Q: What’s the correct answer to the “What’s wrong with the world?” question?Ī: Just like a Douglas Adams book, you have to first have the question correct. There is only the hope that whatever they continue to do is powerful and asymmetrical. He has not even heard their most recent album. Zoltan has not had any communications with the members of Sleepytime in years. ![]() Q: Since there seems to be no knowledge online regarding the current and future statii of Sleepytime, and you seem to somehow be connected with them, could you clue me in? Can I expect another album, or should I just go to Top 40 Radio and pitch corrected numetal?Ī: Dr. Zoltan videos are the 2.0 version of the Mulch videos, which have turned out to be a marketing disaster. Turns out that Steve Vai (or was it Elton John?) enjoyed them enough to audition him, so I suppose they worked. Mulch actually filmed them for two purposes: 1.) Because he had mental problems and 2.) He wanted to use them to audition for a famous rock band in Los Angeles. MOV versions are available somewhere inside Echelon, although I do not remember where at this moment. What’s the deal with those? Are those for sale or free?Ī: Those are all free clips Sir Millard Mulch released on DVD in 2005, along with the purchase of The Book. Q: I first found you through querying google video for “Sleepytime Gorilla Museum” and watching your instructional video excerpts. Zoltan and did not pass the Strict Examination Requirements to appear on the audio blog series, “Why Are You Asking Me?” Therefore: they will be answered here in xhtml transitional format. That's my idea of heaven.The following questions were submitted to Dr. "I just live for the actual rehearsal process - pushing and pulling in a room with people. "The way we hash things out is very hands on, and I love that," said Kihlstedt. The collaborative spirit is evident in "Last Human Being," a project with dancer Shinichi Momo Koga that is being made into a short art film that will be previewed during this weekend's performance. Ideas are experimented with very easily." "Everyone is writing songs, and everyone speaks the traditional technical languages of music. "The current group has the best communication dynamic ever," said Rathbun, who engineers and mixes SGM recordings, plays bass and has built such original instruments as the Electric Pancreas and the Percussion Guitar. But the sound is organic to the group rather than calculatedly ironic or postmodern. The music is thorny, with rhythmic shifts that recall prog progenitors King Crimson and Yes, and intricately ornamented with glockenspiel, autoharp, Tibetan bells and dozens of other instruments. One of San Francisco's strangest homes just hit the market.3 Bay Area restaurants make New York Times America's best restaurants list.Horoscope for Tuesday, 9/20/22 by Christopher Renstrom.Horoscope for Wednesday, 9/21/22 by Christopher Renstrom.Tech workers at Compass laid off due to housing market slowdown.Part of California's Highway 1 closed, shelter-in-place issued for Moss Landing.San Francisco residents, tourists already seem sick of Dreamforce. ![]() Those qualities now characterize SGM, which, after several personnel shifts now includes percussionist Michael Mellender and Kihlstedt's husband, drummer-percussionist Matthias Bossi. "Here was this music that was entirely rigorous, full of detail, really visceral, had real brains behind it and was entirely entertaining," she said of Idiot Flesh. She was looking to find a new musical identity in a non-classical idiom that would give her as much joy as playing Bartok string quartets. Kihlstedt, who also plays violin and sings in Tin Hat and 2 Foot Yard, teamed with Frykdahl and Rathbun in 1999 after watching a set by their famously theatrical band Idiot Flesh. "But if you dig to what's underneath," she said, "even the humor is very serious." Kihlstedt granted that there's a lot of humor in the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum aesthetic, which owes its name to an obscure early 20th century futurist/Dadaist project, includes outlandish costumes and makeup, and features Kihlstedt's whisper-to-a-scream singing and Frykdahl's operatic, often-ghoulish Tom Waits-channeling-Darth Vader vocals.
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