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Well I finally got around to moving my MoAM? tab page to SG101. I was
actually thinking of letting it finally die, but I still get emails
asking about it. So here is it's new home:
Like TFJ, Man or Astro-Man? was really my gateway drug into the world
of instrumental surf. I really enjoyed their punk rock sensibilities,
their sense of humor, and their music (at least in the early days).
And they worked really, really hard at what they did.
Anyway, as I mention on the new page, they led me down the path of
surf as I explored their early influences and who they were covering.
I had just started to play the guitar again after a few years off and
it was quite a revelation to hear them.
That page has been around since June of 1998 in some form or another,
and has been hosted on 4 different ISP's now.
Thanks!
BN
Does anyone know what the Astro-Men (especially Star Crunch) are up to
these days? The official site doesn't look like it has been updated
since 2002. I really miss those guys (well, the older them anyway.)
I saw them at a small college near here once. Their full "stage show"
kept blowing fuses so they had to just leave the gadgets off &
concentrate on the music. They were totally amazing that night.
Z
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:53:20 -0000, Brian Neal <> wrote:
>
> Well I finally got around to moving my MoAM? tab page to SG101. I was
> actually thinking of letting it finally die, but I still get emails
> asking about it. So here is it's new home:
>
>
>
> Like TFJ, Man or Astro-Man? was really my gateway drug into the world
> of instrumental surf. I really enjoyed their punk rock sensibilities,
> their sense of humor, and their music (at least in the early days).
> And they worked really, really hard at what they did.
>
> Anyway, as I mention on the new page, they led me down the path of
> surf as I explored their early influences and who they were covering.
> I had just started to play the guitar again after a few years off and
> it was quite a revelation to hear them.
>
> That page has been around since June of 1998 in some form or another,
> and has been hosted on 4 different ISP's now.
>
> Thanks!
> BN
>
--- In , Zone Fighter <zonefighter@g...>
wrote:
> Does anyone know what the Astro-Men (especially Star Crunch) are up to
> these days? The official site doesn't look like it has been updated
> since 2002. I really miss those guys (well, the older them anyway.)
I don't think much is known about what happened to Star Crunch. After
MoAM? he toured with Crooked Fingers and did some work with that
band's head dude (from Archer's of Loaf). He wrote the theme song to
the Jimmy Neutron movie, but another band (Bowling for Soup) performed
it. However you can hear his version of the song on the TV series on
Nickelodeon (you can definitely tell it's him when you hear it). He
gets a big credit on the TV show, it's kind of neat to see. It's one
of the first names shown. He also supposedly ran a label called "The
Warm Supercomputer", but he never answered my email queries from that
website:
I think it was Greg Nicoll who posted some links on Reverborama to
some stories he did for Atlanta's Creative Loafing on Coco. It seems
Coco is very interested in alternative fuels, especially running
diesel engines on waste oil you get from fast food places. They were
very interesting articles, and they even had some photos of him with
former President Carter (a fellow proponent). The articles talked
about all the regulations he has to fight to get this alternative fuel
off the ground.
I think Birdstuff is still very active in music and still doing it
full time. He has been in a number of bands and projects. Most
recently, he was in that very strange band whose name escapes me now.
There are about 30 people in the band, they all wore robes, played
bizarre instruments, and in general sang about happy things, jumping
around a lot, very cult-like. I was very surprised to see him in that.
There was a recent story about his electronic drum stick thingies
raising a code red alert at some airport. A bunch of FBI guys followed
him home from the airport and confronted him about the strange devices
in his luggage. It was all explained though. I remember that story
made the national wires. I'll search and see if I can find it.
The last time I was in Indianapolis I got to meet the esteemed Larry
"Moon Dawg" White who got to see lots of Penetrators and Man or
Astro-Man? shows. He had a lot of good stories about those guys. He
mentioned something about guys in the later MoAM? line up not having
the same work ethic as the rest of the band. It's also clear from
those post Star Crunch CD's (IMHO) that they had no direction as the
music is all over the place from techno to Pink Floyd. At least EEVIAC
was like that. They got a bit more on the same page for their last
full length (Spectrum of Infinite Scale), but still it really left me
feeling a bit cold and bewildered (although I do remember some pretty
awesome flashes of brilliance here and there, but nothing resembling
surf music of any kind).
