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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
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Oakland, California, USA (1999 – present)
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum formed in 1999 in Oakland, California, USA. The band was founded by Nils Frykdahl (guitars, flutes, vocals) and Dan Rathbun (bass, log, trombone, lute, vocals) of the band Idiot Flesh, with Carla Kihlstedt (violins, percussion guitar, autoharp, organ, bulbul, vocals) of Tin Hat Trio, 2 Foot Yard and The Book of Knots, after the three worked together in Charming Hostess. Matthias Bossi (drums, glockenspiel, xylophone, vocals) and Michael Mellender (percussion, assorted melodic instruments, vocals) both joined in 2004. Previous members include percussionist Moe! Staiano, founding drummer David Shamrock, and drummer/manager Frank Grau.
The band tour the U.S. frequently in a renovated vintage Green Tortoise bus, and their live performances have featured puppet shows, pseudo-scientific scholarly presentations, and performances by members of the Butoh group inkBoat. SGM’s music has been categorized as anything from avant-prog to art rock to experimental metal to rio (Rock In Opposition). Many reviewers have remarked that the group is altogether unclassifiable.
The band uses many homemade devices as instruments, such as the viking row-boat and the spring-nail guitar. Rathbun plays a stringed bass instrument of his own construction called The Log which uses piano strings and is perhaps 7 feet long; it is played with two sticks: one in the left hand generally used as a fret, another in the right hand striking the strings.
The band tour the U.S. frequently in a renovated vintage Green Tortoise bus, and their live performances have featured puppet shows, pseudo-scientific scholarly presentations, and performances by members of the Butoh group inkBoat. SGM’s music has been categorized as anything from avant-prog to art rock to experimental metal to rio (Rock In Opposition). Many reviewers have remarked that the group is altogether unclassifiable.
The band uses many homemade devices as instruments, such as the viking row-boat and the spring-nail guitar. Rathbun plays a stringed bass instrument of his own construction called The Log which uses piano strings and is perhaps 7 feet long; it is played with two sticks: one in the left hand generally used as a fret, another in the right hand striking the strings.
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Grand Opening and Closing
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Shoutbox
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punxtr wrote:
The thing with Sleepytime is that they don't seem to try and veer away from the sickness of humanity, only recognize it and discuss it. A sort of position where you criticize your races evils yet acknowledge your own participation in them.
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Etothe3 wrote:
SF show was spellbinding. The whole crowd was in awe, not making a sound until the last note of every song was played. Then, we erupted. I love this band, and was still blown away by the live performance. I can't wait to see them again! But on another note, what is this about babies? Lead by example! Or just make cool music without such a hypocritical message.
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punxtr wrote:
Here's a nice matrix recording of that show at Neumos: http://www.archive.org/details/sgm2009-11-12.flac16 Check out Michael's new song!
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radioastrolog wrote:
darshun - thanks for bootleg!
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alTerngOth wrote:
Y_Y
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Tommytwo wrote:
dada-metal
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amand_uhh wrote:
si, I thank you also for playing Eugene! you all are magic...
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Please_Go_Die wrote:
Thank you for playing Eugene!! The show was spectacular!!
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punxtr wrote:
no problem
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darshun wrote:
http://el1011.com/SGM/SGM.html live Sleepytime @ the Keyclub! Enjoy, thanks Punxtr fer yer help!
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begily wrote:
when will this awesome band come to the UK?
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punxtr wrote:
May possibly be the vocals. I don't feel like attaching a genre to any song or album of any act for that matter, but I will admit there is a different approach in composition and vocal delivery of the first album. I personally find the first album my favorite. It's strange, David Shamrock did the drums for both Acid Rain/Idiot Flesh's and SGM's first album. Nils has referred to him as a composer, and both times his influence makes the first album sound markedly different from the later albums.
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inimicalBASTARD wrote:
i'm just about obsessed with "Of Natural History", but something about "Grand Opening and Closing" reminds me of nu-metal. Almost like i'm listening to disturbed or some other band of the like. Not all the tracks, just a few. I'm not bashing SGM, I love them, just an opinion.
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BeauxJangles wrote:
very cool blog Darshun
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Biggstheclown wrote:
i totally know which one your talking bout man.
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JBarracudaL wrote:
I just got done seeing this two year old 13 part concert of these guys on youtube. All I've gotta say is that I'm disappointed in myself for not paying more attention to this group; they're dynamite. Also, <3 Carla
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snupy123 wrote:
cool band
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punxtr wrote:
I want to have Hungry For You on the next album. Dan didn't have his song like Of Natural History. Hell, why not The Neighborhood? Spruce it up a bit though...
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hanihihi wrote:
i want a new album2
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daydream_juliet wrote:
I want a new album! Please!
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some sleepytime shirts available on ebayincluding a couple shirts and an apron from Charming Hostess!
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