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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle 
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Posted on Apr 12 2006 01:35 PM
Star Crunch, Brian Causey, was in a band called the Causey Way for awhile. It was decent music and pretty funny. He was the leader of a cult in that band. I was quite amused at the time, I was 17, at the song Science Made Me a Homo . . . Sapien. Birdstuff is in the successfull band named the Polyphonic Spree. |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 89 |
Posted on Apr 12 2006 02:10 PM
Ahh, good. Then I can keep the DNA on ice for a while longer. GREGORY NICOLL, Southern Surf Syndicate Agent # 44 |
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Joined: Mar 31, 2006 Posts: 13 |
Posted on Apr 12 2006 05:04 PM
Last I heard about SC he was running a record label in Athens (http://www.thewarmsupercomputer.com/), and he recorded the theme song for The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron on Nickelodeon |
Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19335 Des Moines, Iowa, USA 
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Posted on Apr 12 2006 07:02 PM
Are you sure about that? I seem to recall from the MoAM list that this was total coincidence. Birdstuff may have drummed for them though. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on Apr 12 2006 07:21 PM
He made one exception, though, allowing Boy Causey to join the Way. Boy, aka "Brian", currently holds a day job with MAN OR ASTROMAN?, as well as having served in SERVOTRON. Causey made one thing clear when accepting Boy Causey: he must dedicate 50% of his MOAM earnings to Causey as a love-tithe. That is what I read back in the day. Of course it was Brian Teasley(birdstuff) was in the band. I assumed it was Starcrunch because the band has his last name. |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19335 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Apr 12 2006 07:31 PM
Yeah I don't think Brian C was in that band, but Birdstuff was. The MoAM list is actually showing some activity so maybe I'll ask about that. I sent an email to The Warmsupercomputer asking about Starcrunch but never got a reply. That was a long time ago though. His Jimmy Neutron TV Theme rocks. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25682 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Apr 12 2006 08:45 PM
Just my lame opinion of course, but I thought that Causey Way, and Polyphonic Spree are horrible. They are good, if you like music that doesn't rock Servotron was ok, very computer keyboard sounding, but interesting at least. They kinda rocked, but not hard. Jeff(bigtikidude) —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 4387 Under the Sun
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Posted on Apr 12 2006 09:23 PM
The one time I saw them live Polyphonic Spree were even worse than their studio stuff. Saccharine hippie gospel jams are bad enough--adding two dozen percussionists and a string section really doesn't help matters. There wasn't any purple Kool-Aid anywhere in sight, either. I didn't think the band Humans that Birdstuff was (is?) in with Jonny from Jonny & the Shamen was very good either. Just my $.02 -Warren —That was excessively violent and completely unnecessary. I loved it. |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 89 |
Posted on Apr 12 2006 09:40 PM
The Polyphonic Spree's lame Up-With-People music was part of what made the potentially terrific indie movie THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS ultimately so disappointing. As Rip Thrillby would say, "Smelly hippies." GREGORY NICOLL, Southern Surf Syndicate Agent # 44 |
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Joined: Mar 09, 2007 Posts: 11 Bordeaux, FRANCE |
Posted on Mar 09 2007 02:40 PM
Hello I'm new on the forum so be cool with me ... I 'm wondering me what's the guitar using by Trace Reading here. I've never found any information. Can you help me ? |
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Joined: Sep 22, 2006 Posts: 234 |
Posted on Mar 09 2007 11:02 PM
I believe that is his 59 Silvertone. He played that guitar for the entire gig when i seen them in 99. BTW, that is brian causey in the cusey way. |
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Joined: Mar 05, 2006 Posts: 251 |
Posted on Mar 10 2007 12:42 AM
i don't think that guitar is a silvertone. i'm pretty darned sure it's traces hofner hollowbody with built in fuzz circuit starcrunch was not causey from causey way. it was a once professional skateboarder named Scott Causey Stanton. but i do think that scott stanton had something to do with one of the legs of the clone tours. live for the reunion touch and go recs show, Starcrunch played a custom jazzmaster with an actual p90 neck pickup, a kill switch, and a non american tailpiece. i cant remember what he had in the bridge. he also played his white mosrite with circuit board pickguard and that funky hondo danelectro longhorn copy silverface vibrolux, a rat, an echo, and something else. i had the opportunity to bother him after their performance with stupid fanboy questions. |
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Joined: Sep 22, 2006 Posts: 234 |
Posted on Mar 10 2007 09:45 AM
Ya i think your right, that is the Hofner. |
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Joined: Mar 05, 2006 Posts: 251 |
Posted on Mar 10 2007 05:23 PM
well, i can pretty much get close to his early tones out of a vibrolux reverb or even a deluxe reverb cranked up and a gretsch hollowbody. what i was most obsessed with over these past few years were the gain sounds on Made From Technetium. i didnt think that was coming from a mosrite most of the time, or even a rat. apparently, it was just the hondo with some ugly sounding humbucker straight into the vibrolux. cranked. such an interesting sound. i know the surf guys really dislike that album, as did i when i first got it. it had one 'surfy' song on it. i didn't want to bother him too much so i just asked about that one particular album and told him i really appreciate his work with the warm electronic recordings label. he asked if i played guitar so we geeked over ampeg amps a little bit and i let the man be. |
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Joined: Mar 09, 2007 Posts: 11 Bordeaux, FRANCE |
Posted on Mar 11 2007 07:16 PM
Thanks ! It's a Hofner Model 4578. There is many version and different effects. http://vintage-hofner.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/archtops/arch28.html
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19335 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Mar 11 2007 10:28 PM
Star Crunch played on 1000x. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Mar 05, 2006 Posts: 251 |
Posted on Mar 11 2007 11:40 PM
haha yeah. 1000x is a great album, kinda punk rock, but def. starcrunch. also, i think trace reading is a fantastic guitarist. i have only ever heard him in man.. or astro-man? but he could kick out some jams. here's a youtube video link to him sporting his hofner hollowbody through a silvertone amp i just came across: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ_aJ4Fa-n0&mode=related&search= |
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Joined: Aug 24, 2007 Posts: 1 |
Posted on Aug 24 2007 12:58 PM
From the looks of it it's a Silvertone Hollowbody prolly made by Teisco of Japan. |
Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 1683 Georgia
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Posted on Aug 25 2007 11:07 AM
I've always felt the same way, but I listen to Theme From Eeviac over and over like an autistic kid. —The Mystery Men? |
Joined: Sep 28, 2012 Posts: 926 Berlin, Germany
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Posted on Jun 06 2014 05:57 AM
Looks like Star Crunch did some updates to his pedal board: The TC Electronics Voicetone Synth used in 2010 is gone for a EHX Frequency Analyzer (which is basically a ring modulator), also the EHX Micro Synth was replaced with a newer version. Interesting to see what became of the "straigth sound" approach of the early days mentioned in the quote from Brian above. For Pictures (also of gear from the other band members) check out: As for the Gretsch guitars I stumbled upon a picture with feature both of them, but being no expert on the several types I leave it to others to guess: Los Apollos - cinematic surf music trio (Berlin) Last edited: Jun 06, 2014 05:59:09 |
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