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About Me

FRIEND - OF WHOM?

"...an ambient apocalypse of digitization as delightful as the secretive songs buried beneath it." Eric Mitts, Recoil

NEWS - Thursday, November 24th

New Friend song, SEEN, available to listen to. Tell all your friends. Deadly Intent has been taken down, but will be available for download in the future. Keep an eye out for the Clear remix by Nick Olman.

Friend url has been stolen. We don't know how this has happened. Just be careful out there. Notice how our url has changed. It was stolen by SPAZ, who is currently using our old url. Be careful if you run into this character.

FRIEND - OF WHOM? IS AVAILABLE NOW!!!
FRIEND - OF WHOM? IS AVAILABLE NOW!!!

Jamie and John met in Japanese class. They played together as Black Metal Kitten for a few months, whereupon John invited Jamie to play in his band Hoser . After a few months, they decided along with drummer, Jason Campbell, to form Special Dental Team, which was a completely collaborative effort on the part of the three musicians. A year later, Jamie and John found themselves without a drummer in Korea. So they started Friend. Friend has recorded two albums and one ep, and has released one album . Friend continues to create, despite these two old friends being separated by the largest ocean in the world. Between California and Japan there is...Hawaii...but between Jamie Grefe and John Adams there is Friend.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/24/2004
Band Members:

Mr. John Adams: Guitar, Vocals, Programming, Bass Guitar

Mr. Jamie Grefe: Bass Guitar, Voice, Spongefork, Guitar

Influences:

Mr. Grefe: Corrupted, Scott Reeder and Kyuss, Merzbow, Kevin Drumm, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Nabokov, Robert Coover, Vincent Gallo, Japanese architecture, Comme Des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto, Cornelius, Johnny Cash, Troll 2 and everyone involved with that film, Terry "Hulk" Hogan, Sherlock Holmes, William T. Vollmann, David Sylvian, Harold Budd, Nick Cave, Kool Keith, Ultra, Bobby Cole, Pig Destroyer, Wong Kar-Wai, Emile Cioran, John Zorn, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Bernard Rudofsky, Pablo Neruda, Lee Thayer, mini-skirts, Sukebe, higher forms of pornography, Bataille, Paul Celan, Blood Meridian, Special Dental Team, Frenchie Perlous Organization, Brian Wilson, John Coltrane, Harry Partch, Discordance Axis, Phew, MOST, Dengue Fever, Christian Fennesz, Karera Musication, etc.

Mr. Adams: The Adamchild, John Anderson, Anekdoten, Anglagard, The Beach Boys, Frank Black, The Buggles, Phil Collins, Cornelius, Elvis Costello, Crash Test Dummies, The Dead Milkmen, Devo, Dogfaced Hermans, Echolyn, Danny Elfman, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Fantomas, Frenchie Perlis, The Fucking Champs, Peter Gabriel, Gasping For Death, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Philip Glass, Happy Family, Hatfield and the North, Jean-Michel Jarre, Steve Jenkins, Jethro Tull, Billy Joel, Elton John, Kenso, King Crimson, John Linnell, Magma, Mr. Bungle, Sir Millard Mulch, Gary Numan, Of Montreal, Oingo Boingo, Mike Oldfield, The Pixies, Popcanon, R.E.M., REO Speedwagon, Rush, Secret Chiefs 3, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Spiraling, Special Dental Team, Chris Squire, Tears for Fears, They Might Be Giants, Tool, Trauma Coil, Johnny Unicorn, Van Der Graaf Generator, Brian Wilson, Brian Woodbury, X-Legged Sally, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Yes, Frank Zappa, the list is pretty long...

Sounds Like: Genre explanation:
Electronic - because it's made with fake drums
Ambient - because we use a lot of sound effects, and sometimes noise
Progressive - not to be confused with progressive electronica...honestly, I thought prog-rock already was using that term. Anyway, it sometimes sounds like prog-rock (progressive rock).

A rugged interpretation of two obsessive and pseudo-intellectual Americans with mystical/philosophical/lustful interests. Computer perfection plus human error, serindipidiously positive in a murderous way.

EAR - electronic art rock
Record Label: SYSTECORE
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

ANOTHER SONG, heralding our country's inexorable doom.

I can't believe I did it, but I have posted "Rescue at Icy Mountain." This is what happens when Jamie and I have too much orange juice and kimchi ramyon before work...a year and a half ago. Som...
Posted by Friend on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:23:00 PST

Golden Wolf

Hey everybody, We just posted the musical piece "Golden Wolf" on the site! Make sure you check it out! It's from the album "Wolf Tales" that I am still trying to finish mixing. I hope you like...
Posted by Friend on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:20:00 PST

Myspace support did it! Awesome!

I fell asleep working on Johnny Unicorn. Now it's the middle of the night. I got an e-mail from myspace support. They said everything's all right. Friend url is once again www.myspace.com/friend. We...
Posted by Friend on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:54:00 PST

Seen!

I've just posted the new Friend song, Seen!! Go to the Friend page and SEE it! Thank you! John, Friend...
Posted by Friend on Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:07:00 PST

Systecore?

There is a problem! Systecore is already a company. They make lasers, so they wouldn't interfere with our company, but we're thinking of changing the name. Once we decide on a name, we wil...
Posted by Friend on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:53:00 PST

Star Wars: A New Hope

Why, in the first star wars movie doesn't Luke remind Uncle Owen to get a droid that speaks Bocce, even though he said he would? No matter, Owen remembered anyway. Buy the Friend album at http:...
Posted by Friend on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:27:00 PST

Deadly Intent

The new Friend song is finally up, and it is awesome! You must listen to it! It will make you dance, it will make you cry, it will make you fall in love with the person sitting next to you; but ...
Posted by Friend on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:24:00 PST

Deadly Intent

You have until Friday to listen to the new Friend song, Clear. Get it in your head, because you won't hear it again until it's released as a FREE download with the other two songs from the new EP, 3:2...
Posted by Friend on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:03:00 PST

Singing

Life in Los Angeles isn't looking so bad, now that I've been to a singing room. I got to sing in a room with people...it was fun. And it was good practice. Chances are, the next Friend son...
Posted by Friend on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:45:00 PST

Life in Los Angeles

Hello, This is John Adams. I'm living in Los Angeles; well, I don't know if you can call this living. Traffic is terrible, nobody walks around in the streets, people keep telling me "if y...
Posted by Friend on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:30:00 PST