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About Me

MAD ORANGE FOOLS is the sonic playground of multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Zy Orange Lyn. Clearly influenced by selective elements of 60's art rock, the avant-pop sounds of M.O.F. include bright hooks and harmonies, jangly guitars, pulsating basslines, solid backbeats (often made with household objects), and plenty of psych-fiddle, all written and played entirely by Mr. Lyn himself (whoopdee-flippin-do). He does, however, have a band of Fools (currently consisting of 3/4 of the band REDOX) to better perform the stuff live (though he does play solo sets occasionally). Lyn has played in and/or recorded with many other bands including THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, HEARTLESS BASTARDS, MIDDLEMARCH, MOTH, ASS PONYS, HIGBEE, ASTATIC and THE LOVE KILLS THEORY, among others; he also had the thrill of appearing many times onstage playing his fiddle with GUIDED BY VOICES. Currently residing in Portland, Lyn has begun pre-production for the recording of a new M.O.F. EP, to be called "reVerSer", it will contain 7 tracks which will be recorded by the end of this Summer ('08). Mad Orange Fools is part of a loose musicians' collective known as CORNSILK, which occasionally includes artists such as REDOX, WE RIDE AT DAWN, SQUIRMY, FIERCE INVALIDS, BRETT ESTEP, FILBERT & the KUMQUATS, and SUPERHERO SEVEN, to name a few, often with mutual personnel. Plans are percolating During rare moments of downtime Zy likes to do the Watusi, the Twist, the El Dorado and sometimes the Funky Chicken.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/21/2004
Band Members: Zy Orange Lyn: vocals, 6 and 12 string guitars, electrified violin, bass, drums, keyboards, etc.; current live line-up consisting of Zy (lead vocals, electrified violin, acoustic guitar, 12 string Rickenbacker, percussion)/Craig S. (bass, vocals)/ Nick Liebrecht (guitar, vocals)/Kurt Langworthy (drums, vocals)
Influences: the Beatles, Brian Wilson, Syd Barrett, the Church, DA, Robyn Hitchcock, Love & Rockets, XTC, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Richard Brautigan, Calvin and Hobbes, Snoopy, Roald Dahl, the Wind in the Willows, Winnie-the-Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, art, women, life
Sounds Like: "Mr. Lyn does not exactly play the violin, it's more like he's running barefoot and blindfolded along the edge of a cliff while strangling a cat, while using echo. He likes to pretend he's the Beatles, or the Church. I mean this in the best possible way." (Filbert Eggplant, producer)///////"lo-fi but not low quality...Well-thought out songwriting is displayed with full use of guitars, bass, an effects processor, homemade drumkits (pots, pans, kitchen drawers, pillows, mouth noises, you name it) and, of course, the violin..." (Billy Catfish, musician and occasional rock journalist)
Record Label: Cornsilk Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

the fitting room

here is another brand spankin new demo (song to be re-recorded with real drums and bass in August) for the upcoming EP (the "drums" were, again, a pillow and one of anna's schoolbooks, the "bass" was ...
Posted by Mad Orange Fools on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:13:00 PST

switterbeat

this is a tune from my 2nd LP, "Scenes from the Avant-Garden". this is a track that i recorded sometime ago in the Big Room of the good ol Felsenbrau Brewery. I played Tim Kikly's (Astatic) drums. ...
Posted by Mad Orange Fools on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:28:00 PST

Wombatman

just recorded a new demo of my newest tune, called Wombatman, slated for my upcoming EP. my buddy JB brought his laptop to my pad and i kicked it down in a little over 2 hours. am pleased with the s...
Posted by Mad Orange Fools on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:38:00 PST

Spoon in the Pasture

yeah so as mentioned in the prevvious blog, got aquainted with Spoon's drummer Jim Eno while recently fiddlin in austin, tx. this aquaintance led to me gettin into the most recent Spoon set in Pdx at...
Posted by Mad Orange Fools on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:30:00 PST

oh heres sumthin

a couple of weex ago i was in austin tx, laying down some violin trax for my brilliant friend Erika and the upcoming Heartless Bastards release. it's being produced by the cat who has produced all (or...
Posted by Mad Orange Fools on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:26:00 PST

the other dayglo

i was brimming in paint. sounds hovered like incandescent lawn mowers. i went to a sinfonietta with henrietta and tho she was a real go getta and knitted a mean swetta i could not call upon her again...
Posted by Mad Orange Fools on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:51:00 PST

Marty Willson-Piper

the other nite, one of my musical heroes played in PDX, i am speaking of Marty Willson-Piper, one of the guitarists for The Church (1980-present). He was in town promoting his 5th solo album, Nightja...
Posted by Mad Orange Fools on Sat, 17 May 2008 09:23:00 PST

cornsilk philosophy

there used to a tidbit named Ruthie. she sculpted the most famous sculptures and paintings in veggie bullion cubes. her soycheez was the melted of saints. the snowshoe of perspective was eliminated b...
Posted by Mad Orange Fools on Sat, 03 May 2008 07:40:00 PST

EP nite on the Eclectic Eggplant

EPs of Brilliance: Boo Boo (Big Dipper)/Sunburst and Snowblind (Cocteau Twins)/Up-Front (Fleshtones)/Tremolo (My Bloody Valentine)/The Grand Hour (Guided by Voices)/Sunfish Holy Breakfast (Guided by V...
Posted by Mad Orange Fools on Sat, 03 May 2008 06:48:00 PST

eclectic eggplant, 4-11, praradio.org

NAMESONGS: Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly)/Runaround Sue (Dion & the Belmonts)/A Boy Named Sue (Johnny Cash/Anna (Beatles)/Caroline, No (rehearsals and Pet Sounds single, Brian Wilson)/Maisie (Syd Barrett)/Qu...
Posted by Mad Orange Fools on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:54:00 PST