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Lucid Nation

Fuck corporate rock.

About Me


World's Guiltiest Pleasure (new rough mix)
Because most kids can't buy music online and I won't sell through evil empires like Walmart we've decided to give away all of our songs for free download by MP3, RSS and podcast.VISIT LUCID NATION'S HUNDRED SONG MARCH! OVER 150 LUCID NATION SONGS FOR FREE DOWNLOAD INCLUDING ALL CD TRACKS PLUS OUT TAKES AND LIVE TRACKS EACH WITH A STORY AND PICS! click the banner
OUR "BEST OF" CD OUT NOW! AVAILABLE by PAYPAL & @ CDBABY. Available iTunes, eMusic, MusicNet, Napster, Rhapsody, MusicMatch, Amazon, AmazonUK. Mastered by Jack Endino of Nirvana Bleach fame. Artwork by the great punk artist Jeff Gaither.
Public Domain: The Best of Lucid Nation on iTunes:
Tacoma Ballet on iTunes! (Patty Schemel drums, Greta Brinkman bass)
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Tacoma Ballet is also available at CDBaby, Napster, NapsterUK, Rhapsody, MusicNet, MSN Music, and MusicMatch.
Lucid Nation started out as L.A.'s most popular riot grrrl band, opening for Team Dresch, Sleater Kinney, The Breeders, Tribe 8, John Sinclair, Mecca Normal, Joan of Arc, and Bikini Kill. Next came our incarnation as a peace punk band playing gang truce, Food Not Bombs, AntiRacistAction, and Black Panther events. After that Lucid Nation morphed into a loosely organized improvisational ensemble that hit number 1 on college radio and secondary commercial stations with our 100% freestyle, politically charged recording Tacoma Ballet (which was censored in Tacoma!). An Alternative Press Top 100 Band You Need to Know About. The "band" has included members of Hole, Ministry, Luscious Jackson, Mecca Normal, L7, Team Dresch, Hazel, Midnight Movies, Candiria, and Moby's live band. Strictly DIY and dedicated to analog Lucid Nation has turned down major label contracts three times, because corporate music still sucks!
Check out an article on Tamra's art here: Newtopia Magazine
Musicians, our favorite experiment is 100% freestyle with the tape running. Contact us if you want to join in.
"The Internet is their CBGB. Their territory is global. They will dictate how they want to create and disseminate their work. They will, in time, make breathless changes in our political process. They have the technology to unite and create a new party, to be vigilant in their choice of candidates, unfettered by corporate pressure. Their potential power to form and reform is unprecedented." -- Patti Smith
"What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope to build a better life for their children." --John F. Kennedy
"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." -- Patanjali
"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security." ~Dwight Eisenhower
"The average farmworker in the U.S. dies at 47 years old, quite often from pesticide poisoning, and earns about $7,500 a year." John Bowe
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
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My kitty Shingo proves cats smile!
"Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict. Only thing can resolve conflict is love, like I felt for Fletch and Ruski, Spooner and Calico. Pure love. What I feel for my cats present and past. Love? What is It? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE." --Last thing written by William Burroughs in his journal three days before he died.
“We cannot measure national achievement by the Gross National Product. For the Gross National Product includes air pollution, and ambulances to clear our highways from carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and jails for people who break them, the destruction of redwoods, the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and mines and nuclear warheads. It includes the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.” RFK 1968
"We're not going to win this by being funnier than the Republicans." Norman Mailer

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/2/2004
Band Website: lucidnation.com
Band Members: Tamra Spivey: vocals, guitar, bass, Korg MS-20, Ronnie Pontiac: guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards. Justin Citron: guitar, bass. Grit Maldonado: bass. Darren Carter: guitar, bass, keys. Lita Penaherrera: keyboards.members have included: Diane Naegal: keyboards. Ken Schalk: drums. Patty Schemel: drums. Rob Cournoyer: drums. Nitebob: guitar. Greta Brinkman: bass. Grit Maldonado: bass. Tia Sprocket: drums. Denise Saffren: drums. Jody Bleyle: bass. Jean Smith: guitar. David Lester: guitar. Larry Schemel: guitar. Erin McCarley: drums, guitar, bass, vocals. Debbie Haliday: drums, guitar, vocals. La Frae Olivia Sci: drums. Danette Lee: guitar, Jezabel Kipp: bass and keys, Nick Romero: drums, Troy Taroy: guitar, John Sellers: bass, Craig Waters: drums, Liam Philpot: sax, Art Johnson: fiddle, Jimmy Shines: harmonica, Doc Gonzo: piano.
Influences:

