The band hasn't played a live show together since near the end of 2006. The band consisted of: Darin Strachan - vocals, guitars; Goldy - bass; Aaron Strickland - drums; Sean Sullivan - guitars
Influences
Absentee, Ryan Adams, American Horse, Arcade Fire, Badly Drawn Boy, Band Of Horses, The Beatles, Jay Bennett, Beulah, Big Star, Black Lips, Blind Melon, Blues Traveler, David Bowie, The Brakes, Bright Eyes, Built To Spill, Los Campesinos!, Elvis Costello, The Court & Spark, Cowboy Curse, Cracker, CSNY, The Decemberists, Ani DiFranco, Dinosaur Jr., Dr. Jones, Nick Drake, Dressy Bessy, Bob Dylan, The Elected, the Folk Implosion, For Algernon, Bob Geldof, Gogol Bordello, Woody Guthrie, Ben Harper, Jimi Hendrix, John Hiatt, The Hold Steady, Husker Du, Indigo Girls, Iron & Wine, Jackopierce, Robert Johnson, Jesse Malin, Mates of State, McLusky, The Minni-Thins, The New Pornographers, The Newbees, Oakley Hall, Okkervil River, Gram Parsons, Pavement, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Radiohead, The Ramones, Lou Reed, The Replacements, Richmond Fontaine, Rilo Kiley, The Rolling Stones, Sam & Dave, Bob Schneider, Sebadoh, The Shins, Paul Simon, Sleater-Kinney, Son Volt, Sorry About Dresden, Spectacular Fantastic, Spoon, The Symptoms, T. Rex, The Thermals, Tokyo Police Club, Two Gallants, David Vandervelde, The Velvet Underground, Rocky Votolato, Tom Waits, Whiskeytown, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young
Sounds Like
The modern culmination of listening to Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, Big Star, The Replacements, Wilco, and Okkervil River.
Straight Arms started as the home recordings of Darin Strachan. He moved around a lot and played different instruments (mainly guitar) in different bands. He was a founding member of Denver's Cowboy Curse, before moving to Covington, KY. On the bank of the Ohio River, he became apart of Cincinnati's incredible independent music scene as a member of The Minni-Thins and For Algernon.
For a while, there was a live band that focused on being versatile and selective. Sean Sullivan is the owner, operator, and engineer of Tiny Basement Studio and was the guitarist for another local band, The Silhouette. Sean also put together a great band of layers of musicians called Pieces of People. Goldy is a master of bass and a orchestral bass performance granduate from Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Aaron Strickland, the drummer of The Minni-Thins (a band in which Darin is also a member), pounded tom heavy rhythms.
The diversity of the music is a testament to the band's range of influences. They mix acoustic rock and folk (Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake), indie rock (Wilco, Shins, Built To Spill), pre-punk (Velvet Underground, The Modern Lovers, David Bowie), and rock and roll (The Rolling Stones, The Replacements).
A truly independent band, Straight Arms really only had one album, "The Final Broadcast of The Underground Radio Show." The theme to this self-made album is the final 30 minutes of a true underground radio show focusing on independent and original music. The album starts with radio static of a listener tuning a dial to find the radio show. There are a total of 9 songs with DJ interludes. After the final song, static fills the disc. The album was available as a free give away at all Straight Arms performances.
There may be some more recordings surfacing of Darin's recordings in the future, but immediate plans at this time.
More images on ProfileAssist.com Darin, It was a blast doing "Subterranean ..." with you! I wish you a very merry Christmas and a prosperous and creatively inspired new year!
“Julia, On Her Prayer Stand” is our new song from our newly recorded album, That Old Kentucky Blackgrass (coming 2007), and is now available on our Myspace Profile. It’s a sparse and psychedelic ditty for the Baby Jesus’ birthday, and I hope you like it.
She keeps asking where the door goes. Well, dear, it opens a wall. Go and open it right now, reveal the great hall- let loose the hose that knows where all the words, they go; the point of this speech: This sequence of events is not coincidence.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from The Minni-Thins!
hey Straight Arms, it's a nice day here. Raining and cool, so that means a lot of texans are crashing their cars. We put up some new songs a few days ago. If you want, stop on over.
thanks for the great show at stanley's. I have some photos from the night. let me know where to send - an email acct. that can receive large files.
tkos
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