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Artist
Thee Electric Bastards
11+ albums
eclecticrockquirky popbostonkinks-worship
about
Thee Electric Bastards are many things to many people and everything to nobody at all. Influenced by science fiction, 60's psychedelic garage rock, Bowie-worship, Kinks-worship, and more than a little bit of good old-fashioned misanthropic paranoia, thee Electric Bastards sing the soundtrack to the ongoing evolution from meat-and-bone based life to the hybrid cyborg organisms we post-humans are in the process of becoming. If you think we're wrong, just fire up your iPhone or Blackberry and ask all of your closest virtual friends what they think. We'll give you time to form your own opinion while you crank up the google machine and check the wikipedia. Based in Boston, MA, thee Bastards have taken many forms over the past decade, all of which originate in the fragmented brain of one, John Parker Northrup (a.k.a. Johnny Northrup/Johnny Coolbreeze/Johnny Destructo/Johnny Thorazine/thee Evil Elvis -- anyone with that many alias' has to be just a bit off, don't you think?) Having recorded a couple of 4-track albums under his own name (the Maine Album, 1999; thee Evil Elvis Ep, 2001), Johnny began giving home made cassette copies to friends, associates and other musicians around Boston with whom he felt shared an artistic affinity in the early 00's. He hit the jackpot when these tapes fell into the hands of a friend of a friend who happened to have recently acquired the monetary resources to start a small record label--the short lived, Rob Rekords. Johnny pitched his idea fo
