Music

A bass player, guitar player, and keyboardist, Alex has recorded CDs and singles and toured reluctantly in cities on both coasts. She’s slept by someone’s cat litter box. She’s stage-dove: no one caught her. After a lull, call it drummers quitting, call it divorce, she’s started performing again with her ex-husband, Matt Hall, in Gresham.

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Gresham live at Turn Turn Turn

2024

Gresham performed with Gregg Turner at Turn! Turn! Turn! and he kept all the door money — punk rock FTW

Gresham performed with Mae Starr and Sir Richard Bishop at Turn! Turn! Turn!

Gresham performed at Tom Davis’s art closing event in Seattle

2023

Gresham performed with Blesst Chest and Cynthia Nelson at Turn! Turn! Turn!

2023

Alex performed in Dave Tholfsen’s puppet show + onstage at Hollywood Theatre for Song-Poem extravaganza

2022

Alex sang backup for Dave Tholfsen at Turn Turn Turn. His newest release is on bandcamp - Walk with Me

Double U Mach 1, 1990s, San Francisco, as part of Absurd Fjord art

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! Live at a Barbara Manning record release party in SF in the 1990s — before we were attacked by someone wielding a broken beer bottle. Photo by Gail Butensky.

  • 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)

Double U Mach II in Austin, TX, 2000.

  • 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)

Double U Mach III, 2006, Portland, OR

  • 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

The Double U, Heco’s

  • 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

Guess you had to be there … Chi Chi Club, SF, late ‘80s. TFUL282

  • 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).

Wedding swag, 1993

  • 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)

Only QUALITY venues for quality entertainment!

30+ Bands I’ve Shared the Stage With (in no particular order, and before drinking a beer)
1. The Melvins
2. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
3. Smog
4. Cat Power
5. Bomb
6. Sonic Boom
7. Brian Jonestown Massacre
8. Panda
9. Mingo 2000
10. Flash Flood and the Dykes
11. Night Mechanic
12. Joggers
13. Boris
14. Fuck
15. John Davis
16. Sebadoh
17. U.S. Saucer
18. Star Pimp / Icky Boyfriends
19. Experimental Dental School
20. Refrigerator
21. Virgil Shaw
22. The Beth Lisick Ordeal
23. Linda Hagood (post Smack Dab)
24. Fibulator
25. Duh (?)
26. Dragging an Ox Through Water
27. Janet Pants
28. Deerhoof
29. Zmrzlina
30. Ass Baboons from Venus
31. Ghost
32. Mecca Normal
33. Molecules
34. Knife in the Water
35. Brown Whornet
36. Three Day Stubble

  • 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

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