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Waves

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About Me

We listen to records. Lots and lots and LOTS of records.
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Don and Mary occasionally play with Bill Sundt in another project called DBM . They also occasionally switch roles and instruments and perform improv metal under the name Chariots Of Blood .
Don currently plays keyboards with Guy Madison ( Mudhoney ) in the Seattle band Bricklane . He has also performed and recorded with numerous musicians in the Northwest including Some Velvet Sidewalk whose discography includes releases on K records , Kill Rock Stars , Sub Pop , Up Records , Yoyo and Property Is Theft . In 2005 he performed with Al Larsen on his solo album entitled The Hardline According to Danny & the Dinosaur which was recorded and produced by Steve Fisk . You can hear him drumming on a 7" on Up Records in a band called Hot White Noon with Tiffany Anders and Jeff Tobin . Don also used to play in a Seattle band called Tot Finder with Russ Klatt who now performs solo under the name Waterbeds.
Mary currently plays drums in an instrumental improv band called Resistor vs. Levator with Sky Lynn of Levator , and plays drums live and on recordings with Joshua Baumgartner of aheartlesssolution . She performs solo and in collaborations, under the name Resistor . Mary is also the bass player for Mars Accelerator and a Black Sabbath cover band called Supernauty .
"Waves is a pressure hose of sonics with a huge interior of detail" - Doug Haire, host for Sonarchy Radio, KEXP 90.3 FM.
"WAVES runs on a majik carpet of propulsive drone-core, building to tsunami levels. Surf at your own peril." - Wally Shoup
Shows:
11.29.03 Second Ave. Pizza (Levator)
02.28.04 Luscious Studios (Odessa, Pomeranian, Freejail)
06.02.04 Second Ave. Pizza (Viking Moses, Tigersaw)
06.20.04 Sunset Tavern (Levator, Chariots Of Blood)
07.15.04 Rendezvous' Jewel Box Theater (Monstro)
08.19.04 The Mark (Olympia, WA)(Al Larsen, Dennis Driscoll, Per Se)
09.11.04 EMP Liquid Lounge (Japan Air Transfer, Odessa)
09.25.04 Le Voyeur (Olympia, WA) (Dennis Driscoll, Al Larsen, Pash, DJ Diana Arens)
02.03.05 Neumo's Crystal Ball Reading Room (Razrez, Black Night Crash, Martian Memo)
04.11.05 Chop Suey (Birds Of Prey, Vista Vista, Panic!)
04.19.05 Rendezvous' Jewel Box Theater (Blue Light Curtain, The Zero Points)
04.26.05 Mr. Spot's Chai House (All Ages)(Rebecca Johnston)
06.30.05 EMP Liquid Lounge (Joy Wants Eternity, Blue Light Curtain)
07.16.05 Cafe Venus and Mars Bar (Sun Vow, Blue Light Curtain)
07.21.05 Blue Moon Tavern (Brad Dunn, Matt Crane and Diller)
09.03.05 The Seattle Drum School L.A.B.(all ages)(Sleepy Workers, Crown Aruba)
11.15.05 The Crocodile Cafe (Bird Show Of North America, Joy Wants Eternity)
02.25.06 Piece of Peace (Installation at LGBT Community Center) (All Ages)
07.06.06 Skylark Cafe & Club (The Curious Mystery, Stone And Star)
08.10.06 Nectar Lounge (Zero Points, Thunder,The Vomiting Unicorns)
08.12.06 The Rendezvous' Jewel Box Theater (Spider Trio :Wally Shoup, Dave Abramson and Jeffrey Taylor)
09.20.06 The Rainbow (Diosa, KnotPineBox)
10.25.06 The High Dive (Bronze Fawn, Elysian)
11.09.06 The Skylark Cafe (So Said They, The Delusions)
10.13.07 Christoff Gallery (Quietus, Waves And Radiation)
11.16.07 The Jewel Box Theater (Jose Fang)
01.09.08 The Jewel Box Theater (Your Drugs My Money, Casio Killah)
03.21.08 Mix (Beloved Binge, Ladies Of Sin, Hardison)
05.03.08 Blue Moon Tavern (Bill Sundt, The Curious Mystery, Molly Shannon, Molly Shannon)
05.11.08 Greenhouse (Molly Shannon, Molly Shannon, Great Plains, guests)
07.10.08 The Jewel Box Theater (The Valiant Arms, Carcrashlander)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/6/2005
Band Members: Don and Mary:

Influences: Pharaoh Sanders
Pink Floyd
Erik Satie
Alexander Scriabin
Ravi Shankar
Sun Ra
La Monte Young
John Fahey
Lou Reed
Blue Oyster Cult
Thurston Moore
Big Star
Richard Hawley
Mick Turner

PLEASE SUPPORT THESE LOCAL BANDS:

