Artist description Blissed out fuzz and deep sea twang... In some cases, what you need most!

Music Style What is "deconstructed-acidrock"? You tell us!

Musical Influences PopeAlopes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Thin White Rope, Blue Oyster Cult, The Church

Similar Artists The Church, The Pixies, PopeAlopes

Artist History While studying Food Biochemistry and Eastern Religions at the University of California, Pete Lohstroh co-founded and played guitar in PopeAlopes, one of the seminal post-punk-psychedelic bands to emerge from Davis, California and find a global audience. In October 1993, after recording the band’s fourth album, “Slowest Eye”, Popealopes went into suspended animation and Pete founded the band that would become beatrice nine. This first incarnation of the band was called you are my little iodine and included Brian Grattidge on drums and Nick Frederick on bass guitar. you are my little iodine went to Tom Mallon’s studio in San Francisco to record songs in early 1994 that would lead to a being signed by Zero Hour and would become the band’s first album, “little stars hung upside down”. By the time the album was released in March 1996, Chad Wilson had replaced Nick Frederick on bass guitar and the band’s name had been changed to beatrice nine. Even the band was perplexed by how the future seemed to be unfolding. The song, “bare bulb”, was chosen as the single and an accompanying video was made and directed by Matt Aboureczk. The band concentrated on touring and preparing songs for its next album.In early 1997 Brian Grattidge and Chad Wilson left beatrice nine and were replaced by Laurence Herman and Cary Rodda, on drums and bass guitar, respectively. The band immediately recommenced writing and recording with Laurence engineering and co-producing in his home studio, Electrolair. beatrice nine’s second album, “incredible husk”, was released in June 1998 by Lather Records. Throughout 1997 and 1998, the band continued to perform regionally. Scott Morgan replaced Cary Rodda in December 1998 and beatrice nine immediately began recording its third album at Laurence’s Electrolair studio with Laurence once again handling the engineering and most of the production. Two years of stops, starts, fist-fights, and breakdowns later, “be nothing” was complete. So far, so good? Maybe, but Pete, Laurence, and Scott are always looking for ways to improve their little band. Laurence and Scott will be happy to discuss this with you after a show if you buy them each a whiskey. Pete prefers a jumbo jack.Our mission? Quite simply, beatrice nine’s music is the soundtrack to an imaginary movie about the real and hallucinated California landscape and the people who populate it. Or, more to the point: isolation, sadness, and scorched beauty. The melodies that best described this stark and twilit landscape were written by songwriters like Jimmy Webb and John Barry, and bands such as Echo and the Bunnymen, The Psychadelic Furs, The Police, Bad Brains, Blue Oyster Cult, and The Church. The words and images are, most likely, a dense tangle of impressions from movies and television shows (“The Omega Man”, “Kagemusha”, “Paris Texas”, “The Last Picture Show”, “Soylent Green”, “Touch of Evil”, “Ishtar”, “Midnight Cowboy”, “The Seven Samurai”, “You only Live Twice”, “Logan’s Run”, “The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen”, and “Space 1999”), books by Thomas Pynchon, William Vollman, Herman Hesse, Paul Fussell, Kobo Abe, John Steinbeck, Robert Anton Wilson, and Banana Yoshimoto. Says Pete, “We’re really not interested in writing any songs that don’t either give the listener something brand new or that don’t show them something that they thought was familiar in a brand new way. For this reason, the lyrics and the music will always have levels of interpretation beyond the literal and the emotional tone will be as complex as we can get away with. We will go out on a limb now and then for the sake of word-play, and yes, we expect to be punished for it.” Enough said!

Group Members Pete Lohstroh, Laurence Herman, and Scott Morgan

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums, Singing

Albums little stars hung upside down (1996) incredible husk (1998) be nothing:remain nothing (2001)

Press Reviews Oh yeah! Finally, B9s long awaited second album and do not expect that ol "sophomore slump" on this pup. No damn way! What you get here is what makes B9 such an awesome live band-intricate, but never wasted melodies, vocalist/guitarist Petes raspy yet tuneful crooning, and the tight machinations of bassist Cary and drummer Laurence. Theres no doubt about what they have come here to do. Rock, but in the least obvious of ways and thats what makes this highly original-sounding Davis, CA trio such a treat.- Heckler 8/98

Location Davis, CA - USA

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