Name: John Clardy Nickname: Clardz, “the TP” Sign: Aries
Favorite: Fruit. Ambrosia Apples or Strawberries Number. 78 Book. Junky
Q1. Most wild and crazy thing you have done thus far in your life?
A1. Joined Tera Melos
Q2. Whats the most interesting thing you found lying on the street/sidewalk/ground/random place?
A2. That’s more Nick and Nate’s thing.
Q3. Do you have a phobia?
A3. a few
Q4. If you could morph into any animal what would it be?
A4. Something that could fly, but maybe an octopus
Q5. Do you have a lucky charm?
A5. I carry an Irish Punt
Q6. If your music was a cereal, which one would is be and why?
A6. That Nintendo cereal from the 80’s, Link and Mario… where could you go from there?
Q7. What is the best show (music) you have ever been too?
A7. Probably Fugazi in Fort Worth, TX April 1st 2002
Q8. If you could live in any time period or be anyone dead or alive, who would you be or where would you go?
A8. I think about living in other time periods constantly, I’ll say the Cretacious Period or the 1960’s. I would like to live as Jimi Hendrix for a week.
Q9. What is something you hate doing, but must do anyways?
A9. shower
Q10. If you had to give up one of your 5 senses, which one would you abandon?
A10. Smell, I’m nostalgic enough as it is.
Name: Nick Reinhart Nickname: Nick Reinhart Sign: stop sign
Favorite: Fruit. richard simmons Number. the highest number Book. mad magazine
Q1. Most wild and crazy thing you have done thus far in your life?
A1. the craziest thing i’ve done is waste hundreds of valuable hours of my life while sitting at my computer.
Q2. Whats the most interesting thing you found lying on the street/sidewalk/ground/random place?
A2. a vintage tube guitar head in an abandoned practice space and a small booklet about dreams in the gutter in los angeles.
Q3. Do you have a phobia?
A3. yea, melophobia.
Q4. If you could morph into any animal what would it be?
A4. an earthworm.
Q5. Do you have a lucky charm?
A5. yes, a five gallon bucket of earthworms that i ceremoniously dunk my head in before each show.
Q6. If your music was a cereal, which one would it be and why?
A6. krusty-o’s, because it’s so fucking awesome.
Q7. What is the best show (music) you have ever been too?
A7. possibly jon brion at largo.
Q8. If you could live in any time period or be anyone dead or alive, who would you be or where would you go?
A8. i’d live one thousand years in the future and work as a shift leader at mcdonald’s but moonlight as a party city owner and manager.
Q9. What is something you hate doing, but must do anyways?
A9. smell farts.
Q10. If you had to give up one of your 5 senses, which one would you abandon?
A10. probably smell, because i hate smelling shit smelling farts.
Complex to say the least and experimental with out a doubt. Tera Melos plays their instruments to create unique and different music that is clearly their own style. As there is so much going on in a single Tera Melos song, I can’t help but to feel movement in the music. Sometimes the guitar chords and drum beats flow like a drunken waltz, with coordination hindered one still invents their own fun seamless movements from one dance step to the next . Or one is jerked around on a roller coaster of sound, twisting and bending with the shifting guitar chords and rapid drumming from snare to symbol to bass. There is nothing safe about Tera Melos, pushing their music with honest artistic freedom not every ear is going to fall in love with them, and that’s just one of the many reasons I have.
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