les baxter, beach boys (smile & smiley smile), beatles, tim berne, bjork, the black keys, blackwell, blue cheer, francy boland/kenny clarke big band, booker t. & the mg's, boredoms, boris, pierre boulez, bowie ('69 - '82), glenn branca, james brown, jack bruce (things i like), tim buckley (starsailor), john cage, john cale (church of anthrax), the campbell brothers, can, captain beefheart, wendy carlos, caroliner rainbow, james chance, charming hostess, cheer accident, don cherry, the chocolate watch band, circle, ornette coleman, ry cooder/manual galban(mambo sinuendo), core, larry coryell, cream, the creatures, ccr, creation rebel, dick dale, wolfgang dauner, miles davis, dead kennedys, deerhoof, dengue fever, martin denny, devo, dmbq, dna, doctor nerve, dog faced hermans, dr. know, eric dolphy, bob dylan, edmund welles, duke ellington, don ellis, elp (tarkus), brian eno, esquivel, gil evans, the ex, john fahey, fantomas, faust, the fender IV, 5uu's, fifty foot hose, flower travellin band, fripp, funkadelic, gang of four, gentle giant, philip glass, gnawa, gong, benny goodman (sextet), herbie hancock (sextant), joe harroitt, george harrison (wonderwall), hella, hendrix, henry cow, bernard herrmann, johnny hodges, randy holden, john lee hooker, howlin' wolf, zakir hussain, husker du, huun huur tu, jethro tull, robert johnson, kagel, pandit habib khan (guru), junior kimbrough, king crimson, king cobra, king tubby, roland kirk, koenjihyakkei, hans koller, erkin koray, volker kriegel, kronos, fela kuti, steve lacy, latin playboys, lea riders group, led zepplin, howard levy, gyorgy ligeti, loung lizards (first album), los zafiros, lowrider, magma, magnesium, mahavishnu orchestra, henry mancini, the mars volta, massacre, the master musicians of jajouka, curtis mayfield, mississippi fred mcdowell, mc5, carmen mcrae (sings monk), john mclaughlin, olivier messiaen, the meters, charles mingus, misfits, modulo 1000, MOE!KESTRA!, thelonoius monk, monopause, ennio morricone, mosaic, mr. bungle (disco volante), conlon nancarrow, mark nauseef, neu, neung phak, gary numan ('77 - '83), om, one f, os mutantes, osanna, shuggie otis, augustus pablo, ivo papasov, harry partch, big john patton, pearls and brass, lee scratch perry, astor piazzolla, dave pike, pil (second edition), pink floyd, plastic ono band, pere ubu, perez prado, present, psychic tv, steve reich, mark ribot, terry riley, max roach (m' boom), roxy music (first 2 albums), ruins, hal russell, samhain, santana (first 3 albums), kurt schwitters, secret chiefs 3, simon shaheen, ananda shankar, pandit ravi shankar, archie shepp, skatalites, slayer, sly stone, sly and robbie, sleep, sleepytime gorilla museum, socrates drank the conium, soft machine, squarpusher (music is rotted one note), steely dan, stereolab, the stooges, karlheinz stockhausen, yma sumac, sun city girls, sundanese gamelan (puppet theater), toru takemitsu, talking heads (remain in light), television, this heat, peter thomas, throbbing gristle, jukka tiensuu, tortoise, traffic, t rex, 2 foot yard, univers zero, utotem, edgard varese, vacuum tree head, caetano veloso, velvet underground (white light white heat), miroslav vitous, muddy waters (electric mud), anton webern, tony williams (turn it over), stevie wonder, link wray, iannis xenakis, xohl caravan, the yardbirds, yes, la monte young, zahar, zga, zolar x, john zorn,
founding members jason berry and michael de la cuesta began the musical heresy known as vacuum tree head in the autum of 1989. drawing from early esoteric projects and personal mythologies such as "the opera", "pharmakos II" and even "fukio ladis" they immediately established a large body of work (some 240 compositions) released on "tape" albums, these albums, including a soundtrack for the rudolf schwartzkogler film "king of the crickets" became the blueprints for the later "official cd releases" as well as the "no comix" series. with the monumental "excell eye eye" (22 songs, 72 minutes long!) released in 1992 and their second cd "oob eye works" (both released on megaphone records) vth broke onto the bay area scene. after which began a 14 year run ( x 3 ) of non stop writing recording and performing. collaborating with some 142 musicians over these years (every vacuum tree head performance would be known to have a different line up as well as new roster of songs to the point where most vth members couldn't even keep track themselves) vacuum tree head became an unstoppable shapeshifting monstrosity
from performing with a ballet troupe to doing single 42'-42" song suite drone zone minwarp known as tar hai wizard (an homage to artist moebius) to tape editing and cut-up collage style mayhem (aum carve etude "h" ) to klezmer-flamenco freak outs to prog-punk fusion with spanish lyrics sung in a
