Main Dudes:
Dave Webb: Owner (ha!), producer (ha ha!), huge, over the top guitar solos, bass (not in the pocket), casios, applier of reverb to crap performances, really shitty live drums (getting better?), great drum machine programmer.
Jared Nelson: Guitar, journalist, philosopher, noise freak, wrote an 800 page history of rock and roll while still in high-school for fun, afraid of "the man".
Other Dudes:
Mike Van Bebber: Holds 2 masters degrees in music (for real). He can tell every note played in a guitar chord with heavy distortion in 2 seconds (that's perfect pitch kids)...he lends his skills in trumpet, keys, harmony vox, production skills and general music know-how. This man will be mixing Jared Nelson's new record fairly soon.
Chris Borgia: The go-to guy for bass and all around dudeness. Chris has gotten us outta many a sticky situation. Also a founding member of Beer-Sandwich.
1/2 ass alumni:
Roman White: Lives in Iowa now, Guitar, keys, ex-janitor, able to created evil/violent music on any instrument, knows Chinese. Roman is a harsh critic of man.
Rigel Wise: Currently lives on a boat in Alaska or PDX or the 1/2 ass couch. Loves "Northern Exposure". Rigel is typically "easy going" yet kicked in our front door in an alcohol induced rage one night. Still he remains a core member of the secret inner circle.
Dash Pilcher: Drums, amazing harmonies and background vox, Jared writes songs about this man often. I heard he moved to Texas with an achin' in his heart....
Influences
Can, Death, Grails, Black Sabbath, Gorguts, Amon Duul II, John and Alice Coltrane, Beck (mellow-gold era), The Flaming Lips (ZAIREEKA!), Sonic Youth, Secret Chiefs 3, Karma to Burn, Neurosis, Aphrodite’s Child, Primus, Radiohead, Naked Ctiy, Sepultura, Queen, Grandaddy, Morricone, Mike Post’s theme from Law and Order, Neil Young, Bocephus, Martin Denny, Jane’s Addiction, Killarmy, J Mascis guitar solos, The Melvins, Boris, Nels Cline, Sun Ra, Bjork, Ornette Coleman, Elvin Jones, Slayer, Atheist, Frank Zappa, Ween, Morbid Angel, At the Gates, Origin, Today is the Day, Marcy Playground, Hate Eternal, Discordance Axis, Phantomsmasher, Sean, Abodox, The Sugar Skulls, Abmitious Carreer Woman, Sleepy Workers (RIP), Brad Dunn, The Suffering Fuckheads, Diminished Men, The Better to See you With, Swarming Hordes (RIP), Lesbian, Golgothan Sunrise, Lemons and Stallions, Gza, Rza, Kool Keith, Schooly D, Michael Jackson, Immortal, Bathory, Judas Iscatiot, Weakling, Velvet Cacoon, Sigh, Vlad Tapes, Emperor, Bal Sagoth, Enslaved, King Diamond, Nick Drake, Love, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Miles Davis, Satchmo, Robert Johnson (evil), Funkadelic, Anal Cunt, The Black Heart Procession, Mission of Burma, Velvet Underground, Nile, Joules, Nina Simone, Spirit, Gentle Giant, Fela and Femi Kuti, Tuck Andress (ouch), Leo Kotke, Chet Atkins, Brian Eno (sometimes), Moondog, Flower Travellin’ Band, Soft Machine (Third), Jelly Roll Morton, Earth, Sun City Girls, ELP, Rick Wakeman, Green Milk From the Planet Orange, Arsis, The Beatles, Comets on Fire, Six Organs of Admittance, Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses, Brant Bjork and the Operators, Suffocation, I (Abbath), The Rock A Teens, Angelcorpse, Merrimack, Abruptum, Manowar, The Sword, Pink Floyd, Larry Coryell, Ash Ra Temple, Group 1850, Gulaab Ritt, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Epitaph, Phantasia, Mammatus, Kris Kristofferson, Willie sings Kristofferson....
Sounds Like
ON RECORDS YOU MIGHT HEAR:
Tube amps, fuzz pedals, room sounds, 4-part harmonies, delusions of grandeur, joe-meek compression, lots of panning, guitar solos, tape hiss, stereo acoustic guitars, friends talking in the background, collective improv, 4-Tracks, drum machines, cardboard boxes, tambourines, a salt shaker full of coffee beans, dudes who can’t sing, guitar-players pretending to play other instruments, the Casio SK-1, good ideas while drunk.
