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The Tunnel Kings

About Me

In 2005, two unwitting astronauts on a lunar mission discovered an extraterrestrial container. In the NASA logs that followed it was reffered to as "The Dumpster" because of the stench that eminated from it. The two astronauts pried the top off the container, inadvertantly releasing the evil witch Rita Repulsa from her 10,000 years of confinement.
Upon her release, she and her army of evil Space Aliens set their sights on conquering the Earth. When the interdemensional being Zordon became aware of the release of the evil witch he was responsible for capturing so long ago, he ordered his robotic assistant, Alpha 5, to find five "teenagers with attitude," to defend the Earth from Rita's attacks.
The five teens Alpha found were noneother than River Donaghey, Dub, Anna Ponto, John Bluesky, and Asa Clifford. Zordon passed onto each of them a different instrument. To River, bold and powerful, he gave the guitar and a microphone. To Dub, clever and brave, he gave the guitar as well. To Anna, graceful and cunning, he gave the bass. To John, patient and smart, he gave the trumpet. And to Asa, fearless and agile, he gave the drums. With these instruments, they have the power to morph into an elite musical team called "The Tunnel Kings". Together, with Zordon's help, the five teens will stop at nothing to defeat the evil Rita Repulsa and keep her from taking over Earth.
This is our fourth album and arguably our best because it is our most recent. http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=c3a2aab1eeb31e5c91b20cc0d 07ba4d2d54f1a87897a99ef
HARP Magazine, when asked to comment on the band, said: "Never heard of them... Please stop calling." Pitchfork Media noted: "Who?"

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 04/08/2005
Band Website: www.tunnelkings.com (coming soon)
Band Members: River Donaghey (Vox, Guitar, Bent Electronics)
Dub (Guitar, Handclaps)
Anna Ponto (Bass, Vox, Violin)
Asa Clifford (Drums, Glockenspiel, Melodica, Misc Yelling)
John Bluesky (Trumpet, Keys)
Influences: Music of all kinds
Writers
Drugs
Dreams
America

Sounds Like: Stephen Malkmus crashing a flying saucer into a radio tower.
Record Label: N/A
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

February 1st at Cozmic Pizza (Planned Parenthood Benefit)

Played a little gig at Cozmic Pizza for the annual Planned Parenthood benefit. We "headlined", which means we got to play a really short set at 10:40 or something and run off the stage before 11. It w...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:55:00 GMT

January 27th at the Indigo District

Played a show at the Indigo a while back. It was our first real show with John, and he played trumpet and glockenspiel and tambourine. Soon we'll get him on keys, too.Tim, from the WOW Hall, is doing ...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:42:00 GMT

December 19th, Stunning Elk Manor

The show was supposed to be at the Wandering Goat, but due to the weather when I woke up on Friday, I called it off. The snow ended up melting by 4 pm, so it wouldn't have been an issue at all, but pl...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:03:00 GMT

Stunning Elk Lyrics

People recently have been wanting lyrics. So here they are. I've been overhearing people singing TK songs, and I've been really getting a kick out of how they mishear they lyrics. Half the time they'r...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:55:00 GMT

September 20th at the Wandering Goat

I had a pretty decent night last night, considering the news I heard earlier in the day. Just like Buddy Holly before him, Travis Barker went down in a fiery plane crash. Luckily, he skirted death and...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:01:00 GMT

September 12th at the WOW Hall (Eugene Celebration)

Fuck yeah, man. My hopes were not high for the WOW show, up until the moment we took the stage. The Hall was pretty empty, but as soon as we took the stage it filled up pretty well. Not packed by any ...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:00:00 GMT

August 22nd at Cozmic Pizza (ECRG Benefit)

Show at Cozmic went alright. Better than I thought it would, actually. We played well. People split before we got onstage, but a fair number of folks stuck around and watched. The band got matching "T...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:45:00 GMT

June 20th at the WOW Hall

Well fuck yeah.Friday night at the WOW was excellent. We were up till 2:30 Thursday night finishing the damn movie we projected behind us while we played, but it looked way cool. Circa Vitae, Arithme...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:33:00 GMT

June 7th at Wandering Goat

Show went well tonight. Firetruck made some good music, we got a chance to try out new material, we didn't fuck up too bad. Tonight was fun, but not as fun as the Gatsby Ball. Maybe someday the TKs wi...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:25:00 GMT

April 5th at Agate Hall

We aided in the endless struggle against homelessness last night at Agate Hall with the Ineffectuals, this dude named Adam, and Gods & Kings. Took the stage around 11, played a godawful set. Had fun d...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:16:00 GMT