Member Since: 05/03/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/vacuumtreehead
Band Members: as of recent:JASON BERRY - electric soprano, alto & baritone saxophones, bass clarinet, piano, fender rhodes, megaphones, drum kit, the steinberger bass, sythesizers, guitar, tapes, computer, conduction, tibetan bells, knob twiddledge, metal and plastic buckets, drum pad, wooden dowels, piano guts, rototoms, allsorts & whatnots, tonemeisterMICHAEL DE LA CUESTA -6, 12 & baritone electric guitars, electric pocket trumpet, vibraphone, bass guitar, fender rhodes, sitar & electric sitar, upright bass, c-melody saxophone, ring modulation, marimba, steel drums, tibetan gongs, trombone, banjo, recorder, electric violinTOM CORBOLINE -bass guitar, flamenco guitar, midi bass, harmonica, welpsCHARLES LLOYD -electric guitar, lap steel, electric sitar, bass guitar, piano, recording, hella drumming, happy fun time falsetoJUSTIN MARKOVITS -drum kit, percussion, tamboura, plumbing, springs, and "pods"JOHN MERRILL - congas, bells, gongs, claves, quica, castanetts, the uterus computerusRICH CORNY -electric guitar, bass guitar, tamboura, recordingMOE! STAIANO -drum kit, percussion, metals, anything in sight that makes a sound, 154, blood, chewing gumMIKE ROGNLIE -bass guitar, harmonium, envelope filters, cat foodMICAH MCCAIN -drum kit, tablasSARAH MCKINNEY -vocals, wailing ephemera
KAREN DE LA CUESTA - roadie, merch, photography
SYLVIA GORDON - amazing vocals
LUCY FOLEY - amazing vocals
TIM BYRNES - trumpet
KEITH ABRAMS - drum kit, metals, percussion
ROSS BONADONNA - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, superb engineering
RICHARD E. BARBER -bassoon, bass clarinet, alto clarinet, Eb & Bb clarinets, mellotron, tympani, theremin, harp, marimba, tenor saxopone, celeste, orchestra bells, wine glasses
moog, buchla & arp synthesizers, piano, "tapes"
Influences: stravinsky, zappa, black flag, sun ra, sabbath, the residents (pre-'85), vilayat khan, 8-eyed spy, bartok, etc... and also.... Rabih Abou-Khalil, art bears, albert ayler, bad brains (first 2 albums), balinese gamelan, les baxter, beach boys (smile & smiley smile), beatles, tim berne, bjork, the black keys, blackwell, blue cheer, francy boland/kenny clarke big band, booker t. & the mg's, boredoms, boris, pierre boulez, bowie ('69 - '82), glenn branca, james brown, jack bruce (things i like), tim buckley (starsailor), john cage, john cale (church of anthrax), the campbell brothers, can, captain beefheart, wendy carlos, caroliner rainbow, james chance, charming hostess, cheer accident, don cherry, the chocolate watch band, circle, ornette coleman, ry cooder/manual galban(mambo sinuendo), core, larry coryell, cream, the creatures, ccr, creation rebel, dick dale, wolfgang dauner, miles davis, dead kennedys, deerhoof, dengue fever, martin denny, devo, dmbq, dna, doctor nerve, dog faced hermans, dr. know, eric dolphy, bob dylan, edmund welles, duke ellington, don ellis, elp (tarkus), brian eno, esquivel, gil evans, the ex, john fahey, fantomas, faust, the fender IV, 5uu's, fifty foot hose, flower travellin band, fripp, funkadelic, gang of four, gentle giant, philip glass, gnawa, gong, benny goodman (sextet), herbie hancock (sextant), joe harroitt, george harrison (wonderwall), hella, hendrix, henry cow, bernard herrmann, johnny hodges, randy holden, john lee hooker, howlin' wolf, zakir hussain, husker du, huun huur tu, jethro tull, robert johnson, kagel, pandit habib khan (guru), junior kimbrough, king crimson, king cobra, king tubby, roland kirk, koenjihyakkei, hans koller, erkin koray, volker kriegel, kronos, fela kuti, steve lacy, latin playboys, lea riders group, led zepplin, howard levy, gyorgy ligeti, loung lizards (first album), los zafiros, lowrider, magma, magnesium, mahavishnu orchestra, henry mancini, the mars volta, massacre, the master musicians of jajouka, curtis mayfield, mississippi fred mcdowell, mc5, carmen mcrae (sings monk), john mclaughlin, olivier messiaen, the meters, charles mingus, misfits, modulo 1000, MOE!KESTRA!, thelonoius monk, monopause, ennio morricone, mosaic, mr. bungle (disco volante), conlon nancarrow, mark nauseef, neu, neung phak, gary numan ('77 - '83), om, one f, os mutantes, osanna, shuggie otis, augustus pablo, ivo papasov, harry partch, big john patton, pearls and brass, lee scratch perry, astor piazzolla, dave pike, pil (second edition), pink floyd, plastic ono band, pere ubu, perez prado, present, psychic tv, steve reich, mark ribot, terry riley, max roach (m' boom), roxy music (first 2 albums), ruins, hal russell, samhain, santana (first 3 albums), kurt schwitters, secret chiefs 3, simon shaheen, ananda shankar, pandit ravi shankar, archie shepp, skatalites, slayer, sly stone, sly and robbie, sleep, sleepytime gorilla museum, socrates drank the conium, soft machine, squarpusher (music is rotted one note), steely dan, stereolab, the stooges, karlheinz stockhausen, yma sumac, sun city girls, sundanese gamelan (puppet theater), toru takemitsu, talking heads (remain in light), television, this heat, peter thomas, throbbing gristle, jukka tiensuu, tortoise, traffic, t rex, 2 foot yard, univers zero, utotem, edgard varese, vacuum tree head, caetano veloso, velvet underground (white light white heat), miroslav vitous, muddy waters (electric mud), anton webern, tony williams (turn it over), stevie wonder, link wray, iannis xenakis, xohl caravan, the yardbirds, yes, la monte young, zahar, zga, zolar x, john zorn,
Sounds Like: everything and yet like nothing you've ever heard
Record Label: pest colors music
Type of Label: Indie