LIVE YOU MIGHT SEE AND HEAR:
Beer Sandwich: Jared, Dave, and Borgia keeping it so real it hurts. Amazingly sincere rock and roll that is neither ironic nor retro. No fucking Oasis style crap either. We are loud and all play solos. Jared has been waiting his whole life to be in this band.
R.I.G.E.L/Wolf-Horse: May rear it's ugly head at any time so watch your neck.
Remember, you can get almost any 1/2 ass release at a Beer-Sandwich gig. We have sweatshirts that slay big time too. Free Cobra Wolf merch until we run out (hopefully soon) because that band is done like hammer pants.
I am a guitar player living in Seattle. Bands I'm in: Wah-Wah Exit Wound (guitar), Girth (guitar), Beer Sandwich (drums).
I have also produced some albums and have been involved in some one-off shows the last few years with: The Contraband Countryband, The Wild and the Innocent, Nam-Shub of Enki, R.I.G.E.L., Forever 17, Sean, The Diminished Men, and others.
Feel free to contact me at analogsystem@gmail.com as I am always looking for gigs. Thanks!!
AVAILABLE NOW:
---------- The Boys of Summer (HA006)
Roman and Jared have done it again! Taking the month of June off from both of their important jobs, these men have traversed the marshy plain known as the human psyche in order to create the ultimate summer fantasy recroding. Highly recommended for fans of Sedgewick and Rigel! Available NOW!
---------- Wolf-Horse / R.I.G.E.L. (HA008) From complete minimalism to absolute sonic blasphemy. Hand Screened Digipaks with extensive liner notes. Limited to 50 copies.
---------- The Contraband Countryband: I'M DRESSED LIKE A BULLFIGHTER ON THE INSIDE (HA009)
FINALLY!!!!! Available in all of it's replicated, silver disc, shrink-wrapped and top-spined glory!! This record is over a year in the making but it's been totally worth the wait. From Country to classic rock, noise and psychedelia...and of course it's all played with the vibe that it could be the final performance of the human race.....BUY THIS NOW!!!!!! click here for Jared Nelson's myspace page ----------
COMING SOON: ----------
---------- Nam-Shub of Enki: The Coldest Winter of Our Lives (TBA)The full-length black metal opus, more than partially inspired by having no heat in our house. Available Spring (when we thaw) 2007.
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---------- Other items of interest GIRTH: The main experimental / metal band. I play guitar. For more info and upcoming shows follow the links below.
www.houseofgirth.com GIRTH on myspace
great hair, great sound, great structure, cool gear! But their aint nothin' cool about a guitar player who, when he plays live and positions his guitar strap where he does, can't pee over the top of his guitar. WHICH IS WHY DAVE IS SO FUCKING COOL! In other words, as many shredding notes as Dave plays every show...he will never need a pick...as long as he is circumcised.
DW and friends? Is this some sort of fucked up Darkwing Duck fanpage now, 'cause I always remember Launch Pad McQuack calling him "DW" and he had friends...
Greetings from NY! How's everything there in Queen Anne? It's pretty intense here, which is good. I'll be back there for Thanksgiving in a week or so. talk to you later, Mike
Is it not enough that all of our bands involve each other and that we hang out and talk on GMail chat? Does it need to come to posting MySpace messages to each other from mutual ghost accounts while we're communicating simultaneously in other ways.
Finally, the conclusive evidence that we're totally idiots:
Neil @ WaMu Theater, 10/23/07
Acoustic:
1. From Hank To Hendrix 2. Ambulance Blues 3. Sad Movies 4. A Man Needs A Maid 5. No One Seems To Know 6. Harvest 7. After The Gold Rush 8. Mellow My Mind 9. Love Art Blues 10. Love Is A Rose 11. Heart Of Gold
Electric:
12. The Loner 13. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 14. Dirty Old Man 15. Spirit Road 16. Bad Fog Of Loneliness 17. Winterlong 18. Oh, Lonesome Me 19. The Believer 20. No Hidden Path
Jack -- relax. Get busy with the facts. No zodiacs or almanacs, No maniacs in polyester slacks. Just the facts. Gonna kick some gluteus max. Its a parallax -- you dig? You move around The small gets big. its a rig. Its action -- reaction -- Random interaction. So whos afraid Of a little abstraction? Cant get no satisfaction From the facts? You better run, homeboy -- A facts a fact From nome to rome, boy.
Whats the deal? spin the wheel. If the dice are hot -- take a shot. Play your cards. show us what you got -- What youre holding. If the cards are cold, Dont go folding. Lady luck is golden; She favors the bold. thats cold. Stop throwing stones -- The night has a thousand saxophones. So get out there and rock, And roll the bones. Get busy!
