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Who are Whale Bones? The mysterious band that is the opening act on the Pretty Girls Makes Graves tour this June.
Whale Bones are loose knit group of musicans that are led but Justin Deary and Jon Treneff and includes Ben Cissner and Kenneth Carl Gates. They play folky psyched out blues jams that can most closely be compared to Black Mountain.
Seattle’s The Stranger had this to say about Whale Bones, “the band pulls from Neil Young and other assorted dirty groove-oriented acts, formulating a soulful, pastoral sound all their own—a spell they help bind with some especially lysergic guitar and keyboard parts and extended improvisations.”
Justin Deary is a Seattle musician that played with Rocky Votolato in Kentucky Pistol before Rocky moved on to from Waxwing. Kentucky Pistol released a split 7″ with Sharks Keep Moving on Henrys Finest Recordings. Justin also released a 2 song 7″ as part as the Redwood Acoustic Series, it now out of print.
Ben Cissner played in Windsor For The Derby from 2002 to 2004 on the albums, The Emotional Rescue and We Fight Til Death, respectively. Cissner is also involved in another even more mysterious project called, Mother Reptile.
In yet another Pretty Girls Makes Graves connection, Whale Bones did a West Coast tour with Dutch Dub and Moon Rats in September last year. Dutch Dub is Nick DeWitt’s (PGMG drummer) solo project and Moon Rats is Nathan Thelan’s (ex-PGMG guitarist) new band with girlfriend Aska Matsumiya and Jason Echeverria.
During that tour the Moon Rats performed double-duty as Nick’s backing band for Dutch Dub and Nick played with Whale Bones, who at the time had Steven Balogh (Baron Samedi ESQ, Pink Mountaintops, Anemones, Capozzi Park, The Countless Jibes) touring with them as Ben Cissner had yet to join the band.
Was that confusing enough? Well that only scratched the surface of numerous connections that could be made between these musicians and this small sampling of Pacific Northwest bands.
You can listen to 3 Whale Bones tracks on their MySpace page.
Whale Bones play Anaheim May 29th @ Chain Reaction as well Pomona on June 2nd @ The Glasshouse and Los Angeles on June 3rd @ the Troubadour with Pretty Girls Make Graves
22. August 2006 at 8:41 pm :
[...] Continuing their streak of getting on good tours (previously Pretty Girls Make Graves/Giant Drag), Whale Bones, are currently opening some West Coast shows on the Wolf Parade/Frog Eyes tour which just happens to be coming to The Wiltern in Los Angeles this Friday. [...]
17. September 2007 at 7:22 am :
[...] don’t think anyone outside of Seattle knows enough about, we’ve been doing our best to champion them here. See what all our fuss is about. w/Oakley Hall, BirdieWhalebones - Don’t You Know? [...]