MAN MAN.Coyote. AS*US.

Gris Gris. The United Snakes. Classical Ass.

executive suites.

recorded in S.E.PDX. 2003
by Kota Kakutani
(who also played drums).

Highben*everything else.

” and i feel as tho i’ve done some thing wrong
could it be i who has offended someone
i see you there with your practical structure stand true
yet i don’t know what to do
with your double standard constitution
american dream. executive suites.
sunday morning here in our church with all hands on alert.
and i feel as tho i’ve done something wrong
could it be our revolution has offended someone
want. wish. like. desire. expect.
kiss. lower. dance. bullet.
double standard constitution
american dream. executive suites.
sunday morning here in our church
with all hands on alert.”

"Devils, Drugs, or Doctors…"

MatBisaro*drum
Adam Fleischer*guitar.transistors.
Davey Highben*guitar.voice.
Fred Pfening*bass
Tom Derwint*guitar.casio.

recorded live at Cafe Bourbon Street. 2008.

“i fill my head with so many words
and i use my mouth to kick them back out
choke on all the ideas i dream about
devils, drugs, or doctors
who do i sell my soul to
devils, drugs, or doctors
who are you going to run to
i’m juggling knives to stay alive
stick eden’s fork in my eyes
devils, drugs, or doctors
who do i sell my soul to
devils, drugs, or doctors
who am i going to run to?”

childish freaks. (self titled)

recorded by Highben,
at home.
February 2010.

1. ghost stories of yr.old maids.**
2. i’ve been mad for quite some time now.****

**
“they don’t take the time to explain
all those riddles and rhymes
that they’ve dis-placed today
but i hope you find your way
through all those mysteries still left unknown
there will never be anywhere that i can call home
society has won.
and looking down i miss all that is new
i’m setting sail on my confusion trail
thorn. door. screens.
slips over blue jeans.
so i’ll pack my bags and i’ll say goodbye
but i won’t turn around and you won’t see me cry
that’s a different page with tragedy and rage
and ghost stories of yr.old maids.”

****
“actions misplaced and during this race
i’ve realized too late, where do we go from here
these directions are unclear and the presentation,
it’s aimed directly towards me…
but i still can’t see anything
i scream inside yet i’m quiet all the while
and i sit around all day
and watch my dreams fly away…
i sit around all day and watch my dreams fly away
but i don’t seem to care
at least not enough to do a single thing about right now.”

her European travels, my mid-western home.

Highben*guitars.piano.pedals.
McKeegan*guitar.
Recorded in Durham N.C.
@home on the magik four track.
1995.

HAIR POLICE / VILE GASH / DPI / GINGER FETUS – 1/20 – SKYLAB

going to uranus

Greg Surratt:
accoustic guitar.voice
Davey Highben:
drum.samples.electric guitar.

recorded in Massillon,Ohio. 1993.

” I’m going to uranus
to see the world
from a different point a view…
space is So nice, everyone is smiling
i wish I didn’t have to go home, so soon.
I’m going to uranus…”

Heavens to Betsy.

Mike McKeegan*guitar.steel slide.
Dan Stanley*drum
Davey Highben*guitar.voice.saxaphone.
Chris Kaser*bass

recorded on the crap track
at the magnetic planet.
1996/97.

“listen carefully and silently you’ll see
it still all seems a bit petty to me
i’ve seen you go down down too far
blew my mind as you blew
through my heart
and i’m not sure where this all starts
or exactly where it’s going to end
what kind of friend did you want me to be
i’m so blind the only thing left
possibly is to see(sing)
heavens to betsy, i’ll give them to you
and heavens to betsy, i’m nobody’s fool
(HA!)”

here’s what Wumme said:
“…they’d sit on stage constantly wronging the world around them. Anyone who had the pleasure/brain damage getting close and intimate at those turn-of-the-century Bernie’s soirees might know what I’m talking about – rarely in tune, forcibly out of tune, in continual catch-up with their own rhythms, missing strings, rambling fuck-outs, rolling eyelids, quarter-consciousness, beer and whisky rivers, drug swamps. Were they the Butthole Surfers as prodigious math-rockers, or, Polvo as wasted cretins? Each set lasted just long enough to get irritated, but eagerly awaiting what would happen the next time they stumbled onto that dank basement stage.”
02.26.09 World of Wumme.

vulture of yr. culture

Lamont Bim Thomas*drums
Mike Mckeegan*guitar.voice.
Chris Kaser*bass
Davey HIghben*guitar.voice.

recorded by Jon Chinn.
columbus,ohio. 1999

“all the spirits are chased with lemon
down to the darkest holes in heaven
where the light is blinding
and all of us are finding
it’s a one way trip
back to where we came from
a one way trip
back to where we came

you act just like a vulture when it comes to you and your culture
i would like to see whats in you but you’re too busy
with what’s behind you.

now would you consider
trading in my forgiveness
four callused opinions
i figured that you were already into it

you act just like a vulture when it comes to you and your culture
i would like to see whats in you but you’re too busy
with what’s behind you.

astronomers have an easier time
projecting the patterns in yr.skies
all it takes for you is a grand opening
of your eyes.”

pretty little girl.

