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And here's Mirrors Across the Ocean from The SpaceDragon

Here's the "What the Kids All Want" video:

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Music:

Member Since: 11/5/2005
Band Website: y5kmusic.com/
Band Members:

For the DreamBoat working Year 5000 was:
Mat Probasco: Guitars, voice, bass, percussions.
Trevino Brings Plenty: Organs, Guitar, Mandolin.
Jade Eckler: Voice.

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For the SpaceDragon working Year 5000 was:
Mat Probasco: Guitars, voice, bass, percussions, noises, electro-nonsense, field records, dying horns, glockenspiel
Ritchie S. Young: Drums, backing voice, percussions, other things
Joel D. Holly: Guitar solo, tears and boing, hand in the glove
Rob Oberdorfer: Guitars, keys, glockenspiel, drums, percussions, processing
Kate O'Brien: Strings, voice
Jade: Voice
Jay Clarke: Keys
Peter Broderick: Singing saw, Trumpet
Tim Roth and Dr. Ryan Hayes : Choir

Past band members have included:Brian Gumpert (HurtBird), Rob Duncan (The Standard).
Influences: Airport noises, fnord, crowd sounds, ailing airconditioners, bugs that don't bite, stuff in swimming pool filters, animals in general, dreams and waking dreams and wakefulness, wind chimes, cartoon theme music and terrorist rationality, trees, machinery, cat mentality, old Jeeps and VWs that hummm in an electric way, girls and women, shit in the sky. Ceiling fans ...

Tame the SaberToothCat?!?

Remember, you are thirst.

Year 5000 -- "Yield Star"
Sounds Like: Zombie Rock

Dream music, really. It's best thought of in dream-state logic.
Where do crashing helocopters and lullabies meet? How the fish tickle in your bed? Or smell your pillow underwater?
I don't get it either.

Record Label: fnord
Type of Label: None

My Blog

It’s on ...

the show at the DOUG FIR LOUNGE in PORTLAND, OR is on.Aug. 7Line up, so far, looks like:Kate O'Brien-Clark -- violinRyan Cross -- Glockenspiel, concertina, voiceJay Clark -- keysJade -- voiceTrevino B...
Posted by Year 5000 on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:39:00 PST

Post-show ...

The Delancey has, hands-down, the best stage sound for any venue in NYC I've played. You may not realize how much it hinders a performer if s/he can't hear anything but the blare of the guitar amp beh...
Posted by Year 5000 on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:52:00 PST

Show at The Delancey

This should be a good one ... playing with band Double Truck.Nice early start time: 8p.m.Wednesday, 2/20/08
Posted by Year 5000 on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:19:00 PST

Shows offered ... will I accept?

New shows? Hmmmm ... (Long, long stair into the wall ...) Hmmm.Dunno.
Posted by Year 5000 on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:43:00 PST

Mat in Magazine

Hi all,Equilibrium Magazine has printed a story by Y5k's Mat Probasco in its Issue 7 (Aleph Knot Press). It's a truncated version of a story written and posted here a while back, "Big Men."Check out E...
Posted by Year 5000 on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:44:00 PST

Summer 2007

Ha ha! Ho ho! What are we doing now? We're just about r4eady for beddy-bye, got me jammies on ... New Recordings with Trevino Brings Plenty ready soon. Just finishing up recordings now. (Sorry to be...
Posted by Year 5000 on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:01:00 PST

These are Y5k pop song lyrics?

How shall we measure the vast drown depths of time?Is it minute by minute, or miles?Under a bridge called forever the ice cream of consciousness is dripping down the arm. It won't be long before we gr...
Posted by Year 5000 on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:45:00 PST

Great show marred by racist "comedy"

The show at Voodoo Lounge below Lucky Chang's was great, aside from a racist comic who seemed to be hosting the evening. Lady's and gentlemen, there is nothing funny in songs about hanging people bec...
Posted by Year 5000 on Wed, 23 May 2007 01:29:00 PST

Y5k post-show self-review

Saturday night at the famous Knitting Factory in Manhattan was, erm, interesting. The lyrics to Mirrors Across The Ocean, from the SpaceDragon record go: "Outside the weather is cold and it's pouri...
Posted by Year 5000 on Sun, 20 May 2007 07:07:00 PST

New Poem (Flat rabbit sandpaper hillstop)

Mr. United States  Long neck gibberish   No running by the pool    Hand held waitress adapter     Foo-foo public hair comb   Old lady in white shorts &nb...
Posted by Year 5000 on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:02:00 PST