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yacob

About Me

solo recordings of yacob; been in existence (writing songs in this particular idiom) since age 14; started playing solo shows and putting out cd-r albums at age 15. currently 22. have lived in Spanish Fort, Loxley, Mobile, Alabama, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Honolulu, hi, & am currently on tour with no babies for a coupla months livin in a van until i move to OAKLAND, CA. the ghosts of those who came before in all of these places inhabit and influence the music's sounds. my mom is a retired teacher & my dad is an engineer/computer electro stuff person and a bluegrass musician. my record label is Albacore Records & is not exclusive to yacob albums. i do lots of writing, art, activism, adventuring/exploring, letterwriting, acting, & performance besides recording music. Bands I have been in: Salmon, Yacob (current), I Thought Too Hard, Migrant Workers, Almost Alec, Luke & Yacob, Abominations, ES Fat Kitty, Slomo Sigtrigga and the Ineffable/Fucking Bandits, The Difference Engine (hiatusing), Bloody Jellies, Doomsday Pussy Cat Squad, the Debutantes, CONFLICT HYMENS, Sug Knight, DJ Gangstagunfuck Carter, Klactoveedsedstene, Tiny Doctors, Night Mare Drum Song, No Babies (MOST CURRENT), sundry others. Have assisted: Will Colquitt Deathrockboy Brett, The Dictionaries, The Pine Hill Haints, Adam Daedelus, XBXRX, The Debutantes, Hence The Plagues, XORDER UPX. Instruments I have played: voice, piano, guitar, bass, mandolin, drums, melodica, harmonica, flute, clarinet, trombone, musical saw, organ, keyboard, violin, banjo, washtub bass, upright bass, cello, thumb piano, toy piano, computer, balloons, pinecones, circuit bending noizbox, percussion, lap steel, ukulele, bass clarinet, khen pe, bike-o-phone, washing machine, etc. I also have a compulsion to hit every piece of scrap metal I pass as I am ever in search of the perfect clang. My hardest problem in life is attempting to hold steadfast to my romantic notions of it.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/12/2005
Band Website: http://www.livejournal.com/users/yacob/
Band Members: Jacob Daniel McCann + willingly participating audience members
Influences: They Might Be Giants, The Microphones, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Mountain Goats, Joanna Newsom, Tom Waits, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, This Heat, The Birthday Party, Nation of Ulysses, Beat Happening, Half Japanese, Beck, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, The Pine Hill Haints, Howlin' Wolf, Ghost Mice, Gileah, Hawnay Troof, Public Enemy, Thelonious Monk, The Muppets, Lesley Gore, Xiu Xiu, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Gustav Mahler, Minor Threat, Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs, Of Montreal, Clinic, LL Cool J, Can Kickers, The Ink Spots, Rudimentary Peni, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Buchner, Franz Kafka, mushymouth kids, DJ Screw, James Chance, Rahzel
Sounds Like: the twitterpated pitter patter of my hummingbird heart
Record Label: Albacore Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Origin of the What-Man (comic draft)

hey save this file and maybe zoom in to read better. anyway this is an idea i had for a comic strip, just the first draft. im going to do another in ink with color. i'd like to hear some feedback. i ...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:30:00 GMT

starting up online record label

it would be lovely if anyone could give me assistance on this endeavor:what i intend to do is to start up an online file hosting site with simple html descriptions and downloads of every album up til ...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:56:00 GMT

in less than a month (here too)

i will be trying out being homelessitll definetly be better than my current living sitution which is kind of the shit end of the sticki'll letchall know how it goesif anybody wants any of my stuff tak...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:37:00 GMT

2007

2007, retrospective january beginning started with cold with tiarre living in alabama, with being in love, then leaving on tour in the middle of the month. travelling up the east coast, meeting a lot...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:10:00 GMT

here im gonna post the lyrix to the new diff engine recording

FREE AGENTS OF DA STEAM AGE intro:..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> yo muthafuckas i'm a radical so check ya periodicals you might find i killed a president at ...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:32:00 GMT

hawaii nei is where im gonna stay

in less than two days i will be in hawaii. i am really excited to cheesily start a new part of my life in a new part of the world with my love tiarre. january the difference engine made a final hurra...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:16:00 GMT

the army is tired now

Dear Editor and Readers, I am forty mighty iron gibbons. Screeching, we reach out of cupped hands at your feet for dribbled jaundiced crumbs that spill from the excessive crusty gushings of thy ...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:42:00 GMT

i got a honey wit a yoni dat i wanna honihoni

excitement is bestowed upon mine existence!! harken thus: the difference engine is restarting. we are going to write the shit out of some new songs. we are playing thursday the 28th of september with ...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:54:00 GMT

Mush is a mushy isthmus in puss.

writing seven essays this week, then i'm going to try to get devolution summer # 2 done. this SATURDAY at sluggo's in pensacola, i am playing drums with xOrder Upx, the best pizza edge band ever and ...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:20:00 GMT

xORDER UPx video, LMNOP do yacob cover, racismo

holy hell life is pretty gnar here's what i want you all to do for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpRhneftrOs video of xOrder Upx & you will see the type of pandemonium that is DEVOLUTION SUMM...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:11:00 GMT