Greg Surratt*drums
Mike McKeegan*guitar
Chris Kaser*bass
Davey Highben*guitar.voice.

recorded by some guy on his birthday(?).
canton, ohio. early spring 1993.

“pretty little girl
walking down the street
smiling at the flowers
by her feet…
hello, what is your name?
I’m in a band
and it’s called
My Uncle Wayne.”

Creeper, House, Rep, Tamny.

chicken pot pie.

Sir.Rat*voice.drum.
Highben*guitar.back up voice.

recorded in the basement
on the magik four track.
215 gail ave. Massillon Ohio.
summer 1991.

“ahhhh.
o o o o oooooo
o o o o oooooo
eeeeeeeeeee
i don’t want to be…(MOJO RISING)
i don’t want iced t.i don’t want jelly
i don’t even like pastrami.
Chicken cobbler is my favorite dish.
it wakes me up and shows me i’m in bliss.
smells like roses.taste like petunias.
I love chickens.pot.pies.
niblets.peas.chickens.juice.
niblets, peas, chicken, juice.
I love chicken pot pie.
chicken pot pie. in yr. eye.
i love my chicken pot pie in yr.eye.(chick chick)
i love my chicken pot pie in yr.eye.(chick chick)
chick. chick. chicken pot
chick. chick. chicken pot pie in yr.eye.
chicken pot pie in yr.eye.
chicken pot pie IS in yr.eye.
chicken pot pie is in yr.eye.
chicken pot pie is getting eatin’by a fly in yr.eye.
chicken pot pieeeeeeeeeeee.

ladies and gentlemen

Highben*guitar.noise.crying babies.voice.
McKeegan*guitar.

recorded in some dive hotel.
Myrtle Beach,SC.
winter 1994.

” ladies and gentlemen
ladies and gentlemen
it’s time
it’s time again
for My uNcle Wayne…
my uncle WAYNE..”
(etc.)
“tonight
ain’t like any other night
cuz tonight
i’m superman..”

all i see is chrome.( – beat hits. 7"ep. rip.)

Lamont Bim Thomas: skins.
Mike McKeegan: guitar.voice.
Chris Kaser: bass.
Davey Highben: guitars.sampler.voice.

*this is different than the “exiled from ohio” version, posted in december.

” good morning ohio
and how are you today?
where’s my my gun Miss.America
and who do we kill today?
Patriot? Nobel?
we’re resting on broken elbows.
-good morning columbus
and how are you today?
where’s MY gun Miss.America
and who do YOU kill today?
all i see is chrome
and all i ever see is chrome.”

radio. tape. deck.

Highben*tape manipulation.

pdx sketchbook 2001-03

*this picture of my hand was taken in front of a
Secret Biker Club Honeycomb hideout type of place.
It was located on the N.E. side of Portland, right
down the street from Chez What?. That building exploded
hours after this picture was taken. (?)

hugo.

Cheater Slicks. Fuzzhead. My Un*kill Wayne.

84 Nash. The Cusacks. My Un*Kill Wayne.

pilgrum soul (sic)

Lamont Bim Thomas=skins
Chris Kaser=bass.
Mike McKeegan=guitar
Highben=guitar.voice.

recorded by Jon Chinn.

“…one full poet
carries a super cargo
and i spend my days thinking
about the chaos
behind the olentangy flow.
double lensed,
burning glass!!
1,2,3,4 steps ahead
your portable conscience.”

Highben. Thomas.

bernie’s distillery 1998-9.

Q is for Choir(my co-op record store). La Cruda(my favorite job of all time).

* I slept on a sleeping bag behind the counter(just wide enough for my body), the stereo receiver and turntable where right there. I would wake up as soon as the early
coffee drinkers started moving outside. After my cup or three of coffee I would mosey
on down to La Cruda and wait for whomever to come let me in so I could prep the days food. At noon i would go open the record store(4 out of seven days) and there i would sit to 10 or 11o’clock at night. Then i would walk the 35 yards or so back down to La Cruda for a diner of fish tacos(or rock shrimp enchilados- or if Kota was around a chicken burrito), white rice, refried beans, three cans of Hamms with lime, and a few frozen margaritas,(possible rotated out by either Jameson on the rocks, or,heaven forbid, a few duckfarts). This was the norm. I would then stumble back to The Q is for Choir for 3-6 hours of sleep.

Cafe Bourbon Street. old weekly ad.

