Jake Dilley and the Color Pharmacy

About Me

If you were to thaw out Walt Disney's frozen head, pump it full of hallucinogens, then put a microphone in front of it, it might sound something like Jake Dilley and The Color Pharmacy.

11/2/06 NEW 4 out of 5 Stars CD Review! http://www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2006/1 1/02/ 80Hours/Pharmacy.By.Colors.With.Wonka-2433422.shtml?norewrit e 200611070304&sourcedomain=www.dailyiowan.com

Write-up In the Star Tribune: http://www.startribune.com/1526/story/816852.html

Check out the NEW write up in The Northern Iowan newspaper:
http://fp.uni.edu/northia/article2.asp?ID=5007&SECTION=3

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/10/2005
Band Members: JAKE DILLEY GUITARS / VOCALS / BASS / MANDOLIN / BANJO / PIANO / DRUMS / PERCUSSION
Influences: The Beatles, Radiohead, Miles Davis, The Flaming Lips, Ryan Adams, R.E.M., Wilco, U2, Bright Eyes, Sigur Ros, Pink Floyd, Islands, Broken Social Scene, The Arcade Fire, Rolling Stones, Band of Horses, Postal Service, Tim Reynolds, Bob Dylan, Dinosaur Jr, French Kicks, Grant Lee Buffalo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pavement.
Sounds Like: "Holes" from my new project, The Red Balloon, that syncs up with the 1957 French Film of the same name:

Cover of Tim Reynold's "Stream" at The Hub, Cedar Falls, 4-07
Final project from Spring 2006 featuring "It's About Time" from The Color Pharmacy:

Color Pharmacy Commercial from the Varsity Theater:

"It Makes Me Smaller" from the premiere of The Color Pharmacy, 4/21/06

The "Who's The Boss" Theme w/ Alex Buzzell @ U of I Dance Marathon, 2/06

Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Red Balloon lyrics

HOLESLooking for the answers and questioning the answers I getThey sent a yellow piece of paper on the longest day of the yearThere's something strangely pagan about getting high on spiritual debtTher...
Posted by Jake Dilley and the Color Pharmacy on Sun, 06 May 2007 02:03:00 PST

Color Pharmacy Lyrics

A lot of you have been asking for lyrics/explanations to the songs on The Color Pharmacy, so here are the lyrics. I'm working on an in depth dissection of the entire project, including the words...
Posted by Jake Dilley and the Color Pharmacy on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:55:00 PST

How to sync up "Willy Wonka" with The Color Pharmacy CD

As many of you know, my latest CD, The Color Pharmacy, was created to accompany the second half of the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Since I'm not showing t...
Posted by Jake Dilley and the Color Pharmacy on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:27:00 PST

Red White and Blue, Brent

The subject line is a direct quote from Luke to Brent after the show, and I don't even think Luke knew what it meant. Thanks to the 200 people who came out to see the show at ...
Posted by Jake Dilley and the Color Pharmacy on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:14:00 PST