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Kris Thompson

warm sliding sun thru' the cave of your hair

About Me

below: from the Prefab Messiahs/Bobb Trimble set at the Wormtown 30th Anniversary Bash, May 3, 2008, Worcester MA (l-r: Bobb Trimble, Ned Egg, me; not pic'd: Gary War)
[and check out more pics from the show here ]
like, now... The Lothars , Concord Ballet Orchestra Players , Full Grown Spiders (occasional)
retired to the mists: Dear Old Stockholm Syndrome ('03-06), Abunai! ('96-02), Nisi Period ('89-95), Jasmine Love Bomb ('86-89), The Prefab Messiahs ('81-83)
have collaborated in performance with (amongst others):
Damo Suzuki , Brother JT , Windy & Carl , Awesome Color , The Spacious Mind , Alastair Galbraith , Erik Amlee , Nick Salomon ( Bevis Frond ), Bobb Trimble , High Llamas , Lauri des Marais , Barbara Manning , Sharon Cheslow , Mark Dwinell ( Nonloc , Bright )
current/recent/upcoming collabs include those with:
Bookish Vagrant , Bobb Trimble , The Atomic Tambourine , 28 Degrees Taurus , Awesome Color , Rob Byrd , Droune
On various stove-burners currently: (updated semi-reg'larly) The Prefab Messiahs ("2008 franchise"!) reunited (with guests Ned Egg and Gary War ) for a special joint performance with Bobb Trimble at the Wormtown 30th Anniversary Bash on Sat. May 3, 2008 ( Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner , Worcester MA). Concord Ballet Orchestra Players have completed work on our 1st official release, a 2CD set for Goddamn I'm A Countryman Records (Sweden), mastered by Greg Davis . I assisted in the production of legal reissues of Bobb Trimble 's two original early-80s LPs (with 3 bonus tracks ea., mmm). They're out now! on Secretly Canadian Records -- you can read about them and order them here ! The Lothars will be doing new recording in Spring 2008.
still not on myspace (don't hold your breath):
Cloud Furnace ('96-97)
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for your lunar reference... CURRENT MOON lunar phase

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/16/2004
Band Website: tinyurl.com/brqem
Band Members: i'm the only member of me -- but i do "play well with others"

at your leisure...browse le Discografie on a rainy day when nothing else is uplook for CDs, vinyl & downloads i've played on

Influences: 13th Floor Elevators, After Bathing at Baxter's, Amon Düül (early German version), Amon Düül II, Syd Barrett, Capt. Beefheart, Glenn Branca, Richard Brautigan, Byrds, Kwai-Chang Caine, Can, Jack Casady, Aleister Crowley, Lauri des Marais, Creed Dew, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Electric Prunes, Eno, Evol, Fabulous Furry Freak Bros., Faust, Xeth Feinberg, Fifty Foot Hose, Flying Saucer Attack, Alastair Galbraith, Gerald Gardner, Ghost, Godz, Grace/Great Society, hormones, hunger, Ken Kesey & his bus, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jack Kirby, Mayan cosmogenesis, Patrick McGoohan, Terence McKenna, Alan Moore, New Age with teeth, Pauline Oliveros, Augustus Stanley Owsley III, Parable of Arable Land, early Floyd, Plasticland, Popol Vuh, Quicksilver M.S.'s Happy Trails, Red Crayola, Mister Rogers, Alex Sanders, Shocking Blue, Six Organs Of Admittance, Patti Smith (whose Radio Ethiopia opened a unique portal from my suburban high school existence), "Some Velvet Morning", "classic Trek", Dr. Strange, Sun Ra, Swamp Thing, Television Personalities, thirst, Bobb Trimble, Hermes Trismestigus, Underdog, United States Of America (the band)

here lie some sounds that float me the right way

really diggin right now: Religious Knives, Mammatus, Bobby Beausoleil & the Freedom Orchestra, Bo Hansson, Bobb Trimble, Ananda Shankar, Blues Control

Sounds Like: a tempest in a tin cup, ghost lemonade, blimey-stone dust, a timely tintinnabulation,
(and/or) this stuff here that i played on...



Record Label: an obsolete notion?
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

shopping for Krismusik

stuff Kris played on that you can buy(a list-in-progress)shop for CDs/vinyl/downloads featuring:Abunai!The LotharsNisi PeriodThe Prefab MessiahsJasmine Love BombRob Byrd | Kris Thompson | Wisteriax[no...
Posted by Kris Thompson on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:04:00 PST

post-show: Prefab Messiahs/Bobb Trimble set at Wormtown 30th Anniversary Bash

I've started some bloggage, vid links, etc. about this at the myspaces for both Bobb Trimble and The Prefab Messiahs.And here's a pic to start you off with...(and check out some more here)thanks to Jo...
Posted by Kris Thompson on Thu, 08 May 2008 09:21:00 PST

facebook??

r u on Facebook??like, omg! so are a bunch of my past & present projexxfeel free to visit these pages, and click to "Become a Fan"...cheers -- I'm your fan too...Abunai!Concord Ballet Orchestra P...
Posted by Kris Thompson on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:49:00 PST

Kris onstage w/ Awesome Color @ Dino Jr. show 2nite (Boston)

yeah... like it sez...joining them with theremin & electric sruti boxit's at the Paradisei think the lineup is:The Warblers - 9pmAwesome Color - 10pmDinosaur Jr. - 11pm...
Posted by Kris Thompson on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:42:00 PST

CBOP in Boston Metro

..>..>..> ..> greets! my grüüp Concord Ballet Orchestra Players has a piece in today's Boston Metro, and we're playing a show at P.A.'s Lounge tonight.come out and groove, and wish Kyle happy b-da...
Posted by Kris Thompson on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:44:00 PST

my super expanded playa

see my "Sounds Like" section here, by cracky, for a Last.fm player with 60 different tracks I've played on over the years...
Posted by Kris Thompson on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:17:00 PST

Prefab Messiahs anthology now available in U.S.

Now you can find music from my early 80s band The Prefab Messiahs for sale at CD Baby... >> check out the band's Devolver anthology there Downloads will be available from all the big corporate ba...
Posted by Kris Thompson on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:42:00 PST

Aquarius Recs: digging on the 'Easter Invocation'

"Very Recommended", sez they...(scroll down a few to "Byrd, Rob...")still a few available at LILDISCS, too, there are......
Posted by Kris Thompson on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:24:00 PST

CBOP in Boston Globe, July-12-2006

me, far left (& that's a Bangladeshi design, not a sweat stain!!) ...
Posted by Kris Thompson on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:26:00 PST

CBOP article in Boston's Weekly Dig, July '06

check it here...
Posted by Kris Thompson on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:30:00 PST