Grafton. EVil Queens. Bygones. (weekly ad)

THE FEELERS. MOUSE ROCKET.

batty batty batty bat. one, two, three.

glass.

browsing music.

bad film.

orange skies.

backside.

leftovers.

yellow roses.

The Deadly Snakes. The Bravado. Smashy Smashy.

Ruins. the Unholy 2. AS*US. Made in Mexico.

A place to bury strangers. Unholy 2. The Lindsay. AS*US.

want.

The Briefs. The Real Mckenzies.

(one of a series of five)

coat of arms.

*recorded in the early morning at The Q is for Choir.
PDX 2003.
Highben=guitars.voice.other.

“i’m standing by with my coat of arms
discourage my urges with all this crude noise
and for so long I’ve looked at you
from so far away…
yes! I’m standing by with my coat of arms
snatching defeat from victories jaws
and for so long I’ve looked at everything
from so far away.”

wish.

like.

desire.

1042 Gray’s Lane.

recorded at Greg’s mOms House.Durham N.C. 1994.

McKeegan=acoustic/plastic slide.
Highben=piano.voice.
Surratt=drum.
Kaser=bass.

“the pleasant city has no room for me
their life cut off from everything
(time standing still)
nothing to look at
and nothing to do
only one photo left of you
and a memory of nothing.
there’s an alter in the trees
where i sacrificed
my mind, my body, and my soul
now I’m giving my heart away
to all I don’t know.”

Lost Sounds. El Jesus de Magico.

(I have three different versions of this flyer, will post when I find the rest)

expect.

Shellshag. The Lids. The Feelers. Final Solutions.

1/16/2010

melk the g6-49. realicide. 16 bitch-pile up. sword heaven.

AS*US live in Columbus ohio.

Bisaro.Highben.Pfening.Smith.
11.22.09.

ILL Ease. el jesus de magico. as*us.

Moviola. My Un*Kill Wayne. ele_mental DJ todd sines.

this flyer was made by one of the gentlemen from moviola.

Mike Rep & the Quotas record release

(small hand bills)

Cafe Bourbon Street. old weekly ad.

Self Portrait.(thanksgiving 1991)

Detail. (that’s me in Kiss make-up 4yrs.old.)

1996 Sketchbook page.

Bizarro’s. The Fuse. Little Claw.

Redneck, Whitetrash, & Boombox.

this flyer was made by one of the gentlemen from moviola.

Johnny Dowd. Davey Highben.

(show was moved last minute to Cafe Bourbon Street.)

Shellshag. Brian Harnetty. AS*US.

Cafe Bourbon Street. old weekly ad.

1994 sketchbook page.

MAN MAN. Mike Rep & the Quotas. The Blue Revision. AS*US.

They Came From Detroit!

The Selfish Shellfish

this version was recorded live on the west coast 2003.
kota kakutani*drums.
davey highben*guitar.voice.

“this time down the cycles not round
yet it’s rather incomplete and your so neat
wearing your manufactured grief on your back
but not for you, just for the fact that
they may be right-but we’re living proof
that they are not right
we will live life backwards until someday
when everyone will squint their pretty eyes
and try and say that they were there
when we screamed bye without a care
the selfish shellfish
washed ashore tonight.

nothing ever seems real
especially when you don’t know how to feel.”

RAW ON

36 minute compilation of AS*US oddities.
track listing:

Tom don’t give a fuck about Rock and Roll.(*)
(quiet cosmic space dust)($)
19191(^)
I just think about it and then it happens.(!)
colonial hills.(^)
What is the deal?($)
whutsupmotherfucky?I’m gonna get drunk!(!)
Foolish Pride.(^)
executive suites.(*)
fuck you.(^)
st. Louis girl.(^)
coat of arms(*)
(!)

{any title repeated elsewhere
should be a far different version}

the persons found making racket are:
Mat Bissaro/drum (necropolis/sinkane)(*)
Tom Derwint/guitar-voice(lost treasures of the underworld)(*)
Adam Fleischer/guitar (Swamp Leather)(*)
Davey Highben/guitar-voice (myunclewayne/suckdog)($)(^)(*)(!)
Dave LeShock/bass(*)
Chris Kaser/bass-grunts(^)
Greg Sir.Rat/guitar-voice-drum(^)
Glitter McCougar/ guitar-voice(^)($)
*cover photo here:CASSIE LEWIS.

me. (and my first band circa 1979).

American Hallucination (program two: exiled from ohio).

1.All I see is Chrome.
2.Fancy Lines.
3.tongue tied.
4.Phe*nix.

Lamont Bim Thomas: skins.
Mike McKeegan: guitar.voice.
Chris Kaser: bass.
Davey Highben: guitars.sampler.voice.
Celeste Bicknell: voice on 4.
Jon Chinn: farfisa on 4.
Damon Johnson:records on 3.

track one is a different version than the “Beat Hits” 7inch.

ambient noise parts recorded at home, with everything else recorded by Jon Chinn.

