From a local newspaper in The Hague, Holland:
Dead Moon drummer 'clean' again
"If I was still hooked, I could never keep doing this"
by Lilian Japing
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![]() Dead Moon drummer Andrew Loomis, here at Waterpop with his roadie Charly. "My mother had rather seen that I'd gotten a job in a restaurant or something." (Photo Lilian Japing) |
("Haags Nieuwsblad" Sept. 30, 1997)
Okay, here's some nice quotes we found on the net:
From "The Empty Bottle" internet page:
"... Dead Moon's bare bones rock and roll (no effects, please!) is a
perfect backdrop to Fred Cole's wavering voice and its attendant creepy lyrics.
With a pint of moonshine in their guts and a stack of mildewing Neil Young
records waiting for a new needle on the turntable, Dead Moon reduces rock to a
plaintive coyote yowl, a primal and animalistic force to be reckoned with. This
is their first time in touring the Midwest, which is remarkable for a band that
sells out shows on every other continent on God's green Earth."
From "Rock Preview" page, by John Graham:
"…Going back even further in time at Satyricon, Dead Moon and
Napalm Beach are about as old-school as you're gonna find. These acts have been
burning up local stages for as long as anyone can remember, and they both put
the "Rrrrr!" in "Rip City." Hard rock, garage and Lower East
Side punk collide in a sweaty, swirling cacophony that'll make anyone think
they're gutter-bound. (Drunken dress...Girls or guys: motorcycle jacket,
beer-soaked hair, black nail polish, silver rings, an empty bottle of Jack
Daniels [chugged on the way to the club].)"
From the Oblivians' page that tells about their '97 tour:
"…the next night we watch dead moon perform their rocknroll
voodoo ritual. fred cole is cult leader and they know their shit."
From SEE Magazine page (by Gabino):
"After two days in Portland, I missed Missoula. In
Missoula, there's two great record stores. In Portland, there's probably 10, and
the music scene is so huge. But the racks and racks of local music has no
meaning. In Missoula, they all love Portland's Dead Moon. In Portland, no one
has heard of Dead Moon (even though they're playing New Year's Eve at Berbati's
Pan)."
SnackCake!-online 'zine review by Johnny Savage:
"… Except for Neil Young, there aren't many who've been doing it
for as long as Fred Cole has. As Dead Moon's frontman, Cole leads this strictly
amp-distorted, no effects pedals, garage-punk DIY trio from Oregon. The man
embodies the history of the ever-struggling underground musician, be it sixties
garage or psychedelia, seventies hard rock or punk, or eighties country-punk.
Hard Wired In Ljubljana is an honest, undubbed live album (Dead Moon's second)
taken from their first-ever European tour. The guitars aren't always in tune and
the audience isn't always attentive. They run relentlessly through a selection
of twenty tunes, which include plenty of crowd banter. Their style might not be
everyone's cup of tea these days, but songs like "Going South" and "Killing
Me" are pretty damn good, regardless. Cole's wife and bassist, Toady (!),
chips in with a few numbers as well. She sounds like Patti Smith, (which is a
compliment) and sums up their philosophy neatly: "it should sound raw to be
rock and roll." Words to live by!"
Our comments: we weren't aware of any dress code... and Hard Wired was recorded during Dead Moon's 1.893rd European tour (or maybe not, but it certainly wasn't their first!)