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SKATES

I dont have to do drugs, i am the drug - Dali

About Me

Melissa is Skates and a star, like Prince....you might not know it now but in a year you'll know for sure...(is that right)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/30/2004
Band Website: skatesnation.com
Band Members:
Melissa Dungan is Skates. mainly she writes the songs via keys, vox and lyrics. Paul Finch is mixing, engineering the second album and adding keys. Barnaby Whitfield, son(illegitamate) of notourious screen actor Klaus Kinski, painted the cover of the second album (check him out).

the current LIVE SKATESNATION LINE-UP is :

SKATES - Programming/Keys/Vox/Dance

PINEAPPLE DE LOREAN - Theramin/Keys
CANDY - Dance
CRICKET - Dance
EMILY - Teen Witch Specialist
Influences: Missy Elliot and Joy Division and Antony and the Johnsons

Sounds Like: a beautiful coffin or a weekends at ur grandmas house thisistheshit:
Record Label: MQ Mystery Productions (BMI)
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

i went to the woods...cosmical triggers

so i went to the woods...this is what i found...i was not alone..ok i was alone, but not lonley filled with the wonderful sense of life all around me...amoung the highlights of my trip were: 1. talkin...
Posted by SKATES on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:00:00 PST

out of the depression

just got out of a week of depression, during witch i saw a movie called The Shadow Of the Vampire with some actors in it...it was sort of boring, but it had some excelelnt quotes: "our music will ling...
Posted by SKATES on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:54:00 PST

i dont think you realize

that the image posted under gemini is painted by none other then the talented and famous Mr. Barnaby Whitfield...please check out his site http://www.barnabywhitfield.comand give props for the wonderf...
Posted by SKATES on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:14:00 PST

NEW SONG

that being said, i would like to point out that the new song Gemini is up and doing FAB,,,it got 600 hits in the first 3 daze of it being up and it got played on indie 103.1 fm ... plus i composed it ...
Posted by SKATES on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:50:00 PST

Resonance Magazine - All Music Guide - CMJ New Music Monthly

Resonance Magazine - Issue 43Lord Of the Rinks EPIf ever a social movement forms whose goal is the legitimation of adolescent, recreational incest, this is the EP they should blare at their rallies. A...
Posted by SKATES on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 03:32:00 PST

Frontiers and Oregeon Barameter Reviews

SKATES talks to Lennon, creates her own brand of hip-hauntBy Jacob Jennings SKATES aka Melissa Dungan aka MQ Musik, is not only a musician of many aliases, but has connections on other planets and eat...
Posted by SKATES on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:20:00 PST

blunt bluntness

a blunt object..........metal..............cold.............transfor med into droplets that rained, and it seemed likeit would be gentler than the knife, since rain is often nice, but it was actually m...
Posted by SKATES on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:11:00 PST

ENERGY

after fridays show i am soo tired, im talking a break from live shows untill the new year...all weekend i spent in watching movies...so drained....three out of the 6 movies i watchedwere loosley relat...
Posted by SKATES on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:35:00 PST

adams review

Intense and Lovely, Hip and Strange!, November 11, 2004 Reviewer: Adam Greenberg "student" (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews Skates are rad, cool, bizarre, get into your blood. Melissa Du...
Posted by SKATES on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST