Artist description There is a rock'n'roll truism that says that every person who ever saw the Velvet Underground or owned one of their albums went and started their own band. We steal from all of those bands.The Phonocaptors are committed to the performance and the presence of the rock show above any individual rock song. The Phonocpators will not play a song if it is not bitch-ass.

Music Style Rock

Musical Influences Velvet Underground, the Replacements, Cheap Trick, the Stooges, the Who!

Similar Artists somewhere between the Who! and Green Day

Artist History Upon his arrival in St Louis in 1998, Jason Hutto held the open mic circuit hostage, until he was given a bass player (G-Dog) and a drummer (Scooter) to play with. He immediately began to teach them his songs, while subliminally indoctrinating them with his theories of rock. The band was quickly adopted by the Rooster Lollipop collective of rock musicians, and debuted their live sounds at the vaunted Way Out Club.G-Dog was taken away from the band in a severe accident: employment. Fortunately, Mr. Hutto had already ensnared a new bass player (formerly of Moon Records' the Skalars) in his web of rock'n'roll.The new lineup recorded as many songs as they could afford at Pulling Teeth studios with Michael Praytor and Tom Delgado at the knobs. Three of those songs survived the mix-down stage, which were added to two songs that surfaced from an earlier self-produced recording effort to form the mighty "Phonocaptors" EP, which is represented in its entirety here.

Group Members Jason Hutto: guitar + lead singingWill Horton: bass + backupsScott Hermes: drums + backups

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums, distortion pedal

Albums "Phonocaptors" EP

Press Reviews Best All-Boy Rock Band: PhonocaptorsSnarling, posturing all-boy bands are a dime a dozen in this town, so it's invigorating to finally find a guy group that actually deploys its testosterone in the interest of genuine rockin'. With a flawless pop-to-punk ratio, the Phonocaptors' urgent, balls-to-the-wall live show (think Stooges in suits and ties) is pure exhilaration. Though he has chops and rock-star moves to spare, singer/guitarist Jason Hutto seems refreshingly unaware of his own charisma. When a piece of his guitar's bridge popped off during a recent Way Out Club show, Hutto fell to his knees and finished out the song twirling stomp-box knobs in a sweaty ecstasy of libidinous noise. Spidery bassist Will Horton, formerly of the Skalars, knows when to show off and when to hold back, and Scott Hermes, master of the elusive Nervous Snare Fill, earns mod points as one of the few drummers on the planet who can actually play a whole set without shedding his suit jacket. Like many great bands before them, the Phonocaptors' genius remains largely undiscovered; they need to play Mississippi Nights, the only room in town big enough for their Y-chromosomes.-The Riverfront Times, "The Best of St Louis," 1999

Location St Louis, MO - USA

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