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About Me

Neo-psychedelic renegades, Chicago's Red Plastic Buddha live in that half-light between the flower power of Carnaby Street and the darkness of an LSD trip gone wrong. Their music layers guitars, keyboards, and wave upon wave of vocal harmonies over insistant rhythms to create a psychedelic experience that goes far beyond mere imitation of their influences.
"We've been going through a lot of changes lately" says singer / bass guitarist Tim Ferguson. "We brought in a new guitarist (Tom Valenzano) and a new backing vocalist (Pamela Richardson). The music is definitely becoming more organic as we sort these changes out. I think we've gotten better at controlling the chaos aspect of our psychedelia. 2008 promises to be an exciting year, with the first CD out and the new material (and members) starting to gell. Although we will always love doing the smaller, private events, we're looking forward to playing clubs and festivals more often."
'Sunflower Sessions', the official debut release of the Red Plastic Buddha, is out NOW on Spade Kitty Records. Hear more clips and buy yours today at: www.spadekitty.com . We can also be found at: Amazon.com, CDBaby.com, CDUniverse.com and the wonderful Bomp Records website. You can download our tunes HERE or through iTunes. Request our songs on LastFM.com and look for The Red Plastic Buddha on Facebook. WE'RE EVERYWHERE!!!
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Member Since: 6/3/2007
Band Website: redplasticbuddha.com (COMING SOON)
Band Members: current line up: Tim Ferguson - vocals, bass guitar; Todd Lazar - lead guitar; Tom Valenzano - guitar, backing vocals; Dav Kling - drums, percussion; Matt Walters - keyboards; Pamela Richardson - backing vocals, percussion --- Sunflower Sessions lineup:Tim Ferguson - vocals, bass guitar; Todd Lazar - lead guitar; Todd Leiter-Weintraub - guitar, backing vocals; Dav Kling - drums, percussion; Matt Walters - keyboards; --- with Pamela Richardson - backing vocals Ric Salazar - lead guitar on Kerosene
Influences: Syd Barrett and the Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Love, Tomorrow, Ravi Shankar, The Action, Rickenbacker guitars, the Kinks, 007, Che Guevara, Van der Graaf Generator, Milan Kundera, Photon Band, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Lounge Axe, Hawkwind, Jaguar 'E' Types, Wire, Pere Ubu, Bobby Kennedy, Guided by Voices, Pretty Things, farfisa keyboards, swinging London, The Seeds, Buddhism, the Zombies, Bettie Page, MGBs, West Berlin, Yo La Tengo, the Weather Underground, Bruce Lee, Eleventh Dream Day, Television, Joy Division, Edinburgh, the Darkroom, 13th Floor Elevators, New York Dolls, the Wedding Present, Empty Bottle, Vox guitars, Samuel Beckett, Mad Max, Antonin Artaud, Debsey Wykes, lava lites, Spacemen 3, Built to Spill, Albert Camus, T-Rex, gummy bears, Beau Brummels, Three 4 Tens, aikido, Jacques Tati, Ibiza, High Dials, Grand Mal, Brian Eno, the Warlocks, Eloy, the Wipers, Malcolm X, Crash Palace, Sufism, Peter Max, Jack Keroac, Francoise Hardy, The Jam, Tangerine Dream
Sounds Like: that dream you once had where your band was playing this crazy little club and there were lights flashing and pulsing over everything and the crowd was totally into the music and dancing and having a great time, and afterwards you split up from your friends because this girl invited you back to her place to smoke a joint and while you were at her apartment a party seemed to break out in the other room and you sort of drifted away to there and later the sun was coming up and you were on a beach and the wind was blowing harder and harder and you just walked into the water with all your clothes on and the clouds were amazing and the stars were shinning although it was still daylight and you suddenly remembered that you still had another set to play ....
yeah, like that.
Record Label: Spade Kitty
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Peacefest Notes

Hello Kiddies, Last weekend I took a solo trip to Peacefest I, which is the first of two big events being held on the Willow Creek Farm just outside of Lacota Michigan. The Red Plastic Buddha will be...
Posted by Red Plastic Buddha on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:17:00 PST

The RPB on DAYDREAM GENERATION 5 - OUT NOW!!!

This is very exciting news at Red Plastic central. As many of you know, Daydream Generation has been compiling some of the greatest new music for the last few years and releasing them all at once, lik...
Posted by Red Plastic Buddha on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:15:00 PST

WHERE ARE THE BUDDHAS???

Hello Kiddies, Too long since you've heard from me, I know. I had been banging away at it for a couple years straight and needed a little break, which the band was kind enough to afford me. Funny th...
Posted by Red Plastic Buddha on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:16:00 PST

Foxy Digitalis review, interview

Back again! Busy day at Red Plastic Central. Here is the second interview of the day done by Mike Wood for Foxy Digitalis.com. Everyone knows that FoxyD has been putting out some of the best musi...
Posted by Red Plastic Buddha on Wed, 14 May 2008 08:31:00 PST

Psychedelic Central interview

Hi Kiddies, I just did an interview with Jan Cairncross of Psychedelic Central. If you're not hip to Jan, you really need to check out her website. Go here, read our interview, and explore: http://w...
Posted by Red Plastic Buddha on Wed, 14 May 2008 08:25:00 PST

new stuff

Hello Kiddies, Wow! It's been too long since I posted here, and apologies to our loyal readers for being so remiss.New things to announce that might be of interest. Our show at Quenchers (last mo...
Posted by Red Plastic Buddha on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:41:00 PST

NEW VIDEO - Rollercoaster is DONE

Hello Kiddies, Our second video is COMPLETE and posted to YouTube and our MySpace page. This is the second opportunity we've had to work with the amazing film maker Henrique Cirne-Lima, and he reall...
Posted by Red Plastic Buddha on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:02:00 PST

MP3 vs. CD

Hello Kiddies, OK, so I broke down today and put an MP3 store up on our MySpace page. Personally, I don't much care for the format, but one has to be cognizant of what the market wants. Maybe I'm ju...
Posted by Red Plastic Buddha on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:50:00 PST

THANK YOU!!!

Hello Kiddies, It's 3 in the morning, all the gear is back home and all The Buddhas are (hopefully) snuggled up in their beds. Before I go to sleep I wanted to write a short note of thanks to all ou...
Posted by Red Plastic Buddha on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:30:00 PST

Record Release Party

Hello Kiddies, Well, we're a week away from our OFFICIAL record release show and I think things are looking really good for the show. We've got our new friends The Vindits and Lizzie Ellison helping ...
Posted by Red Plastic Buddha on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:06:00 PST