Member Since: 29/12/2005
Band Website: dockingonthedockofthebay.com
Band Members:
Influences: I'm negatively influenced by Low People. I'm postively influenced by: GILBERT AND SULLIVAN; Le Corbussier et Papin; Turnips and Talc; Hermann Hesse; Andrey Tarkovsky; Celtic Frost; Bosch & Breughel; Joseph Beuys; Dado; David Lynch; Bros; Bros Quay; Jan Svankmajer; Alejandro Jodorowsky; Matthew Barney; Gaspar Noe; Erik Satie; This Heat; Camille Paglia; Iannis Xenakis; Nurse with Wound; Manuelo Ocampo; Brian Eno; Morton Feldman; Martin Heidegger; Jean Baudrillard; Kierkegaard; Spinoza; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Howlin' Wolf; Captain Beefheart; Robert Williams; Carl Stalling; Gentle Giant; Thirsty Moon; Sleepytime Gorilla Museum; Etron Fou Leloublan; cindyTalk; Circle; Mahogany Brain; Robert Ashley; Eyeless in Gaza / Martyn Bates; Filles Qui Mousse; Felt; Jac Berrocal; Jacques Dudon; Lard Free; MAGMA; Aksak Maboul; Catalogue; Heldon; Serge Gainsbourg; Les Maledictus Sound / Horrific Child; Brigitte Fontaine / Areski; Van Halen; Harmonia; Jan Dukes de Gray; assorted ritual trance music; Breathless; Deerhoof; Smegma; Sun City Girls; John Zorn; DNA; Glenn Branca / Theoretical Girls; Sonic Youth; Rhys Chatham; Swans; Mars; Bad Brains; NoMeansNo; Dead Kenndys; Lard; Liquid Liquid; Diamond Head; Deep Purple; Sabbat; Voivod; Blue Oyster Cult; Jethro Tull; Samson (Bruce Dickinson was better in this band); Iron Maiden (This band was better before Bruce Dickinson Joined); Judas Priest; Judas Iscariot; Emily Dickinson; Angie Dickinson / Brain May; J.S. Bach; MESHUGGAH; Todd Rundgren; Laura Nyro; Tom Ze; Milton Nascimento; Lo Borges; Ivan Lins; Black Sabbath (didn't make it past the Gillan years); Velvet Underground / Nico / Lou reed / John Cale; Dif Juz; Current 93; Jimmy Webb; JIMMY WEBB; J I M M Y W E B B; Glen Campbell; Dolly Parton; Kenny Rogers; Byrds / Gene Clark; Moby Grape; The Seeds; Pearls Before Swine; Silver Apples; Cro-Magnon; Godz; The Fugs (mostly for Tuli Kupferberg); 'Stray Toasters'; 'Peanuts'; 'Calvin and Hobbes'; 'We're depressed' / 'Amy and Jordan'; Sigmund Freud; Carl Jung; Paul young (for Pino Palladino really); Japan / Mick Karn / David Sylvian; James Brown; Sly Stone; Curtis Mayfield; Chic (and related production work); Bee Gees (only for the disco sounds); Marina Abramovich; Incredible String Band (up to and including Wee Tam); Carson McCullers; Shirley / Dolly Collins; The Move; The Kinks; The Who; Knut Hamsun; Olivier Messiaen; Hafler Trio; Plastikman (just for 'Consumed' really); Steve Reich (up to and including 'Tehillim'; Wilhelm Reich; Love Tractor; REM; The New Year; Labradford; Throwing Muses (first line-up featuring the divine Leslie Langston); Judee Sill; Steeleye Span; The Buskers; The Fureys / Davey Arthur; John Cage; Cage Rage (not really); Comte De Lautreamont; Charles Baudelaire; H.P Lovecraft (the man); Philip K. Dick (the man); Marquis de Sade (the man); Umberto Eco; Gunter Grass; Russell Hoban; Haruki Murakami; Supersister; The Ex; ICP; Group 1850; Han Bennink; Peter Brotzmann; Alexander von Schlippenbach; Evan Parker; Mats Gustaffson; Barry Guy; Joelle Leandre; Joachim Gies; Gebhard Ullman; AMM; Derek Bailey (also for his book on improvisation); Boredoms; Flower Travellin' Band; Les Rallizes Denudes; Taj Mahal Travellers; Harry Partch; Residents (up to and including Eskimo); Mellow Candle / Fovea Hex; Samla Mammas Manna; International Harvester / Parson Sound / Trad Gras och Stenar; Algarnas Tradgard; Arbete Och Fritid; Burroughs / Gysin; Daniel Johnston / Kathy McCarty / Glass Eye; Autechre / Gescom; Edward Gorey; Arthur Rackham; Harry Clarke; Aubrey Beardsley; Can; Faust; Neu; Cozmic Corridors; Alcatraz; Anima sound; Popol Vuh; Cluster; Harmonia; Swell Maps (mostly for the work of mr. Epic Soundtracks); Pram; Dog Faced Hermans; Ants; Zoviet France; Dead Can Dance; Jack Palance; Pirates of Penzance; tailored pants; mindless rants; mindful chants; CHANCE; Il Baletto di Bronzo; Area; Franco Battiato; Larsen (just for their album on Young God so far); Fleetwood Mac (strictly the Buckingham / Nicks years); Eilert Pilarm; Claude Debussy; Einstuerzende Neubauten; Comus; Spasm; Henry Purcell; Henry Cow / Art Bears / Slapp Happy / Dagmar Krause; Hakim Bey; Essential Logic; Guillaume de Machaut; GI Gurdjieff; Friedrich Nietzsche; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Palestrina; HNAS; Mirror; 23 Skidoo; Hildegard Von Bingen; Univers Zero; Art Zoyd; Iva Bittova / Vaclav Vaclavek / Pavel Fajt; Plastic People of the Universe; Exuma; Queen; Throbbing Gristle; Charles Bukowski; Cocteau Twins (esp Will Heggie's bass playing); Mirror; Venom; Coil; This Mortal Coil (taking the sour with the sweet)
Sounds Like: Someone sorting silk threads from a tangle to bind them into skeins. Like a Crow, like a LICKY STICK. Like sophisticated latin jazz pop. Knife goes in, guts come out, that's what Osaka seafood concern is all about! The sound of a guts pose - Ichiban staus and a free improv number one with a bullet in Japan by Xmas *** J-Skronk!!!!! Xmas is the time when we all come together to celebrate the birth of 'X'.... In league with Santa + wizards & cetera. Sounds like fighting against a mangy poison chihuahua - and LOSING! Hoisted on own petard. Like cold fish + yesterday's salad. Sounds like Spleen. Sounds Ideal.
Record Label: Goppa 'Freakin' Records
Type of Label: Indie