Corvallis Music on the 'Net:
Note: As of this posting, 2 of Corvallis most important bands, the Adequits and the Richard Hedders do not have web sites. You'll need to look for their gigs on flyers.
Rex Jakabosky went to school at the Antelope Valley Junior High School, where he met, a.o., Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart (Jakabosky was one year younger than Zappa). During this period Mr. Zappa was in the Black Outs, and Mr. Jakabosky sat in with the Black Outs a couple of times when their piano player couldn't make the gig. Somewhere around 1957. Mr. Jakobosky quit high school in his senior year and went to work with his father, framing houses. Around 1961, Mr. Jakabosky and Mr. Zappa ran into each other in a music store in Ontario, and re-established contact. Mr. Jakabosky started playing with the bands that Mr. Zappa was in (the Black Outs, the Soots, ... changing names often) during 1961 and 1962. He also was part of the people that Frank Zappa recorded with at studio Z in Cucamonga. He has since become a widely known blues player, world wide, and performs locally when in town, as he now is.
Louie Records is associated with Dave Storr, a brilliant drummer who - together with 4 or 5 other musicians from the Northwest pioneered the Corvallis Javarama sessions which have since become almost mythical.
Minus has at one time or another included the area's most brilliant musicians, including Mark France, Henry Franzoni (of the now legendary Caveman Shoestore, and also a leading expert on salmon and the Sasquatch), Dan Scollard, Dave Trenkel and others. Minus forever altered the musical landscape in Corvallis.
See Minus, though Thousand Pieces lies more in the stream of jazz, while Minus was R&R.
Cathy Britel and Jon ten Broek
Recorded in Puyallup 1973
Lookin' Back:1993 - Corvallis Grunge Wave
The Review below actually remains posted on the indie-list at: http://www.bloofga.org/il/il_v1/output/indie-list-23.html
From: dayt@ucs.orst.edu (Barney the Dinosaur)
Howdy again from the Pacific NW and a good day to you
all. Whoo, last weekend was a whirlwind of sights and sounds. On Thursday I went
and saw the Splatter Trio, an "avant-garde" group from the Bay area
full of improvised joy. Your basic drums, sax, gtr/bass trio with a flair for
the unusual. They played a couple Sun Ra tunes and filled in the latter space
with their own tunes- influences to be heard include the Ra (of course), blues,
rock and free jazz and a bit of Dixieland thrown in for chuckles. They are tight
and improvise well so catch em if you can- they've got a couple of cds out and
the various members have played with people like John Zorn and Anthony Braxton
to name a few. Friday night saw the local appearance of Das Neonderthrall doing
their noise/jazz/improv thing. On Saturday it was down to Squirrel's, local pub
and home of the World Famous Squirrel Burger (don't ask), to catch Arcweld, the
Miscreants, Lupo, and Oatmeal Log in action. Oatmeal Log, Corvallis answer to
the Riot Grrls, came out and pounded the bejeezus out of some eighties rock
standards ala Blondie. The Miscreants followed with a TIGHT set of garage rock
and sixties songs, aka BeachBoy covers about hotrods. Arcweld fixed up the
noise-ridden of us with their primal guttural pitchings. Lupo slammed it all
home with straight ahead punk. Oh yeah, another note about Arcweld, you might
also notice a strong Vertigo influence, in a lofi way. Sonic Youth played the La
Luna club, a fair to middlin' size club with hardwood floors (no concrete burns
here), on Sunday.
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