Music Style A little bit of everything.

Musical Influences Dead Kennedys, old sea shantys, John Zorn, Traditional Music from around the globe, Cab Calloway...

Artist History It started out as an experiment in anarchy. There were about 8 to 10 musicians or if you prefer, songwriters and people who liked to bang on objects to make sounds, who got a huge practice space in a delapitated old storage building. They moved in all sorts of strange objects, a plaster fish, a hanging bunch of orange glass grapes that were actually lights, futuristic machines for recording and making sounds, and dozens of door mats reading "welcome"(right about now some residents from the Puyallup area are thinking "ohhh. That's where our little rug disappeared to"). Soon there was Clutter. Some of the "members" to this nameless group tried to restore order but were quickly shot down by the others who called them Fuhrer. This social control mechanism is common in an egalitarian society, so as not to let any individual lead the rest. But eventually, to the dismay of some chaos worshipping members of the group, Order reared its spiffy little head and cleaned some things up so that music could be compiled. Giving birth to new tunes was not at all difficult for this fine, young group of fellows, but raising and agreeing on the direction that the wee tunes should take was often a challenge. Countless numbers of them must have died due to neglect and malnutrition, but others sprung up like nuclear weeds to take their places. Nor was there ever any lack of lunic inspiration, the pad was smack dab in the middle of a freak vortex, almost as if it had been built over an ancient Indian graveyard for the mentally ill. Well, anyway...the band played shows as bands do, shows ranging from 1000 member audiences to boyscout jamborees from the Sistine Chaple to the Holy Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City. O.k., so the last two were lies. Members left to travel, new guys joined, members came back and were integrated again. This was a really strange project, a warped and semidisfunctional family. Something that never should be again. Something that never could be again. Something we had all better pray will never be again...Because if there were a next time, H.S.G.M. backed by General Ed and his Totally Naked army would most certainly, take over the world.

Instruments Accordian, sax, contra-bass clarinet, guitar, bass, banjo, drums, percussion, vocals.

Albums General Ed's Naked Circus

Additional Info Dark Clown/ Chupacabras singles

Location Puyallup, Washington - USA

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