4 or five guys looking for liquor, love and laughs. . . then writing songs about it. Each brought together in new orleans by hook and by crook, to play a moody, muddy, almost moist music. They have a rhythm that smolders like a slow landfill fire, with words askew and music muggy. Playing high and low, using whatever is left over from the night before, they tear into their sounds, (which are somewhat found), with an emotional ferocity few have mastered! Come hear for yourself, that witty and charming band about town...
M.A. Sample - lead/bkgd vocals, songwriter, guitars, basses, pianny and keyboards, drums/percussion, saxophone, harmonicas, mandolin, ukelele, trombone, noises, effects, treatments and manipulation...
Sadie Mae Lumpkins - lead/bkgd vocals, songwriter, loops, dubs, sympathy, utensils and appliances, muse...
The Reverend 'Mr' Freeze - vocals, handclaps, songwriter, sound, stats and samples...
P-Man Thomas - drums/percussions, beats, plastic forks, toys, videos, shoes, time-outs, pouts, yelps, yowls, whines, noises, mac & cheese, and a general mischievious and undermining attitude...
featuring the metry transitional choir and the old metry wreckin' krewe horns...
We don't play well with others. Intent on mayhem and chaos, we have been banished to the studio for the duration...
the beatles, the marx brothers, XTC, robert zimmerman, raymond chandler, pink floyd, robert johnson, the rat pack, looney toons, the coen brothers, new orleans r & b, robert a. heinlein, brian wilson, the rat pack, dasheill hammett, kubrick, NIN, trad jazz, elvis c. and elvis p. (before the army), satchmo, todd rundgren, buster keaton, radiohead, THE firesign theatre, hendrix, hitchcock, ludwig van and wolfgang amadeus, film noir, the kinks, zappa, the clash, the bonzo dog doo-dah band, miles davis, spoon, sci-fi...
sony viao vgc-rc110g, 'HAL 9000' (for it all), sony vaio rx881, (for audio), a transitor radio, a fender telecaster, a gibson grabber bass, a rickenbacker 360-12, a washburn es-10 dobro, an epiphone acoustic, a fender precision bass, a pair of shakers (one cracked), a ukelele, some pots and pans, somebody's forgotten mandolin, various harmonicas, about 10,000 vinyl records, acid 4 pro, a fender pro-twin reverb amp, a fender sidekick reverb 25, a peavy backstage 30, a tascam 424 mk2 4-track, a tascam porta-1 4-track, a roland tape echo, a sony tvr340 handycam, my high school saxophone, my daddy's 'olds' trombone, a tamborine, a very old roberts reel-to-reel w/ a built 8 track recorder, an old up-right pianny, sound forge 8, a few sony casette decks, a nice set of pulse drums, vegas video 5, an old casio sk-1 sampler, a casio 455 keyboard, a found accoustic guitar, a bunch of electronic gizmos for effects, my old broken dobro, assorted percussive thingys, anything left over from the night before, 2 turntables and a microphone, . . .
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