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About Me

The Bush Dog (Speothos venaticus) is a canid found in Central and South America, including Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru (West of the Andes), Ecuador, the Guianas, Paraguay, northeast Argentina (Misiones province), and Brazil (from the Amazon rainforest to the state of Amazonas). In spite of its extensive range, it is very rare; it was originally discovered as fossils in Brazilian caves and thought to be extinct. It is the only species in its genus, Speothos.First there was William. William played the piano on his own all day and all night. Then Alex appeared with a guitar and a smile. They played and sang together for a while, then decided to try playing in front of other people.
That was good for a while, but soon they realised they needed more people to play things. They found someone called Jeff after a while. He had a bass guitar and wanted a band to play with.
To be continued... [more music up soon]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/4/2006
Band Members: Missing
Influences: Short list: The Ups, Futtock Shrouds, Greg Davies and Joey Whitfield

Longer list: The Beach Boys, Blur, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Camper Van Beethoven, Dead Milkmen, Dexy's Midnight Runners, East 17, The Feelies, Futtock Shrouds, Giant Root Attack, Gintis, Greg Davies, Gringo Star, Husker Du, The Jam, Joey Whitfield, Low, Lush, Manic Street Preachers, Minutemen, The Monks, The Moody Blues, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nirvana, Paul Simon, Pavement, Pixies, Pulp, Pylon, R.E.M, Slingbacks, The Smiths, The Strokes, Superchunk, Tiny Tin Lady, The Ups, The Velvet Underground, Wire, Yo La Tengo, The Zombies...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

practise .1

Our first practise as a full band was last night, and it went pretty well, I thought. We did three songs pretty thoroughly (Strange, This Modern World and Everybody Knows), had a bit of a go at a...
Posted by Bush Dogs on Tue, 22 May 2007 05:48:00 PST

solo gig

Chef James asked me to play a support set at the Zoo Bar tonight, and so I did. I rang Alex to ask him whether he'd like to join in, but I couldn't get hold of him. I did a rubbish set, mostly covers....
Posted by Bush Dogs on Wed, 16 May 2007 06:08:00 PST

new version of Strange

it's the same as the old one, only remixed slightly. you can actually hear the backing vocals now. they're somewhat off-key though (as with all of our vocals).
Posted by Bush Dogs on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:20:00 PST

new acoustic recordings

We've done an acoustic recording session, two tracks from which are now uploaded. More to come soon.
Posted by Bush Dogs on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:54:00 PST

gig 4

Gig number four was a St. Helens Musicians Collective showcase gig on 25th November at the Rendezvous. It also featured Mark Wilson and Below The Lights (we were on first). It wasn't the best we've pl...
Posted by Bush Dogs on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:44:00 PST

gig 3

Well, gig number three was last week. It was okay. Another one as an acoustic duo. We did two new songs (This Modern World and Everybody Knows), and had no major problems aside from me messing up some...
Posted by Bush Dogs on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:25:00 PST

time and drummers

So, at the moment we've got not one, not two, but three people who've said they might play drums with us. We really must corner one of them and make them actually practise with us. But not next week, ...
Posted by Bush Dogs on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:33:00 PST

new song uploaded (Smart Casual Racists - piano version)

It doesn't really count as a band recording, it's just me and my piano giving some vague sort of idea of how the song's supposed to go. It'll sound a lot better with guitars and drums and stuff on, bu...
Posted by Bush Dogs on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:10:00 PST

gigs 1 and 2

So... we had our first two gigs this week, and they could've gone a lot worse. The first was on Wednesday - a gig at Blackbrook Social Club organised by "The Silver Bullet Models". Once everyone had f...
Posted by Bush Dogs on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:03:00 PST