"Oakland’s dark kings of avant-metal colossalness" -LA Weekly.
mcr’s most recent tour featured Mike Watt and the Missingmen , the Youngs , Slydini , Phillip Greenlief and David Boyce , RACE!!! , and The Chuck Dukowski Sextet .
We had the legendary G. Calvin Weston sit in with us on drums for the whole tour.
about mcr:
Monster Cock Rally has recorded six studio albums in the last seven years, and will release its seventh, "That Look In Your Eye," in 2008. Additionally, we have recorded hundreds of hours of improvised sessions with a vast amount of guest artists, and have also professionally recorded many live shows. Our studio sessions mostly consist of original music, wheras our live shows are a mix of structured original compositions, improvisations, and covers. Below is a list of recordings that are available for purchase. Inquiries can be sent to [email protected] .
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At the tender age of two and a half days, it was confirmed that Mike Sopko was an asshole. His insistent crying, later found to be the result of an immature rectal muscle, really got on everybody’s nerves. To muffle the sound, his father tied his hands across his mouth with a pair of guitar strings. It was an elegant solution to a horrible problem – that little infant asshole Mike. A secondary benefit was that the type of knot he used to tie Mike up had a large loop protruding from the top of his head. Subsequently, his parents would hang him on a dilapidated tree in the far back corner of the yard. This resulted in the neighbors noticing their strange relationship, leading to a confrontation with Mike’s parents. Fearing the worst, Mike’s father was pleasantly surprised when the other parents merely wanted to know how to tie their children up. So it came to be that at the tender age of three days, Mike Sopko, Ethan Rider, and Ethan Horning found themselves hanging naked in the backyard. This was an interesting situation, as the way they were hanging meant that Mike could see Ethan, Ethan could see Ethan, and Ethan could see Mike, but Ethan could not see Ethan, nor could Mike see Ethan, or Ethan see Mike. Even though they did not know that everyone was there, they soon became fast friends, and were finally reunited on the first day of kindergarten. While incontinence, stuttering, and severe gas greatly hampered their relationship with other children, it had no effect on this band of brothers. All through their primary schooling, they became the best of friends, and were sure that nothing would separate them. But as high school ended, they found themselves heading in diverse directions. Mike, fascinated by his asshole, became an employee of the Roto-Rooter Corporation, Ethan became an up-and-coming ad exec, and Ethan became an air conditioning repairman. Life went on, things changed even more, until each of them was nothing but a pale, shadowy memory in each other’s minds. That is, until one day in Cleveland, the three of them happened to be in the general vicinity of one another. As if by magic, the discordant strumming of an egregiously unkempt wind chime sparked the nascent memories of their childhood, calling out to them with the authority of a mother – they ran to its call. They moved with panther-like speed from all directions, stopped only by the sharp pain from the sharp sound of their noggins rebounding from their ill-fated meeting in exactly the same spot. Both Ethans instinctively called the third (Mike) an asshole, and the rest is like some beautiful Disney film, dragged into the seventh plain of the Chinese hells, while being forced to ingest large amounts of psychotropic drugs.
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Serious Delirium - Live with G. Calvin Weston
"Serious Delirium" is Mike Sopko (g), Ethan Rider (b), G. Calvin Weston (d)
Recorded at Zocalo in San Leandro, CA in 2007
1. Watches (10:10)
2. Squirrely (5:50)
3. Funwrecker (9:42)
4. Ubiquitous Manifestations of Pork (6:18)
..5. 240 Grand (13:59)
..6. Back To the Shred (10:07)
..7. We Want the Shrimp (8:54)
In 2007, Clavin Weston flew to California specifically to perform and record with Monster Cock Rally. Calvin has been at the forefront of creative improvisation for over 30 years, and has performed and recorded with Ornette Coleman, the Lounge Lizards, Tricky, John Medeski, James Blood Ulmer, Marc Ribot, James Carter, John Zorn, and Derek Bailey, amongst other artists. MCR recorded the second night in performance with Calvin.
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"Serious Delirium" will be available for purchase (download) from iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic, Napster, MusicNet, and Sony Connect in August.
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Go To Hell
"Go To Hell" is Mike Sopko (g), Ethan Rider (b), Martin Dosh (d)
Recorded in San Leandro, CA in 2006
1. Compost (3:08)
2. Trunk (5:59)
3. Pile (5:55)
4. Puerto Rico (6:58)
..5. Very (9:06)
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Whirley Plane
Whirley Plane is: Mike Sopko (g), Ethan Rider (b), Pierre Dueck (d)
Recorded at Guerrilla Recording Studio in Oakland, CA, in 2005 by Myles Boisen
1. 23 (3:51)
2. Elephantitis (4:19)
3. Earl (4:53)
4. Bird Gets the Worm (C. Parker) (4:18)
5. You Put the Bitch in Habitual (4:45)
6. The Long Song (5:57)
7. While My Guitar Heavily Pants (4:26)
8. Improv i (2:31)
9. Dropout (3:30)
10. Improv ii (4:04)
11. Pumpkin (3:50)
12. Improv iii (2:02)
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Murder Tank
"Murder Tank" is Mike Sopko (g), Ethan Rider (b), Ethan Horning (d), Josh Sirotiak (tb)
Recorded at Guerrilla Recording Studio in Oakland, CA in 2004 by Myles Boisen
1. Murder Tank (11:13)
2. Bloody Bloodbath (24:17)
3. The Fish That Keeps On Killing (3:57)
4. Water Torture (12:15)
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Washing the Water Filter While Filling the Sound Hole
"Washing the Water Filter While Filling the Sound Hole" is
Mike Sopko (g), Ethan Rider (b), Ethan Horning (d)
Recorded at SUMA Studios in Painesville, OH in 2003 by Paul Hamann
1. Squirelly (4:46)
2. Ubiquitous Manifestations of Pork (3:03)
3. A Reasonable Exchange of Smut (4:19)
4. A Little Dirt (4:05)
5. Back To the Head (4:27)
6. What The Shit (6:23)
7. Nature Doesn’t Care, Why Should I? (6:36)
8. Pierre’s First Love Affair (0:04)
9. Self-Titled Song (0:04)
10. Wish You Were Here Basking in All My Glory (0:04)
11. Pierre’s Depression (5:39)
12. Chadbourne 3030 (17:46)
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A Tribute to Yarn Yarmik
"A Tribute to Yarn Yarmik" is Mike Sopko (g), Ethan Rider (b), Ethan Horning (d)
Recorded in Cleveland, OH in 2002 by Mark Baranauskas
1. Who invited Yarmik? (51:55)
2. Yarn’s Backdoor Experience (21:50)
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Il Pinguino
"Il Pinguino" is Mike Sopko (g), Ethan Rider (b), Ethan Horning (d)
Recorded in Cleveland, OH in 2002 by Mark Baranauskas
1. Emperor (51:32)
2. Macaroni (22:23)
a compact version of these two discs (Yarn & Pinguino)
can be purchased by sending an email to [email protected]
copies very limited
