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Mike Dillon (musician)
Mike Dillon (a.k.a. Mike D) is an American percussionist, vibraphonist, bandleader, and vocalist born in San Antonio, Texas. He is a member of Critters Buggin, Les Claypool's Fancy Band and Garage A Trois. He has performed with many musicians including Ani DiFranco, Galactic, Brave Combo, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Marco Benevento, Claude Coleman Jr., and New Orleans musicians Kevin O'Day, Johnny Vidacovich and James Singleton. Dillon's love of playing percussion was born out of his love for the band Rush as a teenager. He originally performed in the 80's with local Dallas and Denton favorites Ten Hands. At the time, he was a casual drug user. Later when he led the 1990s Dallas-based Billy Goat, he and his girlfriend (who he later married) became heroin addicts who began missing gigs and eventually were "on the verge of death". The band's management sent him to rehab, but he "only lasted three days". In the late 1990s, Billy Goat disbanded and he performed in the Kansas C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percussion
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Excluding zoomusicological instruments and the human voice, the percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments.''The Oxford Companion to Music'', 10th edition, p.775, In spite of being a very common term to designate instruments, and to relate them to their players, the percussionists, percussion is not a systematic classificatory category of instruments, as described by the scientific field of organology. It is shown below that percussion instruments may belong to the organological classes of ideophone, membranophone, aerophone and cordophone. The percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as the timpani, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, belonging to the membranophones, and cy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Claypool's Fancy Band
Les Claypool's Fancy Band was a lineup of musicians on tour with Les Claypool from 2005 to 2007. The band consisted of Claypool on bass, Skerik on tenor and baritone saxophone, Mike Dillon on vibraphone, marimba, tabla, cuíca and percussion, Gabby La La on sitar, ukulele and theremin and Paulo Baldi Paulo Baldi is an American drummer and percussionist best known as a former member of the band CAKE. Baldi currently plays with The Claypool Lennon Delirium consisting of Sean Lennon and Primus' Les Claypool. Other bands Baldi has worked with i ... on drums. ''concertlivewire.com'', May 27, 2007 The Fancy Band's first appearance was 2005. They toured nationally in 2006 promoting the album '' Of Whales and Woe''. They toured the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Harvin
Earl Harvin is an American drummer, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist who has lived in Dallas, Texas and Los Angeles and is now residing in Berlin, Germany. Harvin studied at the University of North Texas College of MusicSpecial Interview , ''TAMA drums'', copyright 2006 where he was a member of the One O'Clock Lab Band for one year, beginning 1989. Throughout most of the 1990s, he led the jazz band Earl Harvin Trio (including Fred Hamilton and Dave Palmer (American keyboardist), Dave Palmer) and led the rock band rubberbullet (band), rubberbullet. Earl Harvin Trio won the ''Dallas Observer'' category of "Jazz" in 2003. Harvin also performed or recorded with various Texas-based artists including James Clay (musician), James Clay, Chao (band), Chao, Ten Hands (band), Ten Hands an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battery Milk
''Battery Milk'' is the first album by Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle. The album includes experimental, funk and jazz. Musicians * Go-Go Ray - drums * JJ Jungle - bass, vocals * Ron Johnson - bass * Mike Dillon - vibraphone, tabla, percussion, vocals * Mark Southerland - saxophone, eight track, bent circuits Track listing # "Go-Go's Theme" # "Broc's Last Stand" # "The Blame Game" # "Robbing the Bank" # "Your Mother Was My Teacher" # "The Voyeur" # "Lunatic Express" # "Hercules" # "Lopsided Melon Ball" # "Stupid Americans" # "Bad Man" # "Harris County" References *Album's liner notes {{Authority control 2007 albums Jazz albums by American artists Go-go albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solarallergy