-Neil Pert's rap from the song Roll the Bones
...there's a 1000 saxaphones so get out there and rock?
...It's a parallax?
Pure genius. I bet "Parallax" has never been used before or since in a rap song. Do I have your attention Mr. Nielson?
All the same, We take our chances Laughed at by time, Tricked by circumstances, Plus a change, Plus cest la mme chose. The more that things change, The more they stay the same.
While I love saying Neil Pert ruined rush. It's that kind of lyric writing that make them genius.
look for more neil quotes in the future, including some where he raps. Neil Pert raps in the middle of the song Roll the Bones. I'm not kidding.
I'll listen to anything Crosby, even early '90s Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Even the dubiously titled 1989 release "OhYes I Can" (clearly a response to those who doubted his ability to get clean). I'd even watch the home video of him artificially inseminating Melissa Etheridge. If however, you want me to listen anything after Permanent Waves by Rush your going to need a hospital bed with restraints and all the morphine you can get your hands on!
Anyone who tells us we don't know how to make music should simply be directed toward this picture, that although not an audio object, still demonstrates with unflinching reality and precision, the proper recording techniques to achieve such emotion and truth as is found in Wolf-Horse/R.I.G.E.L.
Ah, the good ol' days...it seems like some fairytale that involved incessant loud music, mold clogging your lungs, flooding rooms, and messy houses. A dream that couldn't last.
I had to go and buy "American Stars N'Bars," "If Only I Could Remember My Name," and "Crosby & Nash" also...
Fuck! Stephen Stills is playing the Showbox on July 6th, effectively killing any draw we may have and possibly forcing us to cancel our performance so we can attend Stills' and heckle/worship him.
"There ya have it. I’ve gotta say, as cool and accurate as Wah Wah Exit Wound is, Beer Sandwich is a pretty radical band name, as well. And, of course, anything with “wolf” in the titled, as WWEW says, is hip by default. These dudes obviously hold Ph.D.s in band-naming–honorary Ph.D.s at least."
Can, Death, Grails, Black Sabbath, Gorguts, Amon Duul II, John and Alice Coltrane, Beck (mellow-gold era), The Flaming Lips (ZAIREEKA!), Sonic Youth, Secret Chiefs 3, Karma to Burn, Neurosis, Aphrodite’s Child, Primus, Radiohead, Naked Ctiy, Sepultura, Queen, Grandaddy, Morricone, Mike Post’s theme from Law and Order, Neil Young, Bocephus, Martin Denny, Jane’s Addiction, Killarmy, J Mascis guitar solos, The Melvins, Boris, Nels Cline, Sun Ra, Bjork, Ornette Coleman, Elvin Jones, Slayer, Atheist, Frank Zappa, Ween, Morbid Angel, At the Gates, Origin, Today is the Day, Marcy Playground, Hate Eternal, Discordance Axis, Phantomsmasher, Sean, Abodox, The Sugar Skulls, Abmitious Carreer Woman, Sleepy Workers (RIP), Brad Dunn, The Suffering Fuckheads, Diminished Men, The Better to See you With, Swarming Hordes (RIP), Lesbian, Golgothan Sunrise, Lemons and Stallions, Gza, Rza, Kool Keith, Schooly D, Michael Jackson, Immortal, Bathory, Judas Iscatiot, Weakling, Velvet Cacoon, Sigh, Vlad Tapes, Emperor, Bal Sagoth, Enslaved, King Diamond, Nick Drake, Love, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Miles Davis, Satchmo, Robert Johnson (evil), Funkadelic, Anal Cunt, The Black Heart Procession, Mission of Burma, Velvet Underground, Nile, Joules, Nina Simone, Spirit, Gentle Giant, Fela and Femi Kuti, Tuck Andress (ouch), Leo Kotke, Chet Atkins, Brian Eno (sometimes), Moondog, Flower Travellin’ Band, Soft Machine (Third), Jelly Roll Morton, Earth, Sun City Girls, ELP, Rick Wakeman, Green Milk From the Planet Orange, Arsis, The Beatles, Comets on Fire, Six Organs of Admittance, Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses, Brant Bjork and the Operators, Suffocation, I (Abbath), The Rock A Teens, Angelcorpse, Merrimack, Abruptum, Manowar, The Sword, Pink Floyd, Larry Coryell, Ash Ra Temple, Group 1850, Gulaab Ritt, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Epitaph, Phantasia, Mammatus, Kris Kristofferson, Willie sings Kristofferson.... 
