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ANDREW:
Name: Conductor Funk, jolly ol' St. Funkaclause, Andrew Butler
Position: Drums and other random wood blocks and cowbells and such.
Likes: Food, playing drums, music, ice cream, Halloween, Christmas, my birthday,
my girlfriend, Alex Robertson, pizza, writing poetry and other stuff...HARDCORE DEATH METAL SKA JAMS WITH CONOR,
and the Ninja Turtles, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Splinter the Rat
Dislikes: lame holidays where I don't get presents, and mushrooms and
green pepper on pizza
Influences: John Bonham, all my drum teachers, Neil Peart (Rush),
Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater), Alex VanHalen and others (I could rant about this forever but ill keep it short)
Favorite bands: Porcupine Tree, Primus, Rush, & Dream Theater and locriation, The Mars Volta, the Mahavishnu
Orchestra, The Who, Led Zepplin, Phish, Parliament, Soulive, Liquid Tesion Experiment, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones,
Bootsy Collins, Earth Wind & Fire, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Pat Metheny, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention,
last but certainly NOT least: Rage Against the Machine. (yes i copied that from conor, and i like every single one of them...
im just lazy.) and Michael Franti
Favorite Locriation songs: Any song I can get funky and go crazy on, and Escher's
World
Favorite Locriation moments: Nick eating all the things we tell him to...like olive
oil, and dog biscuits
Quote/ conversation: "Whats a crash cymbal?"
- some stupid kid in a drum forum
CONOR:
Name: Conor Herndon Mackey
Position: Guitar, Bassoon
Likes: Effects, attention, chocolate,
frisbee, Hardcore Ska Jams w/ Andrew, beating fake babies, Alex Robertson, Dance Dance Revolution (and dancing
in general), lobster, family, attention, Batman’s Spandex.
Dislikes: Stereotypes, socks, Batman’s
arch-nemesi, eggplant, pants, mean people, and coffee mugs with no handles.
Influences: Sigur Ros, Mike Einziger/Incubus,
Omar Rodriguez/The Mars Volta, John McLaughlin/Mahavishnu Orchestra, Pete Townshend/The Who, Trey Anastasio/Phish and Dad.
Favorite Bands: Sigur Ros, The Mars Volta, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Who,
Led Zepplin, Phish, Parliament, Soulive, Liquid Soul, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Kool and the Gang, Bootsy Collins, Earth
Wind & Fire, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Pat Metheny, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, last but certainly
NOT least: Rage Against the Machine.
Favorite Locriation Song(s): Escher's
World and Journey of the Tortoise.
Favorite Locriation Moment: When we convinced
Nick that drinking olive oil would help his throat before our debut at Trunk Full of Funk and he drank a whole glass of it.
(Not to mention the honey that was added to make it “sweeter.”)
Thanks: My family, the guys in the band,
my friends, coffee, and my shoes.
Favorite Quote: “I’m not
a hippie, I’m Catholic.” –Jack Kerouac
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Alex:
Name: Alex
Jenkins
Position: Bass, quacking.
Favorite Bands: Bela
Fleck and the Flecktones, Primus, Keller Williams, Oysterhead, Steely Dan, Weather Report, Led Zeppelin, Soulive, The
Beatles, Incubus, Time-Lapse Consortium, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, Edgar Meyer, Yes, Rage Against the Machine, Phish, Wild Cherry, James Brown, Parliament,
Tower of Power, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Earth Wind & Fire, Bootsy Collins, The Mars Volta, Vital Tech-Tones,
The Allman Brothers, John Scofield, Michael Franti. (Just to name a few)
Influences: Victor Wooten,
Mike Gordon, Les Claypool, Jaco Pastorius, Edgar Meyer.
Likes: Europe, People who dance, Playing frisbee, playing
ping-pong, reading Spiderman comic books, partying, Frantastic Wings, throwing rocks at dumb kids, listening to
music, playing music, laughing, town drunks, when Conor writes songs in 9/4, writing symphonic rock pieces.
Dislikes: Too
many things. Immature people, Bush, Kenny G (and smooth jazz in general) mean people, hippie-bashers, and people who say the
Beatles weren't as influential as Aerosmith, and bands that classify themselves as emo/jam band/funk.
Favorite Movie(s): The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tennenbaums, Donnie Darko, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, Ray, I
<3 Huckabees.
Favorite Locriation Song(s): Too many to name
Favorite Locriation Moment: HFH Benefit Show. Practicing with the guys again after a five week hiatus. And yelling DUBS
at any point deemed appropriate. Band outings at Frantastic Wings are also a joyous occasion.
Favorite Quote: Basically anything Miles says.
Peter
Name- Peter Somerville/ Thomas Winterhights
Position- Guitar, harmonica
Influences- Blues Traveler, The String Cheese Incident, Keller Williams, Incubus,
Timelapse Consortium, Phish, Eric Clapton, The Police, The Doors, the Mahavishnu Orchestra,
Paul Simon, Soulive, The Beatles, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Jimi Hendrix, Funkadelic, Parliament, Bela fleck and
The Flecktones, Bob Marley.
Likes- music, riding wild stallions, tennis, playing frisbee, jumping up and down, soda,
chicken wings, snowboarding, Friends, effects, dancing, candy, Alex Robertson, and hugs
Dislikes- diet soda, emo, pop punk, clothing, angry people, Hardcore death metal
ska jams.
Favorite Quote- "Akunamatata"
Favorite Locriation song- Tree, Stella, Escher's world.
Favorite Locriation moment- When I was asked to play in the band, and watching Conor
and Alex do there best impressions of Mick Jagger.
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Nick:
Name: Nick Orbell
Position: Vocals
Likes: Bdam-ing, tac-ing, fluids,
music, turtlecats, awesome people, backflips, dixon pencils
Dislikes: Bdeek-ing, dumb people, complicated math, Roseart pencils.
Influences: Lack of sleep, Radiohead, The Shout Out Louds, Incubus, M83, The Shins, Jamiroquai, Stars, The Flaming Lips,
Hot Hot Heat, Headlights, Ben Kweller, Minus The Bear, Nada Surf, Belle & Sebastian, Surfjan Stevens, etc...
Favorite Locriation Song(s): Can you dig my planet?, Tree!, and Pound of Peepee...
Favorite Locriation Moment:
Wing night before Roxmas
Favorite
Quote- "Break it's legs!" - Nick referring to Andrew's fake baby.
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