NEWS / / / THIS IS FUN. OUR BAND. -Afternoon Brother

-((((MICHAEL SAALMAN))) - AT AGE EIGHT I BEGAN A LONG AND SERIOUSE INTEREST IN GUITAR. MY EARLIEST MENTOR'S: NIRVANA, THE BEATLES, TOM PETTY. LATER I BECAME MORE INCLINED TO FAITH NO MORE, METALLICA, FLAMING LIPS, DEAD KENNEDYS, CRASS AND I WAS NOT YET AWARE OF MY IDOLIZING CHATTER SPIRIT. BY SEVENTEEN, I WAS EMOTIONAL AND MOVED SWIFTLEY INTO A CURRENT OF THE MORE ARTISTIC BRAND OF MUSIC; IN THE REALMS OF DEERHOOF, EARN YOUR FEATHERS, (EVEN A LITTLE) DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, AND OFTEN THE RESIDENTS. I GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL AND BECAME A COKE HEAD WHERE I SUDDENLY EMBRACED RAGTIME AND BLUES, WHICH ULTIMATELY WOULD BE INGRAINED INTO MY PICKING STYLE, LEARNING STYLES OF JOHN HURT AND MUDDY WATERS. AT AGE EIGHTEEN I CO-BEGAN COZY, WITH ERIK WOODARD (who's you favorite son god?, los webelos) AND JUSTIN HANEY (los webelos). I WOULD SAY THAT COZY WAS MY FIRST REAL EXPIERENCE OF WHAT FRUITS WOOD BEAR FROM HAVING A NOISEY ROCK BAND. SOME MUSICIANS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED MY RECENT WORKS MIGHT BE THE ECCENTRIC PERSONALITY OF BILL NELSON, THOSE REVERB / WAH FRANK ZAPPA SOLO'S, THE MOVING RYTHEMS OF ROBERT FRIPP AND OF COURSE John McLaughlin, THE SOUND SCAPE ACROBAT STEVE REICH, THE PERSONLEY FREE STRUCTURES OF JAZZ BY ANTHONY BRAXTON, AND CECIL TAYLOR. WOMAN YEAR (my solo project) STARTED AS AN EXPRESSION OF MY INTEREST IN THE PROGRESSION OF SLAM BODY POP JAMS AND PSYCHEDELIC MEDITATIVE STATE ROCK. I WAS HOWEVER MORE INCLINED TO THE FREEDOM OF LIVE SOUND AND IMPROV, THE WOMAN YEAR BAND WAS TOGETHER FOR A LEAKY STREAM OF SHOWS (w/ savannah macias on sax, daniel truedo ((PREGNANT)) ..s, kaitlyn reeves on trumpet and justin haney on drums). FURTHER MEGA MORT, BUG VERM VOMIT ON ALL SHALL PASTY CLINE! ! - (((JON BAFUS))) - grew up in elementary school with nirvana, and started drummin in fifth grade. by sixth grade it was all about slayer, pantera metallica, thrash metal drumming was god until primus entered my life in seventh grade. meanwhile i was forced by my drum teacher to learn jazz drumming, reading charts and excercises. learned to hate a metronome! also developed a disgusting obsession with jazz fusion like herbie, chick, and mahavishnu. over the years just played hours on end by myself and never really played in bands until college. it was the avant that really took me by storm, studying italian futurism and john cage and seeing the conceptual side of music. Bob ostertag really helped me find myself. also falling in love with ornette and cecil and John zorn,and newer bands like deerhoof and the luttenbachers didnt hurt too much either (well, newer like within the last decade and a half, you know what i mean). they all had what i needed, something quirky and free, and different. MORESO THAN ANY OF THOSE NAMES, MOST OF MY INSPIRATION COMES FROM THE VAST ARMY OF ENDLESSLY TALENTED FRIENDS OF MINE WHO EXIST MAINLY OFF OF THE PROVERBIAL "SUCCESS GRID." I HAVE NO IDEA HOW ALL THESE FOLKS CAN BE SO UNBELIEVABLY MAGICAL AT THE THINGS THEY DO, AND IM SO THANKFUL I KNOW THEM ALL. i never quite knew what i wanted to do with music other than that i wanted to express my own wacky personality for those who need that kind of stuff too. here i am later playing with a great friend of mine (michael) who is every bit as wacky of a dude as me, if not more so. you dont have to like us, but we are still gonna play in your town. love you.- (((BOYD ANDERSSON))) - Originated in Philomath, OR amongst small town folks, loggers, rednecks, hippies, etc. I spent my young kid days riding my skateboar and going to punk shows in Corvallis, OR. I remember waking up on weekend mornings to my mom listening to country music such as Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Alabama, Cash, Hank Williams Jr./ Sr. and many more. Also learned to love metal via my older brother who listened to Black Sabath, Ozzy, Metallica, Judist Priest, Led Zepplin, Slayer, Pink Floyd, Ratt, and others. Later in my teen years I spent a lot of time alone writting words and fantasizing about my great escape from small town life. Growing up I read a lot of Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg, jack kerouac, Bukowski, Henry Rollins, and others. I listened to a lot of hip hop such as N.W.A. The Ghetto Boys, Slick Rick, Beastie Boys, Black Sheep, L.L. Cool J. After having a daughter I moved to Sacramento, CA and started playing bass at the age of 19. I was inspired to pick up the bass after hearing Mike Watt tear it up on various recordings of The Minute Men. I was also really influenced by the bass playing of Trevor Dunn from Mr. Bungle. While in Sacramento I went to school to become an EMT and later moved to San Francisco where I worked on an ambulance and was exposed to a number of intense situations, which I feel has had a profound influence on my playing style. A couple of years after that I spent about 2 years studying music at Sac City College while playin in a psuedo jazz group called Confederacy of Fools as well as an avante punk band called Antennas Erupt and then attended Portland Community College for another 2 years. Then transfered to Portland State where I studied Philosophy and never graduated. Since that time I have been introduced to a number of amazing bands through friends and my own research at the Portland Library. While living in Portland I co-founded a band called I Am The Arm and Later joined a band called The Dinosaur Heart & Joey w/ Chainsaw Hawkins Band, which has led me back to California at this point to play with AFTERNOON BROTHER: Jon, and Michael first got together when jon asked michael to play in his gentlemen surfer band for a show, it went over well. we found much chemistry between us. after that show we played around town several times as a noisy improv, masturbation music duo. we went through a few band names such as AND THE SORCERER'S STONED, and in Portland we were NO PLANTAR. So here now is Afternoon Brother, the name we stick to. must love dogs.