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Loto Ball Show

Turn Around, Bright Eyes

About Me

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The van was recovered and we've received 180 in donations. We're trying to cover the deductible of $500 since the damages were extensive. Please donate!! Help us get on the road. Thanks so much to all those who have donated!


Levy on the EyeWay

Levy on the EyeWay
out on JUNE 17
Pre-Order the new Album Now:


CD
LP (w/ Digital Download, Ltd. 500)
    The Loto Ball Show - I Can Be Your Eyes debut EP on CD - $6 ppd

    the Loto Ball Show is fronted by Loto Ball, who has performed with other music groups such as:Mucca Pazza The Phantom Limbs Valley Fever Boy Scouts of Annihilation The Parkas Circus Redickuless's Organ Grinders from Hell
Loto Ball is best known for his work singing and performing for San Francisco Bay Area death-punk band The Phantom Limbs. During his time with The Phantom Limbs (in which he was sometimes known as “Hopeless”), Loto Ball’s visceral expression of existential distress laced with black comedy, along with the hyper-charged and unusual compositions of keyboardist Stevenson Sedgwick helped earn his band the honor of No. 1 Indie Rock Band in San Francisco (S.F. Bay Guardian – Best of the Bay awards 2003) and the chance to record two albums with Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles record label. After 5 years and 220 performances with The Phantom Limbs, including 3 U.S. tours and 2 European tours, Loto Ball left the band in 2005 to move to Chicago and pursue other ventures. Loto Ball has spent his time in Chicago working with local artists on various projects, including founding an art gallery/music venue (Reversible Eye), collaborating on a 800 foot public mural (Bloomingdale Trail), personal masseuse for Mayor Richard Daley, performing with puppets (Scary Toesies), working as an activist for disability rights and quality of life issues, as well playing trumpet for a 30-person marching band (Mucca Pazza).
Loto Ball created the Loto Ball Show in 2005. It has taken on many forms, such as incorporating absurdist puppet shows, hosting variety shows, and recording the soundtrack for a horror-comedy underground TV series. The Loto Ball Show has now evolved into an energetic rock band that screams out much of the same ferocity as The Phantom Limbs but brings in more variety in mood, more shifts in volume and pace, and more eclectic sounds. It is a driving key-board driven form of No-Wave post-punk with hints of jazz syncopation and Middle-Eastern scales.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/7/2003
Band Website: lotoballshow.com
Band Members:

    Loto Ball:Vocals, Trumpet, KeysArvo Fingers:ElectronicsTaylor Hales: BassMaria Jenkins:KeysGrace Kulp:Vocals Clyde Rourke: DrumsMatt Schwarz: GuitarDavid E. Smith: Saxes

Influences: General 400 blows, absurdist theater, ace, adbusters, albee, amelia earheart, anarchism, andrew s.a., appreciation, azita, balthus, basquiat, beckett, ben hirschkoff, beuys, bieno svengali, billie holiday, black flag, blind blake, blonde redhead, born against, boy scouts of annihilation, butthole surfers, butttoucher, captain beefheart, centimeters, chuckles the clown, circus ridiculous, comedy, crass, dadaism, david bowie, dead and gone, debord, design, dirt, egon schiele, emma goldman, erase errata, ethnomethodology, existentialism, experimental dental school, expressionism, flipper, flux information sciences, found items, found letters, found notes, francis bacon, fruitvale, futurism, germs, get hustle, graffitti, graphic design, grime, hopeless, insecta, jackson pollock, jazz, jenny holzer, jodorowski, jokes, leonard cohen, making people feel weird, manet, marinetti, marshall mcluhan, max beckmann, max ernst, mclelland, metaphysics, mike boner, minutemen, misfits, muhammad ali, musee mecanique, mysticism, new collapse, nick cave, nihilism, nina simone, no wave, oakland, oum kolthoum, outsider art, pcp roadblock, phantom limbs, phenomenology, point line plane, public enemy, punk, pussy chop banana, quintron, roberto matta, rudimentary peni, saccharine trust, satie, screamers, situationism, sixteens, slapstick, sleepytime gorilla museum, slug, social unrest, socialism, stiff little fingers, sun ra, surrealism, the birthday party, the holy kiss, the phantom limbs, the vanishing, throbbing gristle, tragedy, tuxedomoon, valley fever, velvet underground, vss, willem de kooning, zoogz rift Music no wave, blues, jazz, punk, metal, post-punk, post-blues, post-metal, post raisin bran Movies The Swimmer (1968) starring Burt Lancaster, A Clockwork Orange, Porcine Television M.A.S.H., The Saint with Roger Moore Books Dostoevsky, Bukowski, Camus, Celine, Hesse, Lynda Barry, -- please recommend or mail me books to 1103 N. California Ave., Chicago IL 60622 Heroes joseph beuys
Sounds Like: punk no-wave ragtime
Record Label: Reversible Eye
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

mucca pazza interview

.. Find more videos like this on THE CIRCUIT by LO-FI SAINT LOUIS...
Posted by Loto Ball Show on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:04:00 PST

california - July

Mucca Pazza (my marching band) will be at7/13 - Fort Mason fest pavilion (SF)7/15 - the Echo (L.A)7/16 - cellar Door (visalia)7/17 - Rickshaw Stop (SF)7/18 - oakland?7/19 - speedway meadows at golden...
Posted by Loto Ball Show on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:02:00 PST

RECORD RELEASE SHOW

LOTO BALL SHOW RECORD ELEASE JUNE 17TUESDAY EMPY BOTTLEWITH SILVER APPLES$10NOT TOOO MUCHDO YOU CARE?WE AF ENGORGED WITH FLAMETHAT'S SOMETHING.SUPPOSE U ARE ALL ALONE SUPPOSE YOU HAVE NOTHING ELSE GOI...
Posted by Loto Ball Show on Fri, 16 May 2008 01:31:00 PST

berkeley place review

LOTO BALL SHOW-"Levy on the Eye Way"As you can imagine from the name of the band ("Loto ball show," get it) and the names of some of their songs ("Hoodlims;" "Oriental Danzig"), the Loto Ball Show mak...
Posted by Loto Ball Show on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:27:00 PST

readjunk review

Loto Ball's new band/experience, post-Phantom Limbs. Similar to the Phantom Limbs, this new incarnation has a dark, sinister circus-punk sound with synths, horns, frenetic noise, and Loto's nasal, ang...
Posted by Loto Ball Show on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:26:00 PST

Van found! help for deductible needed!

Thanks to everyone who has donated so far. The van was found! We still need help for the deductible, so about $320 more dollars. We've raised $180 out of the $500 needed so far. The previous widget wa...
Posted by Loto Ball Show on Thu, 29 May 2008 02:31:00 PST

real message

yesterdays blog post was just a cryptic response to my new van getting stolen friday afternoon. we have a chip-in widget on the profile to get donations to replace the van. all money will be refunded ...
Posted by Loto Ball Show on Sun, 25 May 2008 08:16:00 PST

getting out of here

where should i go? california?europe?let me know.i'm taking off and ready to fly.
Posted by Loto Ball Show on Sat, 24 May 2008 07:50:00 PST

songs from new album posted

Check out my profile. I've added material from Levy on the Eyeway.It comes out June 17.Pre-sale button is on the page too, available as LP with free downloads, or CD
Posted by Loto Ball Show on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:02:00 PST

hoodlims in los angeles

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Posted by Loto Ball Show on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:27:00 PST