Mean Red Spiders
Mean Red Spiders is an alternative avant-garde rock and roll band formed in Toronto, Ontario Canada in September 1993. Their music is largely guitar-based, pop art influenced. Sonic shows are filled screens of liquidlight. Their music makes extensive use of distortion, digital keyboard loops, recorded voice samples, and effects pedals, creating a repeatable orchestrated wall of sound. Their music is a blend being frequently described in terms of post-punk , pop, contemporary, dreampop, shoegazer, space rock, indie rock or baroque pop styles, and falls largely into the larger psychedelic or neo-psychedelic pop and rock and roll oeuvre or space psychosis pop tradition.
Band members
At the time of the release of their January 2003 album, Still Life Fast Moving, Mean Red Spiders personnel were:
- Adam Rosen - Drummer
- Rob Boark - Guitar
- Minesh Mandoda - Keyboard and Loops
- Lisa Nighswander - Bass and Vocals
- Greg Chambers - Guitar
Co-founding member David Humphreys, originally from Flemingdon Park [1], played his last show July 13, 2001, and left the band as part of finishing his conceptual art piece involving the film schedueles and posters of Toronto's oldest art house repeatory cinema, the Revue Cinema,[2], threatened to resign if he didn't become the "headmanger" at the Revue at a schedueled meeting with the owner[3] on September 11, 2001 who fired him November 11,2001 , evicted from his Beaconsfield home near Dufferin and College to go live in a Scarborough with his Mother and sister, and recieve psychiatric treatment for schizophrenia.
Influences
Some of Mean Red Spiders' influences include the Jesus and Mary Chain , The Feelies , Cocteau Twins , Dinosaur Jr. , Sonic Youth , Can , Husker Du , Loop , My Bloody Valentine , The Smiths , The Cure , Spaceman 3 , Brian Eno, Stereolab , Joy Division , The Stooges, 13th Floor Elevators,The Ramones,The Jam, The Clash , Big Star, Devo , Pylon, The Pretenders, Gang of Four , The Sugarcubes , The Police , Pere Ubu , The MC5, Patti Smith, Television , Wire, B-52's , The Buzzcocks, The New York Dolls , The Slits , The Waterboys, Talking Heads, The Pixies , The Fall , Blondie, The Go-Go's , Black Sabbath , The Who , Magnetic Fields , The X-ray Specs , Arthur Lee's band Love and early U2 and R.E.M. were by dub reggae, Afrika Bambaataa , Public Enemy , Motown, Marshall Mcluhan , Glenn Gould , Sesame Street , The Prisoner , the CBC , Sun Ra , Jean-Michel Basquiat , JacksonPollock, Leonard Cohen, and The Velvet Underground and Nico with Andy Warhol.
Discography
Albums include:
- Places You Call Home[4] - May 1998 - Teenage USA
- Starsandsons - May 2000 - Teenage USA
- Still Life, Fast Moving [5] - January 2003 - Clairecords
- David Newfeld co-produced Places You Call Home with Mean Red Spiders in his Forest Hill home, and produced Starsandsons at his Stars and Sons studio located in Chinatown Toronto.
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