Member Since: 15/06/2008
Band Members:
Cody Gaisser - production, composition, vocals, 6- and 12-string acoustic and electric guitars, upright and electric basses, banjo, mandolin, keyboards, drums, auxilliary percussion, clarinet, noise-making toys, and assorted non-instruments.
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Cody Gaisser at Last.fm
Influences:
Music:
Brian Eno...
Before & After Science, Another Green World, Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy, Here Come The Warm Jets, No Pussyfooting (with Robert Fripp), Low (by David Bowie), Remain In Light (by Talking Heads), Q: Are We Not Men (by Devo);
XTC...
English Settlement, Drums & Wires, Black Sea, Mummer, Skylarking, White Music, Go 2, Transistor Blast, Chips From the Chocolate Fireball (by Dukes of the Stratosphear)2;
Captain Beefheart...
Trout Mask Replica, Mirror Man, Safe As Milk, Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), Clear Spot;
Ornette Coleman...
Science Fiction, Twins, Free Jazz, The Shape of Jazz to Come, Change of the Century, This is Our Music;
the Beatles...
Revolver, White Album, Magical Mystery Tour, Rubber Soul, Plastic Ono Band (by John Lennon), Imagine (by John Lennon), Ram (by Paul McCartney), All Things Must Pass (by George Harrison), Wonderwall Music (by George Harrison), Electronic Sound (by George Harrison);
Ennio Morricone...
Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More;
Steve Reich...
Music For 18 Musicians, Piano Phase, Come Out, It's Gonna Rain, Clapping Music, Different Trains;
Terry Riley...
A Rainbow in Curved Air/Poppy Nogood & the Phantom Band, In C, Church of Anthrax (with John Cale),
Carla Bley...
Escalator Over the Hill (with Paul Haines, Don Cherry, Jack Bruce, John McLaughlin, Viva, Linda Ronstadt, etc.), Tropic Appetites (with Paul Haines);
Jimi Hendrix...
Electric Ladyland, Axis: Bold As Love, Are You Experienced, Band of Gypsies;
Roy Wood...
Mustard, Boulders, Wizzard Brew (by Wizzard), Introducing Eddy & the Falcons (by Wizzard), Shazam (by the Move), No Answer (by Electric Light Orchestra);
Charles Ives...
Three Quarter Tone Piano Pieces,;
Big Star...
Third/Sister Lovers, Radio City, 1 Record, Like Flies On Sherbert (by Alex Chilton);
Elvis Costello...
Armed Forces, This Year's Model, Blood & Chocolate, Get Happy;
Neil Young...
After the Gold Rush, On the Beach, Tonight's the Night, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Zuma, Neil Young, Harvest, Rust Never Sleeps (concert film), Human Highway (film), Mirror Ball, Broken Arrow, "Like A Hurricane," "The Will To Love," "Broken Arrow" (song by Buffalo Springfield), Deja Vu (with CSNY);
Talk Talk...
Laughing Stock, Spirit of Eden, The Colour of Spring, It's My Life, Mark Hollis (by Mark Hollis);
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan...
The Final Recordings (produced by Rick Rubin), Mustt Mustt, Passion (by Peter Gabriel);
Cocteau Twins...
Treasure, Victorialand, Blue Bell Knoll, Garlands;
Kate Bush...
The Hounds of Love;
Lee "Scratch" Perry...
Super Ape (by the Upsetters), War In A Babylon (by Max Romeo), Police & Thieves (by Junior Murvin);
Rashaan Roland Kirk...
The Inflated Tear, Volunteered Slavery;
Can...
Ege Bamyasi, Future Days, Tago Mago;
Echo & the Bunnymen...
Ocean Rain, Crocodiles;
Todd Rundgren...
A Wizard A True Star, Todd, Something/Anything, Runt, The Ballad of Todd Rundgren, Nazz Nazz (by the Nazz), "Open My Eyes" (by the Nazz) , New York Dolls (by New York Dolls), Skylarking (by XTC), Stage Fright (by the Band), Straight Up (by Badfinger);
Bob Dylan...
Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin', Bringing It All Back Home, Self Portrait, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, Planet Waves, Blood On the Tracks, Complete Basement Tapes (bootlegs), Love & Theft, Modern Times;
My Bloody Valentine...
Loveless, Isn't Anything;
The Smiths...
The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths, Meat Is Murder, Strangeways Here We Come, Bona Drag (by Morrissey);
The Stone Roses...
The Stone Roses, Turns Into Stone;
Roy Orbison...
Bear Family Box Set, Mystery Girl, Black & White Night (concert film), "Crying," "Only The Lonely," "In Dreams,";
Arnold Schoenberg...
;
Peter Gabriel...
Peter Gabriel (III), Passion, Peter Gabriel (I), The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (by Genesis);
Richard Lloyd...
Marquee Moon (by Television), 100% Fun (by Matthew Sweet), Altered Beast (by Matthew Sweet), Girlfriend (by Matthew Sweet), Alchemical Guitarist (Guitar World column and instructional videos), and the wealth of information about music theory and the guitar at www.richardlloyd.com;
John Coltrane...
