Not so sure about influence, but I love Pixies (the Frank Black/Black Francis stuff too), The Smiths (and Morrissey too), Violent Femmes, Deerhoof, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Beastie Boys, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pavement, M. Ward, David Bowie, Elliott Smith, Grandaddy, Ween, The Ramones, Bob Marley, Butthole Surfers, Xiu Xiu, The Dead Milkmen, Wilco, Arcade Fire, Cibo Matto, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dead Kennedys, Bob Dylan, Firehose (and everything Watt), Flaming Lips, Frog Eyes, Mudhoney, Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack, Hair soundtrack, Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack, P.J. Harvey, Primus, Sleater Kinney, The Shins, REM, The Strokes, Sufjan Stevens, Operation Ivy, Tom Waits, Built to Spill, They Might Be Giants, Guided by Voices, Thee Oh Sees, and Sonic Youth. You know, lotsa stuff.
Warren Teagarden grew up in the ‘80’s listening to New Wave and old Beatles records, but quickly discovered punk rock. Those punk rock roots are hard to hide, even when singing a folky lullaby, strumming an acoustic guitar. After playing in a friend's local San Francisco band, he set out on his own writing songs and playing shows in the Bay Area in 2002. The songs can be funny, sad, strange and smart assed, depending on who you ask. With frantic guitar strumming and lyrics that leave you scratching your head in all the right places, a Warren Teagarden show has become a very special event. Someone once asked Warren what his songs were about; “Love, death, God, sex, drugs, loneliness…you know, the same shit all songs are about.”
Hey just wanted to stop by and thank you for your friendship and let you know that you can now download the entire "American Nightmare" album for ONE DOLLAR for a limited time!
Go to the Dead Aesthetic profile and click on the album cover art in the right hand column to get it now!
Thanks again for the support and I hope you enjoy the album!
The new True Margrit CD - The Juggler's Progress - is now available for pre-order, along with t-shirts and artwork, photo and drumheads, as we get ready for our monthlong tour of the Great Northwest! Check it out here: http://bit.ly/7Cu8J
Look for us in Washington, Oregon and California between October 15 and November 15, when our tour wraps up with the big show at San Francisco's best rock club, Bottom of the Hill! For the complete show schedule, check here: http://bit.ly/1UgGqQ
Can we imagine this comment was movement, not just electrons, and copper-wire fil'ment: Crashing through brush, in the fast-failing light, made up of silhouettes, stringy and taut, Happening, happenstance, onto these words, which then alight like a flock of spooked birds-- "here is the place where we met, in day-dust, glittering-gray, with a coating of frost."
That, dearfriend, might be a much nicer image, than just this screen-glinting, web-woven pages, though, yet, regardless, I'm glad that we're meeting, via this inter-net, friend-spinning, webbing!
Here's to edge-of-day light levels and new e-friend finding!
