Dave Moe - Twistin' 'N' Twangin'

 

 

 

 

An instrumental masterpiece laced with revved up engines, moonshine, and apple pie. An Americana dream resting in the sweet history of days past. Sit with Dave accompanying your Hi Fi and listen as he twangs the night away.

Dave Moe - Twistin' 'N' Twangin' 

The Dave Moe Band

A soaring squelch of an over driven 6 stringed
axe. Able to slay any rock mongrel with beats

and bass.The first introduction of The Dave Moe Band

exploded into my eardrums with excitement. With the

bearer of this vessel I also explored frightening realms

of mind altering chemicals. Issuing flames that filled

up a room as the music played on. Empowered by the

grooves we boasted. Like joyful children we moved

our discovery outside to show our crowded sprawl.

The next attempt shot fire that soared up to the sky to

bully the moon. If ears could smile!

1992 4-Track

1993 it's the Dave Moe Band

Recorded with Chris Anderson
Featuring Dave Moe, Dave Van Kley, Ryan Geddes, Nick Bursett

Fast Food Revolution

I remember the walk to the straight edge house.
A house not named by the residents, It was only
that they didn't abuse themselves like we did. It
seemed fitting to name a house like it was our
opposite. Not good against bad, we all hung out
at the same shows, the same restaurants, just a
reference for conversation. Today they were
having an early show. Right down the back
alley and around the corner we walked. Excited
about what I was on my way to see because it was
my friends. I didn't know that I would walk away
feeling like I didn't really know them any more.
It was in the living room where I think I was first
blown away. Pulsing beats that set a pop dirge off
to other worlds. Mesmerizing attacks hooking me
into a groove. I swayed in awe just bewildered.
How could they have kept this a secret from me?
-Brody

http://www.mediafire.com/?d68uk82jg8uziog

Then there was this other tape of 5 songs recorded
over whatever they could find. Mine was dubbed
over Ratt's "Invasion of Your Privacy".

The Other Tape:

http://www.mediafire.com/?qayq73eyydyreev

Hushpad

We met Hushpad at the Pekin Marigold Festival in
the mid to late 90's. A friendship was sparked.
Meetings were set. North St. was the location for
the recording of "for kites and string". I don't
remember were the 4-Track came from. I don't
recall the exact year. I remember wonderful nights
pushing ideas with cymbals and snare, following
leads while nudging moments to blossom
into an enchanting escape. -Brody

http://www.mediafire.com/?kxn9sbicte7dgit

side one 1. introducing...2. dear jenny 3. tennis anyone?
4. cricket (when he's at home) 5. part of everything/everything
gets psychedelic 6. wanderlust 7.watching the rain side two
8. china dance party usa! 9. with that light in your eyes
10. shindig 11. fallen leaves 12. a song for harold angel esquire
13. october and november 14. little ways 15. that ain't me
16. for kites and string
the end

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hushpad/113361518732003

http://hushpad1.bandcamp.com/album/for-kites-and-string

http://blog.shelflife.com/2009/04/15/hushpad-saturday/

Morse Orchid

Although this is a home for evil eye hOneytree. No information has been given about them. Until now..........They started out with Joel Madigan on Drums, Jeff Hyde Bass and vocals, Brody Maag Guitar and vocals. A few years later they invited Nathaniel Lucas to join. He has since made noise and melody with various toys. Another year or so passed and Joel moved on. Chris Wheeler was invited to play Drums. At the same time Dave Moe was asked to come along to add more guitar flavor. They are almost finished with the recording of the current song list with this line up.

..but recently they finished the release with the original line up. The songs that were played the first 2 years. Since they still hadn't released it when Nate started, they made him contribute... sorta like a hazing.


http://www.mediafire.com/download/a8taf1hvqbe6e3e/evil_eye_hOneytree_-_Morse_Orchid.zip

Pretentious Artist #9

"When asked about the draw to Montana Star Rock
I find myself explaining Pretentious Artist #9.
It all started from these songs. These songs are
the building blocks. "Patients" supplied me with
the means to see beyond my own want and existence.
Not so much what a man needs to survive but what
mankind needs to move forward. With "A Year's Supply
of Oxygen" I realized that I was not alone.I was driven
upward out of my own recluse to join with my brothers
to envision the tools needed for any future."

Rudy Montana
199?-199?

This is a little departure from the theme here but, just a step away... like a cousin to the evil eye. Jeremy Kerner made these amazing tapes in the mid 90's, precursor to Montana Star Rock. Pretentious Artist #9 was one of the more amazing acts to come outta North St., the castle of creativity and dreams.

Currently he is living in California making music with Solar Wimp. Memory also places Jeremy in Soul Sister Birgade, Three Boyfriends, Fast Food Revolution, Mirandis and the Solar Wimp Trio.

Am I missing anything? Put it in the comments.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ytun333dzww


http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?cjg0o2kwiyo

Montana Star Rock

Lost in a sour hallucinogenic desert, three men fight their
way through disillusions of mortal confusion and fear.

Jeremy Kerner stepped out of the room that spawned
Pretentious Artist #9 to join with Jeff Hyde. Jeff was fresh from
his escapades in The Norms with some songs of his own.
They teamed up with Brody Maag and his frightened
stumble of a drunk beat. Individually they took on a new
persona, a new name. Names that would bring them
closer to the enlightenment for which hearts often yearn.

