King Conniption- guitar, vocals, harmonica, get-away driver
Etkilendikleri
Velvet Underground, Pixies, Patti Smith, Wilco, Muddy Waters, the Doors,
Husker Du, Flop, Ben Harper, Green Day, Billy Childish, the Clash, Nirvana, MC5, Supersuckers, Swinging Neckbreakers, the Makers, Pearl Jam, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the Pretenders, William Burroughs, Morphine, Robert Johnson, Tom Waits, the White Stripes, Howlin' Wolf, Gregory Corso,
Screaming Trees, BB King, Leonard Cohen, the Ramones, Johnny Cash, Bob Marley, Audioslave, Dead Kennedys, Jimi Hendrix, Social Distortion, REM,
the Replacements, Mudhoney, Jesus and Mary Chain, Cream, Son Volt, the
Strokes, Sonic Youth, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Iggy Pop, Rolling Stones, Shonen Knife, Charles Bukowski, X, Black Sabbath, Rage Against The Machine, Henry Miller, the Breeders, Bad Brains, David Bowie, Vincent Van Gogh, New Bomb Turks, Rancid, The Who, Arcade Fire, Jack Kerouac, Charlie Parker, Baba Olatunji, Talking Heads, Jane's Addiction, Warren Zevon, Frida Kahlo, Santana, Steve Earle, Subcomandante Marcos, Allen Ginsberg, Fountains of Wayne, John Trudell, Los Lobos, the Band, U2, RHCP, Frank Zappa, Aung San Suu Kyi, Hunter S. Thompson, The Last Poets, Jim Carroll, Leaving Trains, John Lennon, Bo Diddly, Kula Shaker, the Sonics, Violent Femmes, Midnight Oil, Noam Chomsky, Man Or Astro Man?, Woody Guthrie, Chuck Berry, John Mellencamp, Soul Asylum, Teengenerate, Sun Ra,
Led Zeppelin, Coldplay, the Morning Shakes, Triple Deuce, the Beatles,
the Smithereens, Alan Watts, Public Enemy, the Monks of Drepung Loseling, Shinran, Cesar Chavez, Dash Rip Rock, Afghan Whigs, the Cramps, Joe
Strummer and the Mescaleros, Johnny Thunders etc.
Formed in a suburban Long Island basement in 1990 by King Conniption and Brian Lindgren. After many gigs, numerous line-up changes, therapy, and the release of a 7" on Wingdisk Records, Brian moved to South Carolina in 1992.
Connip continued on playing various NYC clubs, including CBGBs, and recording cassette only releases before moving to Northern NJ in 1993 and again reforming the band. After recording the "Hostile" sessions at Brooklyn's famed Coyote studios w/ Albert Caiati engineering, (to get that Crypt Records sound) the drummer once again exploded and Connip called it quits and started playing solo as the Lone Monk.
On Nov. 29, 2003 King Conniption managed to get together some former members, who had completed rehab and got their instruments out of the pawn shop, and played a "reunion" show at the Elmwood Park, NJ club the Underpass. I must say, it rocked!!
After moving to Santa Fe, NM in 2005 (for some forgotten reason)
he (I) am now recording "Incantations" w/ Jono Manson producing,
in his studio in the mountains above Santa Fe. It will be mix of poetry/folk/punk- my "oeuvre." Selah.
http://www.myspace.com/thelonemonk
