Tag Archives: Rev. Screaming Fingers

Vids w/ LM Soundtracks

Thad’s Povey’s Escape Velocity 2005
John Harden’s La Vie Dun Chien 2003
Overdub Club NightSoil 2003
Reverend Screaming Fingers The Death of Two Guitars 2002

High Voltage

I’ve been on a real Neil Young kick of late. The more you delve into Neil Young, the more layers you find. Depth. Musically, Neil still puts out the sometimes great, sometimes horrible and sometimes challenging record. The thing is, he keeps going. And the back catalog? Holy smokes, talk about prolific.
What about the [...]

Vicariously Triumphant

Yesterday I was listening to Low’s new cd Drums & Guns, trying to decide whether I liked it or not (the jury is still out), when I received a call from none other than my friend, former bandmate and stellar drummer Pat Spurgeon of Rogue Wave.
Pat was standing in front of the Acme Bar in [...]

The Death of Two Guitars

An ancient maxim and consequence in nature – In Death there is Rebirth.
Spring 2003. I was reading The King Must Die by Mary Renault. Set in the time when the Island of Crete ran the world and wehn select societies practiced a ritual wherein a new King was selected and then sacrificed on a yealy [...]

A Reverend, A Phantom and A Junkie

Reverend Screaming Fingers (Lucio Menegon)
& Phantom Drummer (Pat Spurgeon)
Composed and improvised instrumental music to juxtaposed found slide images and 16mm film prepared by San Francisco filmmaker Thad Povey.
The music – based around the electric guitar and drums and incorporating keyboards, loops and other devices – consisted of composed and structured improvisational pieces cued by [...]