Artist description bipolar improvisational space groove blues, with porn

Music Style organized sound in time, sometimes

Musical Influences Syd Barrett, Clara Rockmore, Sun Ra, Jim Morrison

Similar Artists Grateful Doors featuring Henny Youngman on a bender

Artist History About blueWank.They started as a spin off from an overly pretentious improvisational suburban jazz band .They've been described as the Doors meet the Grateful Dead flitered through a bipolar Henny Youngman. They still improvise everything, almost never playing anything twice. The format is primarily that or a 6 piece pop band- drums, bass, 2 guitars and 2 keyboards- but this is highly embellished by all sorts of other things- kids' toys, trombone, fiddle, plastic tubing, bottles, samplers, tape roll-ins, bells, whistles etc...They also make sure to switch instruments a couple of times each night, to get that '"I can't play that" sound. A couple of them "vocalise". Not sing so much as tell stories, shout, grunt, groan, and ad lib about what's on the television, which is always playing in the background, at any given moment.They record everything they do- for posterity, and because they're mostly geeks. Then, every once and a while they go through the old tapes and make compilations of the best stuff. There are 9 of these so. Tiles include 'Bacteria Lecturn of Juice' 'Tutoring for Losers' 'Cloudsmelt' and their latest- 'Waiting for Waldo'.There's even a few videos- most of them come from some kind of video production background, so they can make videos cheap.Here's a bio moment from their greatest hits compilation CD "Room for Improvement":When my friend and musical advisor called and told me I had to see this band, I said "No thanks, I'm banded out for the week". (I'd seen 12 already that week- posers and hosers all.) He insisted. I said okay.We drove a few hours to a patch of wooded area between a farm and a swamp, miles from the nearest town. I later found out that this was a piece of unclaimed land, never owned by anyone, and, therefore, technically not a part of the United States. "Here we are" said my companion. "Where?" says I. "you'll see. Follow me." We walked a few hundred yards and up a small hill. I could hear the faint sound of an engine of some kind running. As we rounded the hill, a small clearing appeared before us. The first thing that caught my attention was the light. Lights. Lights out here in the middle of nowhere? Then I noticed a small makeshift plywood stage with a drum kit, speakers, guitars, keyboards, microphones, and a mind boggling array of toys, industrial tubing, power tools, books, furniture and a full wet bar. And this was just the stage. Set up around it were portable seating, a plywood dance floor, another bar, and a huge picnic spread. Folks were milling around on stage, setting things up, testing mics, detuning guitars, reading. A small crowd was beginning to assemble, eat, chat,sit, wait. "What is all this?" I asked. "Oh, you'll find out. Relax. Have some pie." (It was real good, home made blueberry.) They start at twelve.Half the lights went out. "Hear we go" sighed my companion.Turns out the folks milling on the stage were the band. An extraordinarily average looking lot. They reminded me of a city crew, gathered around a light fixture, changing the bulb. Except for one guy, who was giggling a bit too much. Then the music started. It was confusion, but with a beat. It was...well you'll hear for yourself when you play this disc. For hours the band kept playing, and changing as different musicians, dancers and poets came and went. By dawn it was over.This disc represents a live in studio variation of that night. Enjoy it responsibly.Excretia Munch, Come Spot Records

Group Members Henry Spewkowski- voice, casio, angstWebe Allan 12- percussives, second voice, huge harmonicaSmeltmeister Zero- basses, mixing, devicesEvil Fill- keyboards, programming, another voiceMark the Guitar player- guitarsBruce- other guitars, chunks, routines

Instruments Bullhorn, toys, television signal, guitars, keyboards, percussives, whistles, fiddle, vacuum tube, trombone, kazoo, samplers, books

Albums Cloudsmelt; Waiting for Waldo; Room for Improvement; Tutoring for Losers; Let It Spew; Mot, Mot, Mot; Experimental Community Theater, Wankfest '95

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Additional Info Waiting for Toast / Lester- music videos

Location Fox River Farms, IL - USA

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