Andrew Simmons: Cheerios; Brendan Sheehan: Fish Eggs; Gregory Gheorghiu: Merry Nog; Michael Chopko: Fish Eggs Deux; to dramatically varying degrees, not infrequently accompanied live on a song-to-song basis by Guest Air-Rippers Bert G. on Deep-Dish Pizza Pie, Pilot Pat W. on Catered Swine, Phil C. on Wawa, Jacob M. on Jug Jug Jug, and J. Frahm on Sportfish Caught From a Yacht by a Pleasure-Seeking Man in a Fine White Suit.
Influences
Sounds Like
"Nuanced, heartfelt folk songs that sound like they could have been written anytime in the past century or so." -- Time Out New York (October 2006); "If Quazar had sounded anything like Dame Satan, the San Francisco quartet that just played the Wednesday-night Americana Ramble at Marilyns on K, I might be translating dispatches from Zeti Reticuli right now. Ever heard music that makes you desperately try to remember if youd innocuously eaten a brownie earlier that could have been, ahem, herbally enhanced? Dame Satans music had that effect. The instrumentation was boilerplate Americana--acoustic guitars, banjos, resonator guitars, bass and maybe even a mandolin--but the execution was closer to chamber music meets jazz. The influences, among them British folk, English post-psychedelic blues rock, spare Delta blues and the sort of weird Americana the Grateful Dead sometimes hinted at, melded into an original whole whose presence was rather startling. The four members played off each other like ancient jazz bodhisattvas, and there was a conscious awareness and manipulation of the spaces between the notes, again more a jazz trait than an element common to more straightforward genres like bluegrass or country. The overall effect is easy to recall. Its like that time you got really buzzed and played guitar in the stairwell and sang, and you heard yourself sounding like something from another dimension." -- Sacramento News and Views (June 2006 Live Review); "...Druggy, dusky hued country folks who slink about in the shadows..." -- Aquarius (November 2007, regarding new split 7-inch); "...Underrated..." -- S.F. Bay Guardian (November 2007); "...Little ’r’ rock with sweetly scented underpine..." -- Byron Coley, The Wire (February 2008, regarding new split 7-inch))
We played our first show in July of 2004. We put out Ghost Mansion ourselves. We toured all over. We wrote and recorded more songs for a new album. A few months back, we put out a sick split 7-inch double-sided single with our friends Two Sheds from Sacramento.
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Check out the Cool As Folk show archive or view the playlist for this week’s program HERE. Lots of great music including a sweaty new vibin' track from Dame Satan. Who loves you? See you next Friday on the air.
Check out the Cool As Folk show archive or view the playlist for this week’s program HERE. Lots of great music including the newest of the new from Dame Satan. Hey boys, who luvs you in Davis? See you on the fundraiser show. Count them stacks!
when you coming to new orleans to see some real spirits and ghosts huh? i heard last east cost tour but i never saw you show. let me know, we'll haunt everything in between.
Hello. Just dropping by to let you know about our show tonight at the Starry Plough in Berkeley. We're playing with Beatbeat Whisper and Emily Jane White. The show is presented by the Bay Bridged and Ipickmynoseblog. Hope to see you there!
Tonight!! Saturday, February 9th at the Starry Plough (3101 Shattuck Avenue)
Beatbeat Whisper
Or, the Whale
Emily Jane White
