Music + Bandcamp — home of the Double U
the Double U is now GRESHAM
A bass player, guitar player, and keyboardist, I’ve recorded CDs and singles and toured reluctantly in cities on both coasts. I’ve slept by someone’s cat litter box. I’ve written for underground fanzines and stage-dove: no one caught me.
2023: Performed with Blesst Chest and Cynthia Nelson at Turn! Turn! Turn!
2023: Performed in Dave Tholfsen’s puppet show + onstage at Hollywood Theatre for Song-Poem extravaganza.
April 2022: sang backup for Dave Tholfsen at Turn Turn Turn. His newest release is on bandcamp - Walk with Me.
Recorded Tunes from the Barrels of Obscurity
Instruments: keyboards, bass, guitar, vocals
Caroliner Rainbow Open Wound Chorale: Rise of the Common Woodpile (Nuf Sed)
Dumbhead: Dead Bugs, Soluble Fish comp CD (Homestead)
Dumbhead: Car Crush Not All That Terrifies Harms comp audiocassette (Nuf Sed)
Job's Daughters: The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine / Sinner Man 7" (Nuf Sed)
Job's Daughters: Cannibal / Quiet Night Rain 7" (Nuf Sed)
Behr, Fox & Manning: Anniversary Song, A Far Cry comp CD (C/Z)
Heavenly Ten Stems: China Town / Jan Pehechan Ho 7" (Amarillo)
The Double U: Philosophy of the World, Better Than the Beatles: A Tribute to the Shaggs (Animal World)
The Double U: contributed a Hanatarash cover to a comp, but can't recall the title
The Double U: Absurd Fjord CD/LP (Communion)
The Double U: Double U vs. Glands of External Secretion CD/Bandcamp (VHF)
The Double U: Falling Lanterns CD (Emperor Jones)
The Double U: White Night, Floating Anchor CD (Emperor Jones)
The Double U: Hibou Mécanique CD (Supermega Corporation)
Other Audio Stuff
2021
Roofies — played keyboard for “Any Major Dude” on top of a grocery store
2000s/1990s/1980s
Played in Born in a Car: covers of Plasmatics, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Voidoids, Raincoats, Kleenex, Runaways (not “Cherry Bomb”) at Turn, Turn, Turn = fun, fun, fun
Played at Christine Shields’ art opening w/ Linda Hagood and Matt Hall
Played in Barbara Manning’s Birthday Suit for her 50th birthday at Turn, Turn, Turn
Toured as part of backup band for John Davis (Folk Implosion) and Cynthia Dall (solo/Smog)
Hit something a few times in Grand Style Orchestra at least once
Lip-synced to “Hornet’s Heart” onstage w/ TFUL282 at Great American Music Hall, danced onstage and w/a bouncer who had a Band-aid on his nose at Chi Chi Club, part of “More Glee,” played keyboard in a bunny costume at Jay’s going-away party, stage-dove to cover of “Shattered” at Kennel Club and no one caught me (landed on my knees).
Recorded songs for Viking Motel by the Double U — unmixed and unreleased, but ROCKING
Performed in two bands that were attacked — Job’s Daughters (Paradise Lounge) and Heavenly Ten Stems (Chameleon)
Toured Pac NW w/ Dumbhead and took part in Underground Pop Festival in Olympia, WA. Got a ride home with DUH (only band that’s written a song about me)
Performed with Wintermittens, barely knowing the songs — opened for Cat Power at Bottom of the Hill.
Performed in many classical piano recitals, AKA “playing parties” — Chopin, Brahms, Schoenberg, Prokofiev, Bartok, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Bach …
Purple Oblivion — played part of soundtrack to Jack Stevenson’s showing of The People Next Door
Almost got ears blown out by feedback during a Caroliner show and Grux stepped on my foot to indicate part changes, though I didn’t need that assistance
Dumbhead recording — cassette — featuring massive drumming by Dale Cover and Anne Eickelberg and guitar overdub by Mark Davies (mostly unreleased, which is OK)
Played at Gilman Street “Prom" Night
Played in first band with then-boyfriend in his workplace — Berkeley Outlet. We knew about one song — a Birthday Party Cover
Got accepted to Berklee School of Music and wisely decided not to go