Member Since: 23/01/2007
Band Website: www.soundclick.com/thalidomidedog
Band Members: Me, but only because no one else would do it...
and why would you really?
If I had a choice, I'd probably use it...
y'know...
deliberate a bit...
get munted...
throw up...
blame you...
ok: Let's us be serious then... just for a moment... I can tell you want to... I can see it in your liver... well, maybe... it was your own mother who wanted it, and it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!... at that particular time of day anyway... all red and glisteny...
Influences: Quite a few actually.Mick (Mr Scorn to you) has been a HUGE influence on me... still is, bless him.
If you want to hear some mad stuff that'll warp your reality (and probably give you bowel cancer from the subs)... you need go no further than Mr Mick, believe me. His old band, Napalm Death, still remains a big influence on me too.Peter (Mr Sharkweek to you) seems to know a few. His stuff is way coco... go suss it owt mon.Miho Hatori: Ever since I heard "Sugar Water" she's been a big influence as well.Other than that, there's a rather impersonal listing of names here (please forgive the fact that most of the above people will be named below as well): Ambrose & His Orchestra, Laurie Anderson, The Andrews Sisters, Appleseed (Black Orchid), Aston "Familyman" Barrett, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop (the music they wrote & performed for Dr Who was truly an inspiration to me as a child), Grahame Bond (Auntie Jack), Beastie Boys (2nd & 3rd albums, mainly 2nd), The Beatles (although these days I only respect George and Richard. I find it hard to find anything remotely inspirational about John the murdering bastard and Paul the mercenary bastard), Bentley Rhythm Ace (1st album), B-52's (1st 2 albums), Big Black, Booker T, David Bowie (pre-80's), Brainiac, James Brown, Dave Brubeck, Brujeria, The Bug, Butter 08, Butthole Surfers (pre-1992), John Cage, Carcass, Cibo Matto, Gary Clail, Coldcut, Bing Crosby, Crystal Method (1st 2 albums), David Cunningham, Cypress Hill (1st 2 albums), Das Efx, Léo Delibes (the Flower Duet from Lakmé. you gotta be dead from the ankles up not to respond to that piece), Dread Zeppelin (just can't stomach Led Zep without em, to be honest), Dub War, Champion Jack Dupree, Easy Star All-Stars, Einsturzende Neubauten, Electronic Music Studios (EMS), Brian Eno (now, he IS a god amongst texturalists), Entombed, Gil Evans, Exit-13, Extreme Noise Terror, Faith No More, Fantomas, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Flowers, The Flying Lizards, From Scratch, Funki Porcini, Peter Gabriel (early solo stuff), Gary Bartz NTU Troop, Gaye Bykers on Acid, The Goats, Goldfrapp (2nd album only), Gorillaz, Ron Grainer, Gravediggaz, Edvard Grieg (1st album I ever bought with my own money was the full Peer Gynt... still have it too), Henry Hall, Herbie Hancock, Mick Harris (King of the heap - a tour de force of texture and beats that just refuses to quit), George Harrison (for heaps of stuff, but Crackerbox Palace the most), Miho Hatori, Hawkwind, Dick Haymes, Headless Chickens (Gaskrankinstation), Headrillaz, Johnny Allen/James Marshall Hendrix, The Herbaliser, Hirasawa Susumu (his Paprika soundtrack, especially Parade, is exquisite), Yuka Honda, David Hykes, Ice, Indigenous folk music (African, North American, South American, Australian, Chinese, Indian, Irish, Japanese, Serbian), Infectious Grooves, The Ink Spots, Inti-Illimani, Richard David James (kinda lost me a bit these days, I admit - still, Come to Daddy, eh? phew...), Jane's Addiction (1st 3 albums, not the shize that followed), Tom Jenkinson, Al Jolson, Jungle Brothers, Jurassic 5, Eyvind Kang, Kenji Kawai (utterly brill), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, King Missile, King Tubby, Kraftwerk, Greg Kurstin, Latryx, Huddie Ledbetter, Living Color, Maldoror, Matty Malneck's Orchestra, Bob Marley, Kevin Martin, Meat Beat Manifesto, Meathook Seed, Glenn Miller, The Mills Brothers, Mr Bungle, Mr Floppy, Mobb Deep, Money Mark, Motorhead, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, My Bloody Valentine, Nailbomb, Dan Nakamura, Naked City, Napalm Death (see you again in 2 years Barney... you promised!), Negativland, Bud Noble, Gary Numan, NWA, Bill Oddie (yes, the wicked little hairy funky one from The Goodies), Rory O'Donoghue, Orbital, Painkiller, Pan Sonic, Mike Patton, Jack Payne, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Lee Perry, The Pharcyde, Pink Floyd (before R.Waters made it all about his dad - whiney prat), The Pixies (first time round, not the recent travesty), The Pointer Sisters (the Pinball Song from Sesame Street), Plaid (their soundtrack for Tekkon Kinkreet is sublime!), Pop Will Eat Itself, Lou Preager, Prince Buster, Propellerheads, Punjabi MC, Public Enemy (1st 4 albums only), Tito Puente, Suzi Quatro, Sergei Rachmaninov, Rahzel, The Ramones, Randy's Allstars, Lewis Allan Reed (1st solo album is still my fav), Roxy Music (1st 2 albums), The Rudy Schwartz Project, Les Rythmes Digitales, Joseph Saddler (Grandmaster Flash), Erik Satie (gymnopédies, gymnopédies, gymnopédies!), Klaus Schulze, Scorn, Secret Chiefs 3, Sepultura, Severed Heads, Anne Shelton, Sky, Sister Nancy, Sleo, Da Snoop, The Soul Searchers, Speakerfreaks, Richard Starkey (try this one on: go have a listen to the drums in Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles and then compare them to the drum pattern that Jane's Addiction used for The Mountain Song... yup, Richard is/was THAT good!), Lew Stone & his Orchestra, Suicidal Tendencies (pre-1992), Tackhead, Toots, Tortoise, Peter Tosh, Total Devastation, 24-7 Spies, UB40, Velvet Underground, Luke Vibert, Fred Waring & his Pennsylvanians, John Williams (the multi-talented Aussie guitarist/composer, not the US composer), Doug Wimbish, XTC (pre-90's), Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Yes, Frank Zappa, Zeni Geva, John Zorn...
oh sweet baby jebus - there're more you know...For more of my music, please go to my other site (still affectionately called after this project's original name, POT-HED) @ www.soundclick/pot-hed and you'll find about 10-odd years worth of recorded music (omg, I've wasted my life).
Sounds Like: At this stage, I'd guess I would like to say I'd sound more like Mick than anyone else, but then I can't honestly say I can actually live up to a statement like that... we DO play with similar ideas, altho Mick is sculpting with fine-grade porcelain whereas my efforts seem to be a bit more play-doh in quality...
Other than that, I would have to say Thalidomide Dog sounds a LOT like POT-HED... uncanny... eerie... a little bit of wee...
Record Label: Bloody hundreds.... thousands...