Member Since: 10/21/2007
Band Website: AnubisSpire.com
Band Members: Bill MacKechnie: Lead guitar / Vocals
Dave Sweet: Keyboards / Vocals
Tim Costley: Bass
Mick Loher: Drums and Percussion
In addition to the original members, A.S. projects are blessed by the following official A.S. auxilliary members who patiently put up with our sloth-like recording habits and erratic artistic "visions," and yet come through with musical gold every time!
~ MARLON KEMPMANN (Doctor Memory)
~ MIKE WARD (Temporary Power)
~ NEIL HENDERSON (Saqqara Records)
~ JIM RUSTEMEYER (Aardvark Invaders)
~ KATHY STEWART (Random Bullet Records)
~ JP MACGREGOR (Bron-yr-Aur)
Influences: Life. Books about great white whales and nutmeg, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Father Jack Hackett, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, The Troggs, The yardbirds, The Seeds, The Doors, Love, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Tool, Ed Wood, Giles Corey, Opeth, Muse, Sigur Ros, Vampira, Eric Dolphy, Nine Inch Nails, ABBA, Sun Ra, King Crimson, Marillion, The Beatles, Katatonia, Rush, Anathema, anyone who wears a viking helmet, Dream Theater, Oasis, The Flaming Lips, Oceansize, The Mars Volta, Coheed and Cambria, John Lennon, George Harrison, Frank Zappa, Herman Munster, Rob Zombie, Zak Starkey, Page and Plant, Robert Plant, Nuclear Plant, Jimmy Page, Betty Page, Congressional Page, Cream, Cake, Humble Pie, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Ginger Spice, Mitch Mitchell, Clem Clemson, Stanley Jordan, Bad Company, Glenn Philips, Jethro Tull, Martin Mull, Funkadelic, Prince, George Duke, Queen, Orson Welles, Gorilla Monsoon, Godzilla, King Kong, The Tralfamadores, The Krel, The Darkness, The Animals, Mike Bloomfield, Peter Green, Leslie West, Adam West, James West, Mountain, Liberace, Elvis, Wayne Newton, Peter Lemongello, Boxcar Willie, Slim Whitman, George Jones, Jim Jones, Tom Jones, "Peckerhead" Jones, Father Ted Crilly, Bo Diddley, Bodo the GOOD dog, Beebop Deluxe, Do and Ti, Chuck Berry, Buck Cherry, Buck Owens, Gary Owens, The Rolling Stones, Sly Stone, The Family Stone, Oliver Stone, Stone The Crows, Spirit, Elf, The Pixies, Angel, Smash Mouth, Badfinger, Bad Company, The Knights Templar, Free, The Freemasons, AC/DC, Hawkwind, The Eagles, Budgie, Steppenwolf, Howling Wolf, Wolf Mother, Mothers Of Invention, Blind Lemon, The Lemon Pipers, Brain-dead Johnson, Junior Johnson, Robert Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Johnson and Johnson, Beck, Jeff Beck, Glenn Beck, Thomas A Becket, Popeye, Olive Oil, Popeye Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mrs. Doyle (Go on, go on, go on...) J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Hoover, J.B. Hutto, Gatemouth Brown, The White Stripes, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, Vanna White, Pink Floyd, Led Belly, Iron Palm, Bucket Head, Paco DeLucia, Al DiMeola, I wonder if I stuck some secret message in the middle here, anyone would even notice? Maybe something obscure like "Midday Blue Apples" or something...guess I'll never know, Nigel Incubator-Jones, Simon Zinc-Trumpet-Harris, Vivian Smith-Smyth-Smith, Brian DePalma, Morrisey, Jim Morrison, Sterling Morrison, Marion Morrison, Stirling Grey, The Grays, Father Dougal McGuire, Kurt Vonnegut, Jesse Marcel, Jesse Marcel Jr., Stanton Friedman, Kinky Friedman, Marlon Kempmann, Penn and Teller, Edward Teller, Bank Teller, Uri Geller, Ol' Yeller, Gordon Hancock, Gordon Johncock, Wild Bill Hickok, Poppycock, Elton John, Akhenaton, Korn, Peter Gabriel, Porcupine Tree, Weasel Bush, Gerbil Twig, Ra, Sha Na Na, Us, Them, We Three, The Boxtops, Rare Earth, Grand Funk, The James Gang, Hey, I've got an idea..maybe I could put some sort of subliminal in here. Yeah, that'd be GREAT! Something like go buy all our albums right now. Buy five of them. Yeah, that's it...Miles Davis, Sammy Davis, Ray Davies, Dave Davies, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, James "Blood" Ulmer, Sonny Sharrock, King Henry the 8th, William Wallace, Robert The Bruce, Jack Bruce, Bruce Lee, Bruce Springsteen, General George Patton, Danny Gatton, Chuck Yager, George "the animal" Steel, Geronimo, The Beach Boys, Leonardo Da Vinci, The Royal Guardsmen, The Strawberry Alarm Clock, Vanilla Fudge, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Jefferson Airplane, IF, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, C.C.R., Santana, Earth, Wind and Fire, Captain Beefheart, Captain Kirk, Captain America, Alice Cooper, Gordon Cooper, Anderson Cooper, Neil Armstrong, Billy Joe Armstrong, The Ramones, Trombones, Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs, ? and the Mysterians, Pantera, Pants Era, The Plasmatics, The Smiths, Patty Smith, Alfred E. Smith, The Amazing Randi, The Amazing Kreskin, The passably ok Gotti, The somewhat talented Vern, John Waters, Roger Waters, Kraftwerk, Blondie, The Lennon Sisters, Liza Minelli, Mahogany Rush, R.E.O. Speedwagon, O.R.E.O. Speedcookie, Heart, The Monkees, The Archies, The Turtles, Flo and Eddie, Steve and Edie, G.I. Joe, Divine, The Divinyls, X, The Tubes, The Tubs, The little squeeky Birdies, Marilyn Manson, a nice cup of tea and some cinnamon toast. Mmmmmm.....
Sounds Like: Different things to different people.
Record Label: 11th House / Random Bullet / The Orchard
Type of Label: Indie