Neal Schmitt assembled everything according to my vague directions.

Ron House wrote the liner notes:
“I don’t have to rama-lama fafafa to get embedded in the resin of(the)UnColas I espy their oily white whale from my academic crows nest and I must slay it. Kill it, un-kill it, no two ways about it, although a three way is always welcome, with a wink (or a sprite or an UnCola). No Wayne County here, auntie Mame, their gothamites are not so sodomite, more likely Sonic and lower fi east side. and why is this epileptic ruckus falling off my roof? to get to the other side of the(fine young) cannibus does not quench my urge to un-kill it. To prise it from the dead hands of a hanged man whose generation claims all ownership to r(f)uckus is perhaps the only nobility going today. To praise it till it slips out of said dead hand is my goal. Unkill Daddy! Unkill Daddy! We chant naked in bars while the r(f)ukus goes on like a stream of consciosness. Well past the Big Bang I listen to this. Well versed past my bed time.UNKLE WAYNE will recreate this hell-hole’s origins.”
-Ron House
Used Kids Records
1999.

I made some covers,

and it was never released…

until today.

happy new yEAR!!

the car i was conceived in

louisiania. february 17,1971. temp:70*. (their honeymoon)

American Hallucination (program one)

1.Colonial Hills
2.Went Away
3.Funny
4.Fuck You
5.Vegas Sweat
6.The Sunshine Space Explorer

track one features Jenny Mae on trumpets.
and was lovingly fucked with by Mike Rep.
tracks 2,3,4 were recorded in Massillon/crystal Springs, Ohio.
track 5 recorded in Durham, N.C.
track 6. recroded in Columbus, Ohio.

Davey Highben*guitar.voice.samples.
Chris Kaser*bass
Mike McKeegan*guitars.voice.keys.
Greg Sir.Rat.*Drum.
Al’Enos Enos’Highben.*guitars.voice. trk#3.
Becky Snow.voice trk#3.

David Lee Highben (Father).

Alida Ann Stokich (mother).

Massillon, Ohio (where I was born).

"cowboys and indians"

"Tom don’t give a fuck about rock and roll."

Tom Derwint*guitar.voice.
Adam Fleischer*drum.
Davey Highben*guitar.
recorded live at:
Lost Treasures of the Underworld, by Tom on his hand held tape recorder.

Here’s what smashing transistors thought after they heard it:
Take of some of the drugs that Pink Reason has lived on and give them to Skip Spence when he was recording “Oar”. Sure, Skip’s brain was mess up on all kinda who knows what but the things people were burning up their braincells up on back then look like Vitamin Water compared to some of the toxic things people today ingest for a buzz no matter how damaging the not so long term effects . Then imagine if Neil Young heard the results of such a thing while he was on tour with Sonic Youth (the only time I’ve even seen Neil live but something like the 5th for SY) and the idea of putting together a rural route influenced doom rock band together.
Critics and his label would’ve buried the thing but eventually people like the Altered States of the United Snakes would dig it back up and declare it theirs.
Feedback gives way to tape loops that then gives way to rattly acoustic guitars and pie tin cymbal crashes. It gets noisier as it goes on culminating with AmRep recorded on one bargain priced mic slime. And that’s just the first song. Calling Columbus, Ohio their place to live they fit right in in the college town that bands like El Jesus de Magico, Necropolis, the Unholy Two and Psychedelic Horseshit also lay their hat.
-Smashing Transistors.
http://smashintransistors.blogspot.com

December 22, 2009 4:02 PM

"nothing but lips & assholes"

recorded live
@the corner of 4th & Hudson.
Columbus Ohio. Fall 1997.
Highben
McKeegan
Kaser.

"FUZZY"

"days of our lives"

here is a review from the time of it’s original release…

This 4-song e.p. has some fairly interesting sonic things happening on it, especially during the space-rock of “Heavens to Betsy.” Unfortunately, the sound quality of this 7-inch disc is so lo-fi that it borders on sub-bootleg. In fact, there’s something that sounds like horns on “Delusions of Grandure (sic)” but I’m not sure; maybe it’s some sorta keyboard. It sounds like a Hawkwind instrumental, anyway. The noise-fest-with-structure of “Days of our Lives” is a cool chugging dirge with spots of real prettiness, and actually the lo-fi-ness enhances these qualities.
- pat dull (Nov 21, 1998)

"666,000,000"

Chris Kaser*bass
Mike McKeegan*guitar
Davey Highben*guitar
Dan Stanley*drum

recorded by Jim Shepard @ the Magnetic Planet. Columbus, Ohio.

"In your sleep"

AL "ENOS ENOS" HIGHBEN