Member Since: 4/6/2008
Band Website: getdeer.com
Band Members: Brian Young, Joe Skyward, Dave Mortenson
Influences: Paul Revere and the Raiders, Jimmy Reed, Claude Levi Strauss, The Zero End, Sir Douglas Quintet, Sun Ra, Coltrane, The Velvet Underground, El Amor, Wipers, Dead Moon, Can, Almendra, Manal, Roy Brown, Jean Baudrillard, Big Star, Hank Ballard, Minutemen, disraeli, Dug Dug's, Zombies, Kinks, Neil Young, Husker Du, Replacements, Only Ones, Beatles, La Quinta Vision, Stooges, Left Banke, The Smoke, The Troggs, The Reasons Why, Rudimentary Peni, Fugazi, Volcano Suns, Perfumed Garden Vols I and II, Funkadelic, The Fugs, The Godz ("White Cat Heat" IS the greatest rock song ever waxed, by the way!), The Chambers Brothers, Hendrix, Creedence, Dream Sydnicate, Salvation Army, Room 9, Green Pajamas, Three O' Clock, Rain Parade, Daily Flash, Sonics, Beauregard, Al Green, Little Willie John, The Shags, Indexi, Fabulous Wailers, Hamlet's Mill, Walking Seeds, Los Locos Del Ritmo, Soda Stereo, Richard Brautigan, Seeds, Count Five, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Sharrock, The Lyres, Kaptain Kopter and the Fabulous Twirly Birds, Parliament, Bob Dylan, The Speed Queens, Buffalo Springfield, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, John Coltrane, Dollar Brand, The Byrds, The Scruffs, Lloyd Cole and The Commotions, Yes (hi Joe!), Television, Tom Verlaine, The Ramones, The Beach Boys, The Clovers, The Flamingos, The Ravens, Buzzcocks, Soft Boys, Barracudas, Flamin' Groovies, Elliot Smith, Richard Thompson.
Sounds Like: If you took two parts El Amor (or substituted a healthy mixture of Beatles in mono, Left Banke, Dug Dug's, Paisley Underground, Sir Douglas Quintet and Kinks) two parts Wipers and one part '60's northwest garage rock, added a dash each of Husker Du and Minutemen, shook it up real good and served it in mostly two-and-a-half-minute chunks, you'd be close.
Record Label: get deer records
Type of Label: Indie