Music:
Member Since: 12/22/2005
Band Website: http://towersofshowers.blogspot.com/
Band Members: Teledildonics 5ooo aka Spengler the Strangler aka Towers of Showers aka Showers of Power aka the Brown Recluse
Influences: The lowest brow:
Letting the headcases out on safari:
Rock and Roll. Soul. fake Fake Jazz. Tropical Rock Music. African R&B. 4Track Savants. Fringe Pop. NegroPsych. Prewar Country, Primitive Geniuses.
Steely Dan, Sun City Girls, Cluster, Faust, Neu!, Toru Takemitsu, Caetano Veloso, Terry Riley, Terry Reid, Shogun Kunitoki, Serge Gainsbourg's Cannabis sndtrk, Popol Vuh, Cosmic Jokers, Kraftwerk/Organisation, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler's "Truth is Marching In," Sonny Sharrock, Ennio Morricone's "Exorcist II" OST, The Miles Davis song "Rated X," Penderecki, The Rebel Ben Waller & The Country Teasers, Shelby Bryant's Cloud Wow Music, Kool Keith, Gang Starr, Daniel Higgs/Lungfish, Snakefinger, the Oblivians, Bruce Haack, Brian Eno/Robert Fripp's "No Pussyfooting," ELO/The Move, Giorgio Moroder's "Son of my Father," Glenn Branca, Glenn Campbell, Roy Montgomery, Growing, Swell Maps, Six Finger Satellite, X, Bad Brains, Syd Barrett, The Staple Singer's cover of Bob Dylan's "Masters of War," Bob Dylan's "New Morning" and when he was wearing that white pancake makeup on his face and shooting heroin and shit before going born-again, Red Shark, The Tall Dwarfs, The Clean, The Godz, Katey Red, Quintron, Korla Pandit, John Cale's Paris 1919, Iggy Pop's New Values et The Idiot, Lou Reed's Coney Island Baby, Nilsson, Roky Erickson, Kim Fowley's I'm Bad LP, Ariel Pink, the Kinks, The Pretty Things' "Phillipe DeBarge" bootleg, the Rolling Stones when on kief or LSD, not heroin, Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Helicopter String Quartet," Joe Meek, R. Stevie Moore
The Weathermen, The Weather Underground, Celine, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, Harmony Korinne's "A CrackUp At The Race Riots" and "Pass the Chicken, Bitch," Elmore Leonard, Jim Thompson, Henry Miller, Herman Hesse, Lords of Chaos, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD, Richard Brautigan, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Werner Herzog, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Klaus Kinski, Mel Brooks, Cassavettes' "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie," I Am Cuba, Suspiria, Man Bites Dog, I'm in love with Ellen Greene as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Fassbinder's "Kamikaze 1989," Mike McCarthy, Coffin Joe aka José Mojica Marins, Detroit 9000, The Harder They Come, Peter Sellers, The Black Hole, Blade Runner, Sam Peckinpah, Warren Oates, Heaven's Gate, Terence Malick, Wim Wenders' book "Once," GIUSEPPE ANDREWS, Akira Kurosawa, Paul Schrader's "Hardcore," Straight Time, Coonskin, Dr. Who, Moebius, Heavy Metal Magazine, Dungeons, Dragons
Ill fucking KILL Rick Moranis to get to Ellen Greene. Ill punch that little pipsqueak in the fucking throat! Seriously. Girls, if you wanna get with me, BE this woman. Not kidding:
Please step on me Gena Rowlands style. Cassavettes, you schmuck, you may be a genius but I'd have to whip yer ass for that broad:
Sounds Like: Ed Wood producing Brian Eno
Record Label: Sangre Libre/Difficult Life in Mental Jail
Type of Label: Major
