Member Since: 11/16/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/thejadeamenity
Band Members: Tommy Mills: Lead Vocals, Lead/Rhythm Guitars live, All Intruments on All Recordings Featured. All songs recorded, Written, Arranged, produced and mixed by Tommy Mills.
Lance Richard: Drums and Percusion
Mikey Hart: Bass
Influences: Too many to list... but I guess I'll try anyway.Smashing Pumpkins, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley,The Doors, John Cipollina, Quicksilver messenger service, Kristen Pfaff, Janitor Joe,Nirvana,Syd Barret era Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Poltiano, Hot to Trot, Brownsville Station, Steve Mills, The FBI, Radiohead, Bob Dylan,Donovan, Neil Young, Question Mark and the Mysterians Flaming Lips, Mudhoney,The Chocolate watch band, Black Sabbath,Emitt Rhoades,Beatles, Vanilla Fudge, The Seeds, Alice in Chains, Mad Season,Carve, The Stooges,The Great Society, The Status Quo (earlier era), Tommy James & the Shondells, Otis Redding, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly,Albert King, Blue Cheer, The Sleepers, Dave Brubeck, The Dave Clark 5, The Creation, Meat Puppets, Link Wray,The Beau Brummels, Blind Melon, Deathray, The Leaves, Snail (Both the '60s/70s Santa Cruz area band, and the other "Snail" from the early '90s)It's A Beautiful Day, Local H, Butthole Surfers, earlier Stones, The Music Explosion, Don Van Vliet A.K.A "Captain Beefheart," The Monks, The Woolies, The Remains, Cowboy Junkies, Mazzy Star, The Byrds, Cracker, Pavement, Frank Hannon, rusty old Fuzz boxes, Old Fender Amps, Old Monky-wards gear, Crusty old mics, Single coil pick-up 60-cycle hum, Teisco "Del Ray's", Drama, old crusty things.... creatively conjured frustration, Frusteration conjured by old crusty things, scandalous behavior by over-grown munchkins, All Misunderstandings of the universe, umm... Much More, and many that people probably wouldn't remember.
Sounds Like: The Jade Amenity? "No Sighlence"? "Jaded Sighlence!" (Yes, not Silence.)
Frank Hannon, Gary Hoey and Tommy Mills circa 2000 at The Boardwalk Sacramento, CA
Record Label: I Am currently looking for a label to call my home
Type of Label: None