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Velodrome

About Me

History of Velodrome: Interesting Rock Duo.
Dave: "Hey Darryl, would you want to try jamming sometime and see if anything comes of it?"
Darryl: "Sure."
Late spring 2006.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/5/2006
Band Website: you are viewing it now.
Band Members: Dave Neufeld - drumset, vocals, comedy.
Darryl Laxdal - bass guitar, guitar, riff tank, talent.
Influences: Take all the bands in the universe, raise them to the Nth power, divide them by phi, multiply them by pi, and then use the remainder for our influences.
Sounds Like: It sounds like two people playing a drumset, a bass or a guitar in unison.
Record Label: Arctodus Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Riff Magick

Riff Magick:1) The riff is a veil.  The riff hides the true intent of the performer, a musician who is either extremely aware or only dimly aware of the intent.2) The veil is a riff.  The veil adorns ...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:52:00 GMT

The Tower

"The art of life, as we see it, is navigation."- Alan Watts "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.  If you can control the meaning of the words, you ...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:48:00 GMT

Yet Another Emperor Lost In Bedlam

Emperor Demiurge woke up in a furor.  It was not the steady decline of his once prosperous race that caused his blood to boil up something fierce, but rather the memory of a night terror percolat...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:12:00 GMT

Christ Returns!

(start transmission)Darryl: Dave, I find it amazing that two people can communicate through email.  It's such an amazing feat for Man/Womankind, and yet we think it is as common as crust on rye b...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:41:00 GMT

The Assumption that the Band and the Audience are Separate

Nowhere, in any universe, in any multiverse, in any distant pocket of space, in any moment of time, can there be something that can be isolated from the immutable essence of what is.  Subjectivit...
Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 07:40:00 GMT

The Luminous Wrangler (Part VI of VI)

As the once-was-wrangler was transforming into the soon-to-be Indian, the old collector trundled along the edge of an old oxbow river while singing a song passed down through the generations, a song t...
Posted by on Sun, 04 May 2008 14:09:00 GMT

The Luminous Wrangler (Part V of VI)

Stare into the abyss and it will stare back, and then it will move closer like an obsidian fog, and then, when it is but a few paces away, it will drug you with its dark silence, and then it will wrap...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:16:00 GMT

The Luminous Wrangler (Part IV of VI)

Ride suffering like you would an uncontrollable steed into the red dawn. The hazy-headed wrangler woke up and realized he had been droolin' on the table.  To his surprise, the cantina was prac...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:36:00 GMT

The Luminous Wrangler (Part III of VI)

For five straight hours, the wrangler drank shot after shot of firewater from a squalid glass.  As patrons appeared and disappeared, momentarily sated their desires with stiff drinks, and convers...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:38:00 GMT

The Luminous Wrangler (Part II of VI)

When the pure stream is poisoned, when the pure land is denuded of its essential properties, when the pure air chokes on Man's confusion, when the pure fire falls into the hands of the impious, and wh...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:54:00 GMT