Dave Webb - guitar/vocals;
Jared Nelson - guitar/vocals;
Andy Pease - drums
Bowie McLean - bass
Influences
Mostly Bruford in the drum department.....
Yes, King Crimson, The Beatles, Sonic Youth, Neil Young, Black Sabbath, Death, Bathory, Comets on Fire, Led Zeppelin, Immortal, Grails, Bruce Springsteen, PFM, ELP, CSN, Frank Zappa, Times of Desperation, Grateful Dead, Telomere Repair....
Seattle music: Diminished Men, Sean, Spirit of Radio, Brad Dunn, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Sugar Skulls, The Abodox, Lesbian, Girth, Spoils, The Sandpaper Handjob, Scary Bear, Fortress of Victory, Joules, Halo Vest, Spoils, Curious Mystery, Lemons and Stallions...
other folks as well, such as: Soren Kierkegaard, H.P. Lovecraft, Knut Hamsun, Otto Rank, Milan Kundera, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Lawrence Durrell, Baruch Spinoza, Jean-Paul Sartre, Lawrence Durrell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Robert Graves...
"The quartet's monster guitars, attack-drums, and dramatic tempo changes are mysteriously heavy, darkly psychedelic, and you can actually hear how long the bass player's hair is. The result gratifies audience and musician alike in long, rock-operatic songs like 'Failed Spiraling Majesty.'" -- San Francisco Weekly, 5/16/07
"Seattle's Wah Wah Exit Wound are all about bashing their heads on the prog rock, as they liberally grab from the techincal precision of King Crimson and the unfiltered chaos of Japan's Green Milk from the Planet Orange. If prog is your steez, you couldn't pick two better bands to be influenced by." --Portland Mercury, 4/5/07
"I sure like imagining this Seattle-based four-piece’s meandering, trippy, psych-influenced prog guitar lines working their way through the band’s noise-based backdrops and bursting through the other side–with blood sprays sonic rays shooting out every which way. The band’s sludgy prog rock undoubtedly achieves a piercing effect–whether it’s with gut-lancing bass or brain-rattling noise–which could conjure feelings of being shot with sound. It’s reminiscent of rockers from Danzig or Pink Floyd to seriously guitar-centric influences such as Built to Spill or Dinosaur Jr.–a fine group of idols if you ask me. If you ask the band’s MySpace, though, it will tell you it takes most after “KING CRIMSON!!!” No argument here." --Local Cut (Portland Music Journal), 5/16/07
If you're driving in your car late at night and you happen to hear Megadeath's "Rust in Peace" come on the stereo (in full), and you dig it -- this does not necessarily mean you're a metal fan. It just might mean that you're predisposed to kind of dig on prog rock. So if you can kind of dig on prog rock, you might dig us. We sure hope you do. This band was started by Dave and Jared in an attempt to play something that combined prog song structures with psychedelic freakouts. Andy came on board from the drum core. Bowie came on board with a deep knowledge of all things Crimson. We jammed some more and worked some shit up that we like a lot and play all the time at home so that it sounds real good for all you folks in the listening audience. We like to play Hearts if anyone's interested. Watch out for Andy, he shoots the moon all the fucking time. -Gary Nielson, Drunk in 2007
Monday September 8th @ The Funhouse (206 5th Ave. N) Ladies' Choice Presents: God of Shamisen (Asian Bluegrass Metalfrom Santa Cruz) Diminished Men (Ennio Morricone's high-school psych band when he was an exchange student in New Jersey) Isle of Black (Dave from Girth with Lee from Estradasphere/GoS...) 9:30pm - 21+ - $6 cover
Listen to Hollow Earth this week for broadcasts of recordings from last years show..and tune in all weekend as we bring you some of the shows live!
About Carousel: The Carousel Festival is an all-ages event celebrating the Northwest DIY creative community as a whole. They are attempting to bring together the creative forces that are the bloodline of our city and bridge these unneeded gaps in this wonderful, bright community. The Carousel Festival is a three-day event featuring 35-40 regional bands, film, workshops, and other arts, hosted at a handful of different DIY spaces. This years proceeds will go to support 2 different, but very similar local non-profits. Half will go to CARA (Communities Against Rape & Abuse) and the other half to the local anti-violence/self-defence non-profit, Home Alive. This year it will be happening on August 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. You can contact them @ carouselfest@gmail.com See: Carousel Fest 2008
Hey thanks again for the PA! We're converging in Portland this spring, so we should do shows here, there and everywhere. Maybe we can get Poseidon to join us in an allegiance of rock!
there's nothing like sitting alone with a 12 pack of pabst and top menthol tobacco and just listening to wah wah exit wound as loud as possible (that's what i am doing right this moment. )
Thanks for playing with us, dudes! You guys shred so fucking hard, I thought I was gonna need Rodman & Van Dammne for back up! I love you guys & I can't wait to watch you fuck people's minds again! Safe travels!
Thank you for playing Sacramento last night, you guys are great! Thank you for this shirt that you made just for me but did not know it at the time. Yay!
i'm listenin yo yr tunes online, n lovin them all, cus i'm always too fucked to remember to buy a copy of 'earth is....', so dont let me leave thursday without one. it is goin to be a prog rockin celebration, cannon of love detonation that'll explode you away down the coast straight from the hood, what better way....prog it on!!!!!
yeah. thanks for request! i really like your stuff cause you are really psycadelic stuff. mucho respect, tons of psycadelic guit-riffs and greetings from kleinhirnkammer our life = our psycadelia = our sound
