Member Since: 2/5/2008
Band Website: theclams.muxtape.com/
Band Members: Brett Disaster -Ace V. -Lord Bogus
Influences: actual clams and steve albini ---- also: cassettes; duck love; gong sledding; the fender bassman (blackface and silverface - we don't discriminate); cast iron; roald dahl; analog; mono vs. stereo debates; AVGN; MC5; the creation; the viola twins; the trashmen; richard hell and the voidoids; b vitamins; electrolytes; the sleeptights; john lee hooker; boris and BORIS; the damned; the potential existence of humanzees / chumans / manpanzees; black sabbath; brian wilson; your band's mom; guitar; minutemen; CCR; johnny thunders and the heartbreakers; the lennon doll; wire; vino (rosso); mitch ryder and the detroit wheels; the brian jonestown massacre; television; vibrations; droning; drone bathing; the vaselines; anthony bourdain; pixies; everything beatles related; kids in the hall; early flaming lips (like, when we knew them in grade school); nirvana; the white album, the grey album AND the black album; the rolling stones - before they started to blow; donovan; pork fat; the first few ramones albums; kraeusening; zeppelin; 13th floor elevators; listening to rush limbaugh be an asshole; glenn beck's fake crying; bob dylan's outhouse; the kinks; sonic youth; pavement; the breeders; ELO; charles bukowski; joe pruitt; aaron moon; brother truck; robert creeley; rockdocs; geoff emerick; gibson guitars; rickenbacker basses; the good vox ac-30 reissues, and of course the originals; tape echo machines; the marathon trilogy; hunter s. thompson; the faces; the small faces; little feat; the who; naked raygun; a good pot of soup; dynaco; early zz top; the sonics; can; spacemen 3; julia child; hippies, but only in the context of stratocasters - sorry no crunchies; beef-a-roo; crazy horse; peter paul and mary; jellybean drum kits; big muffs; big bottoms; "no suit... skin!"; pro co rats; cold medicine; clean sheets; the dead boys; cannibal corpse; the clash; the pretenders; echoes of the ozarks vol. II; bruce springsteen's "nebraska" album; band of gypsys; wilco (post a.m. - pre sky blue sky); t rex; honey butter and cinnibud; kurt vonnegut; DIY NY; melvins; iron chef; bunny wailer; the velvet underground; phil spector; iggy and the stooges; the jesus and mary chain; dr. dog; sunn 0))); PLEASE KILL ME; and so on...
Sounds Like: "Everybody can hear your fuckin' clams out there. You don't need a mic for that. You're takin' up too much fuckin' time blowin' what? Shit!! You stand out here all night tryin' to blow your fuckin' brains out; when it comes time to play, what do you play? Clams!! You got nowhere to fuckin' go tonight, the next set, because if I hear one fuckin' clam from anybody, you've had it! One clam and this whole fuckin' band is through...tonight!! Try me! You got some fuckin' nerve. Nights off, nothin' to do, and you come in and play this kind of shit for me...Fuck all of you!!" - Buddy Rich
Record Label: Your Mom
Type of Label: Major