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Bonefish Sam and His Orchestra

This machine reeks of cheap hits.

About Me

Hearing Bonefish Sam is like hearing the colors you see before you fall asleep, after a whole weekend of playing Nintendo (the old one). It sounds like a steady diet of processed cheese. It's like the urge to swallow mouthwash rather than spitting it out, a delicate combo of mint and alcohol. When Bonefish Sam is done playing, you suddenly feel very alone, and nothing will ever really fill that void.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/30/2005
Band Website: bonefishsam.com
Band Members: Current live performers:
Bonefish Sam - electronics and beat-mangling/rangling experiments.
Dimples Pinochet - low frequency manipulations, via electric bass guitar.
Gilded Tusk - Omnichord (invented by aliens), glockenspiel, electronics, charisma.
Norm D. Plume - fiddle, guitar, mandolin, yodeling
Influences: Luigi Russolo, Edgard Varese, King Tubby, John Cage, Scratch Pet Land, Vlad Ussachevsky, Pierres Schaffer and Henry (before he did that Spooky Tooth album, that was awful), The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Michael Nyman (mostly because of that experimental music book he wrote), Astro Can Caravan, Solex, Matmos, Luciano Berio, Amon Tobin, Captain Beefheart, Negativland, Squarepusher.
Sounds Like: The sound of ducks quacking.
Record Label: Coming in Second
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Hey, let’s totally buy everything!

Should I be all excited about Myspace's new "Merch Booth"? Somebody please tell me. Is it just another way to waste a lot of time creating another nothing that gets lost in the crowd of other people t...
Posted by Bonefish Sam and His Orchestra on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:03:00 PST

New live album available on the iTunes! (and whatnot)

We finally have a new release to brag about: Live at Neurolux, May 2, 2007. It's an EP-length live Bonefish bombardment, distilled down and alchemized into pure gold. What's more, these are extra-cute...
Posted by Bonefish Sam and His Orchestra on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:53:00 PST

New song for your aural perusal.

Since it's been so long since we've posted new tunes, and since several people have complained about it, I'm throwing up a newish unreleased bundle of joy called 'An Earful'. Hope it makes you pee you...
Posted by Bonefish Sam and His Orchestra on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:09:00 PST

An Earful on a compilation?

Just sent off a track, called "An Earful", for this guy's compilation zine. Feel free to harass him and make sure it gets done. Our Boise peers and pals Owl and Moth are also on this one, so that make...
Posted by Bonefish Sam and His Orchestra on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:51:00 PST

You (probably) missed fun.

Sorry if anyone was trying to see us at the Flying M show yesterday. It was sort of cancelled, but then we decided to do it anyway outside in the parking lot where it was 100 degrees, but there was st...
Posted by Bonefish Sam and His Orchestra on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:06:00 PST

Radio Boise live in-studio performance

Something I forgot to mention: we'll be doing a live in-studio freakout on Radio Boise (http://www.radioboise.org/) on Friday June 22nd, at 9:00pm. It might be good, and that's enough reason to tune i...
Posted by Bonefish Sam and His Orchestra on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:23:00 PST

Washington Tour

We'll be all over Washington for three days of  Bonefish fun. The 8th, 9th, and 10th. Check our schedule listing because I'm so tired of typing all that information over and over. We hope to see ...
Posted by Bonefish Sam and His Orchestra on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:19:00 PST

bonefishsam.com back up

bonefishsam.com is back. I wish I could say it was better than ever, but it really isn't. I guess it will stream mp3s now, and that's better than before. Otherwise there's less material than ever....
Posted by Bonefish Sam and His Orchestra on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:18:00 PST

Are you down with downtime?

Not that it matters to many, but bonefishsam.com may be experiencing outages as we try to whip it into shape for upcoming album and big big big action that is surely to follow. The resulting site will...
Posted by Bonefish Sam and His Orchestra on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:21:00 PST

Due to popular demand.

Sorry there isn't really anything here. This Bonefish Sam myspace thingy only exists because of peer pressure, and I was weak and gave in.
Posted by Bonefish Sam and His Orchestra on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:10:00 PST