THIS IS A "FANS PAGE"!!!! PURELY CREATED TO SHARE THE MUSIC OF "THE MAKERS", WHICH TOTALLY CHANGED AND INSPIRED MY VIEWS OF MUSIC.I STARTED LISTENING TO THIS BAND BACK IN 1995 SINCE THEN I HAVE BEEN A COLLECTER AND FOLLOWER OF ANYTHING "MAKERS". I HAD SPENT 9 YEARS HOPING TO SEE THIS BAND CREATE THIER SOUND LIVE.AND RECENTLY I GOT A CHANCE TO SEE THEM AND MEET THEM, THEY ARE GREAT LIVE AND THIER GOOD CONVERSATIONALISTS.HOPE ALL OF YOU ON "MY SPACE" CAN ENJOY THE SOUND OF "THE MAKERS" AS MUCH AS I HAVE.
FUCK THE VINES, THE WHITE STRIPES & THE HIVES
HERES "THE MAKERS"
- (SIMON RITCHIE)
BIO BY LAFCADIO MOORE:
ONE BOOZE-SOAKED EVENING IN LATE 1990,OUT OF SHEER BOREDOM AND ALIENATION, FIVE SUAVE LOSERS DECIDED TO START A ROCK AND ROLL BAND. A GOOD UNORIGINAL IDEA, BUT THERE WAS A PROBLEM-NONE OF THEM COULD PLAY AN INSTRUMENT. THEY QUICKLY TAUGHT THEMSELVES HOW TO "PLAY", WROTE A MILLION SONGS AND EVENTUALLY SETTLED ON THE MONIKER- "THE MAKERS". TAKEN FROM A BOOK ENTITLED "THE BOOK OF RAMONE", MAKER WAS A NAME RAY DAVIES ONCE USED TO CHECK INTO A HOTEL. OFTEN MISTAKEN FOR A DROOG-LIKE GANG,THEY WERE EACH OTHERS ONLY FRIENDS, NOTORIOUS TROUBLEMAKERS AND ALL UNDER 19 YEARS OF AGE. BAND LEADER DONNY MANGLED THE BASS WHILE BROTHER MICHAEL HOWLED. FRIENDS TIM AND AND JAY FLAILED ON THE GUITAR AND DRUMS. THEY SUCKED,BUT THEY WERE WILD AND ENTERTAINING AS HELL. SPOKANE, WASHINGTON WAS, AND STILL IS, A MISERABLY UNRECEPTIVE PLACE FOR PUNK/GARAGE OR ANYTHING REMOTELY UN-METAL, SO NATURALLY THIS LED TO AN ENDLESS SERIES OF FIST FIGHTS BETWEEN THE MAKERS AND THE LOCAL REDNECKS, WHITE TRASH AND EVEN THE "COOL" SCENESTERS THAT FELT THREATENED BY THESE OUT OF NOWHERE,WALKIN LIKE THEY TALKIN PUNKS. ONE NIGHT, OUTSIDE THIER PRACTICE SPACE, DONNY WAS STABBED BY SOME KNIFE WIELDING STONERS, IT SUMMED UP THE TOWN NICELY. THOUGH THANKFULLY A HAND FULL OF REAL, ACTUAL FANS RISKED BEING THE UNCOOLEST ON THIER BLOCK AND HOPPED "THE MAKERS" TRAIN, KEEPING THE DAMN THING A ROLLIN. AFTER A YEAR AND A HALF OF FIST FIGHTS, BROKEN INSTRUMENTS, COUNTLESS BANNINGS, AND BASIC FLOUNDERING, THE CONTROVERSIAL VIC MOSTLY ENTERED THE PICTURE AS MANAGER OF THE BAND AND PROCEEDED TO LEAD "THE MAKERS" INTO A PENNILESS, STARVING, UNREWARDING LIFE IN ROCK AND ROLL.THE REST IS STILL YET TO UNFOLD.SOME SAY THIER BEHAVIOUR IS CHILDISH AND SELF DESTRUCTIVE, BUT THATS THE WAY THEY MOVE,THEYVE GOT NOTHING TO LOSE.
- LAFCADIO MOORE
(FROM THE LINER NOTES OF "SHOUT ON + HIP-NOTIC" EP)
