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Mount St. Helen

About Me

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/08/2006
Band Members: mostly me dicking around in the basement, but Scott Matz plays drums sometimes and Io Perry plays bass and sings back ups from time to time. sometimes i'll have other friends drop by and we'll record some stuff.if you listen closely you'll hear my dog in the background of pretty much every song.
Influences: velvet underground, cheap trick, brian eno, spritualized, sparklehorse, pink floyd, psychedelic stuff, old country, beatles, beach boys, japanese noise, can, the carpenters, serge gainsbourg, air, boards of canada,the ramones, radar brothers, the cure, johnny cash, david bowie, mogwai, the album leaf, spacemen 3, american analog set, flaming lips, big star, nick drake, t. rex, dylan, acid mothers temple, ghost, the byrds, califone, the cars, cat power, mercury rev, the zombies, galaxie 500, the monkees, old soundtracks, hank williams, john lennon, skynyrd, kraftwerk, van halen, too much jazz and electronic music to list, my dog penny, picasso...
Sounds Like: i am very curious musically, so this is going to sound like a lot of different things. some you may like, some not so much. but I do this for me; hope you're cool with that.

Record Label: i burn my own

My Blog

hi there

haven't added anything new for awhile as it really seems like no one is looking at this page. that's cool, I'm not whining as I never expected anyone to look at it. I have been adding songs regularly ...
Posted by on Wed, 23 May 2007 11:36:00 GMT

New Song "Unkind"

Here is a new song called Unkind. I have a new baby at home (Sophie Bennett born March 23rd 2007), so my musical output is a little on the light side right now. Pretty much everything I have been doin...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:56:00 GMT

New Song: "Topo's Revenge"

This new song is called "Topo's Revenge." I have a friend who has been trying to get people to call him Topo for as long as I've known him (going on 15 years now). We were playing at Mister T's one ni...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:41:00 GMT

Delay Loop

If you downloaded that batch of songs I posted last week, you've already heard this one. If not, here you go. Instrumental, ambient soundscape courtesy of me. this is a loop of a guitar sound, my trus...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:17:00 GMT

this is pretty cool

i just loaded this and it's making my shitty speakers sound 1000 percent better. after you set it up, try turning the thing off and check out the difference. i may even kick down the $20 to register i...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:19:00 GMT

4 new songs

I uploaded these to megaupload the other day if you want to grab the full bunch of 8 songs. Like A Person: used to be called "every girl before you", and I wrote it for Nicole (my lovely wife who is a...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:29:00 GMT

heres some new music

here's a bunch of stuff that I mixed yesterday. it's all pretty rough (hard to mix on my gear if you have more than 3 things going on at once). I don't have a real stereo right now (just crappy comput...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:21:00 GMT

4 new songs to talk shit about

Here's some new songs. the next batch will probably not be very rock (I go through phases and right now i'm really into tangerine dream and toru takemitsu), so heres these in the meantime:Right as Rai...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:31:00 GMT

I Don't Know

this is a little pop song (think the mama's and papa's meet the kinks). It was recorded live, and I overdubbed the slide guitar and Io and my vocals. The song is about all the bullshit I saw in the cl...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:05:00 GMT

a thoughtful gift

this song is another instrumental song. it's easier to write instrumentals sometimes as I am not particularly tormented and don't have a need to vent anymore.it's called a thoughtful gift because Nico...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:07:00 GMT