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Wah Wah Exit Wound

Where there's a will, there's a whammy bar!

About Me

"The quartet's monster guitars, attack-drums, and dramatic tempo changes are mysteriously heavy, darkly psychedelic, and you can actually hear how long the bass player's hair is. The result gratifies audience and musician alike in long, rock-operatic songs like 'Failed Spiraling Majesty.'" -- San Francisco Weekly, 5/16/07
"Seattle's Wah Wah Exit Wound are all about bashing their heads on the prog rock, as they liberally grab from the techincal precision of King Crimson and the unfiltered chaos of Japan's Green Milk from the Planet Orange. If prog is your steez, you couldn't pick two better bands to be influenced by." --Portland Mercury, 4/5/07
"I sure like imagining this Seattle-based four-piece’s meandering, trippy, psych-influenced prog guitar lines working their way through the band’s noise-based backdrops and bursting through the other side–with blood sprays sonic rays shooting out every which way. The band’s sludgy prog rock undoubtedly achieves a piercing effect–whether it’s with gut-lancing bass or brain-rattling noise–which could conjure feelings of being shot with sound. It’s reminiscent of rockers from Danzig or Pink Floyd to seriously guitar-centric influences such as Built to Spill or Dinosaur Jr.–a fine group of idols if you ask me. If you ask the band’s MySpace, though, it will tell you it takes most after “KING CRIMSON!!!” No argument here." --Local Cut (Portland Music Journal), 5/16/07
If you're driving in your car late at night and you happen to hear Megadeath's "Rust in Peace" come on the stereo (in full), and you dig it -- this does not necessarily mean you're a metal fan. It just might mean that you're predisposed to kind of dig on prog rock. So if you can kind of dig on prog rock, you might dig us. We sure hope you do. This band was started by Dave and Jared in an attempt to play something that combined prog song structures with psychedelic freakouts. Andy came on board from the drum core. Bowie came on board with a deep knowledge of all things Crimson. We jammed some more and worked some shit up that we like a lot and play all the time at home so that it sounds real good for all you folks in the listening audience. We like to play Hearts if anyone's interested. Watch out for Andy, he shoots the moon all the fucking time. -Gary Nielson, Drunk in 2007

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/17/2007
Band Members: Dave Webb - guitar/vocals;
Jared Nelson - guitar/vocals;
Andy Pease - drums
Bowie McLean - bass
Influences: KING CRIMSON!!!, Yes, Green Milk from the Planet Orange, Comets on Fire, Sonic Youth, Pink Floyd, 1/2 Ass Universe, Neil Young, sadness, happiness, prog, King Crimson, I, Bathory, Allman Brothers, Amon Duul II, PFM, Ash Ra Tempel, Epitaph, Dave Crosby, Gulaab-Ritt, Phantasia, HP Lovecraft (the band), Kaleidoscope (LA), Rust in Peace, Van Der Graph Generator, Dinosaur Jr., the Beatles (aka the mutherfucking Beatles, son!), Museo Rosenbach, Quella Vecchia Locanda, Mott the Hoople (Mad Shadows era), R.I.G.E.L./Wolf-Horse, Grails, Chuck Shuldiner, Bruce Springsteen...

Seattle music: Diminished Men, Sean, Spirit of Radio, Brad Dunn, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Sugar Skulls, The Abodox, Lesbian, Girth, Spoils, The Sandpaper Handjob, Scary Bear, Fortress of Victory, Joules, Halo Vest, Spoils, Curious Mystery...

other folks as well, such as: Soren Kierkegaard, H.P. Lovecraft (the writer), Knut Hamsun, Otto Rank, Milan Kundera, Dr. Seuss, Shell Silverstein, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Lawrence Durrell, Chief Black Elk, Baruch Spinoza, Jean-Paul Sartre, Lawrence Durrell...
Sounds Like: Triplet Triplet DUH Triplet Triplet Duh-duh! DUH Triplet Triplet DUH DUH Triplet Triplet Triplet Duh Triplet Triplet DUH DUH-DUH! Triplet Triplet DUH! PSYCH FREAK OUT!
Record Label: 1/2 Ass Universe
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Earth Is a Cannon of Love!

Wah Wah Exit Wound's debut recording, Earth Is a Cannon of Love, has been completed!  A tangible phenomenon to be presented for your home/car/work listening pleasure!Recorded over the second half...
Posted by Wah Wah Exit Wound on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:45:00 PST

The Fine Bands Weve Played With...

FOLKS FROM OTHER PLACESAssemble Head of Sunburst Sound (San Francisco)Atomic Bomb Audition (Oakland)Bad at Math (Portland)Calabi Yau (NC)Diesto (Portland)Gods & Kings (Portland)Hacksaw to the Thro...
Posted by Wah Wah Exit Wound on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:31:00 PST

RECORDING!!!!!!!!!!!!

What?  No more demo tracks online?  Yup.  Got tired of hearing that shit with no bass so I took 'em down.  If you are a big-time record producer and you need to hear us before you ...
Posted by Wah Wah Exit Wound on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:38:00 PST

More Tour Reflections (from a long way out)...

Los Angeles -- a city in legend...drive in with no place to go and the sunny images have been displaced by the eternal smog which exists in these megalopolises (lack of sunshine replace only by overbe...
Posted by Wah Wah Exit Wound on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:52:00 PST

Tour Recollections

    Traffic leaving Seattle was a grind.  No thanks to the congestion and 3 1/2 hour drive just to leave the confines of the Emerald City.    Portland -- it looked l...
Posted by Wah Wah Exit Wound on Wed, 30 May 2007 05:30:00 PST