Not jumping because they thought they could fly. They knew
that their weightlessness was an inevitable expense to bring your
ears with them. Fast through a hazy residue of loss and despair,
these notes resonated a path to the future. Only few took their way
along this dizzying adventure hoping to find enlightenment,
solace, or even rescue from the troubles of living and faith.

Bound to the rules constricting around them, like a step away from
the being beyond a mortal death. Rudy Montana, Carmen Star, and
Mod Rock were found dead, floating in a pool representing an
amniotic sack of life surround. In leaving us with this small gift of
history, these three men have invited us to go with them.
………To be reborn

Honest and welcoming, such an embrace should not be ignored.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ym14wtwgjju

the End o' Men

end o' men - 1996

Name taken from the early Nora Hate song End Of Man.
A brotherhood bound by the apocalyptic actions of the common stooge. The garbage, the killing, lying, cheating, the things people do, the effects that keep building. Loud reflections of the time they where living. An audio image of the shit that they were seeing. They found it hard to slow down, so hard to sit still. A God Damn Vibration!
Chad Trone worked Drums, Chris Cowgill abused bass, Brody Maag took guitar and sang on this unfinished batch of disgust and complaint.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?kml0zmmaxom

Dark Nerd

"I’ve got a prayer for you... and it’s right here."



1998 was a rock n’ roll ghetto: while “Moons” Pix and Safari weighed heavy on sighs, “A Thousand Leaves” introduced Sonic Youth to the Bonnaroo generation and nu-metal became the elephant in the middle of the room. Dark Nerd’s decision to sign with Merge records in June of that year is no stranger than the labels’ insistence on beating the indie rock world over the head with the insipid “Aeroplane Over the Sea,” penned by a band who would proceed to break up immediately from the shame, to the detriment of better makers. Word has it that Stephin Merritt actually begged for a delayed release of “69 Love Songs” after hearing Dark Nerd’s magnum opus. He got his wish. While clearly smitten and juiced about the buzz, Merge had no intention of putting any love into this beast of an album from the armpit of the Midwest.



Early reviews of the pre-release were dismal. Mojo called it “primal-one note drivel,” their shortest review in over five years (the prior consisting of: “I want to fuck Kim Deal” per “Last Splash’s” singular appeal). Just the name of the band became a subject of partisan debate. By Fall of 98, the plaid-wearing populace seemed to be split down the middle about the merits of Dark Nerd and their place in the universe. Divisive to be sure, but the believers did so with a ferocity unparalleled in those days. Their lone live recording is a testament to the incendiary breadth of the ardour with which they were worshipped. Sent to Merge offices hot on the heels of “The Basement Demo” in late summer of 98, “The Pizza Party” was a scorched earth affair in a plain brown wrapper. Heads were scratched in Chapel Hill for months. Merge balked on the contracted recording details and agreed to a cassette only release of the Basement Demos (June 98), and Pizza Party (July 98; *subsequently bootlegged under various guises in attempts to keep it in print, each version is slightly different. Brian Gould has stated that the 98 cassette release is a completely different recording than the copies circulated around Lollapalooza in 2000 (a fact disputed by their almost undeniable non-existence); certainly, the audio on the later boots is improved and the tracklisting pared down to the raw essentials, a decision referred to by none other than Julian Cope as “the greatest fucking assfuck in all of rock-fucking history”).



Dark Nerd was born into the world kicking and screaming from the ashes of Rugg City and The Norms. Brody Maag and Jeff Hyde had been bashing away at beer-soaked rumblings in their basement, pairing up with just about anyone who could take the verbal abuse and constant atmosphere of dread. The first was Jeremy Kerner, who has received some notoriety in late years as the front-man for the diminutively heliocentric “Solar Wimp.” They tried on an outfit heavily monikered: “Montana Star Rock” and actually played some shows (much to the disbelief of almost everyone in attendance). The two then contacted Jeff’s old band mate Brian Gould, then on hiatus from Atlantic Recording artists “Fast Food Revolution,” and decided to give it a go. Three months and several hundred breakfasts at the Kaffehaus from that auspicious meeting, the recording that now sits in your player was born. It is raw, it is primal. Maag’s drumming is pure caveman and the two axemen chop down redwoods. To use Hyde’s phrase from “Pizza Party:” “we’re not here to change the face of rock n’ roll… but we might.” That about sums it up.

Brian is currently involved with Middle Class Devil Cult in New Zealand.




“The Basement Demo”

“The Pizza Party”

Kong takes Rugg City 1996

http://www.mediafire.com/kongtakes

In the summer of 1996 Brody started focusing on drums with his sister Dallas on bass. They hooked up with Mike Rugg and formed Rugg City. Although Mike wrote most of the songs and did most of the singin, they all had a voice. This made things alot of fun musicaly while near explosive mentally/physically, due to lack of patience and communication skills, but that was all part of the charm. ...Right? Charm was needed cuz Brody was a crappy drummer. They made a bunch of demos that were in a bunch of different keys. They played a lot of shows and Brody got better. They changed their name to The Sin Sonnets and back. Mike brought alot of cool bands to Peoria that they played with. It was a blast!

Rugg City -aka- The Sin Sonnets

Mid to Late 90's ......Not Y2K Compliant

Various 4 Track Demos