;
Alice Coltrane...
Journey In Satchidananda;
Miles Davis...
In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Sketches of Spain, Kind Of Blue, Birth of Cool;
Ravi Shankar...
Three Ragas, In San Francisco, Sounds of India, Concert for Bangladesh, In Celebration;
Boo Radleys...
Giant Steps;
Animal Collective...
Strawberry Jam;
Wu-Tang Clan...
Enter the Wu-Tang (The 36 Chambers), Liquid Swords (by GZA), 36 Chambers The Dirty Version (by Ol' Dirty Bastard);
Public Enemy...
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back;
Celtic Frost...
To Mega Therion, Into the Pandemonium, Morbid Tales, Monotheist;
Cinema, TV, Animation:
David Lynch...
Eraserhead, the Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire;
Alejandro Jodorowsky...
Holy Mountain, El Topo, Santa Sangre, Fando Y Lis, La Cravate;
Ingmar Bergman...
Torment, To Joy, the Seventh Seal, Hour of the Wolf;
Woody Allen...
Bananas, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, Sleepr, Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Broadway Danny Rose, Hannah & Her Sisters, September, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Shadows & Fog, Husbands & Wives, Match Point, Casino Royale;
Terry Gilliam...
Time Bandits, Brazil, the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, the Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, The Life Of Brian (by Monty Python), The Meaning of Life/Crimson Permanent Assurance (by Monty Python), Monty Python's Flying Circus;
Mel Blanc...
Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies - Duck Amuck, What's Opera Doc?, Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century, ;
Chuck Jones...
Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies, Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Woody Woodpecker, Yosemite Sam, Pepe Le Pew, Sylvester, Tweety, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Elmer Fudd, Wile E Coyote (when he actually spoke), Speedy Gonzales, Tasmanian Devil, Barney Rubble, Dino, Secret Squirrel, Captain Caveman, Heathcliff, Gideon Figaro and Cleo from Pinocchio, various characters in the Phantom Tolbooth ;
Friz Freleng...
Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies, Pink Panther Show;
Stanley Kubrick...
Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, the Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut;
Sergio Leone...
Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More;
Robert De Niro...
Meet Streets, Taxi Driver, the Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, the King of Comedy, Brazil, Goodfellas, Jackie Brown;
Martin Scorsese...
Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, the Last Waltz, Raging Bull, the King of Comedy, After Hours, Goodfellas, the Aviator, the Departed;
Busby Berkeley...
42nd Street;
Krzysztof Kieślowski...
Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red;
Luis Buñuel...
the Phantom of Liberty, Belle Du Jour, Un chien andalou (with Salvador Dali), L'Âge d'or (with Salvador Dali), the Exterminating Angel, Simon of the Desert;
Alfred Hitchcock...
The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, Rebecca, Spellbound (with Salvador Dali), Rope, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, the Birds, Frenzy;
Michel Gondry...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Science of Sleep, Dave Chapelle's Block Party, music videos for White Stripes, Beck, Bjork, Radiohead, Cibo Matto, Massive Attack, etc.;
Charlie Kaufman...
Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Synecdoche New York;
Wes Anderson...
Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Darjeeling Limited;
Walt Disney...
Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad, Cinderella, Alive in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady & the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood;
Don Bluth...
The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail;
Jim Henson...
The Dark Crystal, The Muppet Show, Muppet Movie, Great Muppet Caper, Labyrinth;
Quintin Tarantino...
Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill;
Joel & Ethan Coen...
Barton Fink, the Big Lebowski, the Man Who Wasn't There, No Country For Old Men;
Paul Thomas Anderson...
Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood;
Spike Lee...
Do The Right Thing
Jan Svankmajer...
Alice, Collected Shorts;
Miscellaneous...
Singing In The Rain, Evil Dead II, High Fidelity, Ghost World
Visual and "fine" (big quotes there) art, not comics:
Salvador Dali...
The Hallucinogenic Toreador, Slave Market With The Disappearing Bust of Voltaire, Galatea of the Spheres, Un chien andalou (film with Luis Buñuel), L'Âge d'or (with Luis Buñuel), Spellbound (film with Alfred Hitchcock);
Pablo Picasso...
Guernica;
Hieronymus Bosch...
Christ Child With a Walking-Frame, Garden of Earthly Delights, Tondal's Vision;
Max Ernst...
The Eye of Silence, Europe After the Rain II, L'Ange du foyer ou Le Triomphe du surréalisme, The Temptation of St. Anthony, My Friend Pierrot, the Night-Prowling Fish;
Redmedios Varo...
Useless Science or The Alchemist, Creation of the Birds, Exploration of the Source of the Orinoco River, Visit to the Plastic Surgeon's, Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst, pretty much everything else I've seen;
Gustav Klimt...
Tree of Life, Hygeia, Pallas Athene, Judith I & II, Wasserschlagen I;
Egon Schiele...
