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A. Gomez (The Cons)

About Me

I've received heaps of adulation, praise, and worship from tens of fans all around my neighborhood. In fact, if you haven't heard of me by now, you either have been living in a cave thousands of feet below the earth's surface listening to your Crazy Town LPs on a pterodactyl record player... or you don't know my mom. Either way, I have played bass for the greatest teenage funk-rock sensation to ever rise gloriously out of Millbrae, CA,The Discojefes. Our demo tape "A Ding Dang Doo" was a smash hit amongst our friends and San Mateo County high schoolers with impeccable taste. After two years involving victories, two hot but inept managers, jealousy, betrayal, reconciliation, and a keyboard player who smelled like hot garbage, the group, now a ridiculous caricature of itself, finally disbanded. After that, I manipulated the low-end for Bulldog Music, the most rote, pathetic excuse for Mexcian pop music since Menudo fired Xavier Serbia (I know, I never got over that one, either). It was an embarassing two weeks. My college years in San Diego went bandless, as I did not want to be in a cover band, wear studded wristbands, or be a rasta. Naturally, I would just have to content myself with jumping on my bed rocking out to "Cult Of Personality" while strumming a tennis racket.Once back in the S.F. Bay Area, I formed Fast To The Center with my buddy Adam Donkin with revolving members Mike Soss, Brian Sagrafena, Dylan Donkin, Toby Salciccia, and Spencer Corey. It is still a living, albeit sleeping, entity to be awoken much like The Kraken: whenever our Lord Zeus requires a coastal city be destroyed and if there's a tasty virgin chained to a rock.I am also a member of the now-defunct Echobrain, and we will be recording more & touring again once we have acheived inner peace and have mastered levitation, transmutation, and origami. So, yeah, just hold your breath on that one.Sometimes, I make odd noises for boy wonder/circus freak Dan Leech's band The Living Ingrates in a haphazardly thrown together dork-estra of light and sound. We will be vomiting soon on a stage near you.Also, I am in a band with a man named Keith Brasel. He sounds 13 and acts like it, too! We are called The Cons, and we are hot. Check us out on my Top 8.Above is a collection of work with The Cons & Fast To The Center, including "Some People", the 5th song on The Cons' upcoming EP. Feel free to fondle, stroke, and sex up these MP3's. Just don't expect them to cuddle, you slut.Instruments played (or faked):vocal noises, guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, Moog, and theremin.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/08/2004
Band Website: www.myspace.com/theconsmusic
Band Members: Being in a number of bands, both real and imagined, there are quite a few people who rub my musical schwantz. Check out some of their websites here:www.myspace.com/theconsmusic, www.myspace.com/dylandonkin, www.myspace.com/soss, www.contacthighmusic.com, www.debriah.com/fasttothecenter, www.zombo.com, www.myspace.com/campclovenhoof, www.myspace.com/nathanpaine
Influences:Only the best (as decided by me): The Kinks, Johnny Cash, Syd Barrett, Mr. Leonard Cohen, Piero Piccioni, Gang Of Four, Daniel Johnston, Magnetic Fields, Ratatat, RJD2, Silver Jews, Francoise Hardy, Animal Collective, Bob Dylan, Belle & Sebastian, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bright Eyes, Devandra Banhart, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Clinic, Sigur Ros, My Morning Jacket, Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Cliff, all the Easy Tempo shit, all the Beat at Cinecitta shit, Gregory Isaacs, Dungen, Blind Willie McTell, Marley, Bowie, Creedence, Blind Willie Johnson, Deerhoof, Lovage, John Frusciante, Led Zep, Mark Lanegan, Nina Simone, Parsley Sound, Portishead, Tom Waits, Stevie Wonder, old Finley Quaye, Smoke City, TV On The Radio, Mum, Velvet Underground, Beck, The Smiths, Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Blonde Redhead, Air, Wesley Willis, Queens Of The Stone Age, Nathan Paine, Stereolab, Dylan Donkin or Serge Gainsbourg. If your band's lyrics gobble balls, then don't even bother, you posturing putz.......
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Record Label: Label Shmabel

My Blog

Alzheimer's Day

Valentine's Day & Alzheimer'sBody: Two things:1. We should start calling it "Balentime's Day", like kids or people with speech impediments do. Notice the smooth curves of that "B". Witness the ample f...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:52:00 GMT

I'm a petty, petty man.

Sooooo,My friend Ellen was in the movie A Christmas Vacation as Ruby Sue Griswold. Apparently, some dickheads from an FSU site found her myspace page and decided to try and rip on her, because they we...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:49:00 GMT

Dear, Parking Enforcement Officer,

Come over here and sit down. Let's have a chat. I appreciate the fact that you bring additional revenue to San Francisco, this fine city I call home. I also undertand that you probably get a lot of sh...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:47:00 GMT

I am Larry David.

So, on New Year's Eve, after a Cons show, a friend of a friend came up to say goodbye, and that she enjoyed the show. I gave her my winning smile, a "thanks, see you again", and a friendly pat on the ...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:45:00 GMT

No repercussions.

I have no memories. I'm like the Pacific Ocean.
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:16:00 GMT

Live 105 Radio Contest!!!

Hello all,The Cons need your help. We entered a radio contest towin the opportunity to play a show with The Killers,The Raconteurs and The Shins at a big show put on byLive 105 in San Francisco. We ma...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:33:00 GMT

Song Review For "Leaf House" by Animal Collective

I awoke with the words "I love you" ringing in my ears. It was as if arecord player was playing this in an endless loop, and I could evenhear a worn-out needle digging into the vinyl behind the androg...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:15:00 GMT

Flavor Flav is my hero... not really.

Still, he is the perfect reality show star. He's incomprehensible, horny, honest, and inadvertently hilarious. Last night, I witnessed the greatest reality show yet: Flavor Of Love 2. It had everythin...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:42:00 GMT

Shee-yit. I am broke.

Fucking rent stole all of my money. Next, PG&E punched my junk. Then, credit card debt gobbled my balls. Lastly, my pals drank my last $25.00 So, buy me a drink, dammit! Remember that time I bought yo...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 14:33:00 GMT

THE CONS WILL GIVE YOU HERPES... IN YOUR EARS!!!

Not true, or at least I hope it's not true. Just giving my band a little negative publicity, but I know you kids. Anytime an authority figure (which I know I am to all of of you little people) tells y...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:06:00 GMT