Waves

We listen to records. Lots and lots and LOTS of records.We want to hear from you, please send us messages. We'll gladly talk to you! Don and Mary occasionally play with Bill Sundt in another project called DBM. They also occasionally switch roles and instruments and perform improv metal under the name Chariots Of Blood. Don currently plays keyboards with Guy Madison (Mudhoney) in the Seattle band Bricklane. He has also performed and recorded with numerous musicians in the Northwest including Some Velvet Sidewalk whose discography includes releases on K records, Kill Rock Stars, Sub Pop, Up Records, Yoyo and Property Is Theft. In 2005 he performed with Al Larsen on his solo album entitled The Hardline According to Danny & the Dinosaur which was recorded and produced by Steve Fisk. You can hear him drumming on a 7" on Up Records in a band called Hot White Noon with Tiffany Anders and Jeff Tobin. Don also used to play in a Seattle band called Tot Finder with Russ Klatt who now performs solo under the name Waterbeds.



Mary currently plays drums in an instrumental improv band called Resistor vs. Levator with Sky Lynn of Levator. She performs solo and in collaborations, under the name Resistor. Mary is also plays bass and sings with Mars Accelerator and is the bass player for Supernauty, a Black Sabbath cover band. Previously worked/recorded/performed live/etc with: Lean Crops (Don Blair of Waves), Elysian, Levator, DBM, Bill Sundt, Caroline Rue (Hole), Breaker Breaker, Cave Brides (members of Nod), Michael Dahlquist (r.i.p.)(Silkworm), Viking Moses, Pussy Chop Banana, Joy Wants Eternity, Carla Torgerson (The Walkabouts), The Colorblind James Experience, The Blue Leeches, Faster Tiger, Mancini Projekt, Yam, Chariots Of Blood, Ghosts I've Met, Brad Dunn, Knot Pine Box, aheartlesssolution, and a few others along the way.



"Waves is a pressure hose of sonics with a huge interior of detail" - Doug Haire, host for Sonarchy Radio, KEXP 90.3 FM, Seattle.



"WAVES runs on a majik carpet of propulsive

drone-core, building to tsunami levels. Surf at your

own peril." - Wally Shoup



GIGOGRAPHY2003



11.29.03 Second Ave. Pizza [Levator] [ALL AGES]

2004

02.28.04 Luscious Studios [Odessa, Pomeranian, Freejail]



06.02.04 Second Ave. Pizza [Viking Moses, Tigersaw] [ALL AGES]



06.20.04 Sunset Tavern [Levator, Chariots Of Blood]



07.15.04 Rendezvous' Jewel Box Theater [Monstro]



08.19.04 The Mark [Olympia, WA][Al Larsen, Dennis Driscoll, Per Se]



09.11.04 EMP Liquid Lounge [Japan Air Transfer, Odessa]



09.25.04 Le Voyeur (Olympia, WA) [Dennis Driscoll, Al Larsen, Pash, DJ Diana Arens]2005



02.03.05 Neumo's Crystal Ball Reading Room [Razrez, Black Night Crash, Martian Memo To God]



04.11.05 Chop Suey [Birds Of Prey, Vista Vista, Panic!]



04.19.05 Rendezvous' Jewel Box Theater [Blue Light Curtain, The Zero Points]



04.26.05 Mr. Spot's Chai House [Rebecca Johnston] [ALL AGES]



06.30.05 EMP Liquid Lounge [Joy Wants Eternity, Blue Light Curtain]



07.16.05 Cafe Venus and Mars Bar (Sun Vow, Blue Light Curtain]



07.21.05 Blue Moon Tavern [Brad Dunn, Matt Crane and Diller)



09.03.05 The Seattle Drum School L.A.B. [Sleepy Workers, Crown Aruba] [ALL AGES]



11.15.05 The Crocodile Cafe [Bird Show Of North America, Joy Wants Eternity]

2006

02.25.06 Piece of Peace [Installation at LGBT Community Center][ALL AGES]



07.06.06 Skylark Cafe & Club [The Curious Mystery, Stone And Star]



08.10.06 Nectar Lounge [Zero Points, Thunder, The Vomiting Unicorns]



08.12.06 The Rendezvous' Jewel Box Theater [Spider Trio featuring Wally Shoup, Dave Abramson and Jeffrey Taylor]



09.20.06 The Rainbow [Diosa, KnotPineBox]

10.25.06 The High Dive [Bronze Fawn, Elysian]

11.09.06 The Skylark Cafe [So Said They, The Delusions]



2007

10.13.07 Christoff Gallery [Quietus, Waves And Radiation]

11.16.07 The Jewel Box Theater [Jose Fang]



2008

01.09.08 The Jewel Box Theater [Your Drugs My Money, Casio Killah]

03.21.08 Mix [Beloved Binge, Ladies Of Sin, Hardison]

05.03.08 Blue Moon Tavern [Bill Sundt, The Curious Mystery, Molly Shannon, Molly Shannon]

05.11.08 Greenhouse [Molly Shannon, Molly Shannon, Great Plains, Ladies Of The Night] [ALL AGES]

07.03.08 The Jewel Box Theater [The Valiant Arms, Wow & Flutter]

10.12.08 The Skylark Cafe [Aristeia, Tired Tiger] [ALL AGES]

12.09.08 Chop Suey [18th Dye (Germany/Denmark), Devon Williams (Los Angeles)]2009

03.07.09 ASUW's Rainy Dawg Radio Live In-Studio Performance & Interview (Live Broadcast online at rainydawg.org)

11.19.09 The Jewel Box Theater [Wah Wah Exit Wound, Names][6-Year Anniversary Show!]