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About Me

Torture for Purists is Joe Gillis and occasional guests willing to be called this. I am from Piqua, Ohio and I'm an anthropology grad studying the Humanities at Wright State University. Main musical influences, recognizable or not, include Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Lou Reed, John Lennon, Randy Newman, Tom Waits, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Peter Tosh, John Prine, Neil Young, Guided By Voices and many others. I also love old skool rap, old skool punk and those sweet hippie sixties songs. Currently I am listening to Safe As Milk by Captain Beefheart on vinyl. I play percussion instruments, guitar, bass, and provide the vocals for Torture for Purists. This Torture for Purists effort is single-take, undubbed, and barely rehearsed, with effects and EQ added in post production. Torture for Purists has been signed to Burned Records, Ohio, a label run by Torture for Purists' frontman Joe Gillis. You also may notice Mannington Mine, which is a song written by Hazel Dickens. I also get to play with my friends in Ohio Pie Factory, which is an amazing band that specializes in original material with covers speckled about as heavily as blue spots on a robin's egg. Check OPF out at www.myspace.com/ohioppiefactory. Please Enjoy! Love, j ================================================= Upcoming Shows: ~~~~Ohio Pie Factory with Hotel War and Goose (go see goose) at The Walnut Hills on May 31st~~~~check their myspaces below

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/14/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/tortureforpurists
Band Members: Check out my top twentyfour, I rotate many so you can check back and hear something ya never had! It's easier than scanning my friends. If you haven't made my top twentyfour, be patient, you all will so my friends can check ya out, too!
Influences: Bartolome de las Casas, Chief Joseph, The Holy Spirit, my mother and her brothers, my sisters, Mary, Debbie and Therese, and Danny, Al and Chuck and Ohio headlines, jobs, people and places.
Sounds Like: Have you watched the river lately? It can be very nice.
Record Label: Burned Records of Ohio
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

unrageous behavior

Several months ago, I had to change my way of driving. I was driving a gifted Toyota that had too many miles on it and things were starting to go in every way. Well, it started feeling lik...
Posted by Torture for Purists on Thu, 17 May 2007 01:59:00 PST

Traumatic Interstate Accident

Swiped from the local Headlines. This is weird and my eyes still can't believe I read it. Anyway, appherently a youngster decided to tempt fate. I live near an I-675 over-pass ...
Posted by Torture for Purists on Thu, 17 May 2007 07:44:00 PST

Rock and Roll, Baby

After performing Karaoke a few years, and having bunches of fun with Tom and my new karaoke friends like Rich, I tried out for a band. I had spent one spring dancing and singing in a community t...
Posted by Torture for Purists on Wed, 16 May 2007 09:13:00 PST

Karaoke

The first time I ever went Karaoke-ing, was a crazy time. My friend Tom asked me if I would like to go to The Mug and Jug to do some karaoke. I agreed quite certain that I would not get up...
Posted by Torture for Purists on Tue, 15 May 2007 07:36:00 PST

To My Mom Friends

I had a nice Mother's Day yesterday, in part because I got to spend a few minutes with my mom and because I had a few bucks this year to splurge on her for a change. ...
Posted by Torture for Purists on Mon, 14 May 2007 06:33:00 PST

abstract poetry

Floating, aloft with the hum of gnat populations whirring below. adrift, on a rail of the febreze trigger. THUD. Waxed ...
Posted by Torture for Purists on Tue, 08 May 2007 07:45:00 PST

abstract poetry

We rolled down the road and the gravel pinged as it popped from tire grooves and hit the fenders. Seven canadian geese set idylly by, watching the cars line up on Brackish Lane. The howl ...
Posted by Torture for Purists on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:49:00 PST

Drivin' without brakes 2.1

This blog series began with the idea of brakes grinding as we brake for whatever reason. The idea was that the brakes only grind until enough pad is worn away to expand the cylinder to the point...
Posted by Torture for Purists on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:00:00 PST

Four-Twenty jammin'!!

My mind was right from the moment I awoke. It set an unprecidented precident. :) Nothing, but nothing was gonna touch me, and it didn't, despite some attempts to the contrary. I work...
Posted by Torture for Purists on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:05:00 PST

Drivin' without brakes 2.0

Years back but quite vivid in my mind, I headed off to school in my beater knowing the brakes had gone from grinding to, well, gone. I was planning on using the car one more day before the weeke...
Posted by Torture for Purists on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:53:00 PST