Old Band Photos from 1999 2000 Plattsburgh/Potsdam

As Angels Weep

 

Unbearable Pain

 

Nutsponge (This Broken Rule?)

Mr Ward

 

Three Shades To Eve

Bennett Bangers - 1/29/16

https://archive.org/details/BennettBangers12916
This is a performance for my companies holiday party, the band consisting of employees of said company.
To date the first and only time I have learned cover songs and played them in public.  Anyone familiar with my means and methods understands how foreign this scenario would be.  I actually learned quite a bit about playing "normal" stuff.  I had a good time hanging out with my co-workers and would gladly do it again.

The bands slogan is "Come get hammered with us."

Tracklist:
1.  Get Back - Beatles  (I forgot to hit record for this!)
2.  Breakdown - Tom Petty
3.  Down on the Corner - CCR
4.  Your So Bad - Tom Petty
5.  Big Ten Inch - Aerosmith
6.  Honey Don't - Beatles (Carl Perkins)
7.  Little Sister - Elvis
8.  Summertime Blues -  Eddie Cochran
9.  Buy Me a Boat - Chris Jansen
10.  Move it on Over - Hank Williams

Dave Malone -Vocals
Chuck McGurk - Vocals
Greg Jackson - Guitar
Joseph Henaghan - Bass / Bass VI
Jason Watson - Drums
Tony Cichiano - Drums

VRL5 - SONOSOMOSIS

A new year brings new vibrations.  Journey into the vortex that is the "blue room", accept offers of "sweet treats" but beware the prickly donkey. 

Featuring the talents of:

Baird Buchanan - Guitar and Knob Twidling
Isaac Henaghan - Drums, Ramblings + Freakout,
Joseph Henaghan - Bass VI, Drums, SK6, MicroDelay
Missy Henaghan - Overlord

Get it:   https://archive.org/details/VRL5010415



Recorded 010415 at Brahmans Corners

http://blog.pressrepublican.com/archive/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45889:hardcore_enthusiasts_get_help_from_an_unlikely_source&catid=37:out-and-about-articles

Communion / Tidal split EP

Pre Tides goodness from those fine chaps.  I remember one of the last Three Shades to Eve practices:  We ran through our tunes and then Augie detuned every string on his guitar, laid down in front of the amp playing open A drone with his eyes shut.  This was the start of Communion.  Really it was the beginning of a local interest in the doom and drone.  Communion was born, and Three Shades to Eve was in the toilet.

The Communion times were a bit funny.  Rob complaining regularly about how ungodly loud they were and how it was killing his head.  Clearing 242 because nobody knew what the hell they were doing.  Of course this stuff was all relatively new, and there really wasn't much noise out there that sounded anything like this.  There are countless stories from this era that are not my place to relate.  And then there was the fact that they were all still fucking kids in high school (with the exception of Mike Murphy).

For whatever reason (probably Mike moving back to Potsdam), at some point they decided to start writing a bit differently and changed the name.  Time frame is a bit jumbled in my head, but I know I saw Tidal practice several times in Chazy before they all moved to Boston.  Donny recorded both recordings (Communion at home, Tidal in Boston at Northeastern University).  They scraped the first Communion recording and had Larry Dolan retrack everything (except the vocals) to give you what we have hear.  Shortly after "releasing" this (20? handmade copies for friends?) Donny didn't feel like singing anymore and they changed the name to Tides.  Years later I find out that Mike had never even heard it and Augie didn't have a personal copy (hence this).

I am not a player on this, so re posted without any fucking consent  Sorry for any inaccuracies, its 5am and 14 years to late

Communion(2000-01?)
August Snow - Guitar
Donny Green - Bass
Mike Murphy - Vocals
Rob Dowler - Drums

Tidal:(2002?)
August Snow - Guitar
Donny Green - Bass, Vocals
Rob Dowler - Drums

Artwork - Brendan Palmer Angel

Another perspective:   http://humanidentityrecordings.blogspot.com/2009/05/communiontidal-tides-split-ep-2002.html

Get it: https://archive.org/details/04BlackWinter

Lesion Maker - Liason One

Function: Destruction of living tissue for experimental purposes.

“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time 

https://archive.org/details/LesionMaker

Present:  Bryce Brushnefski - Guitar, Jason Ormsby - Guitar, Joseph Henaghan - Bass VI
Recorded 5/18/14 @ the Katt

VRL4 - Psychosomagickpsychosis

The gathering of our vibrations this past early spring.  Not content to merely gaze into the abyss, VRL dives headfirst into it full of smiles bear hugs and joy.  Exploring the far caverns of our noggins and coaxing gentle vibrations from our amplified modulations, we present to you the perfect relaxation piece for sonic schizophrenics.

C.  Baird Buchanan - Guitar
Joseph Henaghan - Bass VI
Isaac Henaghan - Percusion and Knob Twiddlin

Recorded @ Braman Corners, April 26 2014

https://archive.org/details/VibrationalResearchLaboratories4



Evidence!

Zebes Awaits

https://archive.org/details/Zebesawaits

Sampled January 2013
Remix January 2014

Joseph Henaghan - Devices, Manipulation, Sequencing, Monotron Delay

Children Of Crowley - Live at the ROTA 112913

By not so random chance luck, I had the pleasure of contributing to this birthing.  Geographic boundaries cannot contain our will.  By hook or by crook our will is of the LAW.

Jason Ormsby - Drums, Synth
Bryce Brushnefski - Guitar
Joseph Henaghan - Guitar 


see also:

http://www.dronewitch.com/2013/12/children-of-crowley.html

and

https://archive.org/details/ChildrenOfCrowleyLiveAtTheROTA112913

 Evocation:

the thin fiber of the cosmos
rides the wavering beast
a spider web filament
journey to uncharted
worlds of unknown
contained in each cell
converse with your mind
it happens all the time
a mantra spoken once
falls on cold hearts
escape
this I can tell you
disapear
...

Lantern - Dream Apnea

Recorded 10/04/13 at 56 Elm.

This is our conversation. 

https://archive.org/details/LanternDreamApnea100413

Lantern - The Tornado Loves Us All Equally

https://archive.org/details/LanternTheTornadoLovesUsAllEqually

The continued quest for vibration.  Equal parts Shaman ritual and random nonsense.

Bryce Brushnefski - Guitars, FX, Drums
Joseph Henaghan - Guitars, FX

Recorded June 1, 2013 @ 56 Elms St.

Wandering The Streets Of The Filthy City And Finding More Of The Same Nonsense 2006

https://archive.org/details/JosephHenaghanWanderingTheStreetsOfTheFilthyCityAndFindingMoreOfTheSameNonsense

One of my last attempts to write "songs" for a so-called "band". Early version of what would become the one Bonglord song. Inspired by lonely nights wandering aimlessly through the infamous "college-ghetto".

Joseph Henaghan - Guitar