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Since moving back home to the Bay Area, I've been playing out nearly nonstop with bands of every genre. My earliest musical loves are psychedelic rock and heavy metal, and I wear those influences on my sleeve in my playing and writing style -- channeling the likes of John Entwistle, Jack Bruce, and Cliff Burton, heroes of mine who I am humbled to have been compared to during my time playing out in the local scene. I hope I do the comparisons justice. I'm most at home laying down a Steve Harris gallop or a Geezer Butler groove, but I've done everything between and beyond those styles in the projects I've worked with
Overall, I endeavour to add a touch of baroque flourish whenever I play, while still keeping it tight and tasty in the pocket.
In addition to my full-time bands, I'm always on the lookout to serve as a hired gun for one off performances, recordings, or anything else.
Serpent Crown stands defiantly at the intersection of thrash metal, Stoner/doom, and crust punk, obliterating all who stand in their wake with aggressive riffs, face melting leads, and sinister atmospheres that would turn even the fiercest Gorgon to stone.
When Danika Ingraham dreamwalks through the astral plane, MoonFox is the name the lost souls and Satanic majesties there know her by. They gift her with visions, and compel her to bring them into the waking world through the ritual magick of song. Depending on her mood, and the musicians she recruits to aid her, the sound might be dense and heavy, sparse and atmospheric, adventurously complicated or comfortingly simple. If Patti Smith joined The Birthday Party to work on some Queens of the Stone Age covers, MoonFox is the band next door that would steal all their gear.
In addition to writing and performing with MoonFox, I also engineered and produced our debut EP and subsequent Demo.
Merging classic soul and psych vibes with Latin rhythms and straight up dirty rock and roll.
Beamed straight from the '60's into your subconcious via an interdimensional Atlantean spacecraft, The Love Dimension is shattering your concept of what it means to be a retro band, even as they shatter your concept of what it means to be a human.
We've been known to play at such prestigious San Francisco venues as The Great American Music Hall, The Rickshaw Stop, and The Independent.
Epic progressive melodic psychedelic indie jam band Electric Shepherd is the brain-child of myself, Mark Nelsen, and Sonny Pearce. Our music combines atmospheric and intellectual journeys inspired by Pink Floyd with savage tribal-blues jamming in the vein of Cream, and injects them with modern Stoner-rock riffing. We've been honored to rock out on stages all across this sleeping nation from Slim's in San Francisco to The Sprout in Richmond, VA.
In addition to writing and performing with ES, I engineered and produced our latest album, The Imitation Garden, as well as developing and administering our official website.
Blurring the line between art/noise indie rock and crushingly heavy Stoner rock. As heard on 107.7 The Bone's Local Licks.
OUTLAW hosts the yearly San Frandelic Summer Fest at Thee Parkside, attracting notable performers such as Vincent Gallo and Spindrift.
The conceptual creative alliance spearheaded by the enigmatic Mr. Orange. Not dead, just sleeping.
nightmaresanddaydreams.bandcamp.com/
Bodhi's Wish: bodhiswish.bandcamp.com/releases
Spider Heart: spiderheart.net/
The Jaunting Martyrs: thejauntingmartyrs.com
Abhay Singh: abhaysinghandfriends.bandcamp.com/
Melting Elephants: facebook.com/melting.elephants