Member Since: 16/01/2006
Band Website: www.killertree.com
Band Members: Ex-Cocaine - Ramirez/Mike C. Poor School - Bryan Ramirez/John Niekrasz/Nathan Hoyme. Universal Indians - Bryan Ramirez/John Olson/Gretchen Gonzales. Plants -Jeff Dunn/John Olson/Bryan Ramirez.
Influences: There was this dude on The Gong Show that played a double neck guitar while his wife did the singing. They played some solidly basic 70's standard and his guitar had the worst low-end tone I'd ever heard. It's stuck with me for 25 years and that's the sound I always go for. When I was about 10, I sat in the back of a car while my mother's friend told her in detail what the movie A Clockwork Orange was about, couldn't fucking sleep for weeks (a side note - before we made the drive from Gaylord MI to Cadillac, MI - the driver met with her boy friend in the parking lot of the A&W - the boyfriend the previous night gave her a black eye and as an apology gave her some smoked fish - not to say that the black eye influenced me but it was just the surreal smalltown shit). Also, driving in an elder's car, maybe your Grandma or your friend's Dad and the radio is on the late 70's model car's stereo. The tone is turned far left leaving you with a sound that sounds like it's being transmitted through cotton, serious low, low tone - there was one time where I was travelling with a pal and his Dad through the upper peninsula of Michigan and the radio was on in this big ol' cruiser and it sounded like one of the channels (L-R) wasn't working at the station - you could hear the music but the voice sounded like it was lost in this echo chamber, it was way weird and an airwave phenomenom. I wondered if the other two noticed this abstraction (they didn't) and yeah, it's a serious influence on perception and shit. Other influences are dropping the master tapes in the toilet, gravity bongs and...yeah. Breckmen Duo parking garage sessions. Duke Bliffert, John Olson, Fred Neil, the girl in my Speech class that recorded the music for a dance routine off the TV, Keith Lucas, Lane Kasznowski, Dead C, Vermonster & Twisted Village, Jeff Dunn, Fred Beldin, Mat Polus, Chris Raths, Anne Briggs, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Jesse Harper, Roy Harper, Waylon Jennings, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Strapping Fieldhands, Gene Clark, Sun Ra, Beats, Mr. Beck, Yogananda, Rivers, Mountain Tops, Clean Air, Snow, Rain, Julie & Mani Mars.
Sounds Like: God taking a dump
Record Label: Killertree Records
Type of Label: Indie