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pHoTon baNd

About Me

our solar system's sun is the outermost planet of another solar system. as the earth revolves around the sun, the sun is moving towards a huge band of photonic matter. every year since about 1962, our planet has been immersed in the photon band for increased amounts of time. by 2012, we will be fully immersed in the photon band. oh yeah, and read a book every now and then, for god's sake. you might LEARN something.here's a separate snocap store that will contain an increasing number of unreleased tunes / alternate versions of songs appearing on albums. these will probably never appear on any of our albums. but i will feature one or two in the myspace player so that you can sample before you buy. get to grabbin'.this just in: you rock. and in other news, we are coming BACK (the eff) DOWN TO EARTH. why, I don't know. it's a mess down there. but where else can you get doritos? buy this album. it kind of looks like this:((('get down here in the stratosphere'))); is also out on all major digital venues including iTunes and above on SnoCap.I made this video for the title track, called "stratosphere". I know life is hard, what with all the problems Britney's been having lately, but...try to enjoy it, please. It takes us through all stages of evolution, from the primoridial muck all the way to humanity's most advanced form, the jackson 5.The great Scot Colan made the next video of our song "Where Did the Love Go?" Watching this will do you good in ways you can't figure out.if that doesn't make you feel better, we will be gigging on the 27th of May with The 1990s at JohnnyBrendas...and then again on the 31st of May at the Art Star Craft Bazaar (Penn's Landing) with The Mural & The Mint, Like A Fox, Photon Band, Padre Pio and North Lawence Midnight Singers. Come be in the same room with us while we play. You can cover your ears if you'd like.in the meantime, to simulate what is undoubtedly the mind blowing experience of watching grown men in their late 30s and early 40s honk on their instruments in a too-dark club, hook your computer up to a big fat old stereo with speaker furniture, and turn these youtubes ALL THE WAY UP.(photon band mark v at johnnybrendas, december, '08, right before the shit hit the fan (((camerawork, and griping, by the incomparable elise brown)))) (photon band mark iv at johnnybrendas, august, '07 (((viddy by greg knowles, chumpire))))I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/24/2005
Band Website: you're lookin' at it.
Band Members: we are all in the photon band. but art plays guitar, sings, and writes the songs. simon played drums, but now jason and sometimes patrick does (and in the studio, sometimes noel does, too). jeff played bass, but now he plays guitar. chris scooby-snacks plays bass now. others who have helped include: gary plowman (i miss you, brother, and this band wouldn't exist if it wasn't for you), kevin morpurgo, noelle, sean byrne, tracy stanton, n. edward farnsworth iii, mike lenert, brendan gallagher, seth baer, jim slade, jim mcmahon, and jamie mahon. the last photo session of photon band mark ii, the art, jeff, and simon lineup (jeff and simon keep looking up).photon band mark iii, at "artist's @ work", december, 2002, with art, brendan gallagher on drums, tanman on bass. video by (((denise vacca, aka denise milkyway)))photon band mark iv (the present): art, jason (drums), scoobysnacks (bass), tanman (doing the thing, at right) (((photo by nadine dodge)))mark iv, continuing to look up (jeff, art, jason, chris; photo by jessica kourkounis)
Influences: intuition, john lennon, the creation, syd, jimi hendrix, t-rex!!!!, the who, roky, the jam, bob dylan, neil young, yes, the jackson five, susan stewart, t.s. eliot, scriabin, satie, spaceman 3, brother jt, original sins, prisoners, jamie taylor quartet, booker t. and the mg's, brooker t. of the espers, the city of philadelphia, and thus SUN RA and THE ARKESTRA, john coltrane, and the NAZZ!, raw pogo, nice pooper, the stooges, maerten van heemskerck, eric dejesus, andy clees, the dealers, the uptown bones, aesops fravel, we have heaven, rainbeau mars, noel babineau, gelcaps, aleister, spacebosss, usion, yousion.
Sounds Like: the who through a foghorn with ringo on drums and john on vocals, or the beatles through a transistor radio with keith on drums and pete on guitar, or neil young through a tin can and string telephone with bob dylan on lyrics and jimi hendrix tasting colors while mixing, or like this:combined with this
Record Label: compulsiv, darla, chumpire, 100 GM, empyrean
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Photon Band YouTubes

For those of you who still actually USE this thing... as the academic year is drawing to a close and i have more time to devote to frivolities like my rock band. The pHoTon baNd's inner circle of sel...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:47:00 GMT

pre-hibernation premelodicmeditation

We love you, Philadelphia.9.30, Brown Recluse (don't miss it, old people, you love these kids and don't even know it yet).10.30, Audible (the smooth solution to your troubles)11.30, pHoTon baNd (menta...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:46:00 GMT

aleister opera co-lab-oration

you....you and your thing...it needs to come into contact with aleister...http://www.myspace.com/aleisterxaleister is my supremely gifted friend over several lifetimes. he and i have been convening on...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:01:00 GMT

stickin’ it to the man (vol. 4): "cat on a branch"

dear you,another never before released tune -- called "cat on a branch" -- is up in our snocap boutique (that's it's the *second* snocap window, the one below the part that says "about pHoTon baNd").r...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:48:00 GMT

Our New Facebook Page

just in case you've missed bulletins.we have a facebook page now.construction continues at a snail's pace....slowly...(mainly because facebook is a pain in the ass site, and, like, i have a life, peop...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:55:00 GMT

cosmic spree: feb-arch-pril-ay-une-ly.

number 1: i'm a doctor now. number 2: we're playing out in august (let's storm the m-room on august 22d). New Yorker's take note: piano's on the 23rd. number 3: we're recording again.number 4: ....nu...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:59:00 GMT

"Alone on the Moon" now available on iTunes

....¶"ªº¶"ª......??°?Æø¨¥ ? ¥......are you tired of sexpills that don't work? well....our 2001 release, "alone on the moon" (previously a vinyl-only release on darla) has now been digitized.(and for...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 10:13:00 GMT

Record Release Gigger: Fri. feb. 8th

stop watching american idol. for real...@ Johnny Brendas, this Friday, Feb. 8th. When you're done with Cat Power, come see us...with the Novenas (at 9.30): Amy is so psychic that she wrote a song ab...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:51:00 GMT

re-entry phase ii ("back down to earth", this tuesday Jan. 22d)

Kids, it's happening.... "Back Down to Earth"...((( - our first full length since 2003's "It's a Lonely Planet" - )))) comes out on Tuesday, January 22.For a preview, check out the first three songs o...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:11:00 GMT

cosmic spree: Sep-oct-nov-ber-uary

A telegram from outer (and inner) space:We are coming back down to earth. Here's why. Space sucked. You people think you've got it so bad down there, but really, you're wrong: we didn't have Justin...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:19:00 GMT