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Caves of Mercury

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About Me

One year ago to the day, three avid sound explorers converged upon an abandoned Gelato stand for a purpose. That purpose was never revealed to anyone until a recent experience with Kurt Vonnegut via ink shapes on tree pulp. Huddling closely to feed on each other’s life-giving vibrations, they realized that they may be better suited for another environment altogether. Voice, guitar, bass guitar, drums, cymbals, and keyboards are the primitive tools used to shape this new locale, known as Caves of Mercury. (I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4)

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Member Since: 10/20/2006
Band Website: cavesofmercury.com
Band Members: John McHenry guitar, bass, pedals, disharmony
Tom Bendel drums, cymbals, robot megaphone, guitar, bass
Lisa McHenry guitar, bass, keyboard
Influences: Kurt Vonnegut, The Simpsons, John Steinbeck, David Simon, Philip K Dick, Jon Stewart, Neil Gaiman, John Milch, Jane Austen, Dr. Weedburger, Copter, James Cook, Trail Mix
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My Blog

Recording, recording

The Caves have been quite busy in our little home recording studio (in reality, Tom and Lisa's kitchen/rehearsal room). But this time, we've got a couple of fancy new microphones, a sound-equalizer gu...
Posted by Caves of Mercury on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:45:00 PST

----Calling occupants of interplanetary craft----

Hello Commies!!  A big thanks to all who have been showing support at our shows over the past year, and to all who support behind the scenes as well. We like what you doooOO!  We are curre...
Posted by Caves of Mercury on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:32:00 PST

R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut

I don't really know what to say. It is strange when someone I have never met dies, and yet I feel so sad. Sirens of Titan is the book from whence Caves of Mercury got our name, and all three of us are...
Posted by Caves of Mercury on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:37:00 PST

Caves of Mercury video clips from SICA

Exclusive footage, captured by Bernadette McHenry at the Shore Institute for Contemporary Arts. We were playing as part of Jon Francis's Uncanning Worms series. There are three short clips. Check it o...
Posted by Caves of Mercury on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:18:00 PST

Antarctica glitch fixed.

Hurrah!Please give us your feedback. These are our first mixes of self-recorded songs, and it was our first time self-recording, so we'd love to hear what you think.
Posted by Caves of Mercury on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:50:00 PST

Important note about Antarctica

Antarctica the song, that is. It appears that the mp3 starts 30 seconds into the song. We will fix this glitch over the next day or so but for now if you want to hear the song, it's there. It's a pret...
Posted by Caves of Mercury on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:48:00 PST

recording John's guitar.

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Posted by Caves of Mercury on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:44:00 PST

John and Tom record backup vocals - a video blog

It was nearly 2am and we'd been at it for 10 hours or so. And Tommy had just discovered that he sounded just like Vincent Price! But we managed to make some backing vocals for Typewriters and Adding M...
Posted by Caves of Mercury on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:07:00 PST

we have started recording.

Believe it or not, we have finally started recording. Because of certain technological setbacks and a steep learning curve, it has taken us two sessions to record one song. However, we are confident t...
Posted by Caves of Mercury on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:10:00 PST

songs coming soon.

And hopefully, it will take us less time to post songs than it took us to find a band name that all three of us liked.But really, we will post some demos soon! -- Tom, John, and Lisa.
Posted by Caves of Mercury on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:45:00 PST