Member Since: 19/01/2006
Band Website: http://www.somaticdrone.com/sklu.htm
Band Members: The scurvy folk who hide in alleys yelling secrets to the wind.
Nick Jarvik - Bass
Matt Taylor - Drums
Robert Chevez - Guitar
Jon Clark - Guitar, vox
Influences: Velvet Underground, Uncle Tupelo, The Who, Flaming Lips, Mississippi John Hurt, Huddie Ledbetter, Sonic Youth, Pink Floyd, Dead Kennedy's, The Band, Johnny Cash, Can, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, NOFX, Ween, Neil Young, Do Make Say Think, Modest Mouse, At the Drive in, Miles Davis, Medeski Martin & Wood, Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Broadcast, Sterolab, Psychedelic Furs, Talking Heads...
Sounds Like: Death, Dissilusion, Self-doubt, & Defeat
HOBO HIERARCHY
HOBO - a migratory worker (the most respected of the three). Hoboes are resourceful, self-reliant vagabonds who take on temporeary work to earn a few dollars before moving on. Some experts think the word hobo comes from hoe boys, which is what farmers in the 1880s called their seasonl migrant workers. Others say it's shorthand for the phrase homeward bound, used to describe destitute Civil War veterans who took years to work their way home.
TRAMP - A migratory nonworker. A tramp simply likes the vagabond life - he's never looking for a job.
BUM - The lowes of the low; a worthless loafer who stays in one place and would rather beg than work for goods or services.
HOBO SIGNS & SYMBOLS
Type of Label: Major