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About Me

BAYLIES BAND ;Eric Baylies:bass,moog,theremin,voice.Steve Santos:guitar,theremin.Henry Chandanais:drums.We play mostly noisy,acid,and prog rock,with a little punk sometimes.We appear on the 75 Or Less Recs Compilation "Rock Out With Your Tail Out" in 2006,from Providence,RI.We have also been on 2 comps from the Boston label Fan Attics,"Runt Of The Litter" and "More Than You Can Chew",a comp from the Hard Knocks label in Madison,Wi. and a comp from Little Mikey's Noise Factory in Cleveland,Oh.We also had a song in the film "My Drug Dealer" from North Carolina in 1998.Baylies Band have played shows with Lightning Bolt,Arab On Radar,6 Finger Satellite,Ultra Bide,Season To Risk,Mahi Mahi,Landed,Neptune,Dynamite Club,Ex Models and for some reason Staind and Godsmack a couple of times each when we started around 1995 or so. Cancer, drugs, drink, marriage, and other madness may have sideswiped us along the way,but we have never gone more than a couple of months without gigging or recording.2/3 of our early recording lineup did a full length on Load Recs as A Stoveboat.Eric also plays in Philly based Temple Of Bon Matin (Bulb,Spirit of Orr,Stiltbreeze) who have toured Europe,Asia and about 40 states, playing shows with Boredoms,USA Is A Monster,Andrew WK,Gang Gang Dance,Thurston Moore, and Volcano The Bear.Temple Of Bon Matin also includes Jay Reeve (Drugstore),Vinny Paternostro ( who has played sax with Violent Femmes and Radon),Ed Wilcox (who has played in No Neck Blues Band and Silver Apples briefly) and part time members Arthur Doyle (Sun Ra) and Steve Mackaye (Stooges,Radon Ensemble).With Club Math Eric has played shows with Lungfish,Metallux,Fat Worm Of Error,Can't,Tiny Hawks,Awesome Color,Dynasty,16 Bitch Pileup,and Sword Heaven.A long,long time ago Eric played in Blind Rhino,who toured with Nuclear Assault and Blue Oyster Cult, and did shows with Swans,Killing Joke,Warrior Soul,Bad Religion,Mudhoney,Soul Asylum,Butthole Surfers,Bunny Brains,and Savage Republic.Baylies Band can be reached at (508)992-4952 or at [email protected].

My Interests

History,Philosophy,whiffleball,ping pong,air hockey,short walks on the beach,ice cream,candy,cupcakes;enjoys Patriots,Red Sox and WWE wrestling

Music:

Can,King Crimson,Melvins,Residents,Captain Beefheart,Slayer,Hovercraft,Throwing Muses,Fall,At The Drive-In,6 Finger Satellite,Wire,Devo, Radiohead,Monster Magnet,Sonic Youth,Ruins,Trans Am,Tortoise,Jesus Lizard,Neu,Faust,Isis,Modern Day Urban Barbarians,U.S.Maple,P.J.Harvey,Motorhead,Glazed Baby,,John Cage,Black Flag,Sacharine Trust,Bauhaus,Dead Kennedys,Joy Division,Devil Ether,Swans,Trail of Dead,Queens Of The Stone Age,Pere Ubu,Robin Trower,Seeds,To Live And Shave In L.A.,Blue Hollow,Pink Floyd,Jimi Hendrix,Doors,Stooges,Velvet Underground,Proletariat,Gang Of 4,Black Sabbath,Alice Cooper,Nick Drake,Soundgarden,Cars,Leonard Cohen,Blue Cheer,,Landed,Arab On Radar,Tool,Wu Tang Clan,,Hya Kcha,That 1 Guy,Miniwatt,NWA,J Gobush,Snoop,Nick Cave,Nation Of Ulysses,Tom Waits,Prince,Glen Branca,Caspar Brottzman,Ultra Bide,Sun Ra,Don Cabellero,Northern Liberties,Mission Of Burma,Human Sexual Response,Cancer Conspiracy,David Bowie,Eno,Oxes,Neurosis,Today Is The Day, Leslie Keffer,The Downtown Archeologist,Ramones,Smashing Pumpkins

Movies:

Magnolia,City Of Lost Children,Virgin Suicides,Usual Suspects,Fargo,Key Largo,Citizen Kane,Seven,Blue Velvet,Psycho,Jaws,Being John Malkovich,Amelie,Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind,The Godfather,Dog Day Afternoon,Reservoir Dogs,Pulp Fiction,The Deer Hunter,Happiness

Books:

(writers)Joseph Campbell,Marvin Harris,Howard Zinn,Al Franken,Richard Wright,James Baldwin,Langston Hughes,Ralph Ellison,Phillip K. Dick,Ray Bradbury,Kurt Vonnegut,Sartre,Camus,Kafka,Orwell,Kundera,Brecht,Huxley,Poe ,Mellville,Milton,Blake,Dante,Ovid,Shakespeare,Mick Foley.