;
Vincent Van Gogh...
Wheat Field With Crows, Prisoners Exercising, The Church at Auvers-sur-Oise, The Night Cafe, Starry Night Over the Rhone, Cypresses;
Edvard Munch...
Love and Pain (Vampire), the Scream, Madonna;
Jackson Pollock...
Male and Female, the She-Wolf, Number 7 (1951);
Man Ray...
Champs Délicieux No 5, Lydia (double exposure);
Maurice Tabard...
;
Edward Steichen...
Gloria Swanson New York 1924, Marlene Dietrich, Paul Robeson, ;
Kevin Carter...
;
Henri Cartier-Bresson...
;
Francis Bacon...
Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, Painting;
H.R. Giger...
;
M.C. Escher...
;
Literature:
Franz Kafka...
The Trial, The Metamorphosis;
Kurt Vonnegut...
Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five or the Children's Crusade;
William Faulkner...
As I Lay Dying, the Sound & the Fury;
Albert Camus...
The Stranger;
George Orwell...
1984, Animal Farm;
Edgar Allen Poe...
The Masque of the Red Death, Annabel Lee, the Tell Tale Heart;
Oscar Wilde...
The Importance of Being Earnest, The Happy Prince, The Birthday of the Infanta;
Comic strips, books, and graphic novels:
Winsor McCay...
Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend, Little Nemo in Slumberland;
Alan Moore...
V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, Watchmen, Captain Britain;
Dave Sim...
Cerebus, High Society, Church & State I & II, Jaka's Story, Melmoth;
Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean...
The Sandman (comic book series by Gaiman with cover art by McKean), Coraline (book by Gaiman illustrated by McKean), Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (graphic novel by Grant Morrison with art by McKean), Mirrormask (film by McKean co-written by Gaiman);
Bill Watterson...
Calvin & Hobbes;
George Herriman...
Krazy Kat;
Daniel Clowes...
Ghost World (graphic novel and Terry Zwigoff film adaptation);
Jack Kirby...
OMAC: One Man Army Corps;
Stand-up comedy, spoken word, and performance art:
Lenny Bruce...
;
George Carlin...
;
Richard Pryor...
;
Andy Kaufman...
Andy's Funhouse, appearances on Fridays, professional wrestling, foreign man;
Lord Buckley...
The Bad-Rapping of the Marquis de Sade the King of Bad Cats, the Nazz, ;
Philosophy, science, politics, mysticism, theory, criticism, miscellaneous academia:
Noam Chomsky...
;
Jean-Paul Sartre...
No Exit, the Flies, Dirty Hands, Respectful Prostitute;
Allan Watts...
;
Robert Anton Wilson...
Maybe Logic;
Richard Dawkins...
The Root of All Evil, Enemies of Reason, Nice Guys Finish First;
Stephen Hawking...
Stephen Hawking's Universe;
Lester Bangs...
Main Lines Blood Feasts & Bad Taste;
Piero Scaruffi...
www.scaruffi.com;
Fictional characters:
Daffy Duck (in the anarchy of his youth as well as in his tormented later years),
;
Cerebus (the aardvark),
;
Cyclops (X-Men),
;
Loki (Norse myth),
;
Cain and Abel (DC comics),
;
Calvin & Hobbes,
;
Ignatz the Mouse (Krazy Kat)
;
People in my life:
Rev. Rex Ubu,
Red Mouth,
Trevor Evans-Young,
Jonathan Bynum,
Sam Nix,
and the spectacular Claudia O'Steen
Sounds Like:A slender, gilded flute being scraped across the hypothetical topography of Being.
... or, in the words of others:
"...the new, Cody Gaisser-produced affair is wilder, bluesier – and more focused. Frankly, it’s a joy... Fine songs from Mr. Gebhardt, inventive production from Mr. Gaisser, great playing and fantastic feel from everybody involved. Recommended."
- Andres Roots, Blues-Finland.com (Jun 21, 2007)
"[Gaisser] put enough ass into it to make a high hat and a floor tom sound like a whole kit and to keep a whole roomful of jaws on the floor."
- Lee E. Bains, The Great Wall of Birmingham (Mar 10, 2008)
"The biggest contributions come from Cody Gaisser of The Longships... his wacky production ideas are all over this CD... The result is a lot of fun to hear."
- Matt Osborne, Shoals Sound (Nov 14, 2007)
"A musical epiphany. [The Static's] set was one of those instances where the band to genuinely enjoy what they’re doing and I’ve never seen so much energy. There was handfuls of glitter flying thru the air. There was this wave of panic through the crowd as everybody fought to get to the microphone."
- Jinn Kaufman, Nuvo.Net
"Top 10 shows of 2004"
The Static basement show (Bloomington, IN)
AND
The Static/Places/City Water Bandits/Deadbeat Betties @ Emerson Theater (Indianapolis, IN)
- Jinn Kaufman, Nuvo.Net
Record Label: Abyssal Plain
Type of Label: Indie