I'm not familiar with them. I googled and Skingraft Records is not responding. Wiki has an article with this interesting tidbit.
Quoting Captain Beefheart, they describe their sound as that of "a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag".
Sounds very cool.
Let us know how it goes!
They are described as Noise Rock. I enjoy that stuff live, usually.
Very loud, very abrasive, very entrancing in the way that pre-dance era Industrial music used to be. It almost felt like I was floating after their set was over. They were using interesting gear.
Guitar player #1 had a Rickenbacker guitar thru a Fender Blues DeVille and an old Marshall 4x12 fed by a previously unknown to me Solid State Traynor monoblock amp.
Guitar player #2 used an old Danelectro through a very old Mesa Boogie Mk1 ( Blonde Tolex), a Gallien Krueger RB400, and a wierd early 70's Solid State Traynor amp that he said was a prototype that never made it into production. The two Solid State amps were fed by an ancient Korg Professional Tape Echo into a newer Marshall 4x12 in stereo mode.
Almost Psycho Female 'singer' with a face painted in a Dayglo pink pattern and a fairly psychotic looking drummer who had his snare mounted at a 45' angle. --I think that the singer and drummer could possibly be ASD.
Sonically the band sounded like Arabonradar fronted by the chick from Melt Banana.
I picked up their CD, plus another CD EP that is a collaboration with an Ex-member of Arabonradar. It's 3:33 AM and I'm still wired as fuck all on Caffeine and sugar.
It sounds truly fascinating!
I love it when they make me float!
Hey, those old Korg Echos are really desirable. Running one in stereo is the best thing since tits for "that type of sound."
I'm a little jealous. You must have had a blast!
BTW, the funny thing about the manufacturer's prototypes (possibly, like that Traynor) from the old days, is that they often went directly into the hands of "famous rock stars" for testing. Rock stars, being somewhat free spirits, often hated the fact that they were
picked on by the companies that they had entered into promotional arrangements with as a result of record label deals. Often the prototypes would be traded to some music store, right away, for something the "star" was more familiar with. They rarely kept up their end of the promotional deal and many of these prototypes have hit the used market and a finger goes up to anyone with questions who came around, later.
That early Mesa would be an example of something that some overloaded rockstar might have preferred to anything that the record company said they had to use, in their contract. Truly a case of herding cats!
