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Ain't it fun when you know you're gonna die young?

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/11/2007
Band Members: Spencer Cantley
Cailean Lewis

Caleb Langille

Josh Salter

Lyle Peterson
Influences: The Beatles
Big Star
The Raspberries
T.Rex
The Replacements
The Monkees
The Rolling Stones
The Kinks
The Black Lips
Rolling Thunder Revue era Dylan
Nuggets/Pebbles Trash
The Rutles
The Flashing Lights
The Superfriendz
Television
The Who
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Thrush Hermit
David Bowie
Of Montreal
The Zombies
The Byrds
The Band
Todd Rundgren
Wilco
The Stooges
The Velvet Underground
King Khan and the Shrines
The Pineceones
The Creation
Love
Os Mutantes
Buffalo Springfield
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Sounds Like: The dBs
The Flamin' Groovies
A warped copy of "Raspberry Beret"
The Golden Chords
The Abdabs
The Lower Third
Icewater
The Ravens
Wicked Lester
The High Numbers
Cousin Oliver
Grapefruit
Footnotes
A Robert Christgau review
B-

Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Press: Gazette Interview and Coast Write-Up

Gideons Release Debut, Hymns for Hers The Coast Wednesday, February 4, 2009Local heartbreakers. Wednesday, February 4, 2009Local heartbreakers The Gideons are readying thems...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:37:00 GMT

Hymns for Hers CD Release + Route 104 Interview

The Gideons are finally having an official release show for their divinely inspired debut record Hymns For Hers February 7th at Ye Olde Gus Pub where they have honed their chops and drinking proble...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:10:00 GMT

Article in The Coast

Screech and SwaggerIn less than a year, The Gideons have erupted on the Halifax scene with their punched-up dirty garage rock sound.by Alison LangThe Gideons are no "little shits" after a year on the ...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:12:00 GMT

@!$* the world tour 2008

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Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:24:00 GMT

Squares Need Not Apply

Come to our upcoming barrage of shows and cement yr cool.We made the Coast New Music Issue. Read the words if you are able. Look at picture and try not to go blind.Listen to our new song, if you can ...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:46:00 GMT

The News: New Songs, New Photos, Newtonian Law

The Gideons have been busy boys and neglected the poor blog-o-sphere and the thousands of people who frequent this little myspace daily to get their next fix, and inject a little bit of Gideon into th...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 10:04:00 GMT

Feb 16th show!

Thanks to Matt Reid, Brent Randell and his pinecones, and the Got to get got for an amazing show last night. This was seriously one of the best shows we've been to in a long long time. The Gideons wan...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:57:00 GMT

songs up!

We have been recording for the last month or so, with the awesome Rod at Northwood ranch studios. And although the songs are not quite finished, they are pretty close, so I posted 2 of them here. Keep...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:20:00 GMT

Recording

The excitement is building in the Gideon camp, or more accurately the jubilant celebrations in our tent revival have reached a record level of psychedelic symphonic pure pop bliss.  We should sta...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:43:00 GMT