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Badman

Prisoners of the four Humours

About Me

They come from the western lands. For the last ten years, through many incarnations, in the bar-rooms and dancehalls across this great land, badman has created a soundtrack of lonliness and filth. Theirs is the land of broken down brothels and nowhere motels on highways with scary names. It's hot and dark there. The people have black eyes and scars on their hands and everything good and beautiful is too expensive or just out of reach. They find comfort in cheap wine and the glassy moments just before sleep where they all dream themselves to be something better, brighter and not quite as busted up as they are.
The Axe - live @ Sound Fix Records, Brooklyn, NYC - 8/31/07 - video by Joanna Hayden
Other Badman videos and other great bands we've played with can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/mohungus37
Old Hellmen video, shot by Eric Hayden in 2000. Adolescent pre-Badman...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3J128IW2f4
Myspace Backgrounds
Myspace Contact Tables - Get this Contact Table Lyrics

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/6/2005
Band Website: [email protected]
Band Members: Tyler Hayden plays the guitar...

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Alec Tisdale hits everything...

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Andrew States mumbles and growls...

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Sounds Like: 2007 Providence Phoenix - WINNER - Best Roots Act
2007 Motif Magazine - Nominee - Best Live Act
2007 Motif Magazine - Nominee - Best Break-thru Act

Bless Me Father - live @ Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket, RI - 9/8/07 - video by Joanna Hayden

PRESS:
"...their sound vaguely emulates the sort of music heard in a lonely whiskey joint alongside a desolate desert highway in antiquity... they move between dark, slow, and swarthy rock to more upbeat music without compromising versatility"
~ Martin Sattell ~ Northeast Performer
"This trio sounds like a jangled western ghost tale wallowing in reverb and cheap red wine. It makes sense since they started out in Denver but have since transplanted to Providence and New York City. For the purposes of a comparison, the band they remind me most of is a ’90s noisy yet bluesy band called Gallon Drunk. Badman's universe sounds like it's littered with fallen heroes and methadone ridden debutants convalescing in that dead point in the night around 3:30 a.m. Catchy blues from afterworld that keeps scratching at the door to get back. Don't be afraid to let them in."
~ Motif Magazine ~
"... Badman adds an element of western brooding to the local scene, one that makes for rapt listening. While the band is currently spread out throughout the northeast corridor, we’re hoping the trio of Tyler Hayden, Alec Tisdale, and Andrew States manage to lasso their killer cowboy vibe and rope it in for all it’s worth."
~ Bob Gulla ~ The Providence Phoenix
"The trio trades in what they call Gothic Western. Ken Johnson from Carrigan further elucidates, describing their sound as "Morphine meets The Cramps with The Dead Kennedys and NoMeansNo." I can definately hear the Morphine thing, but Badman are a little heavier and more rockin'. I'm thinking Nick Cave playing Led Zeppelin covers in an episode of "Twin Peaks."... Genres be damned, Badman have a pretty compelling sound. At least what I've heard, anyway..."
~Casey Rea ~ Seven Days

THANKS DAD!

This the part where America's last hero dies... Badman is sad.

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Providence Phoenix WINNER - Best Roots Act Article

Getting Focused ~ Winner ~ Best Roots Act Bob Gulla ~ The Providence PhoenixA few years ago, Badman  Andrew States, Tyler Hay...A few years ago, Badman  Andrew States, Tyler Hayden, and Alec Tisdale...
Posted by Badman on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:35:00 PST

The Providence Phoenix Article

Badman makes goodEx-Denver trio finds its sound in ProvidenceBy BOB GULLANovember 8, 2006 4:38:24 PMOne of the primary goals of every band should be finding a sound of its own. This, of course, is not...
Posted by Badman on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:59:00 PST

144 Lipan St. Denver, CO.

I'm sitting in my apartment in New York. There's a drug dealer on the corner shouting up into the heavens that "I GOT IN TROUBLE BECAUSE OF YOU," the engine from the fire truck that pulled up across ...
Posted by Badman on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:00:00 PST

The Hound is dead, long live The Hound...

Doug is a good person. Doug is a good person and he fronts a good band called Bakula. There are two other good people in Bakula Naveed(sic) and Ross. And they did everybody else a favor on Sunday n...
Posted by Badman on Thu, 11 May 2006 03:26:00 PST

BU show, 4.23.06

You know what I miss about being a kid? I miss not giving a shit that anyone might see what I was doing. People who work like that, and believe me there are very few, are amazing to watch. Everybod...
Posted by Badman on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:43:00 PST

Safari Show

There was a bug in my southern comfort. I drank it down and spit the bug out into my hand to stare at its little legs and horrid features. The Safari is one of those places that exists by sheer will...
Posted by Badman on Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:22:00 PST

Linden Show

Paul's off to France, Andy's off to God knows where and The New Thrill Parade and Mammatus are two of the best bands I've seen in awhile. The cool bit about playing shows in someone's basement is tha...
Posted by Badman on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:02:00 PST