The Electric Starlight Space Animals
Fill your world with happy weirdness. Surf punk psychedelic love songs to poodles. Cool electronic burbling spoken word dramas. Hip funk rock and roll with tons of harp and loud guitars. Fun stuff that you can dance to. We love you, man.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Steve Mahoney and Jim Alciere are the Electric Starlight Space Animals. We've had the great luck to get the incredible Shirley Moe to add back up vocals on our latest CD. Be sure to catch her main gig as X Ray Actress. She's star material.
Jim plays keys, harp, and sings.
Steve plays bass, guitar,percussion, and sings. Steve does the engineering.Jim tries to help with the producing. Jim and Steve write all the songs.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
We live way out in the woods in Maine, on the coast up next to the Canadian border in scenic Machias, Maine. Yes we love it here.
Your musical influences
P-Funk The Rolling Stones Merle Haggard Frank Zappa Cake The Grateful Dead Olatunji Jonathan Richman
What equipment do you use?
Jim plays Lee Oscar harps uses a shure Mexican green bullet mic through an ancient tweed Champ.
Jim also plays a Yamaha AN1X and an Emu Vintage Keys +.
Steve usually plays a Telecaster through a pile of Boss pedals and a Rat fuzz box into a blackface Pro Reverb.
Steve also plays a Fender P bass through an Ampeg Porta Flex amp.
We usually use a Shure sm57 but Steve has a CAD mic when we get real singers.
