Make-Believe Horse

Music:

Member Since: 11/4/2007
Band Website: geocities.com/some_bluesman/horsestory.html
Band Members: innocence, insecurity, toy drum depicting blue dog, the quavering of the quim, finger snapping, galloping, singing, whistling, paper bag, maracas, horse-hair viol bow, enunciation, aluminum tape, words, counting, glue stick, early black dice 7 inch, metal slide, 4 track (tascam), spray enamel, washer/dryer, effects, baritone acoustic guitar, electric bass, ice tongs, scissors, samples, am radio, sm-58 mic, computer, casio keys, 2 amps, turntable, short-wave, digital 8-track...
1 principle songauthor and 1 principle executive producer with access to beer and a boiler room directly accessing an alleyway in charles village.

Influences: Polvo's excellent "Today's Active Lifestyles" from 1993, Tim Kinsella's OWLS and friend/enemy projects, Baltimore's own Practice Finger, but THE ESSENTIALS AS FOLLOWS: gastr del sol's "camoufleur," Music Tapes's "1st Imaginary Symphony for Nomad" + "the television tells us b/w freeing song by reigndeer" 7 inch, Skull Kontrol's "deviate beyond all means of capture," Cat Power's "headlights b/w darling said sir" 7 inch (it still haunts me) + "what would the community think," quasi's "featuring 'birds'," the 90 minute tape with Cannibal Corpse's "butchered at birth" on one side and Danzig's "Danzig II" on side B, the charlie brown gets a valentine split 7 inch with Inkling, Mikey Iafrate's "total science" + "lovestruck rookie," the elliott smith yahoo groups e-mail list, cerberus shoal's "homb" + "crash my moon yacht," saetia's 7 inch, joan of arc's "live in chicago, 1999," + "how memory works" + "busy bus, sunny sun b/w stemingway and heinbeck" 7 inch, simon joyner's "heaven's gate" + "the lousy dance," smog's "knock knock," heatmiser's "everybody has it b/w dirty dream" 7 inch + "mic city sons," merzbow's "tauromachine," early Blonde Redhead, tm. and the backriver autopilot ensemble's "love songs shot and projected at silent speed," mogwai's "ep +2" and "come on die young," tristeza's "dream signals in full circles," godspeed you black emperor!'s "lift your skinny fists...," bright eyes' "fevers and mirrors," slint's last full length and their ep, arab on radar's "rough day at the orifice," antonio carlos jobim's "one note samba," john fahey, nine inch nails, elliott smith's "elliott smith" + "no name no.6 b/w division day" 7 inch + "speed trials b/w i don't think i'm ever gonna figure it out" 7 inch, the Silver Jews's "american water" + "send in the clouds b/w self ignition" 7 inch, death cab for cutie's "something about airplanes" +"prove my hypotheses b/w wait" 7 inch, silver scooter, various k records releases revolving around phil elvrum and calvin johnson--especially the pre-Glow pt 2 material from the Microphones, almost anything the elephant 6 put out until 2002, hunter s. thompson, pinback's first few releases, gospel stations, method man's "tical 2000: judgement day," gogogo airheart's "the things we need" ep + their split with Syncopation; the Librarians's "the sound of a breaking heart" + "feeling the fall in every summer" + self-titled + "six songs for the elementary heart," as well as "the collapse of the lovelorn era," The kids of krestovsky's "the first time a girl ever didn't say no," and "for the potential priests and astronauts" as well as "six songs for your dna," the cincinnati elite's "ballads of the fallen pornographer king", "punch ratio," as well as "reverse motown sounds;" No.2's "alastair chestnut" 7 inch + "No Memory," Les Oreilles's "ici," the Equestrians's "the year of the equestrians," Tim Kinsellas's "he sang his didn't he danced his did," the campire schoogirlz's "shit demo," and everything at the time on Temporary Residence Limited such as their "Travels in Constants" cdep series featuring Low, Mogwai, Tarentel, and Songs: Ohia; Don Caballero's "what burns never returns" as well as "II," ruby minor's "new york's answer to god" + "the damage would be obvious," and output from john zorn's label such as "Pranzo Oltranzista" by Mike Patton; the live set that never occurred from The Decapitated Comics, the red hott nuggetz live set from saint mary's college, aol instant messenger (i am indebted to you aol for the sake of my very socialization with women), the unreleased live tapes of the Fantastic Bushmen + the minimally released demos of the Fantastic Bushmen, the locust's self titled 12 inch + their split with arab on radar pressed onto urine/milk/feces/blood colored vinyl, the first couple TOOL albums, Collective Soul's songs "December" and "Gel," Modest Mouse's "building nothing out of something," and lastyly but not leastly: The Mountain Goats's "The Coroner's Gambit" which is not a highly representative album of his, but, for me, the most enjoyable in its totality.
Sounds Like: A RARE FORM OF INDIE THAT WILL UNCREATE YOUR UNLIKELY BEING AND LEAVE YOU WITH NOTHING BUT DESPERATION AND A GAPING VOID OF MEASURABLE INCOHERENCY, and yet you will attain a "Not-Inconsiderable" amount of self-knowledge from the listening process.
Record Label: SOME BLUESMAN; MT6 Records
Type of Label: Indie