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White Pine

Extreme Tiger!

About Me

The loud guitars of Palmatier and Petersen meet the complex rhythms of Fraser and Kurczewski in a frenzied, caged death-match. The result is the Self-titled album "White Pine" out now!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/29/2006
Band Website: whitepineband.com
Band Members: Brian Chavo Fraser-drums/Galaga, Keith Kurczewski-bass guitar/Centipede, Chris Palmatier-guitar/Asteroids, Tom Petersen-guitar/Pong
Influences: Fruit in season, traffic, long trips, rough days, sickness, rain, sun, night, bird feeders, Architecture, ornery cats, tone-tweaking, wood, mold, abundance, vapor-lock, shoes, jumping mice, jaunts to Germany, zombies, college towns, kayakee, Agata Buzek, bike-action, grabbedasses, type sets, summer fashions, ground playin' kid.
Sounds Like: 4 guys that enjoy the sounds of; Mahavishnu Orchestra, Pell Mell, Weights & Measures, Battles, Gabor Szabo, Minutemen, Can, Polvo, Tony Williams Lifetime, Shellac, Dvorak, Thinking Fellers Union local 282, Nels Cline Singers, Dinosaur jr, Black Flag, Captain Beefheart, Eric Dolphy, Don Caballero, Boards of Canada, King Crimson, Tangerine Dream, Fugazi, Scenic, June of 44, Jeff Beck Group, Meters, Sonic Youth, Blind Idiot God, Booker T. and the MG's, Slint, FSK, Oneida, Kaleidoscope, Dianogah, Charlie Parker, Southern Rock, guitar solo-rock, Bowie, Eno, Monks of Doom, Bellini, Blue Cheer, Chet Atkins, Penderecki, Trumans Water, Donald Wilson, US Maple, Very Pleasant Neighbor, Bill Frisell, Blonde Redhead, Perez Prado, Guapo, Jack Bruce, Bardo Pond, Kletka Red, Aphex Twin, Larry Coryell, The Building Press, Irving Claw Trio, Gong, Christy Doran, Zoot Sims, Bird Calls of North America, Tortoise, The Ex, The Double U, Oxes, Henry Mancini, Jesus Lizard, Crash Worship, Swervedriver, Led Zeppelin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Hella, Marc Ribot, Han Bennink, Charlie Haden, Mike Watt, Bix Beiderbecke, Deep Purple, High on Fire, ZZ Top, Guapo, Neurosis, Wishbone Ash, Haydn, Brainiac, U.K., Band of Gypsys, Babe the Blue Ox, Uriah Heep, Chico Hamilton, Drive like Jehu, Bernard Herrmann, Weather Report, Terry Gross,
Record Label: This Record Label
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

2 shows in 1 day? 3 in 2?

No that's not a typo! We're actually playing 2 shows in 1day! First, we play at Noon at the Alameda Point Skate Park with Superfinos VTO and Bong. (For info: http://www.caliskatz.com/v4/skat...
Posted by White Pine on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:25:00 PST

Friday October 5th--Free Show!

We're playing a FREE SHOW at Rasputin's Records on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley!! Come on out and pick up a copy of our new CD, heckle us, tell our friend/Rasputin clerk Carver "Hello!" and shop wh...
Posted by White Pine on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:37:00 PST

4 *new songs recorded

We recorded 4 *new songs over the weekend (09/23/06&09/24/06.) *OK, so one of them we've recorded before-- "Grab assing in Cabo-Wabo" but no one has heard the first version, yet. And, th...
Posted by White Pine on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:49:00 PST

Video Coming Soon!

Johnathan Parra's video take on "Barbacoa" coming soon-- check back!
Posted by White Pine on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:50:00 PST