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Yellowfinn

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"Four Strangers looked through the looking glass eye...little did they know the stories they'd see would be there own..." Yellowfinn is a true musical adventure, an improv-based rollercoaster ride. This prolific Pacific Northwest quartet swirls through styles ranging from swingin' tropical grooves to tightly-wound hard rock explosions and then deep into spacier relms and far out psychedelic jams reminecient of Pink Floyd or the Grateful Dead...Yellowfinn's influences range from Phish to Iron Maiden, from Frank Zappa to Bob Marley, from The Who to BB King to The Dead Kennedy's with a dash (or two) of "emo."
Yellowfinn is:
"Keyboard" Karl ..boards/vocals
Chris "Homie" Schlentz on guitar/vocals/bass
"Dr." Vince "rocksteady" McDowell on bass/vocals/guitar
Sky Sanson-Frey on drums/drum electronics/vocals

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Member Since: 10/09/2006
Band Website: www.yellowfinn.net
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With two hours of highway between them them, the stream of consciousness flows freely as the Finn Swims on.....Deep Funk Doctor and rocksteady rythm meter, VinFinn hails from the NW by Olympia WA {watch out Evergreen, as has been said by some, "we're comin to your town, we'll help you party down."}Karl "controlled- Kaos" holds his board meetings further south round Longview."Homie" dances on the frets near the booming local-rock community of Ridgefield WA. &SkyHawk pounds the skins (& plays the drums...er) but Doesn't pay sales tax...cuz he's from across the river down in Portland OR

Influences: Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Phish, Grateful Dead, Iron Maiden, The Police, Joe Satriani, John Coltrane, Mel Brown, KISS, Oysterhead, Les Claypool, STS9, Umphrees McGhee, Schliegho, Marshall Tucker Band, The Who, Black Sabbath, Steve Miller, Glenn Miller....the enivronment, Love, Light, & Life....
Sounds Like: Music changes lives...we swim on. Yellowfinn draws from emotion, pulling and pushing through a multitude of feelings, webs of thought, building tension, wrapping steadily around a groove to then release into another dimension all together where jazz collides with country and hip-hop melds and transforms into modern pop or raunchy deep southern bar rock; after a conga line line breaks into salsa at a polka party. Yellowfinn has a catalogue of over 300 songs from tender ballads like "Together," to the dark, epic adventure of the boy who went "Postal." They'll lift your spirits and remind you 'everything's gonna be alright' with the trip-pop "EGBA," slide you back around town in their rock-n-roll tuna-"Taxi," and lead a jamming shamanistic journey across the whirlwind-desert-dreams int you mind with "God's Country."But emotion is the key...and every moment lends itself to another. The only sure things when 'swimming with the Finn' are that you'll never hear 'the same thing' twice, because every moment conducts its own "EMP" and its own direction, and that Good Times will Be had by ALL...
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Record Label: BlueFusion Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Check out this event: Roots into Roots featuring Tractor Beam

Hosted By: Temple of the MuseWhen: Thursday Apr 24, 2008 at 7:30 PMWhere: The Mt Tabor Legacy4811 SE Hawthorn StPortland, Oregon|38 97215United StatesDescription:Temple of the Muse Click Here To View ...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:33:00 GMT

Check out this event: Rhythm extravagansa!!!

Hosted By: Yellowfinn When: Tuesday Mar 11, 2008 at 8:30 PMWhere: The 9 Muses 2715 SE Belmont Stportland, OR 97214United StatesDescription:Yellowfinn Click Here To View Event
Posted by on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:20:00 GMT

Check out this event: Yellowfinn Live @ The 9 Muses!!

Hosted By: Yellowfinn When: Friday Dec 28, 2007 at 8:00 PMWhere: 9 Muses Music Tavern2715 SE Belmont Stportland, Oregon|38 97214United StatesDescription:Yellowfinn Click Here To View Event
Posted by on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:30:00 GMT

Check out this event: Sasquatch reunites for a Night at the 9 Muses

Hosted By: Yellowfinn When: Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 at 8:00 PMWhere: 9 Muses Music Tavern2715 SE Belmont StPortland, OR 97214United StatesDescription:Yellowfinn Click Here To View Event
Posted by on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:15:00 GMT

Going Postal is not just for the Government

"Going Postal is not just for the government, no!"  He was just a normal little boyPlaying with his friendsThey flew kites overthe riverbed; on a dark and stormy nightand things would never be th...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:30:00 GMT

5th Annual Pong-n-Gong

Sky will be MC-ing the 5th annual Pong-n-Gong ping pong challenge at the Lucky Labrador Brew Pub.All proceeds go to help animals in need and the Dove Lewis Emergency Animal Hospital.  Its ALWAYS ...
Posted by on Sun, 27 May 2007 14:44:00 GMT

GLOAT

Chris really like his anagrams.... GLOAT was first introduced to the boys on 4/28/07 from the depth of the 7 and halfth floor of Chris's mind.  The first take ever went well, and was perhaps the ...
Posted by on Fri, 04 May 2007 21:08:00 GMT

How cool is this....

I was just sitting back listening to the playback of set three from our 3/25/07 session, and I have to say it's my proudest moment -- though not as a drummer for Yellowfinn, but rather as a dad. My 6 ...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:50:00 GMT

Do you know what that is? That's the Binary Code, people....

? Do you know what that is.... more than just the Binary code, but a numerical paradiddle to some xtent... 1011010010110100101101...... but we promise the new tune won't give you any hassles; we know ...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:58:00 GMT

Back!!! 01/06/07

01/06/07 Yellowfinn's hiatus came to an end with a 'blistering jam.' John Lennon cried out "I got blisters on my fingers!" when the Beatles finished up Helter Skeleter.  In a nowhere near as cre...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:13:00 GMT