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The Domesticated

Twiddling my thumbs for now.

About Me

A bitter East Coaster displaced in the sugar sweet south.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/5/2005
Band Website: Yer lookin at it.
Band Members: Erik Bradford-Guitar/Vocals

Thank you:

Jesse Burgman
Kate Rears
Ben Dover
Nate Read
Devin Lamp
Eli Reznick
The Beanstalk Library
Jeff Miller

Influences: Woven Hand. Sixteen Horsepower. P.J. Harvey. Nick Cave. Adrian Belew. Robert Fripp. Jonny Greenwood and friends. Grails. Godspeed! You Black Emperor. Jeff Buckley. Neil Young. Leonard Cohen. Tom Waits. Slowdive. Tool. A Perfect Circle. Soundgarden. Nine Inch Nails. Smashing Pumpkins. Nirvana. The Jesus Lizard. Janes Addiction. The Melvins. Failure. Massive Attack. Portishead. Depeche Mode. Dead Meadow. Beach House. Elliot Smith. The Beatles. Led Zeppelin. Black Sabbath. Rolling Stones. The Kinks. Bowerbirds. Cocteau Twins. Love Spirals Downwards. Mazzy Star. My Bloody Valentine. Spiritualized. Labradford. Karate. Can. Neu. Stereolab. The Big Sleep. David Bowie. the Velvet Underground. Nels Cline. Iron and Wine. Songs: Ohia. Aidan Coughlan and Brigg Fair. Steeleye Span. Fleet Foxes. Bert Jansch. Renaissance. In Gowan Ring. Krishna Das. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Peter Gabriel. Marc Bolan. Zen City Radio. Silver Pines. Mojave 3. Gram Parsons. Sonic Youth. Fugazi. Nina Simone. Aretha Franklin. Astrud Gilberto. Joe Pass. Charles Mingus. Sun Ra. Michael Hedges. Rowland S. Howard. Barry Adamson. Kid Congo Powers. Angelo Badalamenti. Ennio Morricone. Bjork. Slim Cessna's Auto Club. Television.Umm...can you tell?
Sounds Like: An S&M sex scene featuring Robert Plant and Chris Cornell.
Record Label: Malt Liquor Dynasty
Type of Label: None

My Blog

vision

I'm thinking of splitting up my music into two seperate projects.  Maybe even three if I can write enough genre-specific songs.  I think I want to keep the Domesticated a rock band.  Th...
Posted by The Domesticated on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:36:00 PST

Ahh something new has been added

I’m sorry for bitching in my blogs.  I know some pretty important bands back East that don’t worry about recordings and shit.  It’s all about the live experience.  I&r...
Posted by The Domesticated on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:42:00 PST

stagflation

Shit, I finally got me a laptop.  I’m $1000 bucks in the hole, but this is step 1 in getting back on the path to recording music again.  It may take a few years, but I’m gonna be...
Posted by The Domesticated on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:46:00 PST

stagnation

Sorry for the fear in my guts.  Maybe in some other life I'll be a Lewis or a Clark.  I've written tons of songs though.  I guess the Internet blackout has helped in some ways, hurt in ...
Posted by The Domesticated on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:30:00 PST

Austin and so on and so forth

I have just come to the acceptance that my EP may never come out until I can scrounge up enough cash to pay off the guy who's producing it. He's got his own projects and respective fish to fry in Nas...
Posted by The Domesticated on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:21:00 PST

An open letter to the Myspace community

Dear Myspace users,I remember a time when Myspace was a free-for-all Spamfest and I could get anybody to join my page.  At least the ones that like my music.  Then there were the business-mi...
Posted by The Domesticated on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:09:00 PST

Federal Reserve Collective and such

I recently played a show at the Federal Reserve Collective showcase.  Well, according to Tom Hnatow from These United States, this means I'm a part of the collective.  Sweet!  My anarch...
Posted by The Domesticated on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:19:00 PST

No way...

I did not already get 41 plays today on my Myspace.  That's crazy.  It's only 12:30 PM.  Oh OK...I admit it...it's mostly the casual browsers who hop on, cue up the automatic mp3 player...
Posted by The Domesticated on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:33:00 PST

New studio recordings on the way

Well, as much as you could call a moldy old house in Tennessee a studio.  But it was a wonderful recording experience.  It will be produced by Devin Lamp of the Nashville post-rock band, The...
Posted by The Domesticated on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:48:00 PST

About the band name Part 3

Fuck this.  I'm going solo.
Posted by The Domesticated on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:35:00 PST