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MC Trashpedal

Living Room Noise Technician

About Me

I play well with others: Lead back-up noisician, The Betamales; Electronic noise backbone and brass section, Pat Elkins/Hot Meat for Young Lovers/Fancy Panthers; Warm noise generator, Drafted by Minotaurs, Pink Octopus, and Airport; Trumpet, Jason Voss and the A2 Two; Frequent brass/space trumpet contributor, Actual Birds, Ronen Goldstein and Chris Bathgate.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/27/2005
Band Website: motorcityrocks.com/2005_09_01_bb_archive.htm
Band Members: Ian F. but I play with lots of folks. Here's one:

Influences: Love is my influence, not Authentic ear to 80's pop. Hour-long remixes. Joy Division into New Order into Depeche Mode into Skinny Puppy. (Tilt. Meanwhile), Mozart into Holst into Mahler into Brahms. Somehow Spaceman 3 and Spiritualized happened to me. Everything leading up to Miles plugging into that wah pedal. Full props to the Ypsi kids, Mad Hatter, and the great Kevin Morris. Particular respects paid to Ryan Dawson, Patrick Elkins, and Ryan Wilson who continually provide me creative space in their projects. A big fan and sometimes player on Actual Birds and Jason Voss projects. Also a fan of Chris "Legs" Pierce's linear sonic aesthetic, Thom Elliot's unexpected sticks, and Andrea Malek's punked-up double reeds. (Rob Mazurek, let's get a taco.) Here's my Hominid cryptid lycanthropic alter ego.
Sounds Like: graphic by Nebulagirl
Record Label: Chew Your Own / We're Twins / Burning Tongue
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Shadow Art Fair -- A call for Musicians

I'm putting together a band of musicians for July 19th's Shadow Art Fair to take place all day at the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti, MI. I've asked my friend Jason Voss to help since he's got various f...
Posted by MC Trashpedal on Tue, 27 May 2008 09:38:00 PST

Phone or Rent. Choose.

Hokay.So I've had to let my phone go flatline.Either that or sleep with tha crickets.I've got a new email account (finally!) ...if yr interested, hit me up and I'll give it up.up, up, up,-I...
Posted by MC Trashpedal on Tue, 27 May 2008 09:27:00 PST

iTunes Survey, Spring 2008

My Friend Travis did this, and I thought it was compelling. I do not own a computer. The one I use has several generations of music on it, most belonging to Gary Poppins. Still, I wanted to see wha...
Posted by MC Trashpedal on Fri, 16 May 2008 03:34:00 PST

"playing the right notes" isn’t enough

Man. Had a great set with Actual Birds last night. Again, was impressed by how insufficient it is to merely make notes on an instrument. To play it safe (in a less than perverse way) merely re-creat...
Posted by MC Trashpedal on Fri, 02 May 2008 10:21:00 PST

Meat Ice

Just played with old-time friend/collab Thom and his housemate (newly met) Jon. Woke up sweating 4 hours later with ears ringing and feeling as if I’ve tripped over something big.Thom calls it "...
Posted by MC Trashpedal on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:40:00 PST

pins and needles

my arms fall asleepholding my shoulderspressed into themselvestriangles pointing the same hollow direction every morning starvingnumb fingers startcar, coffee, workvibrating finally intoshining distra...
Posted by MC Trashpedal on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:59:00 PST

First Poem in a While

A friend who knows me sent me this poem. I live for line breaks.Anyway--Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (1949-)I Want You to SeeI want you to see the hole in my shirt where yourheart went through like a Colt 4...
Posted by MC Trashpedal on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:49:00 PST

Cavum (for Sarah)

In space carvedby antidilluvianacid and motionstone is slowreaching upreaching down fromnew watersstag horns orfingers fillingemptiness inthe exact shapeof ancient damage...
Posted by MC Trashpedal on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:04:00 PST

Over

And as I climbinto an empty bedoh wellenough said
Posted by MC Trashpedal on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:35:00 PST

I am in court and these fuckers don’t firewall

Yeah, so today I fight back. Nobody's sure what to do with a feminist with a hand grenade. Ann Arbor: open-minded? Shyeah-- But, Thanks for the warm fuzzies and the pics and all. Couldn't pull this pi...
Posted by MC Trashpedal on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:37:00 PST