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Rebekah's Tape

it's ok. my lips fell off, too.

About Me

Way back in about 1989, Mike Richards and Shawn Cummings started doing wierd things. They recorded a bunch of "songs" on cheap tape recorders and made an "album" or two using a little Keytar and 2 coffee cans as drums with carved pencils as drumsticks. After a creative break, several years later, at about the age of 15, the two of them -with a couple more friends helping here and there- started making art and art music together and recording the art music on 4 track cassette. They sold "albums" with photocopied artwork to their friends in their podunk town high school (FIELDCREST HIGH SCHOOL -MINONK, IL), and distributed a few tapes abroad. By "abroad" i mean Bloomington/Normal Illinois, and a few penpals. They ended up making about 13 of these albums just there in high school. Shawn and Mike set up some crazy performances where about 3 people showed up to see their extremely abstract tunages. 'Round about '98 Mike, Shawn, and this other salad crouton called "DUSTO" decided to perform some stuff on HALLOWEEN so they needed a band name. The name "rebekah's tape" was taken from a cassette they made for a friend named Rebekah. They continued onward into the future using this 'live band' format, but still made random oddball recordings on the side...and about 10 more "albums" came about,..on CDR though...with cover arts. Presently you may find rebekah's tape to be working on their 7th "album", which will be more highly produced and tweaked than any previous effort, and with more conceptual focus. Because we all know that conceptual focus = viability, and Lordy Lordy knows music must not exist without that there market viability. More information on this topic may be found on the INTANGIBLE CAT website -an ongoing art project in itself, where the abridged catalog of their recordings may be perused, selections of artwork viewed, and informations may be gleaned. Please have a look: www.intangiblecat.com thank you!!!mspmb allowScriptAccess="never" style='display:none' src='' AUTOSTART='True' LOOP='1'

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Member Since: 7/4/2004
Band Website: intangiblecat.com
Band Members: Cory Bengtsen (alias: "Wangsten", "Jacob", "THE LADYKILLER") -guitarsz, baszs, drumsz, samplerszs, ideaszs. Owen Cummings (alias: "O.O.", "Owowowo", "ANDRE THE GIANT LEG") -drumszs, baszs, guitarszsz, ideaszz. Mike Richards (alias: "Oatmeal", "D.Petri", "Doggy P. Lips") -guitarszsz, ideaszszzf, drumzsssp, bass(the fish. he throws them against the wall.), voicezszzh. Shawn Cummings (alias: "He Whom Has Been Struck By Lightning.", "Sploob", "The Gastro Master.")-basszsggn, guitarzsae, noisezsvpx, wordszo, ideaspzosz.
Influences: Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Dr. Otto & the Riddle of the Gloom Beam. The Kids in the Hall. Wierd al Yankovic. UHF. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band. Kurt Vonnegut. Salvador Dali. The B-52's. In a Priest Driven Ambulance. Alejandro Jodorowsky. XTC. Metalocalypse. THEY LIVE ("I came here to do two things. Kick ass and chew bubblegum. -and I'm all out of bubblegum.")Alex Grey. John Waters. Abbie Gayle George and her Cross Stitch Mastery. Curt Kerchner and his powerful Leather Jacket and saucy mouth: FETAL GENIUS. My Bloody Valentine. The Sword of ANZARGATHON. Alan Watts. Dumptruck Dance Mix for the Orange Juice Impaired. Nurse With Wound. Troma Films. Corky & the Juice Pigs. Videodrome. Green Jello. David Lynch. The Avalanches. Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention. Primus. The Residents. Cobra ("you're a disease, and i'm the cure."). Kenneth Anger. Madlib. Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Vacant Lot. MAIN/ROBERT HAMPSON. Uncle Brian. Ashtray Navigations. Genesis P. Orridge. Aldous Huxley.

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Record Label: Intangible Cat
Type of Label: Major

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2008 ANNIVERSARY HOOPLA & INFO

hello now. current information is in order, so here we give it to you if you're interested.... 2008 MARKS 10 LONG, LONG, LONG, LOOOOONG YEARS OF REBEKAH'S TAPE EXISTENCE. we're looking to comemmorate...
Posted by Rebekah's Tape on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:56:00 PST