Music:
Member Since: 12/28/2006
Band Website: hopeforagoldensummer.com
Band Members: Howdy. My name is Claire Campbell. I sing and seek harmony. I make sounds out of anything. Simple like plucking a rubberband at different degrees of tension OR trying to conjure sounds from the cello I got for $25 (and a list of all my music industry contacts). I only really know how to play the guitar and singing saw. A bit of clarinet. I failed out of Music Theory.
Did you know people are doing great work with found objects and the forging of non-traditional instruments: ceramic banjos, giant steel arcs strung with piano wire, stalagtite organs. All of these just waiting for your hands and ears.
Also, it so happens that I've been in many bands you've never heard of:
Stain (rehearsed 3 times in 1995; broke up because lead singer looked and sang just like Kurt Cobain)
Git Krunk Band (rehearsed several times & played one show in 1995; broke up because we graduated from highschool)
Claire & Santiago (actual working duo from 1996-1998; broke up by distance and mileage)
Sweet Potato White Fly (rehearsed twice and played The Charleston Int'l Beer Fest in 1999; broke up because after taking full advantage of our complimentary beer tasting passes we sounded like ass)
Pimp Hoochie Mama (recorded a rock opera and played 2 shows in 2000; broke up because lead singer spent all his inheritance money which was funding the project and then split town; also he replaced me with his sister who sounded like ass)
Claire & Bain's Maple Yum-Yum (an actual working band from 2000-2002; broke up because it was time)
The Mars Project (rehearsed 5 times and played 2 shows in 2002; broke up because everyone except me was a total pothead and one night we had a gig and I was the only one who remembered to show up)
Hope For Agoldensummer (a working band, my main jam = 2002 to current)
Dark Meat & Vomit Lasers (a working band = 2005 to current)
Rhino 5 (an interdependent collective that sometimes plays shows = 2003 to current)
Influences: People.
Sleep.
Walking.
Weather.
Temperature.
Time.
The unseen.
Stories.
Aerobic cardiovascular activity.
Moon.
Silence.
Sound.
Energyemittedbyhumans.
Kittens.
Caffeine.
Hospitality.
Benevolence.
Intent.
Sounds Like: Three large bowls made of thin blue glass, the root, 3rd and 5th of "D"; repeatedly struck by firey, gauze wrapped torches carried by yogis of the doughnut trade. And, 7 mason jars, holes punched in the lids, each filled with a different group of noisemaking lifeform: bees, grasshoppers, flies, frogs, cicadas, wasps, mosquitos.
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