BN
Birdstuff (a.k.a. Brian Teasley) drums for the Polyphonic Spree (cult-
like 30+member gospel pop, had a song in a recent car commercial),
and occasionally writes for the highly recommended Chunklet magazine
(www.chunklet.com).
-Warren
--- In , "captainspringfield"
<captainspringfield@y...> wrote:
>
> Birdstuff (a.k.a. Brian Teasley) drums for the Polyphonic Spree (cult-
> like 30+member gospel pop, had a song in a recent car commercial),
> and occasionally writes for the highly recommended Chunklet magazine
> (www.chunklet.com).
>
> -Warren
Thanks Warren. Birdstuff's MoAM? tour diaries are very entertaining,
although I kind of found some of his Chunklet articles pretty crude
and sophmoric...not always a bad thing :)
Here is a link to a story on his bomb-scare incident:
BN
I saw MOAM in Boston a few years back...jeez...it must have been...'98 or
early '99. It was at Boston's famous Middle East Club and I was there with
an ex and Gein and Myra from Gein and The Graverobbers.
I don't remember much from the show, but I do remember it was so
unbelievably loud it made my ears crackle after just 10 minutes of the show.
Most of it was a blur except when they tried to get a dot-matrix printer to
play a dot-matrix song on stage, except the printer wouldn't work. The best
part of the show was at the end when they rolled back all of their musical
gear and rolled forth a home-made Van De Graf Generator and sent three foot
long plasma bolts into the ceiling and pipework of the Middle East.
Post-Rhode Island's "The Station" Great White nightclub fire, I can't
help but look back on that night and get a chill thinking about what a
firetrap the Middle East really is.
Hope y'all had a good New Year. The Nebulas sure as shit did.
-Dano
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Brian Neal" <>
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Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Man or Astro-Man? Guitar Page Has Resurfaced!
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:18:02 -0000
--- In , Zone Fighter <zonefighter@g...>
wrote:
> Does anyone know what the Astro-Men (especially Star Crunch) are up to
> these days? The official site doesn't look like it has been updated
> since 2002. I really miss those guys (well, the older them anyway.)
I don't think much is known about what happened to Star Crunch. After
MoAM? he toured with Crooked Fingers and did some work with that
band's head dude (from Archer's of Loaf). He wrote the theme song to
the Jimmy Neutron movie, but another band (Bowling for Soup) performed
it. However you can hear his version of the song on the TV series on
Nickelodeon (you can definitely tell it's him when you hear it). He
gets a big credit on the TV show, it's kind of neat to see. It's one
of the first names shown. He also supposedly ran a label called "The
Warm Supercomputer", but he never answered my email queries from that
website:
I think it was Greg Nicoll who posted some links on Reverborama to
some stories he did for Atlanta's Creative Loafing on Coco. It seems
Coco is very interested in alternative fuels, especially running
diesel engines on waste oil you get from fast food places. They were
very interesting articles, and they even had some photos of him with
former President Carter (a fellow proponent). The articles talked
about all the regulations he has to fight to get this alternative fuel
off the ground.
I think Birdstuff is still very active in music and still doing it
full time. He has been in a number of bands and projects. Most
recently, he was in that very strange band whose name escapes me now.
There are about 30 people in the band, they all wore robes, played
bizarre instruments, and in general sang about happy things, jumping
around a lot, very cult-like. I was very surprised to see him in that.
There was a recent story about his electronic drum stick thingies
raising a code red alert at some airport. A bunch of FBI guys followed
him home from the airport and confronted him about the strange devices
in his luggage. It was all explained though. I remember that story
made the national wires. I'll search and see if I can find it.
The last time I was in Indianapolis I got to meet the esteemed Larry
"Moon Dawg" White who got to see lots of Penetrators and Man or
Astro-Man? shows. He had a lot of good stories about those guys. He
mentioned something about guys in the later MoAM? line up not having
the same work ethic as the rest of the band. It's also clear from
those post Star Crunch CD's (IMHO) that they had no direction as the
music is all over the place from techno to Pink Floyd. At least EEVIAC
was like that. They got a bit more on the same page for their last
full length (Spectrum of Infinite Scale), but still it really left me
feeling a bit cold and bewildered (although I do remember some pretty
awesome flashes of brilliance here and there, but nothing resembling
surf music of any kind).
BN
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