cambodian pop style (coal vig and bakuretsu fukio) to electric-12 tone chamber jazz ragas ("13" and the nancy luna suite) to covering a song for a sun ra tribute (the call) and anything else that got in the way. some of the vth participants
have included: tom corboline, moe! staiano (sleepytime gorilla museum, moe!kestra, mute socialite), rick barber (san jose symphony orchestra, gamelan sekar jaya, kings canyon), shakti marshall, erica fallin, thomas scandura (the molecules, spezza rotto, witches and devils, grand national brands), earl holt "trip" johnson III (haul), charles lloyd (cat meet, one f, jeffreys in love, saraswati temple, the creeepers, red journal, cash pony), chip dominguez & ruben batrez (snafu, anti-man band), justin markovits (blue eyed devils, chris cotton, shanty town, the frequent flyers, interstellar grains, the kamikazes), marg lloyd (the creepers), john shiurba (eskimo, spezza rotto, pink mountain,the molecules), rich corny (trip, rich and famous, the frequent flyers, interstellar grains, the kamikazes), vince rodrigues (giant value, sixish) rale sidebottom (societas insomnia, puppet theater) jesse quattro (secret chiefs 3, saint of killers, hammers of missfortune, the automic bomb audition), gary kotlyar (the kamikazes), john g. shaw sanchez III, matt "hms" waldron (irr app ext, nurse with wound, current 93), ron anderson (the molecules, pak, ron ruins, happy new year), r.k. faulhaber, alien jebian (electric cymbal), d. cawley (vim), micah mcclain (kehoe nation, magnesium, mitch marcus quartet, len paterson trio, flowtilla, david liebman and countless others), heleen ramos, mike rognlie (trip, cat meet, golden method, ray brower's body), greg kunckle (mp3 bulkstop trio, the dirt grey pigeons), sarah mckinney (blackwell), chris keith (one f, jeffreys in love), john merrill (mood-food, blackwell, sandfly, archie shepp), gino robair (splatter trio, anthony braxton), sylvia gordon (kudu, black betty, nublu orchestra, wilkommen kinder, moby), lichi d'amelio, chad connor (trip, grease grit & grime), michael mellender (schloss, sleepytime gorilla museum, japonize elephants, the immersion composition society, the lower animals), ian noble r.i.p. (dr. klown-o), vicky grossi (bitches brew, slydini, tower of power, fry pan), chris millner (the molecules, ostrich farm, bion), ches smith (secret chiefs 3, good for cows, mark ribot, xiu xiu), pandit vivek chandra shukla das (psychic tv, tipsy, xambuca, bachir attar), hilary pryde (monkey flower), rick hewitt (vim), joe lewis "man"(karpov, shepards wolf nation , the mountain men and countless others) and of course the amazing vocal stylings of robin graf (kabuki theater) and the list goes on and on.... the vth alumni list reads like a spawning ground for the bay area music scene, crossing boundries and styles without regard. vth now in it's 20th year is extending it's branches to the east coast and beyond. "look out"
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Recorded: live on March 16, 2003 at the Beta Lounge in San Francisco
In 1967, San Francisco’s Fifty Foot Hose were certainly one of the
innovators of a sound that took Psychedelia to new heights and was
captured on the band’s one record, Cauldron. They are a totally
unique hybrid—on one hand pulsating bay area acid rock, on the other,
fractured electronic freakery, becoming one whole cohesive being. The
sci-fi-ish video game-like artwork hinted at the sounds within, as did
the Limelight label’s pedigree for truly progressive sounds. Band
leader, Cork Marcheschi, used homemade electronic devices to create
crude and experimental soundscapes and instrumental compositions that
were sprinkled throughout the album.
Often starting shows with a swelling rumble that exploded into the
first song, they soon developed a rabid following on the SF scene,
though there was the occasional totally wrong gig, like when a
very-pregnant Nancy had to perform at a Catholic Girls’ school! Still,
the group wowed the crowds, performing with greats like Chuck Berry and
Fairport Convention.
Veja Entrevista que dei para o Programa “Repertório Independente”, onde eu falo de minha carreira, minha história e apesar de estar bastante gripado, ainda canto algumas canções.
Para ver este e vários outros vídeos meus no youtube, entre no link abaixo:
Olde skozey fetisch performance newly posted @ YouTube. It was the first ever Noise Pancakes at Pubis Noir. There were three audience members in attendance. Available on the DVD-R: Brutal Sound Effects Volume 1
havent heard the stickmen. for a much much lighter side of RXR side projects check out myspace.com/emhu ....coming your way on tour in like 3 weeks! -ethan
the video you guys out up on my page was sick as hell! i was thinking of doing a tour sort of thing this summer between july 30 and aug 16th, do you wanna set up a show?
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