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About Me

We're a Dallas trio that uses rock for good and evil! Dishing up a mix of 60's garage, lovely pop, blues, psych and dirty rock explosion! Let us rip a hole in your soul and pour a little sugar in! FOR BOOKING: Drop Trish a line here: [email protected]whats been said-" I Dont Wanna Know is a delightful janglefest highlighted by Lance Pilgrims chimey guitar melodies and Patricias jealousy-stricken vocals that fall somewhere between the monotone of Grace Slick and the gentleness of the We Fives When I Woke Up This Morning.The only thing missing from this sunshine pop nugget is a Rickenbacker." -David Virden THE FOLD MAGAZINE"The Shapes create the sort of unencumbered, confident indie pop befitting a band with a name as streamlined and elegant as The Shapes. Their music has a comfortable innocence, like a lived-in sweater or a chest of childhood toys, with Rodriguez buoyant bass lines anchored by drummer Chuck Spurlocks (middle-left) blissful and straightforward pop drumming, and Pilgrims jangly, echoing guitar. While the band members all take inspiration from the garage rock and punk of the 60s and 70s, their music is uniquely modern, and has a feel similar to the bossanova indie pop of Teenbeats True Love Always." -M. Alex Goldman VENUES MAGAZINE READ THE FULL REVIEWS in our BLOG SHAPED LIKE A BLOG Who we've played with or who's played with us: Holly Go Lightly, The Lilys, The Fall. One of us has shared billing with Fugazi, Dismemberment Plan, At The Drive In and Alkaline Trio to name a few. In a nutshell- we've been around the block. WATCH OUR VIDEO for "I Don't Wanna Know" courtesy of Rene Amini of Luxomedia.com.. width="425" height="350" ..WATCH OUR VIDEO for "If You've Got The Drums" courtesy of Will, Ryan and Taylor! .. width="425" height="350" ..Make our little counter happy over here at QuickDFWs JuQbox and purevolume GET ROCKED! Bands: Please do not post your flyers or songs in our comments section. Respect our space and we will respect yours
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Member Since: 5/25/2004
Band Website: electriclollipop.com/theshapes.html
Band Members: LANCE PILGRIM- wicked guitar licks, vox.....PATRICIA RODRIGUEZ- "the female Jack Bruce in a mini skirt" on bass, vox..... CHUCK"THE WARLOCK" SPURLOCK- "killer" drum kit and jokes.....
Influences: The Animals, My Bloody Valentine, Moldy Peaches,The Runaways, Kinks, Stereolab, Belle and Sebastian, The Vaselines, Bowie, Cream, The Pretenders, ACDC, Miles Davis, James Jamerson, Soul!, 13th Floor Elevators,Dylan, Cash, Guthrie, Willy, Neil Young, Beatles, The Who, The Stones, Hendrix, Sonic Youth, Velvet Underground, Astrud Gilberto, T. REX, Bedhead, Johnny Thunders,The Ramones, MC5, DIY ethic, dusty forgotten records, psych stuff, punk stuff, rock stuff, garage stuff, jazz stuff -all that is good and nasty! read an interview with our bassist here bassgirls.com
Sounds Like: all that is good and nasty
Record Label: lay it on the table and lets have a looksee
Type of Label: None

My Blog

We seek the beat!

We're on the hunt for a new drummer. As one chapter of our book ends so another one begins, maybe the plot will thicken? Everyone is on good terms with everyone. Everything has been mutual and sweet a...
Posted by THE SHAPES on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:32:00 PST

I Don’t Wanna Know- Song Review

A fantastic little review of our song "I Don't Wanna Know" over at SongWonder. It's short and sweet, go have a peek:w">songwonderThanks Aaaaaaaaron!...
Posted by THE SHAPES on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:07:00 PST

update!

New Shapes web page added here:electriclollipop.com
Posted by THE SHAPES on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:41:00 PST

warms my heart

It warms my heart to see that people still check on the blog to see if theres any news. We have some great friends and fans!Well, we ARE in the last stages of recording tracks and soon it's all gonna ...
Posted by THE SHAPES on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:51:00 PST

The Great Give and Take Project of '07

For two days I've posted this in the bulletins only to not have it show up. I'm tired of Tom and his hooliganism! Please hit up my new blog for local musician friends, venue pals and other music minde...
Posted by THE SHAPES on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:52:00 PST

laying low nowhere to go

Howdy Shapes blog readers! Since nothings been going on much I've not had the need to blog but decided to pop on and let you all know that YES we are still kicking around, YES the album is still in th...
Posted by THE SHAPES on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:50:00 PST

we have a show!

Damn. Has it really been since August that we've been on a stage and played? We have a show! Hope you can make it out!...
Posted by THE SHAPES on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:42:00 PST

a quiet Shape

Sorry I haven't updated our blog in awhile but you can probably guess we're still not finished with the album yet. Our guitar player Lance has moved his nest and all the equipment has to be set up aga...
Posted by THE SHAPES on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:05:00 PST

Spam tastes yukky

We don't like the taste of spam. We don't like it on our comments section and we don't like it in our mailbox. If you're someone who has never written us, don't know us, never played with us and don't...
Posted by THE SHAPES on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:02:00 PST

Say what?

When Lance the Guitarist and Digital Whatever Track Wizard told me there were 70 tracks....70 TRACKS that we had recorded I wanted to faint, kill drums and soak his carpet in tears. Finally the drum t...
Posted by THE SHAPES on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:53:00 PST