Kerouac, Gertrude Stein, Sonic Youth, The Doors, Cheikha Rimitti, Rana Husseini, Zappa, Heavens to Betsy, Spitboy, Girl Jesus, Team Dresch, Bikini Kill, The Stooges, Bill Hicks, Kurt Cobain, John Cale, Fela, Reagan Youth, King Sunny Ade, Velvet Underground, King T, Pere Ubu, Rocket from the Tomb, the Rolling Stones, The Who, early L7, Beckett, The Fugs, Lee "Scratch" Perry, early White Stripes, Mother Love Bone, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Izzard, Crass, The Butchies, The Locust, Public Enemy, The Faces, Led Zeppelin, Fugazi, John Lennon, Patti Smith Group, Lou Reed, Neil Young, Crazy Horse, James Gang, Sonic's Rendezvous, Hawkwind, Syd Barrett, X, Nirvana, early Alice Cooper, Nymphs, Mott the Hoople, Country Joe, Yardbirds, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Pharoah Sanders, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, CCR, Rudimentary Peni, MC5, Muddy Waters, Mississippi John Hurt, Duane Allman, Ronnie Van Zandt, early Dylan, Robert Johnson, Victoria Spivey, Television, New York Dolls, Free Verse, The Screamers, Lydia Lunch, T.Rex, AntiFlag, Jejune, NWA, Tu-Pac, Motown, Stax, Sly and the Family Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Prado, Tom Lehrer, AC/DC especially with Bon Scott, Wyclef Jean, Sleater Kinney, and even though he's a total douche Eminem.
Sounds Like: "A punk rock Exile on Main Street with shades of The Stooges, riot grrrl, Pere Ubu, and even The Doors."Magnet Magazine
"If Spivey sounds spacey, she's not. Her songs range from aggressive, screaming punk to beautifully melodic rhythm and blues, the very definition of garage-rock. Like Sleater-Kinney and Bikini Kill -- Lucid Nation has opened for both -- her band's music is raw, poetic, sloppy and infectious, and Tacoma Ballet is simply a bare-bones, kick-ass rock and roll record." Rolling Stone Magazine

I edited my profile with Thomas’ Myspace Editor V3.6 !

Record Label: Brain Floss Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

My New Recording Tips Blog

Feel free to ask questions.  I'll answer them when I get the chance.  If you read deeper into my blog you'll find some detailed gear reviews and experiences.For Singers:When I was on my way ...
Posted by Lucid Nation on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:23:00 PST

The Gits Movie Screening Dates and Events!

July 7 is the anniversary of Mia's murder.   I'm an associate producer of The Gits movie.Jul 3, 2008     7:00P     BIG SMASH     Winnipeg, Manito...
Posted by Lucid Nation on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:19:00 PST

Feature/Interview w/Tamra + rare MP3s~

Includes rare MP3s, my paintings and other art, a long interview, stuff about The Gits movie.click the pic! ...
Posted by Lucid Nation on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:26:00 PST

Where to get all our music free~ + touring?

First off, I don't give a fuck for fame.  I think people who answer the same question ten thousand times and get professionals to adjust everything from their face make up and hair dos to the sha...
Posted by Lucid Nation on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:41:00 PST

Death of an Unborn Artist

I don’t talk much about Ronnie.  I’m not sure why that is.  He likes the privacy but considering how deeply entwined we are, you’d think I’d say more about him. ...
Posted by Lucid Nation on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:25:00 PST

Tens of Millions of Birds Disappearing in North America

Couldn't embed the video.  It's a major news report from Canada's CBC's flag ship show The National.  Go see it here:click the pic to see the video at Rawstory.com...
Posted by Lucid Nation on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:17:00 PST

Go Ask Tamra!

It's a little known fact that I almost got to be Buddyhead's advice columnist!  I think my sense of humor was a bit black even for Buddyhead!  I promise not to be so mean with readers of my ...
Posted by Lucid Nation on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:55:00 PST

Musicians with nothing to say.

I've been reading an amazing book The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen, I highly recommend it to anyone. Jensen unflinchingly digs into the tangled history of money and violence. Telling the ...
Posted by Lucid Nation on Sat, 27 May 2006 01:49:00 PST

Iraqi Girl Stoned to Death

I grew up in a barrio of Los Angeles that makes even hardcore Chicas jaws drop when I drop the name of the school I went to.I didn't know what the word whore meant when some jocks in my middle school...
Posted by Lucid Nation on Tue, 22 May 2007 01:45:00 PST

How to Exterminate Alternative Medicine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmrF9KjlGscI don't trust the AMA. I don't have a doctor. I have what most AMA doctors would call a witch doctor and he's cured me many times. I could tell you ...
Posted by Lucid Nation on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:06:00 PST