Music:
Member Since: 6/27/2006
Influences: My Bloody Valentine, Pumpkins, Tool, Zeppelin, Floyd, of Montreal, Thom Yorke, Perfect Circle, Porcupine Tree, Talk Talk, David Sylvian, King Crimson, Gabriel, Lamb, Radiohead, Eno, Robert Fripp, Hendrix, The Cure, Janes Addiction, Yes, Kinks, Deftones, Sonic Youth, Violent Femmes, PJ Harvey, Rush, Jim Channon's First Earth Battalion, Magic Numbers, Massive Attack, Nirvana, Devin Thownsend, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Stone Temple Pilots, Immortal Technique, Howard Goodall's 'How Music Works', Mudvayne, PJ Harvey, Faithless, Tom Waits, Placebo, Carmina Burranna, Joni Mitchell, Jon Coltrane, Studio One, Portishead, King Prawn, Ut, Dial, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Gerhardt Richter, Sonic Youth, Frank Black/Pixies, Aphex, Amon Tobin, Cure, Floyd, Soundgarden, Queens of the StoneAge, Bluetones, New Order/Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Smiths(80s 80s), Nirvana(who didn't), foo fighters,GnR, Queen, Spinal tap ,SciFi movie sountracks, Disco Disco Disco(70s 70s), Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Blur, BadlydrawnBoy, Smashing pumpkins, Primal Scream, Talk Talk, Michael Jackson, Lou Reed and Velvet Underground, Massive Attack, Madness, Metallica, Megadeath, Elton John, Ninja tunes, Squarepusher, very dirty Drum n Bass, Faithless, Lamb, Doves, Daft Punk, The Doors, Beck, Old Jazz, Beatles, Beachboys, Nick Drake, Roberta Flack, Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Nine Inch Nails, Future sound of london, PJ Harvey My bloody Valentine, Kate Bush, Blondie, Morcheeba, Radiohead, David bowie, Hendrix, The first Goldfrapp album, Air, EinSturz, Redhotchillipeppersbloodsugarsexmagic, "The classical pretensious bit" - Rachmaninov, Bartok, Orff, Beethoven, Stockhausen, Monteverdi, Tschaikovski, Dvorak, Delibes flower duet thing, Holst's planet Mars..............
Sounds Like: Punk rock meets prog dance, dark-side jazz, acid etched neo-melodic riffs for the beautifully disillusioned. Mark plays a '65 Hofner semi through a Laney (uk) all valve head, which he can make sing or f*ckin scream, he uses a Boss delay, Flange and Tube distortion....(we like effects). Martin G plays a 1970 Gretch jazz kit, pimped to rock standards; jazz tone played with impact. Darwin Dee plays a delicious J&D Brothers through-neck 4 string bass into a Californian Acoustic Research amp, hear (and feel) the wood! John's vocal chords are all his own, a rich and clear voice, he writes thoughtful original lyrics which draw their influence from the post 9/11 experience of being. Can sound like a mix between surf punk and acid rock.
Record Label: reptilesandstrings (home recordings)
Type of Label: None