''Solarallergy'' is a jazz and rock instrumental album by Black Frames. Black Frames is a collaborative project by Skerik, Mike Dillon (musician), Mike Dillon, Earl Harvin and Brad Houser from 2002. The album was accompanied by a national tour. Between the musicians are long-time associations: Dillon and Harvin from Ten Hands (band), Ten Hands and Billy Goat (band), Billy Goat; Skerik, Houser and Dillon from Critters Buggin. Though Dillon and Harvin are primarily percussionists, for ''Solarallergy'' all members are credited for percussion. Each musician is also credited for composition. Personnel *Skerik - tenor saxophone, marimba, fancy sax *Mike Dillon (musician), Mike Dillon - vibes, marimba, tabla, percussion *Earl Harvin - drums, vibes, marimba, guitar *Brad Houser - bass, sentir, timpani Tracks #25 Billion Stars Per Human (Dillon, Harvin) #French Farse (Harvin) #Hafta (Dillon) #Sonic Vapor (Skerik, Houser) #Mallet Cut (Dillon) #Turbulance (Dillon) #White Envelopes (Harvin) #G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peregrine Honig
Peregrine Honig (born 1976 in San Francisco, CA) is an American artist whose work is concerned with the relationship between pop culture, sexual vulnerability, social anxieties, the ethics of luxury and trends in consumerism. Honig appeared on season one of Bravo’s artist reality television show, '' Work of Art: The Next Great Artist'', which aired from June 9–August 11, 2010, finishing in second place. Career Born in San Francisco and raised in The Castro, Honig went to high school at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, then moved to Kansas City, Missouri at 17 to attend the Kansas City Art Institute. At age 22, Honig was the youngest living artist to have work acquired by the Whitney Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Solo exhibitions include ''Loser'' at Dwight Hackett Projects in Santa Fe, New Mexico; ''Pretty Babies'' at Gescheidle Gallery in Chicago; and Albocracy at Jet Art Works in Washington DC. Significant recent group shows include ''Talk Dirty to Me'' at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Houser
John Bradley Houser (born September 7, 1960) is an American bass guitar, baritone saxophone and bass clarinet player, originally from Dallas, Texas. He was a co-founding member of the New Bohemians, later to become known as Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. He also co-founded Critters Buggin (of Seattle, Washington) with fellow New Bohemian Matt Chamberlain and Skerik. In 2006 he stated, "In Austin I play with the Patrice Pike Band, Steve Wedemeyer, Colin Brooks, Oliver Rajamani, Zydeco Blanco, and The Summer Wardrobe..." In 2008 he could be seen playing with Mingtones (Laura Scarborough) and BoomboxATX in Austin, Texas. BoomboxATX debut ''Feel the Boombox'' was released 2007. Houser is credited on recordings by other Austin-based artists such as Aimee Bobruk (2006), OHN (2005) and Mastica (2002). He rejoined members of Critters Buggin for Black Frames ''Solarallergy'' (2003) and for ''Stampede'' (2005). In 2006 he reunited with Edie Brickell & New Bohemians to release ''Strange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Haas
Brian Roy Haas (born March 18, 1974) is an American jazz pianist and founding member of the band Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey. Haas spent his formative years in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa. He began studying classical piano at age five. He won local and regional piano competitions at a young age. When he was sixteen, he won the Oklahoma Concerto Competition. He performed with the Tulsa Philharmonic. After graduating from high school, he received a scholarship to study classical music at the University of Tulsa, but while in college he became interested in jazz and switched his major. In January 2011 JFJO recorded a suite of music based on the Tulsa race riot, Tulsa Race Riot. Haas signed with Rykodisc/Hyena Records, which released his first album, ''The Truth About Hollywood'' (2005), a combination of Hass's compositions and cover versions of songs by Thelonious Monk. Discography References External linksOfficial site {{DEFAULTSORT:Haas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skerik
Skerik is an American saxophonist from Seattle, Washington. Performing on the tenor and baritone saxophone, often with electronics and loops, he is a pioneer in a playing style that has been called saxophonics. He is a founding member of Critters Buggin, Garage a Trois, Ponga, Tuatara, and Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet. He is also an original member of both Les Claypool's Fancy Band and Frog Brigade. Skerik also worked with grunge band Mad Season. History Skerik began playing saxophone in the fifth grade. His father's love of jazz was an early inspiration. He played saxophone, keyboards and percussion in a rock band called Uncle Jam. He has cited The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd as bands from that time period who brought saxophone into rock music well. In the 1980s he travelled to London, Paris and the South Pacific working day jobs and playing in a variety of bands. His friendship with Leif Totusek introduced him to South African music and Zaire soukous bands in Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