A Frames
Amateur Radio Operator
Arkade
Autolite Strike
as calacala
Aunt Jamamas Big Band Vigilantes
Beast, Please Be Still
Big Dirt
Bill Horist
Bill Sundt and the Cold Hard Truth
Bird Show of North America
Black Night Crash
Blue Light Curtain
Bookmobile
Brent Amaker and the Rodeo
Bronze Fawn
C’est la Mort
Chainfight Winner
Champagne Of Bands
Cougar Noises
Chris Mess
Codlauncher
Commodore Duchess
Crown Aruba
Daughters Of Atlas
Daybreak
Dayna Smith
Dave Abramson
Diamond Cut Diamond
Diminished Men
Diosa
Duster
Elysian
Eric Miller
Euphondisson
Fighting Shy
Fish Got Legs
Flavor Labor
Forrest Friends
Girl Trouble
Graig Markel
Grubs
Half Light
Hello! Could You?
Hello Scenerio
Hypatia Lake
Indecisive Rhythm
Japan Air Transfer
Jose Fang
Joshua Daniel
Joules
Joy Wants Eternity
Kertek
Kings of Side Two
Kinski
KnotPineBox
Laconic
Lady Krishna’s Peppermint Lounge
Levator
Liverburst
Man Plus
Man Rockwell
Mark Schlipper
Mars Accelerator
Mood Organ
Mooncalf
Mount Analog
Mt. Non-fiction
Mudhoney
N. C. Skolrud
Norman Dahlstedt and The Crazy Marys
Novahead vs. Chickentron
One Million Teeth
Ospud
The Pagan States
Pale Jade
Palodine
Panda & Angel
Prkr
PartMan PartHorse
Philoscopic
PoSiDeN
Prosser
Quietus
Randal Prater
Red Martian
Red Squirrels
Resistor
Resistor vs. Levator
RipSpacer
S
Secondary
Sera Cahoone
Seth Howard
Shorthand For Epic
Sick Bees
Skerik
Sleepy Eyes Of Death
Sneaky Thieves
Snowman Plan
Some Terrible Music
Sons Of Megalon
So Said They
Spanish for 100
STRKLLR
Steve Fisk
Stone And Star
Sun City Girls
Sun Vow
Supernauty
Taurus Pedals
Tableland
Terrene
The Boss Martians
The Briefs
The Consul
The Conversation Heart
The Cops
The Curious Mystery
The Delusions
The Ever Changing Sky
The Filthy Whores
The Good Egg Magnet
The Graze
The Jimmystuarts
The Literature
The Luna Moth
The Melody Unit
The Music Of Grayface
Tiny Vipers
Touchdown Eagle
transPacific
Umber Sleeping
Unbunny
Via
Voyager One
Water Kill The Sun
Welcome
Wet City Rockers
We Wrote the Book on Connectors
Wind Swept Planes
Yam
Young People
Your Heart Breaks

Sounds Like: May I have another?

Record Label: Looking for a label to put out a release on vinyl.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

old song up...

hey we put an old one up from our chop suey show 3 years ago. wow. time flies. i liked this one because it was so stripped down for the most part. i had just gotten a new guitar and that was the first...
Posted by Waves on Wed, 07 May 2008 09:22:00 PST

SECRET SHOW

Waves has put together a very special matinee performance for the AMAZINGCarla Bozulich and her new band, Evangelista.The performance will take place this Sunday, April 6, 2008 at our beloved Jewelbox...
Posted by Waves on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:15:00 PST

FREE SHOW! Friday November 16, 2007

We are playing a FREE SHOW at (Mary's most favorite) place to play in all of Seattle, The Jewel Box Theater...so you should come and say hi and hang out with us! We are playing with Jose Fang and I li...
Posted by Waves on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:16:00 PST

NEWS: First show of the year!

We will be playing our first show of this year on October 13 at the Cristoff Gallery . The space is located behind the 9lb Hammer in Georgetown. On the bill with us will be Quietus and Waves And Radia...
Posted by Waves on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:44:00 PST

Whats on the turntable tonight


Posted by Waves on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:19:00 PST

New song Wooden up...maybe more to come....

I finally got around to listening again to the September 2006 show we did at the Rainbow. I edited the last song in our set that night, I think I played it on my blue guitar, it's a semi-hollowbody Da...
Posted by Waves on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:37:00 PST

I absolutely LOVE. I am more than thankful for this man.


Posted by Waves on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:23:00 PST

Back!

I just looked at our list of shows and realized we have not played a show at all in 2007. We are up for it now. If anyone wants to get us on a bill with them, let us know. We are looking to do it aga...
Posted by Waves on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:20:00 PST

John Coltrane - Concert In Japan


Posted by Waves on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:42:00 PST

Suicide (please read)

I am in shock about a friend that committed suicide last week. Here is something I feel necessary to say. Please, friends, read.It is not the details of one's suicidethat need to be discussed.It is no...
Posted by Waves on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:44:00 PST