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Member Since: 25/08/2005
Band Website: wizardboots.com
Band Members: Wizard Boots (Christopher Elsken),Gerald "Grand Funk Railroad" Lunn,The Andi,Henchman 55
Influences: The Cure, night time, Abba, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Robyn Hitchcock, P.I.L., Primal Scream, Daniel Ash, Prince, The Faith Healers, Butthole Surfers, Ween, Spacemen 3/Spz'd, Keith Moon, Kraftwerk, James Brown, Leonard Cohen, Stan Ridgeway, Nick Drake, red wine, The Hampton Grease Band, movement, Neil Diamond, Thin Lizzy, Rolling Stones, Blue Oyster Cult, Hawkwind, spacerock, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Lou Reed, Danzig, Priest, Maiden, Hendrix, girls, LPD/Tear Garden, Dead Can Dance, 4AD, Death In Vegas, synthpop, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Psychedelic Furs, Mott The Hoople, certain organic substances, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Chameleons, Mark E. Smith, Robyn Guthrie, Peter Hook, Royal Trux, The Damned, Nick Cave, rain, The Cramps, Flaming Lips, Dead Milkmen, Jon Wayne, Jim Steinman, Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Tubes, The Frogs, Bongwater, shoegazers, Alice Donut, Genesis P. Orridge, Dylan, David Lowery, Lindsey Buckingham, Phil Spector, Brian Eno, Roxy/Ferry, CAN, YES, Rush, Moody Blues, Peter Gabriel, sex, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Roger Miller, good books, Howlin Wolf, Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra, the withering gaze of time, Ennio Morricone, Bruce Campbell, Bill Murray, John Carpenter, Dario Argento, Bill Hicks, Mitch Hedburg and the supergroup Asia.
Sounds Like: A floorboard creaking....cat purring.....rainy night......glass breaks......a rock n’ roll flower arrangement.
Record Label: Invisible Grizzly Agenda
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

OLE' BISCUIT BARREL!

It's a brand new record for 2010!  Wizard Boots (Christopher, G-Funk, The Andi and Henchman 55) are currently hard at work on a brand new collection of songs to be released this spring on the label th...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:57:00 GMT

40....

.....yes, I made it.  Only a few hours ago the band and I were bashing out the nearly ten year old EL KABONG screamer "Dead By 40" downtown at The Matador.....quite surreal.  We'll play the shit out o...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:46:00 GMT

Interview...July Shows....Boots on Facebook...and more!!!

     July and all the fun that comes along with it are upon us....so get your fun boots on or get the fuck out of here!  Bunch of Wizard business going down, so I'll get right to it......1st of all......
Posted by on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:23:00 GMT

Blast from ze Past....W.B. & The Sex Zombies...

     So way back in the day....Dallas TX....2006....to be exact....I was finding my way back into performing live....Miss Hillary and I had already done a handful of gigs as a duo when we hooked up wi...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:43:00 GMT

Puerto Loco El Calor...

Everything doesn't happen for a reason....everything just happens.  Something about a few consecutive days of hot sunny weather makes the entire Pacific Northwest lose it's collective shit.  It's fasc...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:42:00 GMT

Spring fever...Baby Jesus mystery solved...

     Just finished uploading the last of the tour photos....some really good ones from the instore at CD Universe taken by Apple Chris....thanks man!  Anyone who has images from any of the shows you'd...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:57:00 GMT

Over and out....

What better way to end the tour than by falling off the stage?  Yep...during the breakdown of "Old School", I wandered up to the edge and put my foot up on the monitor....it quite unexpectedly fell fo...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:44:00 GMT

These Boots are back on Planet PDX....

Yes....we re-entered the Northwestern atmosphere in the middle of the night and are very happy to be home.  A bit challenging to depressurize from the road.....14 performances in 11 states over 16 day...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:49:00 GMT

We're coming home...

I have no idea how much physical and psychological damage I have wreaked upon my poor battered self, but I always wake up 3 or 4 hours later ready to go again....when I'm home in bed with my favorite ...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:52:00 GMT

I luv LA....and onward to the glory of San Fran!!!

Before I get into this....a big announcement:WIZARD BOOTS AND HIS AMAZING NEW BAND ARE COMING OFF THE ROAD FROM A TWO WEEK U.S. TOUR....JUST BEEN ADDED TO CLOSE THE SHOW AT KELLY'S OLYMPIAN IN DOWNTOW...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:44:00 GMT